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1. Town's history in Great War to be recorded
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 16 August 2008HISTORY tells us that the great guns of war finally fell silent on the 11th day of the 11th month in the year 1918, thus bringing to an end the bloodiest war in the history of the world.
2. Town is backdrop to so many films
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 9 August 2008OVER the years, Rochdale has been used as the backdrop for quite a few films and television programmes.
3. Catholic Club still going strong after half-a-century
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 9 August 2008FOR 50 years it’s been going strong and even now – as the recession begins to bite and clubs are being hit by higher prices and the smoking ban – it is one of the most popular clubs in Rochdale.
4. Pioneer surgeon helped POW face the world again
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 2 August 2008A FORMER Rochdale soldier, who was injured and taken prisoner during the First World War, is featured in some fascinating detective work by an archivist who is studying the work of pioneering facial surgeon Sir Harold Gillies and the Great War servicemen he treated.
5. Class is all smiles but dreaded exam looms
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 26 July 2008A HAPPY looking group of scholars at what was affectionately known as St John’s Academy in Rochdale, not long after the Second War.
6. Fuel used to be regular, cheap - and poisonous
Rochdale Observer, Saturday 5 July 2008WITH Britain, like most countries in the world, feeling the pinch of rising oil prices, there has never been a more pressing need to turn to alternative forms of energy.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.