Terry – Who can remember the ‘toffee made with butter’ man? He must have shouted out that phrase a thousand times a day. Its a wonder he had any voice left.
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Category: Areas
Places within the geographical area of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale.
Brimrod Lane Toll
Brimrod Lane Toll Gate and House Brimrod Lane in 1935 [dt_button size=”medium” animation=”none” icon=”” icon_align=”center” color=”#59d600″ link=”https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.6058902,-2.1734373,3a,75y,190.1h,74.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCLyYLuegIf3VGizWKrmekQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656″ target_blank=”true”]Google View[/dt_button] I[…]
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Haigh Square Newhey
Haigh Square Newhey Photo’s of Haigh Square Newhey, by special request for Helen Aldcroft and Brian Gilbert. Hope these are what you were[…]
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Gordon Harvey
Gordon Harvey 31 December 1858 – 6 November 1922 Alexander Gordon Cummins Harvey was a Rochdale cotton manufacturer,merchant and Liberal politician.[…]
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Jessie Fothergill Blue Plaque
Jessie Fothergill Blue Plaque Jessie Fothergill 1851-1891 Novelist who captured the lives of working people in the local cotton mills in[…]
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Enid Stacy Blue Plaque
Enid Stacy Blue Plaque Enid Stacy 1868-1903 International and local speaker and writer on the welfare of working people and women’s[…]
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The Royal Oak Blue Plaque
Royal Oak Blue Plaque Royal Oak Blue Plaque is now “Black” for some reason? Royal Oak P.H. Late 18th century.[…]
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