Commercial Street, Halifax

Contents:

• General Points

• Property on Commercial Street

General Points

The creation of Commercial Street was authorised in 1853.

Construction of the street began around 1880. There were previously buildings on the site. The area was cleared, and the new street finally opened at the end of the 19th century.

Suggested names were Oxford Street and New South Street.

On 14th March 1920, the Rev J. W. Hall preached a sermon entitled

The grave dangers of Commercial Street

It runs from Waterhouse Street to Portland Place.

The unnamed section of road between Ward's End and Portland Place is also a part of Commercial Street

Property on Commercial Street

The odd numbers are on the west side of Commercial Street, and the even numbers are on the east side.

The occupants of the properties here have included

• Unknown Address:
  • Albany Music Rooms, Halifax
  • Café Royal, Brighouse
  • Commercial Chambers, Halifax
  • Electric Cinema, Halifax
  • George Square, Halifax
  • George Webster & Son Limited
  • Grove House, Halifax
  • Halifax Bus Station
  • Liley's (Halifax) Limited
  • Lloyds Bank, Halifax
  • Westminster Bank, Halifax
  • William Milner [1850s]
  • Dr Frederick George Strickland [1895]
  • Commercial Street Restaurant, Halifax [1900]
  • Victoria Hall Buildings, Halifax [1901]
  • Edwin Roberts [1911]
  • Electric Theatre, Halifax [1915]
  • Edward Mortimer Limited [1916]
  • London City & Midland Bank Limited [1916]
  • National Cinema, Halifax [1917]
  • Boys' Red Triangle Hut, Halifax [1920]
  • Halifax Permanent Benefit Building & Investment Society [1921]
  • I. W. Holdsworth Limited [1936]
  • Regal Cinema, Halifax [1938]
  • Jowett & Sowry [1990s]

• Number 2:
  • Fifty Shilling Tailors
  • Robinson & Wade [1883]

• Number 3:
  • The West Riding Patent Office [1852]

• Number 4:
  • Robinson & Wade [1883]

• Number 6:
  • Frank Swire Limited

• Number 7:
  • R. J. Appleton & Company [1905]

• Number 8:
  • Alfred Zechariah Sindall [1884]
  • Richard Boothman [1911]

• Number 9:
  • John Edwin Spencer [1850s]

• Number 10:
  • Arthur Sutcliffe [1911]
  • Arthur Sutcliffe & Company [1915]
  • Pelican Chambers, Halifax [1936]

• Number 11:
  • Arthur Farrar [1936]

• Number 12:
  • Madame Marie Foster [1891]

• Number 13:
  • Grangers (Halifax) Limited [1952]

• Number 14:
  • John Marsh & Company [1905]
  • Graydon & Child [1936]

• Number 15:
  • Albany Chambers, Halifax [1915]

• Number 18:
  • Lightowler & Company Limited [1905]

• Number 20:
  • Prudential Assurance Buildings, Halifax [1936]

• Number 22:
  • Henry Hayles [1916]

• Number 24:
  • Nicholl, Brown & Coyle
  • Nicholl & Brown [1905]
  • Joe Nicholl [1911]

• Number 26:
  • Arcade Royale, Halifax
  • Halifax General Post Office
  • Post Office Buildings, Halifax
  • York Buildings, Halifax
  • Edward Bertwell Archer [19??]
  • S. Moss & Sons [1885]
  • Davies & Balmforth Limited [1936]

• Number 29:
  • Henry K. Woodward

• Number 30:
  • Ernest Rowlatt [1936]

• Number 31:
  • Halifax General  Cemetery Company Limited [1936]
  • Hoyle, Shackleton & Taylor [1936]

• Number 41:
  • Berlitz School of Languages, Halifax [1905]
  • Appleyard & Crossley [1936]

• Number 42:
  • Francis E. Jackson

• Number 43:
  • Greaves Photographers
  • Union Bank Chambers, Halifax
  • C. W. Greaves & Company [1905]
  • Hugh Greaves [1920s]
  • Clement William Greaves [1936]

• Number 45:
  • Dot Greaves [1937]

• Number 57:
  • Murgatroyd & Horsfall [1905]
  • John Cardus [1915]

• Number 59:
  • Picture House, Halifax
  • Thomas Ramsden & Son Limited
  • Victoria Hall, Halifax [1901]
  • Conway's Limited [1936]

• Number 73:
  • Armley Brewery Limited [1936]

See James Parker, George Henry Radcliffe and West Brook Terrace

This & associated entries use material contributed by Ivan Birch

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