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Blue plaque № 8917

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4 Grove Street. An auction house built c.1870. This was later a dance hall before Luke Howgate, funeral furnisher, came here in the 1920s. The carved heads are Mr Fox, auctioneer, on the left and Dr George Fearnley, first mayor of Dewsbury, on the right.

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