at the theatre organ
Harold Coombs was appointed assistant organist at St. Oswald's Church, Millhouse, Sheffield, at the age of eleven. Three years later he was on the stage as a solo pianist. But at sixteen he went back to his first love, as organist at St. Paul's Church, Norton Lees , Sheffield. At eighteen he was musical director and organist at the Abbeydale Picture House, Sheffield, and gave his first broadcast from the old 6FL Station there.