Rochdale, birthplace of co-operation

23 March 2021 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Rochdale Town Hall © flickr.com - Tim Green/cc-by-2.0

Rochdale Town Hall © flickr.com – Tim Green/cc-by-2.0

Rochdale is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the South Pennines in the dale on the River Roch, 5.3 miles (8.5 km) northwest of Oldham and 9.8 miles (15.8 km) northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, which had a population of 211,699 in 2011. Rochdale Town Hall—a Grade I listed building—dates from 1871 and is one of the United Kingdom’s finest examples of Victorian Gothic revival architecture.   read more…

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