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1. End of the line for rail route

Rochdale Observer, Saturday 31 May 2008
THE 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.

2. Putting a different spin on things

Rochdale Observer, Saturday 31 May 2008
AS 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.

3. Mayor and his wife travel back in time

Rochdale Observer, Saturday 17 May 2008
IT’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.

4. When the town looked to Africa

Rochdale Observer, Saturday 17 May 2008
AS 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.
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