The 12th Duke of Norfolk, Bernard Edward Howard engaged the architects Messrs. John Grey Weightman and Matthew Ellison Hadfield of the Corn Exchange Buildings, Sheffield, to prepare plans for a Town Hall with four shops either side, flanked by tower shaped buildings complete with domes, the dome to the right was never built.

The Liverpool and District Banking Company opened a savings bank on 25 March 1844, at numbers 1 and 3 High Street West, which later to be known as Hawley’s Corner.

Census
Number 1 was occupied by William Parker 30, a Chemist & Druggist, wife Elizabeth Parker 28, daughters Annie Olivia Jane Parker 4 and Lizzie Browne Parker 3 months.

Census
Number 1 was unhabited.

Kelly’s Directory
Bradbury Thomas, chemist & dentist, 1 High street west

Census
Number 1 was occupied by Thomas Bradbury 34, a Chemist & Drugist, wife Sarah Bradbury 29, daughter Edith Bradbury 5, a Scholar and sons Sam Bradbury 2 and Tom A Bradbury 3 months.

Post Office Derbyshire Directory
Bradbury Thomas, chemist, 1 High street west

Kelly’s Directory
Bradbury Thomas, chemist, 1 High street west

Census
Number 1 was occupied but uninhabited.

Derby & District Trades Directory
CHEMISTS
Bradbury, T., 1 High St., west

An advertisment from ’Glossop - A Sketch From The Earliest Period’ printed and published by Messrs. Jenkinson and Hamnett in 1904.

An photo from ’Glossop - A Sketch From The Earliest Period’ printed and published by Messrs. Jenkinson and Hamnett in 1904.

Photo taken from High Street West, from left to right, High Street East, Brownson’s (Bespoke Taylors) with cast iron awning, Hawley’s corner, ???? Stores, McKinley chemist and T. P. Hunter who apear to have a sale on.

Census
Number 1 was a property with 6 main rooms occupied by Charley Briggs 34, a Stationer with his wife Eliza Jane Briggs 33, married 10 years with no children.

Kelly’s Directory
Briggs Charlie

To the left is Hawley’s corner the date is somewhere between 1912 and 1927, presuming the trams were still in operation and the glass and cast iron awning on the far right. Photograph courtesy of Glossop Heritage Trust.

Kelly’sDirectory
Hawley Harold, stationer, 1 High street west

Photo of (left to right) Brownson’s (Up To Date Taylors), Victoria Street, Hawley’s and the Norfolk Arms. Dated about 1925, trams still running but cast iron awning around Jackson Buildings removed.

Midland Counties Trade Directory
Hawley’s, Newsagents, printer, tobacconist, bookseller & stationer, 1 High Street West

Kelly’s Directory
Hawley Harold, stationer, 1 High street west

Demolition starts on the dome at Hawley’s Corner. Photograph courtesy of Glossop Heritage Trust.

Newspaper Advert shows 1 - 3 High Street West as Burton tailors shop. The current builing was built in 1938 and it may have opened on Friday 18 March 1938.

In the centre of this photo is Burton tailor shop, it appears to have an extra wall at the top with the word Burton. Also note the sun shades.

Kelly’s Directory
Burton Montague (The Tailor of Taste Ltd.), tailors, 1 & 3 High st. west

Midland Bank. Photograph courtesy of Glossop Heritage Trust.

Photo from 1960’s shows building now divided into Bank (Midland?), Price’s and another.

Photo of (left to right) Lloyds Bank, Victoria Street, Midland Bank, Price’s and Smiths. Note the single phonebox which was moved further down the road. Can you name the cars and the van?

The Midland Bank in the 1970s. Photograph courtesy of Cliff Hales.

Glossop Official Guide
Midland Bank Ltd., High Street West Tel. 3448

The Midland Bank PLC was taken over by HSBC Holdings plc, who phased out the Midland Bank name in 1999 in favour of HSBC Bank.The Midland Bank PLC was taken over by HSBC Holdings plc, who phased out the Midland Bank name in 1999 in favour of HSBC Bank.

HSBC Bank. Photograph courtesy of Glossop & District Historical Society.

Photo taken in 2014 by Glossop VAH.

HSBC closed its doors on January 6, 2017, having been part of the town’s high street since November 1959.

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