The Turbulent Priest of Mattock Lane

Those of you with long memories may remember the original Questors Theatre (not at all like the present building!) which stood in Mattock Lane prior to the modern building being erected in 1964. Known as ‘the tin hut’, it had previously been a Catholic church called St Joseph and St Peter, which a century ago was the centre of local and even national notoriety concerning its priest, Father Richard O’Halloran.

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