Commo

I have just started reading Joy James book "Yo'd Mek a Parson Swear" about her childhood growing up in St Anes from the 1940's and the awful conditions some folk had to survive in which the passing of time tends to soften the memory somewhat even though at the time you knew such conditions existed. Joy James grew up on Moffat street, which was off Pym street, and she makes a passing refeence to hearing the mournful sound of the hooting of rains from the neaby Union Street station. I have no memory of any such station, the closest in my memory to Pym St being Victoria station, and having spre

Much more mundane memories of the Co-op Rainbow rooms. It was the venue used by various organisations to hold examinations and I attended annually from 1965 to 1968 taking examinations for my professional qualifications. Always found it hard to take that most folk went there to enjoy themselves! The main entrance to the ain hall was on Broad Sreet, but the building went through to Heathcote Street which entrance was used for getting in to the smaller rooms. I did once go for a private function in 1962 put on by a school colleague for her birthday party and she invited the whole of the fifth f

I,ve been lurking around the site for a year or two on and off, and now that I am a Gentleman of Leisure thought I could have more time to get further into it. I was born in St Annes, Comyn Street, (hence the name tag) and was there until 1954 when the Family moved out to the elysian fields of Ruddington. Whilst in Commo, my Uncle and family lived next door, Great Aunt and Uncle 3 doors away, and paternal Grandma just across on Gt Freeman street. My maternal Grandma lived miles away at the top of Curzon Street. I have now been exiled in West Yorkshire since 1972 and for the last 38 years in