The rope story is viewed with some scepticism in Rammy although the Scrap Yard guy told me that two elderly ladies turned up one day and related the same tale plus other details re the building. It took me a while to clarify that it was the Ramsbottom MLH as it had been confused with a [demolished] place on the other side of town that had been a Theatrical Lodging House. When people refer to the "Common" Lodging House I act all offended
Your Islington Story is very helpfull. There was a Paradise Street in Bury with a Folk Music pub but it's been obscured by town improvements now, the same ones that have turned Bury into a New York Multiplex! I tell people that I live in Paradise at the Centre of the Universe!
I think that there must be a whole rake of MLH stories related to Church. Early days yet!
Dave