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Title: Upper Commercial Street
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Description: Demolished 1964
Keywords: streets buildings business
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I live on this street - now St Stephen's Close. Does anyone know why these houses were demolished (and yet the pub survived!)?
Added by: Steven Watson - 21 Sep 04
My Great Aunt used to live on this street, I visited her regularly when I was little. There was a shop at the top on the right hand side.
Added by: Sheila Cook - 8 Mar 05
I used to go up commercial street to water street school I remember having to go down a ginnel near the top to get to the school.
Added by: john wilson - 14 Sep 05
This looks like the street I lived in with mother, two sisters and brother in 1931 I was 4 years old I used to go through a passage way to a school Is ginnel a passage way ???
Added by: Leonard Gathercole - 12 Jul 06
Ginnel is Yorkshire dialect for a passage, often partly or wholly covered, between buildings or from one street to another. Skipton High Street has many ginnels leading to areas/streets, called yards, at the rear.
Added by: Peter Sheeran - 17 Jul 06
My mum lived on this street until the 60's. Her uncle James Hogan used to be the Landlord of the pub and the Hogan family lived on Commercial Street from the 1880s onwards. She has told me a lot about the colourful characters and the close knit community that lived here.
Added by: Michael Horsman - 15 Sep 06
In the early 1960's we always came down to Skipton from Bell Busk to watch Skipton Gala at the bottom of commercial street. My Uncle, Allen Sharp and my dad were regulars at the Commercial pub. Their friend Edgar Mason was the landlord. It gave the adults time for a couple of pints whilst us kids watched the procession go by.
Added by: Nick Metcalfe - 12 Feb 07
I used to live at No 30 from being born in 1943 till moving up to the greatwood est 1954/55. Water street school was through the ginnel next to the shop near the top of the street. Local identity George Gornall lived next to the ginnel, he had a wheel chair and would sit at the bottom of the street taking car numbers for hours. Edgar Mason had the pub, and i remember my mother working for him. We had lot's of fun there with street parties, then dancing around the maypole, also sitting out on summer evenings with the old folk telling stories of the old days.
I believe my family (Stoney's) had been living in the street since the 19th century. Thank you for the photo and the memories!
Added by: elaine horsman (nee silcock) - 21 Apr 07
My familys also lived in Commercial Street. Grandma Faith Mallinson my Mum & Uncles lived in No40 which is where I was born in 1948 and my GGrandfather Henry Bates lived in lower Commercial Street.
I too went to Water Street School and walked through the ginnel to meet with my Grandma when she was visiting her friends Annie Gornal and Jessie Clark. I think the street through the ginnel was named Elliot Street.
Added by: Lynda Marley (Nee Crayden) - 24 Jul 08
To Lynda Marley, I hope that you will please get in touch with me. I am also a descendant of Faith Mallinson. My address is lbrown41@hotmail.co.uk
Added by: Laura Brown - 12 Jul 09
My Grandparents (Metcalfe) lived at 1 Commercial St in 1885 and my Mother was born there. In 1881 my Grandparents (Collins) lived in No 30 where my father was born.1905
Added by: Rita Collins - 1 Aug 09
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