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A new housing development called Churchgate Mews is to be built on Churchgate Street next to Rostron Brow. With the old buildings on the site now demolished a new view has opened up of the 1899 building on Rostron Brow SJ8990 : Site for Churchgate Mews. Rostron Brow was once a busy thoroughfare and home to two early pubs called the Dust Hole and Hare & Hounds. These later became places of ill repute and were pulled down by the Victorians. The arched fronted building which is still standing in Rostron Brow was built as a warehouse by a Mr Hall, who bought the site in 1899. The former landlord of the demolished Hare & Hounds in the 1880s, Albert Crossley, ran an eating house in this same building. It was later known as Crossley's Tea Rooms and Dance Hall. Despite its derelict appearance the building is now home to an award winning restaurant "Where the Light Gets In" on the top floor.