CHAPEL Street wasn’t always about designer brands and snootily staffed cafes.

Up until five years ago, one remnant of the street’s working class origins – the massive three level furniture emporium once known as Horderns and later, Rabenault, traded proudly on the south-east corner of Chapel and High streets.

For a century the retailer would strap mattresses to its beautiful but at times derelict shopfront.

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