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The Rochdale Canal was built as a cheaper alternative to turnpike roads for Rochdale`s woollen trade.

Hollingworth Lake is Rochdale`s oldest major tourist attraction. It was especially popular in the days before cheap rail tickets to the seaside became available.

The Hippodrome on the left was where Gracie Fields, one of Rochdale`s most famous citizens, began her singing career: she came joint first in a talent show at the age of 10 and won 10s 6d.

In 1986 the name of Rochdale`s much-loved Harvey Kershaw MBE was added. The mills near the Roach at the eastern end of the town centre are on the left.

The Rochdale Observer office on the left still had its old clock, which has since been replaced.

This picture is, perhaps, more representative of working-class Rochdale and shows telephone wires and electric tram cables strung like knitting above the street.

The Rochdale Canal, seen here in the foreground, runs through the valley, and brought jobs and prosperity to the town. The spire of the parish church watches over the town school in the background.

Rochdale abandoned its tramway system in November 1932; it was a casualty of the Depression, along with many of the town's cotton mills.

Though within the parish of Rochdale, Saddleworth lay in the extreme south-west of the West Riding of Yorkshire and was long talked of as the part of Yorkshire where Lancastrians lived.

From its humble origins in 1840s Rochdale when two dozen Owenite and Chartist workmen had clubbed together to open a store in T'owd Lane, the movement had become nationwide by the end of the 19th century

Ashworth is 3 miles from Rochdale and Bury and 1 mile from Heywood centre. Ashworth was formerly a detached part of Middleton.

On the left the new building is inscribed Rochdale Vintners Co Ltd 1911 and it extends through to Yorkshire Street as Yates` Wine Lodge. It has listed building status.

Opened in 1847, this was Rochdale Grammar School`s second building. Dr Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, founded the school in 1565.

Of the fairies, Fferrand wrote: 'amongst the uneducated people in Rochdale the superstition of fairies has not been dispelled, and Shakespeare, Drayton, and other poets, in the exercise of their poetical

Rochdale adopted this red brick building, correctly named the Orchard, as the Manor House because it was the residence of the Deardens before they purchased the manor from the poet Lord Byron.

This picture fits the description of Rochdale that appears in the 1906 Baedecker guide: 'a town of over 90,000 inhab., situated on the Roche, and is one of the chief seats of the flannel and woollen industry

Byron brought his distant kinswoman Mary Ann Chaworth, with whom he was in love, here when they visited Rochdale and were staying as the guests of Thomas Fferrand.

The temperature is rising and on a hot day in the early 1960s it seems as if all of Rochdale has headed for the lake.

Facit, to the north of Whitworth, was elected for a church under the Rochdale Vicarage Act, 1866.St John`s was consecrated on 1 December 1871.

Overspending on civic projects is not peculiar to present-day administrations, for the final bill for Rochdale's Town Hall was over 7½ times the original £20,000 estimate when it eventually opened in 1871

Councillor Edward Taylor and Alderman George Leach Ashworth, who was twice mayor of Rochdale, were largely responsible for acquiring the 16 acres that form the park.

Rochdale Corporation started planning this reservoir in 1866. The existing water supply failed in 1868, when old pumps and barrels were used.

Hollingworth Lake was originally constructed as a feeder for the Rochdale Canal.

Whitworth`s mills and quarries attracted Irish immigrants, who had to walk to St John`s Roman Catholic Chapel, Rochdale until the Rev John Millward opened a Whitworth Mission in 1860.