 By now it was also a well-established shopping street, connecting seamlessly with Castle Street.Parts of the area were affected by slum clearance programmes in the 1930s, but it was the severance caused by the destruction of Castle Street together with the building of Temple Way Underpass (which obliterated the western end of Old Market Street) and a proposed road widening scheme that sent the area into near-terminal decline.Some businesses relocated to Broadmead; others closed.