PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO THOMAS ROSTRON AND FAMILY

Depositor's father, Mr. J. Rostron, came from the Waterfoot area to Pendleton becoming employed as a tram driver with Manchester Corporation Transport Department. He married Mary Eleanor Greenhalgh and opened a sweet shop in South Street, Openshaw (next to the playground of St. Barnabus Church School.) His wife ran the shop while he drove trams.

Depositor was born in 1911 and was an only child. He attended St. Barnabus' School and later to Ross Place, Ardwick and Openshaw Junior Technical School.

The family moved to a shop on Hyde Road, Ardwick opposite to the Hyde Road Tram Depot and depositor recalls that, on Friday afternoons, trolley boys came into the shop to buy sweets etc. from their wages. From this shop the family moved to St. Oswald's Road, Levenshulme and while there depositor married Marian Sarginson at St. Clement's Church on Ashton Old Road. He and his wife lived in the family home at St. Oswald's Road for a short time before obtaining the tenancy of a Corporation flat in Angleside Avenue, Burnage (near to the Lido Cinema (later Odeon, Classic and Burnage Cinema)).

Depositor started work in 1927 in the Despatch Department of David Moseley Ltd. He joined the 71st Searchlight Battary, Royal Artillery (Territorial Army) in early 1939 and was mobilised when the Second World War started serving part of the war in Sicily and mainland Italy before being demolished in October 1946. After the war depositor got a job as a warehouseman with Caskets in High Street, Manchester and had other jobs before retiring from Ferranti Ltd. in 1976.

In 1965 depositor married for the second time, Mrs. Rostron being formerly Mrs. Ethel Worrall.