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West Park Street, BRIGHOUSE, HD6 1DU

The front of the former chapel faces Bethel Street, and it seems odd that the datestone is on the back wall rather than at the front.

This is to show the location of the datestone shown in Image This wall does not look like part of a chapel, but has perhaps been altered for later uses, such as when it was a printing works. The chapel was built for the Methodist New Connection. West Park Street did not exist in 1811, although the 1850 map shows a narrow back street. The building is listed, Grade II.

This is next to 'The Clinik'. It was provided by Heartbeat, The Brighouse Heart Support Group, in partnership with Yorkshire Ambulance Service Charitable Fund.

The Clinik provide Cosmetic and Aesthetic treatments, and The Works, presumably upstairs, is a beauty clinic. There is a defibrillator on the wall between the shops.

"The Old Ship Inn (Prince of Wales) was built using timber from the 1858 ship of the line HMS Donegal which was believed to be a 101 Gun Ship and thought to be one of the groups of ships that was credited with the capture of the CSS Shenandoah. The Donegal was finally decommissioned in 1923 when some of its timber was used to build the Prince of Wales Pub, 34 Bethel Street, Brighouse HD6 1JR. It was thought most of the frontage main timbers and various others timbers were used although not all had come from the original Ship." (From 'Around Brighouse.co.uk')

This building was built in 1811 by the New Connexion Methodists after they broke away from the Park Chapel. They left it in 1904 when they moved to the new chapel (now Brighouse Central Methodist Church) on Halifax Road. It became the printing works for the local paper and is now the offices of Yorkshire Payments, who provide merchant services to businesses to process card payments.

A modest building between grander neighbours (The Halifax Bank on the left and the former Bethel Chapel on the right). Currently it is a ladies' clothes shop called 'Wear your heart on your sleeve'.