The Road to Nab End

Synopsis

The Road to Nab End, tells the remarkable tale of a poverty-stricken childhood which caught the imagination of people throughout the world. It evokes the hardships and joys of growing up in a northern community during the great depression. From heroic mill workers to a sadistic nun, from an inspirational grandmother to the rector who had an unfortunate meeting with a lion at Skegness Fair, the monuments and memories are full of spirit, humour and a little sadness. The Road to Nab End is a step back in time to the characters of an extraordinary Northern childhood.

Our Review:

19 June 2010

As the rest of the country settled down to watch England’s World Cup game, I joined a busy audience at the football-free Oldham Coliseum for the world premiere of The Road to Nab End, a theatrical adaptation of the best selling book with the same name, by author William Woodruff.

Set in Blackburn in the 1920s, The Road to Nab End is an autobiographical story of a millworker’s family and their struggles with poverty, politics and, amusingly, polygamy. Beginning in 1916 with his own birth in a Blackburn cotton mill, the tone of this extraordinary life is set when his mother, believing her husband to have died at war, receives a corrective telegram to say he is indeed alive and well.

What follows is a chronicle of young Billy Boy’s (Adam Barlow) life - humorous and touching anecdotes and incidents, leading him into adulthood. The scenes are interspersed with narration ...

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