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1. Remembering mill visit of famous Fred
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 7 June 2008AN INDUSTRIAL historian and author is looking for help from Observer readers about the demolition of the Era Mill chimney by Fred Dibnah in April 1979.
2. End of the line for rail route
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 31 May 2008THE news that the Government has finally released the funding to allow the Metrolink extension to reach Rochdale, albeit the station rather than into the town centre, is another milestone in the town’s transport history.
3. Putting a different spin on things
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 31 May 2008AS MOST people of a certain vintage will probably know, Rochdale was Britain’s first industrial boomtown – and its success was built on its burgeoning cotton industry.
4. Mayor and his wife travel back in time
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 17 May 2008IT’S not every day that workers going home at tea-time have a visual reminder of times past – but that’s what happened one sunny July evening in Rochdale town centre in 1967.
5. When the town looked to Africa
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 17 May 2008AS MAJOR unrest continues in Zimbabwe against a backdrop of rampant inflation, electoral fraud, and failing crops, it’s perhaps not all that well known that Rochdale was once a major trading partner of the African country – then known as Southern Rhodesia.
6. Norman Reliant on his Robin
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 12 April 2008RELIANT Robins were the butt of many jibes over the years – the first was manufactured in 1973 and the last one came off the assembly line in October 2002 – and became the staple material for a generation of British comedians.
7. Wilfred was sooted to job of a coalman
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 5 April 2008TODAY - and we don't want to put this too unkindly - the sight of a coalman is almost as unusual as seeing a police constable on the beat.
8. Members are in the dark over historical picture
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 5 April 2008THIS historic photograph, which turned up when St Martin’s Church Lads’ and Church Girls’ Brigade in Castleton was organising its centenary celebrations recently, has puzzled CLB members.
9. Haunted house test was not Pye in the sky for Terence
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 29 March 2008OVER the years Rochdale has had its fair share of ghosts, boggarts and haunted buildings.
10. Bar lounge meant it was less tea for vicar
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 29 March 2008BACK in the 1960s, at a time when the pace of life seemed a lot more gentle than it is now, when friends called on the Vicar of All Saints’ Church, Hamer, for a chat they were able to join him in drinking something stronger than vicarage tea.