Editing Shipley, West Yorkshire (section)

===Post-war redevelopment===
[[File:Shipley Market Place.jpg|thumb|right|Shipley Market Place (August 2009)]]

The decline of the textile industry saw the demolition of many mills, only Salts Mill and Victoria Mills remain and have been converted to other uses.

Of more concern in the immediate [[post-war]] period was the deteriorating housing stock. In the 1950s, the back-to-backs of Hargreaves Square were condemned as slums and the site redeveloped. The redevelopment removed several historic buildings – Shipley Old Hall (1593), at the junction of Kirkgate and Manor Lane{{sfn|Firth|1996|p=15}} and of which a few fragments of roof drainage and a roof truss survive in Crowgill Park (formerly Crowghyll Park),{{sfn|Burrows|p=6}} Shipley Hall (1734), which stood at the junction of Market Street and Otley Road became the headquarters of Windhill [[Cooperative society|Cooperative Society]]{{sfn|Firth|1996|p=15}} and possibly Hudson Fold House (1629).{{sfn|Sheeran|1984|p=38}} Of the major [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] town centre buildings, only the Old Bradford Bank (now Barclays) and Sun Hotel remain.{{sfn|Firth|1996|p=37}} The slums were replaced with low-rise modern retail outlets, a central square serves as an outdoor market and an underground indoor market is situated beneath a tall, [[brutalist]] market hall tower which is a visible landmark for many miles around. Until recently the tower had a 'man' striking a bell to mark the hours.{{sfn|Burrows|p=15}}

A second phase of clearance in 1978 saw the construction of a library, swimming pool and health centre, with Asda added in 1985. Croft House (1729), a stone built farmhouse which was converted to a school and then subsequently used as the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] headquarters, was a casualty of this development. By 1970 2,900 slum houses had been demolished.{{sfn|Firth|1996|pp=104–105}}

The Otley and Leeds Roads were widened in the early 1970s, at the expense of the Fox and Hounds Hotel after which Shipley's main road junction, Fox Corner, was named.{{sfn|Burrows|p=2}}