Buxton Road & Princess Street: New Co-operative Store and Offices

The plans for this extension and partial re-building of the central store of the Huddersfield Industrial Society are too fragile to open. In his Jubilee History of the Society (1910), Owen Balmforth notes, "Messrs Knight and Jackson, a firm of painters occupying a portion of the Central premises, were notified to terminate their tenancy at the expiration of their lease, and in December tenders were accepted amounting to nearly £5000 for the extension of the Buxton Road property into Princess Street. Messrs Abbey and Hanson were the architects for the Cliffe End Store and the Princess Street extension." (see page 112)

"During this half year [to March 1885] the present commodious premises in Princess Street, occupied by the Tailoring and Butchering Departments were completed." (page 118)

Further alterations and additions were to follow before the Central Store was completed.