EAST Parade in Huddersfield held a special memory for many Huddersfield people.

Now replaced by the ring road, East Parade transected the junctions of Buxton Road (New Street) with Chapel Hill and Manchester Road.

The first building on the corner was the Co-op, then the Co-op laundry – now Wilkinson’s car park – then Alfred Street and finally Queen Street South.

But people remember East Parade principally because it was the place where the homes of Huddersfield Borough police and firefighters could be found.

In the 1920s through to the 1950s these homes were a stone’s throw from the police and fire stations off Princess Street.

Ken Fowler from Kirkheaton remembers that his grandfather, Charles L Fowler, lived in East Parade for at least a decade.

"In about 1920 he moved from Lincolnshire to join the Huddersfield Borough police and combined fire service," said Ken.

"He moved into the firemen’s houses with my grandmother and their son Charles, my father.

"They later moved to Penistone Road, Waterloo, where he lived until full service retirement.

"As a child I used to love going to see him in the old police box at the junction of Penistone Road and Wakefield Road at Waterloo."

Mrs Sandra Nixon, of Southport, wonders if any of reader has an idea of the whereabouts of Mr John Battye, of Paris Road, Scholes.

"He had lived there near Holmfirth all his life and when I met him about 20 years ago he was very proud of the fact! We met at the airport en route to Rome where we were going in a group with the War Graves Pilgrimage to the battlefields of Monte Cassino.

"I was on the way to see my father’s grave with my mother and he to see the grave of a childhood friend who had died in the WW2 battle.

"We made friends and we invited him to Southport. We in turn visited the Last of the Summer Wine country with my little daughter at the time.

"John, who was already elderly, decided to write the story of his colourful life for her really, as the social history was very interesting.

"My daughter has now grown up and we have lost touch with our old friend but feel his biography, all handwritten in beautiful copperplate longhand, would be treasured by his relatives or a group locally.

"Can anyone out there please help to give it to someone who would treasure it like we did?"

Email john.avison@ examiner co uk and I’ll pass any information on.