Rochdale -v-Wednesday (League Cup) OMDT

[bobness]

1 hour ago, S36 OWL said:

 

There's a song in there somewhere. 

 

 

[Lord Snooty]

23 minutes ago, peter f goulty said:

instead of gettin' rid of managers & players int it about time to get rid of idiots like this ?

 

Or create a page for grown ups please !

 

[Adem Poric]

51 minutes ago, peter f goulty said:

instead of gettin' rid of managers & players int it about time to get rid of idiots like this ?

 

Or create a page for grown ups please !

 

[Pablo Bonvin]

25 minutes ago, Lord Snooty said:

 

Send Lady Snoots round to sort him out. She’s a real grown up from how you’ve described her.

[Twaddle]

2 hours ago, S36 OWL said:

 

There's a song in there somewhere. 

Shall I oblige ?

 

[theowlsman]

Things to know about Rochdale.

Rochdale has a rich heritage. Read the following list of things to know about the borough of Rochdale.

 

Dame Gracie Fields CBE, a world-famous actress, singer and comedian, was born and brought up in Rochdale. A statue of her has been put up in the town hall square and there is a heritage trail of places associated with her around the town. 

The Rochdale Pioneers, the founding fathers of the world-wide Cooperative movement, opened the first ever Co-Operative shop on Toad Lane in 1844.

Quaker, politician, statesman, social reformer and British radical John Bright (no relation to Mark Bright), was born in Greenbank Rochdale in 1811.

John Bright and assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln were friends and enjoyed a special relationship of mutual respect. Lincoln had a portrait of Bright on the walls of his reception room and in 1864 a bust of Bright was installed at the White House and is still on display today.

Construction of Rochdale’s Grade I-listed town hall finished in 1871. The cost of building it was £160,000 (£13,440,000 in 2017). Adolf Hitler reportedly planned to take it, stone by stone, back to Germany had they defeated the United Kingdom in World War II. It is why it was not bombed.

A single lavatory was built inside the town hall especially for Queen Victoria but, despite it being in full working order, it has never been used. The one and only time Queen Victoria was due to visit the Town Hall was on 5th May 1895 but the visit had to be cancelled with great regret as it clashed with an appointment in Barnsley to officially open the Dodworth Pigeon Emporium.

During the 18th century Rochdale was described as being 'renowned for many wealthy merchants' and it was at the centre of Britain’s burgeoning wool trade.

The tower blocks that overlook Rochdale are referred to as the 'Seven Sisters' and are built on an area once known as the Paddock. Despite its attractive sounding name, the area was a slum and the towers were built to re-house the people who lived there in dreadful conditions.

The hit BBC drama Waterloo Road (starring Denise Welch and Laura Aikman) was filmed in Rochdale from 2006-2012. This was an award winning series and Rochdale was honoured when Mavis Pendlebury from the local Greengrocer shop Apples and Pears played a minor part in the penultimate episode of the final series, waving tearfully goodbye as Fanny Bracegirdle left no.26 Waterloo Road after failing to pay her rent for three years.

Great Britain Olympic silver medallist swimmer Keri-Anne Payne, Manchester United and England footballer Paul Scholes and actor Steve Coogan (best known for his role as Alan Partridge) all attended Cardinal Langley RC High School, Middleton). 

Rochdale AFC played 36 consecutive seasons in the football leagues bottom division from 1974 to 2010. This is the longest any team has been in the bottom division apart from Huddersfield.

Rochdale AFC’s badge has the old coat of arms on it. A new coat of arms was made when Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council was formed in 1974. It comprises of a shield displaying a unicorn, a pint of Arkwright’s Ale, and two crossed black puddings.

2011 World Series of Poker winner Jake Cody is from Rochdale.

A now defunct speedway team Rochdale Hornets was home to racers such as Peter Collins MBE who won 10 world championships.

The Grade-II listed Olde Boar’s Head pub in Middleton dates back to the 14th Century and Bonny Prince Charlie is said to have taken refuge at the inn in 1745. Highwayman ******** Turpin is said to have stopped off at The Olde Boar’s Head on his way to York where he was later executed for stealing a packet of pork scratchings from The Olde Boar’s Head.

Hollingworth Lake in Smithybridge covers 130 acres and is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the north west. Such was its popularity with mill workers who holidayed there during the early part of the 20th century, it became known as the ‘weavers’ seaport’. On it’s banks is the World Famous Grimblethorpe Fish and Chips Restaurant serving its speciality dish cheesy scraps.

Rochdale is twinned with Lviv in Ukraine, Bielefeld in Germany, Sahiwal in Pakistan and Tourcoing in France. This has resulted in there being many cultural exchanges but unfortunately none yet from Ukraine, Germany, or France.

The Courteeners, best known for hit single ‘Not 19 Forever’ hail from Middleton.

Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket lives in Rochdale and in 2015 was awarded a Papal Knighthood for his services to charitable causes. He was also presented with a new pair of Wellies by the South Rochdale allotments Society

In 1745, Yates’s wine lodge in Town Hall Square was the home to the Stead family. The initials S.S are still visible at the top of the building.

There has been a church in the current location of St Chad’s church for more than 1,000 years. The town stocks dated 1688 are there.

Writer, composer, comedian and actor Bill Oddie OBE was born in Rochdale, as was film and TV actor Anna Friel. Anna Freil didn’t get an OBE but everyone in Rochdale says they’d give her one.

Rochdale has the highest concentration of canal locks in the north; it houses 91 locks over 32 miles. The highest concentrated area of locks is in Littleborough.

In 1860 Rochdale’s Hamlet Nicholson presented the world with the first compound cricket ball.

Britain’s first automatic tills were tested in Castleton in the early 1980s, before being installed nationally in Asda stores across the country.

Belfield Community School was Britain’s first community primary school.

Captain Matthew Webb used Hollingworth Lake as a training camp before becoming the first person to swim the English Channel in 1875 after recovering from Weil’s disease in 1874 after swimming in Hollingworth Lake.

Rochdale sports cars made by Rochdale Motor Panels and Engineering were produced from 1959 to 1973.

The cars are now rare collectors’ items as only an average of 210 cars of each model were made. 

Double Olympic Gold medallist boxer Nicola Adams studied and trained at Hopwood Hall College Middleton campus.

Sir Edward Lutyens (one of Britain’s greatest ever architects) designed the cenotaph located near the Town Hall. Unfortunately it was destroyed by Black Lives Matter last month.

The world’s first railway tunnel was built in Rochdale at Healey Dell. The other end came out in Yorkshire but was bricked up by Yorkshiremen three weeks after being built.

On August 13 1994, the Co-Operative broke the world record for cooking the largest pancake, marking their 150th anniversary in their hometown, Rochdale. A few years later, Mr Chansiri of Sheffield Wednesday thought about trying to break the record but settled on baking a big ball instead, an idea that strangely didn’t go down well, also falling as flat as a pancake 

Singer Lisa Stansfield (best known for worldwide chart topper All Around the World) is from Rochdale.

Britain’s most notorious hangman John Ellis was involved in a total of 203 executions and was born in Balderstone. Unfortunately, this was before Lisa Stansfield’s time.

Castleton was home to Rochdale castle until early 13th century when it was abandoned due to the cost of burning oil. Buildings have been built over the castle bailey and in the 19th century a house was constructed on the motte.

Cyclist and double Olympic gold medallist Joanna Rowsell-Shand MBE moved to Middleton after leaving school so that she could be closer to British Cycling’s headquarters in Manchester.

Comedian Tommy Cannon (from the double act Cannon and Ball) was chairman of Rochdale AFC during the 1980s.

Rochdale Hornets was one of the original 22 clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895, making them one of the world's first rugby league clubs.

The Flodden Window (a war memorial dedicated to The Middleton Archers), in the Grade I-listed Church of St Leonard in Middleton is said to be the oldest war memorial in the United Kingdom. Sir Richard Assheton of Middleton (who built St Leonard) was granted knighthood from King Henry VIII.

A member of the Heywood family and resident of Heywood Hall, Peter Heywood, was among the party that arrested Guy Fawkes during the gunpowder plot that aimed to blow-up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Many generations later, and the family can still be found living in and around Rochdale. Catherine Wheel has a tea shop at Cuttle Mill.

John ‘Earthquake’ Milne, credited with developing the seismograph, was raised in Milnrow.

The world’s largest factory under one roof was once in Rochdale (Dunlop Mill). It was later demolished after the roof collapsed.

In 2014 the Tour De France professional cycling race, one of the world’s biggest and most-watched sporting events, passed through Littleborough. The town still remembers those five minutes well.

A cotton loom machine from Littleborough was converted to weave fibreglass after the decline of the cotton industry. It went on to produce the moulds that were used to make the Concorde aeroplanes’ nose cone.

Coronation Street actor Julie Goodyear MBE attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (now St Anne’s Academy) in Middleton.

Rochdale has 10 green flag parks, including Rochdale Memorial Gardens, Truffet Park, Hare Hill Park, Broadfield Park, Queens Park and Milnrow Memorial Park. Parks and open spaces. There are also three AA parks and four RAC parks.

New Zealand rugby team ‘All Blacks’ once played against Rochdale Hornets, the game played in Rochdale, on the 17 December 1907 resulted in the All Blacks winning 19-0. But it was a moral victory.

W F Cody performed his famous ‘Buffalo Bills Wild West Show’ in Rochdale at an athletics ground in 1904. Unfortunately, a bullet shot from a horse travelling at 35mph caused £25,000 of improvements.

The poster for the Pablo Fanques circus show in Rochdale was the inspiration for the Beatles song ‘For the Benefit of Mr Kite’.

Circus performer General Tom Thumb (Charles Sherwood Stratton) visited Rochdale twice; in 1846 and 1871.

On 10 September 1927, Rochdale Council employed a deep sea diver to repair a large gas holder at the Rochdale Corporation Gas Works. The council was struggling to find legitimate gas contractors at the time due to budget restrictions.

The Baum pub in Toad Lane was crowned Britain’s best pub in 2013. The pub and the area around it takes its name from a legend that says the ghost of a white rabbit called the Baum Rabbit haunted the neighbourhood. The white rabbit was run over by a Rochdale sports car in 1964.

During the Industrial Revolution the Rochdale canal was one of the UK’s most important commerce routes.

Milnrow has been described as "the centre of the south Lancashire dialect". John Collier (who wrote under the pseudonym of Tim Bobbin) was an acclaimed 18th century caricaturist and poet from Milnrow who wrote in a broad Lancashire dialect. Lancashire’s answer to Tony Capstick.

Sir Peter Ogden, one of the founders of Computacenter, was born in Rochdale and attended Rochdale Grammar.

2012 Olympic sailing silver medallist Stuart Bithell was born in Rochdale and learned to sail on Hollingworth Lake.

Edwin Waugh, the composer of “Come Whoam to thi' childer an’ me” was born in Rochdale. He was married to Evelyn.

Actor, Don Estelle, best known for his role as Lofty in ‘It Ain’t Half Hot Mum’ lived in the Seven Sisters tower blocks and is buried in Rochdale at the Whispering Grass Cemetary.

Arts and Crafts architect Edgar Wood was born in Middleton; he had a romantic, arty approach to his work with the majority of it in Middleton and Rochdale. There is a conservation area in Middleton where a number of buildings designed by Wood can be seen 

Joel Halliwell was awarded the highest military honour, the Victoria Cross, “for most conspicuous bravery and determination displayed during the withdrawal of the remnants of the Battalion when closely engaged with the enemy.” He repeated this performance several times, and succeeded in rescuing 1 officer and 9 other ranks.

Manchester United and England footballer Sir Bobby Charlton married his wife, Norma Ball, at St Gabriel’s Church in Middleton in 1961.

Rochdale AFC’s record win was a home fixture against Chesterfield which they won 8-1 (18 December 1926). Their record home attendance is 24,231 vs Notts county in 1949-1950.

Before the recent re-opening of the River Roch, Rochdale held the record for the world’s widest bridge. It stretched from the Lviv Bridge outside Number One Riverside in Smith Street to an opening in The Esplanade.

Rochdale appears in the Domesday Book under the name Recedham Manor and was part of the Salford Hundred.

Thomas Langley, once Bishop of London and Durham was born in Middleton. Langley estate is named after him as well as Cardinal Langley RC High School. “Tommy” Langley also had a spell playing for Chelsea.

The 6th Doctor from the BBC's Doctor Who, Colin Baker, grew up in Rochdale and ironically lived in a red telephone box.

Controversial comedian and night club owner Bernard Manning lived in Middleton. And if you don’t like that information you can **** off.

In 2010, archaeologists unearthed a ‘mini-Stonehenge’ on the moors of Rochdale. An oval ring of collapsed slabs and a 30-metre circle of rounded stones were discovered by a team who believed them to be ancient burial sites dating back as far as 5,000 years. Later established to be the first site of Barratt’s Homes.

Ian Simpson, architect of the ‘Beetham Tower’ in Manchester (described as the UK’s first proper skyscraper outside London), is from Heywood.

The bowling green at Queen’s Park in Heywood is the 2nd largest in Great Britain. Rochdale are intending to build a stand around it and call it their new home in 2023.

 

[Hookowl]

14 minutes ago, theowlsman said:

Things to know about Rochdale.

Rochdale has a rich heritage. Read the following list of things to know about the borough of Rochdale.

 

Dame Gracie Fields CBE, a world-famous actress, singer and comedian, was born and brought up in Rochdale. A statue of her has been put up in the town hall square and there is a heritage trail of places associated with her around the town. 

The Rochdale Pioneers, the founding fathers of the world-wide Cooperative movement, opened the first ever Co-Operative shop on Toad Lane in 1844.

Quaker, politician, statesman, social reformer and British radical John Bright (no relation to Mark Bright), was born in Greenbank Rochdale in 1811.

John Bright and assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln were friends and enjoyed a special relationship of mutual respect. Lincoln had a portrait of Bright on the walls of his reception room and in 1864 a bust of Bright was installed at the White House and is still on display today.

Construction of Rochdale’s Grade I-listed town hall finished in 1871. The cost of building it was £160,000 (£13,440,000 in 2017). Adolf Hitler reportedly planned to take it, stone by stone, back to Germany had they defeated the United Kingdom in World War II. It is why it was not bombed.

A single lavatory was built inside the town hall especially for Queen Victoria but, despite it being in full working order, it has never been used. The one and only time Queen Victoria was due to visit the Town Hall was on 5th May 1895 but the visit had to be cancelled with great regret as it clashed with an appointment in Barnsley to officially open the Dodworth Pigeon Emporium.

During the 18th century Rochdale was described as being 'renowned for many wealthy merchants' and it was at the centre of Britain’s burgeoning wool trade.

The tower blocks that overlook Rochdale are referred to as the 'Seven Sisters' and are built on an area once known as the Paddock. Despite its attractive sounding name, the area was a slum and the towers were built to re-house the people who lived there in dreadful conditions.

The hit BBC drama Waterloo Road (starring Denise Welch and Laura Aikman) was filmed in Rochdale from 2006-2012. This was an award winning series and Rochdale was honoured when Mavis Pendlebury from the local Greengrocer shop Apples and Pears played a minor part in the penultimate episode of the final series, waving tearfully goodbye as Fanny Bracegirdle left no.26 Waterloo Road after failing to pay her rent for three years.

Great Britain Olympic silver medallist swimmer Keri-Anne Payne, Manchester United and England footballer Paul Scholes and actor Steve Coogan (best known for his role as Alan Partridge) all attended Cardinal Langley RC High School, Middleton). 

Rochdale AFC played 36 consecutive seasons in the football leagues bottom division from 1974 to 2010. This is the longest any team has been in the bottom division apart from Huddersfield.

Rochdale AFC’s badge has the old coat of arms on it. A new coat of arms was made when Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council was formed in 1974. It comprises of a shield displaying a unicorn, a pint of Arkwright’s Ale, and two crossed black puddings.

2011 World Series of Poker winner Jake Cody is from Rochdale.

A now defunct speedway team Rochdale Hornets was home to racers such as Peter Collins MBE who won 10 world championships.

The Grade-II listed Olde Boar’s Head pub in Middleton dates back to the 14th Century and Bonny Prince Charlie is said to have taken refuge at the inn in 1745. Highwayman ******** Turpin is said to have stopped off at The Olde Boar’s Head on his way to York where he was later executed for stealing a packet of pork scratchings from The Olde Boar’s Head.

Hollingworth Lake in Smithybridge covers 130 acres and is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the north west. Such was its popularity with mill workers who holidayed there during the early part of the 20th century, it became known as the ‘weavers’ seaport’. On it’s banks is the World Famous Grimblethorpe Fish and Chips Restaurant serving its speciality dish cheesy scraps.

Rochdale is twinned with Lviv in Ukraine, Bielefeld in Germany, Sahiwal in Pakistan and Tourcoing in France. This has resulted in there being many cultural exchanges but unfortunately none yet from Ukraine, Germany, or France.

The Courteeners, best known for hit single ‘Not 19 Forever’ hail from Middleton.

Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket lives in Rochdale and in 2015 was awarded a Papal Knighthood for his services to charitable causes. He was also presented with a new pair of Wellies by the South Rochdale allotments Society

In 1745, Yates’s wine lodge in Town Hall Square was the home to the Stead family. The initials S.S are still visible at the top of the building.

There has been a church in the current location of St Chad’s church for more than 1,000 years. The town stocks dated 1688 are there.

Writer, composer, comedian and actor Bill Oddie OBE was born in Rochdale, as was film and TV actor Anna Friel. Anna Freil didn’t get an OBE but everyone in Rochdale says they’d give her one.

Rochdale has the highest concentration of canal locks in the north; it houses 91 locks over 32 miles. The highest concentrated area of locks is in Littleborough.

In 1860 Rochdale’s Hamlet Nicholson presented the world with the first compound cricket ball.

Britain’s first automatic tills were tested in Castleton in the early 1980s, before being installed nationally in Asda stores across the country.

Belfield Community School was Britain’s first community primary school.

Captain Matthew Webb used Hollingworth Lake as a training camp before becoming the first person to swim the English Channel in 1875 after recovering from Weil’s disease in 1874 after swimming in Hollingworth Lake.

Rochdale sports cars made by Rochdale Motor Panels and Engineering were produced from 1959 to 1973.

The cars are now rare collectors’ items as only an average of 210 cars of each model were made. 

Double Olympic Gold medallist boxer Nicola Adams studied and trained at Hopwood Hall College Middleton campus.

Sir Edward Lutyens (one of Britain’s greatest ever architects) designed the cenotaph located near the Town Hall. Unfortunately it was destroyed by Black Lives Matter last month.

The world’s first railway tunnel was built in Rochdale at Healey Dell. The other end came out in Yorkshire but was bricked up by Yorkshiremen three weeks after being built.

On August 13 1994, the Co-Operative broke the world record for cooking the largest pancake, marking their 150th anniversary in their hometown, Rochdale. A few years later, Mr Chansiri of Sheffield Wednesday thought about trying to break the record but settled on baking a big ball instead, an idea that strangely didn’t go down well, also falling as flat as a pancake 

Singer Lisa Stansfield (best known for worldwide chart topper All Around the World) is from Rochdale.

Britain’s most notorious hangman John Ellis was involved in a total of 203 executions and was born in Balderstone. Unfortunately, this was before Lisa Stansfield’s time.

Castleton was home to Rochdale castle until early 13th century when it was abandoned due to the cost of burning oil. Buildings have been built over the castle bailey and in the 19th century a house was constructed on the motte.

Cyclist and double Olympic gold medallist Joanna Rowsell-Shand MBE moved to Middleton after leaving school so that she could be closer to British Cycling’s headquarters in Manchester.

Comedian Tommy Cannon (from the double act Cannon and Ball) was chairman of Rochdale AFC during the 1980s.

Rochdale Hornets was one of the original 22 clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895, making them one of the world's first rugby league clubs.

The Flodden Window (a war memorial dedicated to The Middleton Archers), in the Grade I-listed Church of St Leonard in Middleton is said to be the oldest war memorial in the United Kingdom. Sir Richard Assheton of Middleton (who built St Leonard) was granted knighthood from King Henry VIII.

A member of the Heywood family and resident of Heywood Hall, Peter Heywood, was among the party that arrested Guy Fawkes during the gunpowder plot that aimed to blow-up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Many generations later, and the family can still be found living in and around Rochdale. Catherine Wheel has a tea shop at Cuttle Mill.

John ‘Earthquake’ Milne, credited with developing the seismograph, was raised in Milnrow.

The world’s largest factory under one roof was once in Rochdale (Dunlop Mill). It was later demolished after the roof collapsed.

In 2014 the Tour De France professional cycling race, one of the world’s biggest and most-watched sporting events, passed through Littleborough. The town still remembers those five minutes well.

A cotton loom machine from Littleborough was converted to weave fibreglass after the decline of the cotton industry. It went on to produce the moulds that were used to make the Concorde aeroplanes’ nose cone.

Coronation Street actor Julie Goodyear MBE attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (now St Anne’s Academy) in Middleton.

Rochdale has 10 green flag parks, including Rochdale Memorial Gardens, Truffet Park, Hare Hill Park, Broadfield Park, Queens Park and Milnrow Memorial Park. Parks and open spaces. There are also three AA parks and four RAC parks.

New Zealand rugby team ‘All Blacks’ once played against Rochdale Hornets, the game played in Rochdale, on the 17 December 1907 resulted in the All Blacks winning 19-0. But it was a moral victory.

W F Cody performed his famous ‘Buffalo Bills Wild West Show’ in Rochdale at an athletics ground in 1904. Unfortunately, a bullet shot from a horse travelling at 35mph caused £25,000 of improvements.

The poster for the Pablo Fanques circus show in Rochdale was the inspiration for the Beatles song ‘For the Benefit of Mr Kite’.

Circus performer General Tom Thumb (Charles Sherwood Stratton) visited Rochdale twice; in 1846 and 1871.

On 10 September 1927, Rochdale Council employed a deep sea diver to repair a large gas holder at the Rochdale Corporation Gas Works. The council was struggling to find legitimate gas contractors at the time due to budget restrictions.

The Baum pub in Toad Lane was crowned Britain’s best pub in 2013. The pub and the area around it takes its name from a legend that says the ghost of a white rabbit called the Baum Rabbit haunted the neighbourhood. The white rabbit was run over by a Rochdale sports car in 1964.

During the Industrial Revolution the Rochdale canal was one of the UK’s most important commerce routes.

Milnrow has been described as "the centre of the south Lancashire dialect". John Collier (who wrote under the pseudonym of Tim Bobbin) was an acclaimed 18th century caricaturist and poet from Milnrow who wrote in a broad Lancashire dialect. Lancashire’s answer to Tony Capstick.

Sir Peter Ogden, one of the founders of Computacenter, was born in Rochdale and attended Rochdale Grammar.

2012 Olympic sailing silver medallist Stuart Bithell was born in Rochdale and learned to sail on Hollingworth Lake.

Edwin Waugh, the composer of “Come Whoam to thi' childer an’ me” was born in Rochdale. He was married to Evelyn.

Actor, Don Estelle, best known for his role as Lofty in ‘It Ain’t Half Hot Mum’ lived in the Seven Sisters tower blocks and is buried in Rochdale at the Whispering Grass Cemetary.

Arts and Crafts architect Edgar Wood was born in Middleton; he had a romantic, arty approach to his work with the majority of it in Middleton and Rochdale. There is a conservation area in Middleton where a number of buildings designed by Wood can be seen 

Joel Halliwell was awarded the highest military honour, the Victoria Cross, “for most conspicuous bravery and determination displayed during the withdrawal of the remnants of the Battalion when closely engaged with the enemy.” He repeated this performance several times, and succeeded in rescuing 1 officer and 9 other ranks.

Manchester United and England footballer Sir Bobby Charlton married his wife, Norma Ball, at St Gabriel’s Church in Middleton in 1961.

Rochdale AFC’s record win was a home fixture against Chesterfield which they won 8-1 (18 December 1926). Their record home attendance is 24,231 vs Notts county in 1949-1950.

Before the recent re-opening of the River Roch, Rochdale held the record for the world’s widest bridge. It stretched from the Lviv Bridge outside Number One Riverside in Smith Street to an opening in The Esplanade.

Rochdale appears in the Domesday Book under the name Recedham Manor and was part of the Salford Hundred.

Thomas Langley, once Bishop of London and Durham was born in Middleton. Langley estate is named after him as well as Cardinal Langley RC High School. “Tommy” Langley also had a spell playing for Chelsea.

The 6th Doctor from the BBC's Doctor Who, Colin Baker, grew up in Rochdale and ironically lived in a red telephone box.

Controversial comedian and night club owner Bernard Manning lived in Middleton. And if you don’t like that information you can **** off.

In 2010, archaeologists unearthed a ‘mini-Stonehenge’ on the moors of Rochdale. An oval ring of collapsed slabs and a 30-metre circle of rounded stones were discovered by a team who believed them to be ancient burial sites dating back as far as 5,000 years. Later established to be the first site of Barratt’s Homes.

Ian Simpson, architect of the ‘Beetham Tower’ in Manchester (described as the UK’s first proper skyscraper outside London), is from Heywood.

The bowling green at Queen’s Park in Heywood is the 2nd largest in Great Britain. Rochdale are intending to build a stand around it and call it their new home in 2023.

 

 

Started reading that...............................had to give in 

[Pablo Bonvin]

17 minutes ago, theowlsman said:

Things to know about Rochdale.

Rochdale has a rich heritage. Read the following list of things to know about the borough of Rochdale.

 

Dame Gracie Fields CBE, a world-famous actress, singer and comedian, was born and brought up in Rochdale. A statue of her has been put up in the town hall square and there is a heritage trail of places associated with her around the town. 

The Rochdale Pioneers, the founding fathers of the world-wide Cooperative movement, opened the first ever Co-Operative shop on Toad Lane in 1844.

Quaker, politician, statesman, social reformer and British radical John Bright (no relation to Mark Bright), was born in Greenbank Rochdale in 1811.

John Bright and assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln were friends and enjoyed a special relationship of mutual respect. Lincoln had a portrait of Bright on the walls of his reception room and in 1864 a bust of Bright was installed at the White House and is still on display today.

Construction of Rochdale’s Grade I-listed town hall finished in 1871. The cost of building it was £160,000 (£13,440,000 in 2017). Adolf Hitler reportedly planned to take it, stone by stone, back to Germany had they defeated the United Kingdom in World War II. It is why it was not bombed.

A single lavatory was built inside the town hall especially for Queen Victoria but, despite it being in full working order, it has never been used. The one and only time Queen Victoria was due to visit the Town Hall was on 5th May 1895 but the visit had to be cancelled with great regret as it clashed with an appointment in Barnsley to officially open the Dodworth Pigeon Emporium.

During the 18th century Rochdale was described as being 'renowned for many wealthy merchants' and it was at the centre of Britain’s burgeoning wool trade.

The tower blocks that overlook Rochdale are referred to as the 'Seven Sisters' and are built on an area once known as the Paddock. Despite its attractive sounding name, the area was a slum and the towers were built to re-house the people who lived there in dreadful conditions.

The hit BBC drama Waterloo Road (starring Denise Welch and Laura Aikman) was filmed in Rochdale from 2006-2012. This was an award winning series and Rochdale was honoured when Mavis Pendlebury from the local Greengrocer shop Apples and Pears played a minor part in the penultimate episode of the final series, waving tearfully goodbye as Fanny Bracegirdle left no.26 Waterloo Road after failing to pay her rent for three years.

Great Britain Olympic silver medallist swimmer Keri-Anne Payne, Manchester United and England footballer Paul Scholes and actor Steve Coogan (best known for his role as Alan Partridge) all attended Cardinal Langley RC High School, Middleton). 

Rochdale AFC played 36 consecutive seasons in the football leagues bottom division from 1974 to 2010. This is the longest any team has been in the bottom division apart from Huddersfield.

Rochdale AFC’s badge has the old coat of arms on it. A new coat of arms was made when Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council was formed in 1974. It comprises of a shield displaying a unicorn, a pint of Arkwright’s Ale, and two crossed black puddings.

2011 World Series of Poker winner Jake Cody is from Rochdale.

A now defunct speedway team Rochdale Hornets was home to racers such as Peter Collins MBE who won 10 world championships.

The Grade-II listed Olde Boar’s Head pub in Middleton dates back to the 14th Century and Bonny Prince Charlie is said to have taken refuge at the inn in 1745. Highwayman ******** Turpin is said to have stopped off at The Olde Boar’s Head on his way to York where he was later executed for stealing a packet of pork scratchings from The Olde Boar’s Head.

Hollingworth Lake in Smithybridge covers 130 acres and is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the north west. Such was its popularity with mill workers who holidayed there during the early part of the 20th century, it became known as the ‘weavers’ seaport’. On it’s banks is the World Famous Grimblethorpe Fish and Chips Restaurant serving its speciality dish cheesy scraps.

Rochdale is twinned with Lviv in Ukraine, Bielefeld in Germany, Sahiwal in Pakistan and Tourcoing in France. This has resulted in there being many cultural exchanges but unfortunately none yet from Ukraine, Germany, or France.

The Courteeners, best known for hit single ‘Not 19 Forever’ hail from Middleton.

Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket lives in Rochdale and in 2015 was awarded a Papal Knighthood for his services to charitable causes. He was also presented with a new pair of Wellies by the South Rochdale allotments Society

In 1745, Yates’s wine lodge in Town Hall Square was the home to the Stead family. The initials S.S are still visible at the top of the building.

There has been a church in the current location of St Chad’s church for more than 1,000 years. The town stocks dated 1688 are there.

Writer, composer, comedian and actor Bill Oddie OBE was born in Rochdale, as was film and TV actor Anna Friel. Anna Freil didn’t get an OBE but everyone in Rochdale says they’d give her one.

Rochdale has the highest concentration of canal locks in the north; it houses 91 locks over 32 miles. The highest concentrated area of locks is in Littleborough.

In 1860 Rochdale’s Hamlet Nicholson presented the world with the first compound cricket ball.

Britain’s first automatic tills were tested in Castleton in the early 1980s, before being installed nationally in Asda stores across the country.

Belfield Community School was Britain’s first community primary school.

Captain Matthew Webb used Hollingworth Lake as a training camp before becoming the first person to swim the English Channel in 1875 after recovering from Weil’s disease in 1874 after swimming in Hollingworth Lake.

Rochdale sports cars made by Rochdale Motor Panels and Engineering were produced from 1959 to 1973.

The cars are now rare collectors’ items as only an average of 210 cars of each model were made. 

Double Olympic Gold medallist boxer Nicola Adams studied and trained at Hopwood Hall College Middleton campus.

Sir Edward Lutyens (one of Britain’s greatest ever architects) designed the cenotaph located near the Town Hall. Unfortunately it was destroyed by Black Lives Matter last month.

The world’s first railway tunnel was built in Rochdale at Healey Dell. The other end came out in Yorkshire but was bricked up by Yorkshiremen three weeks after being built.

On August 13 1994, the Co-Operative broke the world record for cooking the largest pancake, marking their 150th anniversary in their hometown, Rochdale. A few years later, Mr Chansiri of Sheffield Wednesday thought about trying to break the record but settled on baking a big ball instead, an idea that strangely didn’t go down well, also falling as flat as a pancake 

Singer Lisa Stansfield (best known for worldwide chart topper All Around the World) is from Rochdale.

Britain’s most notorious hangman John Ellis was involved in a total of 203 executions and was born in Balderstone. Unfortunately, this was before Lisa Stansfield’s time.

Castleton was home to Rochdale castle until early 13th century when it was abandoned due to the cost of burning oil. Buildings have been built over the castle bailey and in the 19th century a house was constructed on the motte.

Cyclist and double Olympic gold medallist Joanna Rowsell-Shand MBE moved to Middleton after leaving school so that she could be closer to British Cycling’s headquarters in Manchester.

Comedian Tommy Cannon (from the double act Cannon and Ball) was chairman of Rochdale AFC during the 1980s.

Rochdale Hornets was one of the original 22 clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895, making them one of the world's first rugby league clubs.

The Flodden Window (a war memorial dedicated to The Middleton Archers), in the Grade I-listed Church of St Leonard in Middleton is said to be the oldest war memorial in the United Kingdom. Sir Richard Assheton of Middleton (who built St Leonard) was granted knighthood from King Henry VIII.

A member of the Heywood family and resident of Heywood Hall, Peter Heywood, was among the party that arrested Guy Fawkes during the gunpowder plot that aimed to blow-up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Many generations later, and the family can still be found living in and around Rochdale. Catherine Wheel has a tea shop at Cuttle Mill.

John ‘Earthquake’ Milne, credited with developing the seismograph, was raised in Milnrow.

The world’s largest factory under one roof was once in Rochdale (Dunlop Mill). It was later demolished after the roof collapsed.

In 2014 the Tour De France professional cycling race, one of the world’s biggest and most-watched sporting events, passed through Littleborough. The town still remembers those five minutes well.

A cotton loom machine from Littleborough was converted to weave fibreglass after the decline of the cotton industry. It went on to produce the moulds that were used to make the Concorde aeroplanes’ nose cone.

Coronation Street actor Julie Goodyear MBE attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (now St Anne’s Academy) in Middleton.

Rochdale has 10 green flag parks, including Rochdale Memorial Gardens, Truffet Park, Hare Hill Park, Broadfield Park, Queens Park and Milnrow Memorial Park. Parks and open spaces. There are also three AA parks and four RAC parks.

New Zealand rugby team ‘All Blacks’ once played against Rochdale Hornets, the game played in Rochdale, on the 17 December 1907 resulted in the All Blacks winning 19-0. But it was a moral victory.

W F Cody performed his famous ‘Buffalo Bills Wild West Show’ in Rochdale at an athletics ground in 1904. Unfortunately, a bullet shot from a horse travelling at 35mph caused £25,000 of improvements.

The poster for the Pablo Fanques circus show in Rochdale was the inspiration for the Beatles song ‘For the Benefit of Mr Kite’.

Circus performer General Tom Thumb (Charles Sherwood Stratton) visited Rochdale twice; in 1846 and 1871.

On 10 September 1927, Rochdale Council employed a deep sea diver to repair a large gas holder at the Rochdale Corporation Gas Works. The council was struggling to find legitimate gas contractors at the time due to budget restrictions.

The Baum pub in Toad Lane was crowned Britain’s best pub in 2013. The pub and the area around it takes its name from a legend that says the ghost of a white rabbit called the Baum Rabbit haunted the neighbourhood. The white rabbit was run over by a Rochdale sports car in 1964.

During the Industrial Revolution the Rochdale canal was one of the UK’s most important commerce routes.

Milnrow has been described as "the centre of the south Lancashire dialect". John Collier (who wrote under the pseudonym of Tim Bobbin) was an acclaimed 18th century caricaturist and poet from Milnrow who wrote in a broad Lancashire dialect. Lancashire’s answer to Tony Capstick.

Sir Peter Ogden, one of the founders of Computacenter, was born in Rochdale and attended Rochdale Grammar.

2012 Olympic sailing silver medallist Stuart Bithell was born in Rochdale and learned to sail on Hollingworth Lake.

Edwin Waugh, the composer of “Come Whoam to thi' childer an’ me” was born in Rochdale. He was married to Evelyn.

Actor, Don Estelle, best known for his role as Lofty in ‘It Ain’t Half Hot Mum’ lived in the Seven Sisters tower blocks and is buried in Rochdale at the Whispering Grass Cemetary.

Arts and Crafts architect Edgar Wood was born in Middleton; he had a romantic, arty approach to his work with the majority of it in Middleton and Rochdale. There is a conservation area in Middleton where a number of buildings designed by Wood can be seen 

Joel Halliwell was awarded the highest military honour, the Victoria Cross, “for most conspicuous bravery and determination displayed during the withdrawal of the remnants of the Battalion when closely engaged with the enemy.” He repeated this performance several times, and succeeded in rescuing 1 officer and 9 other ranks.

Manchester United and England footballer Sir Bobby Charlton married his wife, Norma Ball, at St Gabriel’s Church in Middleton in 1961.

Rochdale AFC’s record win was a home fixture against Chesterfield which they won 8-1 (18 December 1926). Their record home attendance is 24,231 vs Notts county in 1949-1950.

Before the recent re-opening of the River Roch, Rochdale held the record for the world’s widest bridge. It stretched from the Lviv Bridge outside Number One Riverside in Smith Street to an opening in The Esplanade.

Rochdale appears in the Domesday Book under the name Recedham Manor and was part of the Salford Hundred.

Thomas Langley, once Bishop of London and Durham was born in Middleton. Langley estate is named after him as well as Cardinal Langley RC High School. “Tommy” Langley also had a spell playing for Chelsea.

The 6th Doctor from the BBC's Doctor Who, Colin Baker, grew up in Rochdale and ironically lived in a red telephone box.

Controversial comedian and night club owner Bernard Manning lived in Middleton. And if you don’t like that information you can **** off.

In 2010, archaeologists unearthed a ‘mini-Stonehenge’ on the moors of Rochdale. An oval ring of collapsed slabs and a 30-metre circle of rounded stones were discovered by a team who believed them to be ancient burial sites dating back as far as 5,000 years. Later established to be the first site of Barratt’s Homes.

Ian Simpson, architect of the ‘Beetham Tower’ in Manchester (described as the UK’s first proper skyscraper outside London), is from Heywood.

The bowling green at Queen’s Park in Heywood is the 2nd largest in Great Britain. Rochdale are intending to build a stand around it and call it their new home in 2023.

 

Thanks Owlsman. You can do the OMDTs from now on. Much less chance of upsetting any newbies with a lesson like that. Bravo.

 

You forgot Lisa Stansfield by the way. Which is probably not a bad thing to do.

[Howards back]

28 minutes ago, theowlsman said:

Things to know about Rochdale.

Rochdale has a rich heritage. Read the following list of things to know about the borough of Rochdale.

 

Dame Gracie Fields CBE, a world-famous actress, singer and comedian, was born and brought up in Rochdale. A statue of her has been put up in the town hall square and there is a heritage trail of places associated with her around the town. 

The Rochdale Pioneers, the founding fathers of the world-wide Cooperative movement, opened the first ever Co-Operative shop on Toad Lane in 1844.

Quaker, politician, statesman, social reformer and British radical John Bright (no relation to Mark Bright), was born in Greenbank Rochdale in 1811.

John Bright and assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln were friends and enjoyed a special relationship of mutual respect. Lincoln had a portrait of Bright on the walls of his reception room and in 1864 a bust of Bright was installed at the White House and is still on display today.

Construction of Rochdale’s Grade I-listed town hall finished in 1871. The cost of building it was £160,000 (£13,440,000 in 2017). Adolf Hitler reportedly planned to take it, stone by stone, back to Germany had they defeated the United Kingdom in World War II. It is why it was not bombed.

A single lavatory was built inside the town hall especially for Queen Victoria but, despite it being in full working order, it has never been used. The one and only time Queen Victoria was due to visit the Town Hall was on 5th May 1895 but the visit had to be cancelled with great regret as it clashed with an appointment in Barnsley to officially open the Dodworth Pigeon Emporium.

During the 18th century Rochdale was described as being 'renowned for many wealthy merchants' and it was at the centre of Britain’s burgeoning wool trade.

The tower blocks that overlook Rochdale are referred to as the 'Seven Sisters' and are built on an area once known as the Paddock. Despite its attractive sounding name, the area was a slum and the towers were built to re-house the people who lived there in dreadful conditions.

The hit BBC drama Waterloo Road (starring Denise Welch and Laura Aikman) was filmed in Rochdale from 2006-2012. This was an award winning series and Rochdale was honoured when Mavis Pendlebury from the local Greengrocer shop Apples and Pears played a minor part in the penultimate episode of the final series, waving tearfully goodbye as Fanny Bracegirdle left no.26 Waterloo Road after failing to pay her rent for three years.

Great Britain Olympic silver medallist swimmer Keri-Anne Payne, Manchester United and England footballer Paul Scholes and actor Steve Coogan (best known for his role as Alan Partridge) all attended Cardinal Langley RC High School, Middleton). 

Rochdale AFC played 36 consecutive seasons in the football leagues bottom division from 1974 to 2010. This is the longest any team has been in the bottom division apart from Huddersfield.

Rochdale AFC’s badge has the old coat of arms on it. A new coat of arms was made when Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council was formed in 1974. It comprises of a shield displaying a unicorn, a pint of Arkwright’s Ale, and two crossed black puddings.

2011 World Series of Poker winner Jake Cody is from Rochdale.

A now defunct speedway team Rochdale Hornets was home to racers such as Peter Collins MBE who won 10 world championships.

The Grade-II listed Olde Boar’s Head pub in Middleton dates back to the 14th Century and Bonny Prince Charlie is said to have taken refuge at the inn in 1745. Highwayman ******** Turpin is said to have stopped off at The Olde Boar’s Head on his way to York where he was later executed for stealing a packet of pork scratchings from The Olde Boar’s Head.

Hollingworth Lake in Smithybridge covers 130 acres and is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the north west. Such was its popularity with mill workers who holidayed there during the early part of the 20th century, it became known as the ‘weavers’ seaport’. On it’s banks is the World Famous Grimblethorpe Fish and Chips Restaurant serving its speciality dish cheesy scraps.

Rochdale is twinned with Lviv in Ukraine, Bielefeld in Germany, Sahiwal in Pakistan and Tourcoing in France. This has resulted in there being many cultural exchanges but unfortunately none yet from Ukraine, Germany, or France.

The Courteeners, best known for hit single ‘Not 19 Forever’ hail from Middleton.

Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket lives in Rochdale and in 2015 was awarded a Papal Knighthood for his services to charitable causes. He was also presented with a new pair of Wellies by the South Rochdale allotments Society

In 1745, Yates’s wine lodge in Town Hall Square was the home to the Stead family. The initials S.S are still visible at the top of the building.

There has been a church in the current location of St Chad’s church for more than 1,000 years. The town stocks dated 1688 are there.

Writer, composer, comedian and actor Bill Oddie OBE was born in Rochdale, as was film and TV actor Anna Friel. Anna Freil didn’t get an OBE but everyone in Rochdale says they’d give her one.

Rochdale has the highest concentration of canal locks in the north; it houses 91 locks over 32 miles. The highest concentrated area of locks is in Littleborough.

In 1860 Rochdale’s Hamlet Nicholson presented the world with the first compound cricket ball.

Britain’s first automatic tills were tested in Castleton in the early 1980s, before being installed nationally in Asda stores across the country.

Belfield Community School was Britain’s first community primary school.

Captain Matthew Webb used Hollingworth Lake as a training camp before becoming the first person to swim the English Channel in 1875 after recovering from Weil’s disease in 1874 after swimming in Hollingworth Lake.

Rochdale sports cars made by Rochdale Motor Panels and Engineering were produced from 1959 to 1973.

The cars are now rare collectors’ items as only an average of 210 cars of each model were made. 

Double Olympic Gold medallist boxer Nicola Adams studied and trained at Hopwood Hall College Middleton campus.

Sir Edward Lutyens (one of Britain’s greatest ever architects) designed the cenotaph located near the Town Hall. Unfortunately it was destroyed by Black Lives Matter last month.

The world’s first railway tunnel was built in Rochdale at Healey Dell. The other end came out in Yorkshire but was bricked up by Yorkshiremen three weeks after being built.

On August 13 1994, the Co-Operative broke the world record for cooking the largest pancake, marking their 150th anniversary in their hometown, Rochdale. A few years later, Mr Chansiri of Sheffield Wednesday thought about trying to break the record but settled on baking a big ball instead, an idea that strangely didn’t go down well, also falling as flat as a pancake 

Singer Lisa Stansfield (best known for worldwide chart topper All Around the World) is from Rochdale.

Britain’s most notorious hangman John Ellis was involved in a total of 203 executions and was born in Balderstone. Unfortunately, this was before Lisa Stansfield’s time.

Castleton was home to Rochdale castle until early 13th century when it was abandoned due to the cost of burning oil. Buildings have been built over the castle bailey and in the 19th century a house was constructed on the motte.

Cyclist and double Olympic gold medallist Joanna Rowsell-Shand MBE moved to Middleton after leaving school so that she could be closer to British Cycling’s headquarters in Manchester.

Comedian Tommy Cannon (from the double act Cannon and Ball) was chairman of Rochdale AFC during the 1980s.

Rochdale Hornets was one of the original 22 clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895, making them one of the world's first rugby league clubs.

The Flodden Window (a war memorial dedicated to The Middleton Archers), in the Grade I-listed Church of St Leonard in Middleton is said to be the oldest war memorial in the United Kingdom. Sir Richard Assheton of Middleton (who built St Leonard) was granted knighthood from King Henry VIII.

A member of the Heywood family and resident of Heywood Hall, Peter Heywood, was among the party that arrested Guy Fawkes during the gunpowder plot that aimed to blow-up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Many generations later, and the family can still be found living in and around Rochdale. Catherine Wheel has a tea shop at Cuttle Mill.

John ‘Earthquake’ Milne, credited with developing the seismograph, was raised in Milnrow.

The world’s largest factory under one roof was once in Rochdale (Dunlop Mill). It was later demolished after the roof collapsed.

In 2014 the Tour De France professional cycling race, one of the world’s biggest and most-watched sporting events, passed through Littleborough. The town still remembers those five minutes well.

A cotton loom machine from Littleborough was converted to weave fibreglass after the decline of the cotton industry. It went on to produce the moulds that were used to make the Concorde aeroplanes’ nose cone.

Coronation Street actor Julie Goodyear MBE attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (now St Anne’s Academy) in Middleton.

Rochdale has 10 green flag parks, including Rochdale Memorial Gardens, Truffet Park, Hare Hill Park, Broadfield Park, Queens Park and Milnrow Memorial Park. Parks and open spaces. There are also three AA parks and four RAC parks.

New Zealand rugby team ‘All Blacks’ once played against Rochdale Hornets, the game played in Rochdale, on the 17 December 1907 resulted in the All Blacks winning 19-0. But it was a moral victory.

W F Cody performed his famous ‘Buffalo Bills Wild West Show’ in Rochdale at an athletics ground in 1904. Unfortunately, a bullet shot from a horse travelling at 35mph caused £25,000 of improvements.

The poster for the Pablo Fanques circus show in Rochdale was the inspiration for the Beatles song ‘For the Benefit of Mr Kite’.

Circus performer General Tom Thumb (Charles Sherwood Stratton) visited Rochdale twice; in 1846 and 1871.

On 10 September 1927, Rochdale Council employed a deep sea diver to repair a large gas holder at the Rochdale Corporation Gas Works. The council was struggling to find legitimate gas contractors at the time due to budget restrictions.

The Baum pub in Toad Lane was crowned Britain’s best pub in 2013. The pub and the area around it takes its name from a legend that says the ghost of a white rabbit called the Baum Rabbit haunted the neighbourhood. The white rabbit was run over by a Rochdale sports car in 1964.

During the Industrial Revolution the Rochdale canal was one of the UK’s most important commerce routes.

Milnrow has been described as "the centre of the south Lancashire dialect". John Collier (who wrote under the pseudonym of Tim Bobbin) was an acclaimed 18th century caricaturist and poet from Milnrow who wrote in a broad Lancashire dialect. Lancashire’s answer to Tony Capstick.

Sir Peter Ogden, one of the founders of Computacenter, was born in Rochdale and attended Rochdale Grammar.

2012 Olympic sailing silver medallist Stuart Bithell was born in Rochdale and learned to sail on Hollingworth Lake.

Edwin Waugh, the composer of “Come Whoam to thi' childer an’ me” was born in Rochdale. He was married to Evelyn.

Actor, Don Estelle, best known for his role as Lofty in ‘It Ain’t Half Hot Mum’ lived in the Seven Sisters tower blocks and is buried in Rochdale at the Whispering Grass Cemetary.

Arts and Crafts architect Edgar Wood was born in Middleton; he had a romantic, arty approach to his work with the majority of it in Middleton and Rochdale. There is a conservation area in Middleton where a number of buildings designed by Wood can be seen 

Joel Halliwell was awarded the highest military honour, the Victoria Cross, “for most conspicuous bravery and determination displayed during the withdrawal of the remnants of the Battalion when closely engaged with the enemy.” He repeated this performance several times, and succeeded in rescuing 1 officer and 9 other ranks.

Manchester United and England footballer Sir Bobby Charlton married his wife, Norma Ball, at St Gabriel’s Church in Middleton in 1961.

Rochdale AFC’s record win was a home fixture against Chesterfield which they won 8-1 (18 December 1926). Their record home attendance is 24,231 vs Notts county in 1949-1950.

Before the recent re-opening of the River Roch, Rochdale held the record for the world’s widest bridge. It stretched from the Lviv Bridge outside Number One Riverside in Smith Street to an opening in The Esplanade.

Rochdale appears in the Domesday Book under the name Recedham Manor and was part of the Salford Hundred.

Thomas Langley, once Bishop of London and Durham was born in Middleton. Langley estate is named after him as well as Cardinal Langley RC High School. “Tommy” Langley also had a spell playing for Chelsea.

The 6th Doctor from the BBC's Doctor Who, Colin Baker, grew up in Rochdale and ironically lived in a red telephone box.

Controversial comedian and night club owner Bernard Manning lived in Middleton. And if you don’t like that information you can **** off.

In 2010, archaeologists unearthed a ‘mini-Stonehenge’ on the moors of Rochdale. An oval ring of collapsed slabs and a 30-metre circle of rounded stones were discovered by a team who believed them to be ancient burial sites dating back as far as 5,000 years. Later established to be the first site of Barratt’s Homes.

Ian Simpson, architect of the ‘Beetham Tower’ in Manchester (described as the UK’s first proper skyscraper outside London), is from Heywood.

The bowling green at Queen’s Park in Heywood is the 2nd largest in Great Britain. Rochdale are intending to build a stand around it and call it their new home in 2023.

 

Is that grown up enough for you Peter f ?

[MrsHall]

Owlsman...brevity please . UTO.

Edited September 15, 2020 by MrsHall
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[fpowl]

How long is peter f on his period for?

[prowl]

59 minutes ago, theowlsman said:

Things to know about Rochdale.

Rochdale has a rich heritage. Read the following list of things to know about the borough of Rochdale.

 

Dame Gracie Fields CBE, a world-famous actress, singer and comedian, was born and brought up in Rochdale. A statue of her has been put up in the town hall square and there is a heritage trail of places associated with her around the town. 

The Rochdale Pioneers, the founding fathers of the world-wide Cooperative movement, opened the first ever Co-Operative shop on Toad Lane in 1844.

Quaker, politician, statesman, social reformer and British radical John Bright (no relation to Mark Bright), was born in Greenbank Rochdale in 1811.

John Bright and assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln were friends and enjoyed a special relationship of mutual respect. Lincoln had a portrait of Bright on the walls of his reception room and in 1864 a bust of Bright was installed at the White House and is still on display today.

Construction of Rochdale’s Grade I-listed town hall finished in 1871. The cost of building it was £160,000 (£13,440,000 in 2017). Adolf Hitler reportedly planned to take it, stone by stone, back to Germany had they defeated the United Kingdom in World War II. It is why it was not bombed.

A single lavatory was built inside the town hall especially for Queen Victoria but, despite it being in full working order, it has never been used. The one and only time Queen Victoria was due to visit the Town Hall was on 5th May 1895 but the visit had to be cancelled with great regret as it clashed with an appointment in Barnsley to officially open the Dodworth Pigeon Emporium.

During the 18th century Rochdale was described as being 'renowned for many wealthy merchants' and it was at the centre of Britain’s burgeoning wool trade.

The tower blocks that overlook Rochdale are referred to as the 'Seven Sisters' and are built on an area once known as the Paddock. Despite its attractive sounding name, the area was a slum and the towers were built to re-house the people who lived there in dreadful conditions.

The hit BBC drama Waterloo Road (starring Denise Welch and Laura Aikman) was filmed in Rochdale from 2006-2012. This was an award winning series and Rochdale was honoured when Mavis Pendlebury from the local Greengrocer shop Apples and Pears played a minor part in the penultimate episode of the final series, waving tearfully goodbye as Fanny Bracegirdle left no.26 Waterloo Road after failing to pay her rent for three years.

Great Britain Olympic silver medallist swimmer Keri-Anne Payne, Manchester United and England footballer Paul Scholes and actor Steve Coogan (best known for his role as Alan Partridge) all attended Cardinal Langley RC High School, Middleton). 

Rochdale AFC played 36 consecutive seasons in the football leagues bottom division from 1974 to 2010. This is the longest any team has been in the bottom division apart from Huddersfield.

Rochdale AFC’s badge has the old coat of arms on it. A new coat of arms was made when Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council was formed in 1974. It comprises of a shield displaying a unicorn, a pint of Arkwright’s Ale, and two crossed black puddings.

2011 World Series of Poker winner Jake Cody is from Rochdale.

A now defunct speedway team Rochdale Hornets was home to racers such as Peter Collins MBE who won 10 world championships.

The Grade-II listed Olde Boar’s Head pub in Middleton dates back to the 14th Century and Bonny Prince Charlie is said to have taken refuge at the inn in 1745. Highwayman ******** Turpin is said to have stopped off at The Olde Boar’s Head on his way to York where he was later executed for stealing a packet of pork scratchings from The Olde Boar’s Head.

Hollingworth Lake in Smithybridge covers 130 acres and is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the north west. Such was its popularity with mill workers who holidayed there during the early part of the 20th century, it became known as the ‘weavers’ seaport’. On it’s banks is the World Famous Grimblethorpe Fish and Chips Restaurant serving its speciality dish cheesy scraps.

Rochdale is twinned with Lviv in Ukraine, Bielefeld in Germany, Sahiwal in Pakistan and Tourcoing in France. This has resulted in there being many cultural exchanges but unfortunately none yet from Ukraine, Germany, or France.

The Courteeners, best known for hit single ‘Not 19 Forever’ hail from Middleton.

Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket lives in Rochdale and in 2015 was awarded a Papal Knighthood for his services to charitable causes. He was also presented with a new pair of Wellies by the South Rochdale allotments Society

In 1745, Yates’s wine lodge in Town Hall Square was the home to the Stead family. The initials S.S are still visible at the top of the building.

There has been a church in the current location of St Chad’s church for more than 1,000 years. The town stocks dated 1688 are there.

Writer, composer, comedian and actor Bill Oddie OBE was born in Rochdale, as was film and TV actor Anna Friel. Anna Freil didn’t get an OBE but everyone in Rochdale says they’d give her one.

Rochdale has the highest concentration of canal locks in the north; it houses 91 locks over 32 miles. The highest concentrated area of locks is in Littleborough.

In 1860 Rochdale’s Hamlet Nicholson presented the world with the first compound cricket ball.

Britain’s first automatic tills were tested in Castleton in the early 1980s, before being installed nationally in Asda stores across the country.

Belfield Community School was Britain’s first community primary school.

Captain Matthew Webb used Hollingworth Lake as a training camp before becoming the first person to swim the English Channel in 1875 after recovering from Weil’s disease in 1874 after swimming in Hollingworth Lake.

Rochdale sports cars made by Rochdale Motor Panels and Engineering were produced from 1959 to 1973.

The cars are now rare collectors’ items as only an average of 210 cars of each model were made. 

Double Olympic Gold medallist boxer Nicola Adams studied and trained at Hopwood Hall College Middleton campus.

Sir Edward Lutyens (one of Britain’s greatest ever architects) designed the cenotaph located near the Town Hall. Unfortunately it was destroyed by Black Lives Matter last month.

The world’s first railway tunnel was built in Rochdale at Healey Dell. The other end came out in Yorkshire but was bricked up by Yorkshiremen three weeks after being built.

On August 13 1994, the Co-Operative broke the world record for cooking the largest pancake, marking their 150th anniversary in their hometown, Rochdale. A few years later, Mr Chansiri of Sheffield Wednesday thought about trying to break the record but settled on baking a big ball instead, an idea that strangely didn’t go down well, also falling as flat as a pancake 

Singer Lisa Stansfield (best known for worldwide chart topper All Around the World) is from Rochdale.

Britain’s most notorious hangman John Ellis was involved in a total of 203 executions and was born in Balderstone. Unfortunately, this was before Lisa Stansfield’s time.

Castleton was home to Rochdale castle until early 13th century when it was abandoned due to the cost of burning oil. Buildings have been built over the castle bailey and in the 19th century a house was constructed on the motte.

Cyclist and double Olympic gold medallist Joanna Rowsell-Shand MBE moved to Middleton after leaving school so that she could be closer to British Cycling’s headquarters in Manchester.

Comedian Tommy Cannon (from the double act Cannon and Ball) was chairman of Rochdale AFC during the 1980s.

Rochdale Hornets was one of the original 22 clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895, making them one of the world's first rugby league clubs.

The Flodden Window (a war memorial dedicated to The Middleton Archers), in the Grade I-listed Church of St Leonard in Middleton is said to be the oldest war memorial in the United Kingdom. Sir Richard Assheton of Middleton (who built St Leonard) was granted knighthood from King Henry VIII.

A member of the Heywood family and resident of Heywood Hall, Peter Heywood, was among the party that arrested Guy Fawkes during the gunpowder plot that aimed to blow-up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Many generations later, and the family can still be found living in and around Rochdale. Catherine Wheel has a tea shop at Cuttle Mill.

John ‘Earthquake’ Milne, credited with developing the seismograph, was raised in Milnrow.

The world’s largest factory under one roof was once in Rochdale (Dunlop Mill). It was later demolished after the roof collapsed.

In 2014 the Tour De France professional cycling race, one of the world’s biggest and most-watched sporting events, passed through Littleborough. The town still remembers those five minutes well.

A cotton loom machine from Littleborough was converted to weave fibreglass after the decline of the cotton industry. It went on to produce the moulds that were used to make the Concorde aeroplanes’ nose cone.

Coronation Street actor Julie Goodyear MBE attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (now St Anne’s Academy) in Middleton.

Rochdale has 10 green flag parks, including Rochdale Memorial Gardens, Truffet Park, Hare Hill Park, Broadfield Park, Queens Park and Milnrow Memorial Park. Parks and open spaces. There are also three AA parks and four RAC parks.

New Zealand rugby team ‘All Blacks’ once played against Rochdale Hornets, the game played in Rochdale, on the 17 December 1907 resulted in the All Blacks winning 19-0. But it was a moral victory.

W F Cody performed his famous ‘Buffalo Bills Wild West Show’ in Rochdale at an athletics ground in 1904. Unfortunately, a bullet shot from a horse travelling at 35mph caused £25,000 of improvements.

The poster for the Pablo Fanques circus show in Rochdale was the inspiration for the Beatles song ‘For the Benefit of Mr Kite’.

Circus performer General Tom Thumb (Charles Sherwood Stratton) visited Rochdale twice; in 1846 and 1871.

On 10 September 1927, Rochdale Council employed a deep sea diver to repair a large gas holder at the Rochdale Corporation Gas Works. The council was struggling to find legitimate gas contractors at the time due to budget restrictions.

The Baum pub in Toad Lane was crowned Britain’s best pub in 2013. The pub and the area around it takes its name from a legend that says the ghost of a white rabbit called the Baum Rabbit haunted the neighbourhood. The white rabbit was run over by a Rochdale sports car in 1964.

During the Industrial Revolution the Rochdale canal was one of the UK’s most important commerce routes.

Milnrow has been described as "the centre of the south Lancashire dialect". John Collier (who wrote under the pseudonym of Tim Bobbin) was an acclaimed 18th century caricaturist and poet from Milnrow who wrote in a broad Lancashire dialect. Lancashire’s answer to Tony Capstick.

Sir Peter Ogden, one of the founders of Computacenter, was born in Rochdale and attended Rochdale Grammar.

2012 Olympic sailing silver medallist Stuart Bithell was born in Rochdale and learned to sail on Hollingworth Lake.

Edwin Waugh, the composer of “Come Whoam to thi' childer an’ me” was born in Rochdale. He was married to Evelyn.

Actor, Don Estelle, best known for his role as Lofty in ‘It Ain’t Half Hot Mum’ lived in the Seven Sisters tower blocks and is buried in Rochdale at the Whispering Grass Cemetary.

Arts and Crafts architect Edgar Wood was born in Middleton; he had a romantic, arty approach to his work with the majority of it in Middleton and Rochdale. There is a conservation area in Middleton where a number of buildings designed by Wood can be seen 

Joel Halliwell was awarded the highest military honour, the Victoria Cross, “for most conspicuous bravery and determination displayed during the withdrawal of the remnants of the Battalion when closely engaged with the enemy.” He repeated this performance several times, and succeeded in rescuing 1 officer and 9 other ranks.

Manchester United and England footballer Sir Bobby Charlton married his wife, Norma Ball, at St Gabriel’s Church in Middleton in 1961.

Rochdale AFC’s record win was a home fixture against Chesterfield which they won 8-1 (18 December 1926). Their record home attendance is 24,231 vs Notts county in 1949-1950.

Before the recent re-opening of the River Roch, Rochdale held the record for the world’s widest bridge. It stretched from the Lviv Bridge outside Number One Riverside in Smith Street to an opening in The Esplanade.

Rochdale appears in the Domesday Book under the name Recedham Manor and was part of the Salford Hundred.

Thomas Langley, once Bishop of London and Durham was born in Middleton. Langley estate is named after him as well as Cardinal Langley RC High School. “Tommy” Langley also had a spell playing for Chelsea.

The 6th Doctor from the BBC's Doctor Who, Colin Baker, grew up in Rochdale and ironically lived in a red telephone box.

Controversial comedian and night club owner Bernard Manning lived in Middleton. And if you don’t like that information you can **** off.

In 2010, archaeologists unearthed a ‘mini-Stonehenge’ on the moors of Rochdale. An oval ring of collapsed slabs and a 30-metre circle of rounded stones were discovered by a team who believed them to be ancient burial sites dating back as far as 5,000 years. Later established to be the first site of Barratt’s Homes.

Ian Simpson, architect of the ‘Beetham Tower’ in Manchester (described as the UK’s first proper skyscraper outside London), is from Heywood.

The bowling green at Queen’s Park in Heywood is the 2nd largest in Great Britain. Rochdale are intending to build a stand around it and call it their new home in 2023.

 

Rochdale has so much to see and do. I think I'd better give it a miss though, I don't think I could stand the excitement. I feel giddy just thinking about it.

[WalthamOwl]

Hope to see Dele, Hunt, Shaw and Grant get some minutes tonight. Unfortunately I think Pelupessy will start as well. 

[DJMortimer]

3 hours ago, peter f goulty said:

instead of gettin' rid of managers & players int it about time to get rid of idiots like this ?

 

Or create a page for grown ups please !

 

[airborne_rat_of_s6]

1 hour ago, Hookowl said:

 

Started reading that...............................had to give in 

Read the bit about giving Anna Friel one

[HarryPlopper]

1 hour ago, Pablo Bonvin said:

Thanks Owlsman. You can do the OMDTs from now on. Much less chance of upsetting any newbies with a lesson like that. Bravo.

 

You forgot Lisa Stansfield by the way. Which is probably not a bad thing to do.

 

She's been around the world, you know.    Then did a McCann thing.

Edited September 15, 2020 by HarryPlopper

[WalthamOwl]

Wonder if Adedoyin will be involved at all. 

[Hookowl]

7 minutes ago, airborne_rat_of_s6 said:

Read the bit about giving Anna Friel one

 

You just made me read over half of that without falling asleep !!

 

That bit was funny though 

[Bluestripe]

Hilarious Snooty...pigeons and your bobble hat.

hahaha!

[WalthamOwl]

Interesting line up. Pleased some of the young uns get a chance. 

Edited September 15, 2020 by WalthamOwl