British-grown wherever it can be, in season, and often the things nowhere else in town has.
Under new hands since the turn of the year, and the same trade it has always been. Open six days a week, from eight in the morning.
Fruit and vegetables, and that is the whole of it. Bought in the morning, turned over quickly, and chosen the way a greengrocer chooses rather than a warehouse.
A crate that has crossed a continent has spent a week getting here. British produce comes off the field nearer to when you eat it, and it holds up on the plate.
What is on the stall changes with the year, because the year changes. Asparagus in May, soft fruit through the summer, apples and plums into autumn, roots and greens all winter.
Blackberries and raspberries, strawberries and currants. Weeks, not months — worth building the week's eating around while they are here.
Organic fruit and veg on the stall alongside the rest, so buying that way does not mean a second trip somewhere else.
The odd variety, or the vegetable a recipe insists on and no supermarket carries. Ask, and we will tell you straight whether it can be got.
Tomatoes lose their flavour in a fridge and potatoes go sweet in the light. Most things keep longer out of a plastic bag than in one, and berries want eating the day you buy them.
What a thing costs follows the market, and the boards in the shop carry the day's figures. Ask at the counter or over the phone and you will have it in a moment.
A greengrocer's stall is always at its fullest in the morning, after the day's delivery.
Commercial Street has had a fruit and veg shop on it for fifty years. Shops around it have come and gone; this one has sold the same thing throughout. That is rare on a town-centre street.
New hands took it on at the turn of this year. The address has not moved, the trade has not changed, and neither has the point of the place.
If you have shopped here for thirty years, carry on. If you have walked past it for thirty years, come in.
We are on Commercial Street, in the middle of Brighouse. Ring to ask what has come in, or leave a note below and we will get back to you.
Bank holidays can be different. Worth a quick ring before a special trip.
Give the shop a ring instead on 07123 456789.
