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Annals of Rochdale
A Chronological View from the Earliest Times
to the End of the Year 1898.
COMPILED BY
ROBERT D. MATTLEY
SOLICITOR ;
DEPUTY DISTRICT CORONER;
CLERK TO THE KORDEN URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
PRINTED BY JAMES CLEGG, THE ALDINE PRESS.
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Preface.
A N attempt has been made in the following pages to
collect in a concise and handy form the events of
more than passing interest that have taken place in
Rochdale and its vicinity from the earliest times down
to the end of the year 1898.
Although every care has been taken to ensure
accuracy, doubtless mistakes will have crept in here
and there. Wherever they may ' be found I ask for
the indulgence of those who may have occasion to con-
sult the work.
I owe some apology to subscribers for the delay in
issuing the work, and for the alterations I have made in
its arrangement since the prospectus was issued. I feel
assured, however, that they will be generous enough to
allow that both the alterations and the delay have added
materially to the value of the work.
It is hoped that the Index may prove sufficiently
copious and satisfactory in facilitating reference.
My grateful acknowledgements are due to all those
who have entrusted me with papers during the prepara-
tion of the work, or otherwise furnished me with much
of the information the book contains.
R. D. M.
Rochdale,
March, 1899.
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Contents.
PAGE.
Preface iii.
Map of the Borough showing Ward Divisions - Frontis.
Chronology A.D. 950—1898 1-126
Some Memorable Accidents 127 — 129
Some Severe Storms 130-131
Some Memorable Fires 132—134
Some Notable Crime 134 — 136
Vicars of Rochdale 137
Parliamentary Elections, County .... 138
Parliamentary Elections, Borough - - - 139
Mayors 139-140
Aldermen - 140
Town Councillors 141—144
School Board Elections 145
Guardians' Elections 146-147
County Council Elections 147
Population of the Borough 147
Statistical View of the Town A.D. 1888—1898 - 148
Merchants' and Tradesmen's Trips ... 148
The Famous Twenty-Eight Co-operators - - 149
Presidents of the Pioneers' Society - - 149
Some Gifts to the Town Council .... 150-151
Height of Hills, etc., in the Neighbourhood - 151
Infirmary Galas 152
Some Published Wills 152
Public Companies 153
Churches and Chapels 154-155
Local Facts often asked about .... 156-157
Obituary 158—170
Index 171-178
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CORRIGENDA.
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"second tunnel 70 yards long."
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A.D. 950.
A.T). 950 The district was thinly peopled. It was ill-cultivated, consisting
chiefly of forest and waste lands.
1000.
1000 Ruins of a Saxon Castle stood on Castle Hill.
1040 Gamel the Thane held the Manor under Edward the Confessor.
1100.
1178 John de Lascy, Lord of the Manor, founded the Monastery of Stan-
lawe, and endowed it with lands in this district.
1 194 A Church dedicated to St. Chad existed. Geoffrey, Dean of Whalley,
held the living.
1200.
1211 Roger de Lascy granted lands, supposed to be the present glebe
lands, to the Abbot of Stanlawe.
1238 Sir William de Dumplinton was Vicar.
1240 Charter to hold a weekly market and an annual fair granted to
Edmund de Lascy by Henry III.
„ Numerous gifts of lands in Spotland, Marland, and other places,
were made by local landowners to Stanlawe Abbey about this
time.
1250 John de Blackburn succeeded Sir W. de Dumplinton, Vicar.
1253 Henry III. granted to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem the
right to try thieves, hold an assize of bread and ale, and erect
a gallows within their lands in Butterworth.
1265 Geoffrey de Buckley, Buckley, slain at the Battle of Evesham.
1287 Geoffrey de Newbold gave lands in Castleton to Stanlawe.
1289 Stanlawe Abbey translated to Whalley by Bull of Nicholas IV.
1290 Deer were common in the district.
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1300.
1302 Institutions of the Vicars began to be regularly entered upon the
Registers at Lichfield.
1306 Richard de Perebald, Vicar, fined " XX». for hunting and killing
deer in So werby shire."
1311 Henry, first Earl of Lancaster, held the Manor.
„ Value of the weekly market stallage and tolls, £1 per annum.
1317 Thomas de Boulton appointed Vicar.
1323 John de Belfield, Abbot of Whalley, died.
1330 Bishop of Lichfield held an ordination in St. Chad's Church.
1332 Thirty- three ratepayers contributed to the subsidy granted to King
Edward III.
1340 Subsidy levied on the parish to enable the King to carry on the war
with France.
„ Marland Mere covered eight acres.
1350 Woollen trade introduced about this date.
„ Ralph de Dewsbury became Vicar.
1361 Ralph de Trumpington was appointed Vicar.
1369 Roger, son of William de Manchester, held St. Chad's.
1380 Poll Tax of one shilling levied on persons over fifteen years of age
living in the parish.
1388 John Fitheler appointed Vicar.
1400.
1400 Oratory at Butterworth licensed by the Bishop of Lichfield,
1402 John de Salley admitted Vicar.
1403 Richard de Twyfield instituted Vicar.
1426 Henry Marland became Vicar of the parish. He is the only native
who has held the position.
1455 Richard de Salley instituted Vicar.
1462 Sir Nicholas Byron obtained, for life, a lease of the Manor.
1471 Littleborough Chapelry in existence.
,, Thomas Brotherton instituted Vicar.
1473 John Walton, Monk of Whalley, appointed Vicar.
1477 Geoffrey Buckley, Rector of St. Alban's, London, by will, bequeathed
forty shillings to St. Chad's Church.
1483 William Assheton instituted Vicar.
1487 Trinity Chapel, St. Chad's Church, founded.
1496 Milnrow Chapel built.
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1500.
1510 Nicholas Townley, Chaplain to Henry VIII., appointed Vicar.
1513 Battle of Flodden Field, when local men fought and fell.
1514 Wheat was eleven shillings per quarter ; ale, twopence per gallon.
1519 Henry VIII. appointed Sir John Byron Steward of the Manor.
1522 Sir Gilbert Haydock was Vicar.
1523 Fifty-three persons in the parish contributed to the tax to meet the
expenses of the war against France.
1529 Whitworth Chapelry founded.
1537 Whalley Abbey, which held large possessions in the parish, dissolved.
„ Patronage of the Church assumed by Henry VIII.
1541 Parish ceased to be a part of the Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry.
See of Chester established.
„ Lay subsidy of Is. in the £ on lands, and 6d. in the £ on goods, pro-
duced £15 lis. 6d.
„ Spotland Manor, a possession of Whalley, granted by Henry VIII.
to Thomas Holt, Grizlehurst.
1547 Woollen trade of the parish described as being " very considerable."
„ Edward VI. transferred the rectorial rights and revenues of the
parish to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
,, Archbishop of Canterbury became Patron of St. Chad's.
1550 Ashworth Chapel founded about this time.
1552 Two-manual organ used in St. Chad's Church ; Middleton and Orms-
kirk were the only Lancashire Parish Churches similarly pro-
vided.
1554 Queen Mary presented Richard Gorstelow to St. Chad's.
1557 John Hampson appointed Vicar.
„ Lawrence Newall by will bequeathed 3s. 4d. " to ye byeing of a
Chalis or vestment to ye lytlebrogh Chapel."
1561 Richard Midgley collated Vicar on the deprivation of J. Hampson.
„ Charles Holt, Stubley, " boldly opposed the wrongful dealing of Sir
J. Byron in church property in the parish."
1565 Grammar School founded by Archbishop Parker.
1574 Alex. Barlow, married to Elizabeth Belfield, Clegg, at the age of
four years, on arriving at years of discretion refused to ratify
the marriage and obtained a divorce.
1582 Registers at St. Chad's begin.
1588 Cutlery business carried on by one W. Hollows.
1595 Joseph Midgley, M.A., a stern Puritan, became Vicar.
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1600.
1600 Clegg Hall, as existing, built about this time.
,, Archery was a popular pastime in the town.
,, Packer Street was the leading business street.
„ Yorkshire Street was called the "The High Street."
„ Only six buildings stood in Church Lane.
1606 Richard Kenyon, M.A., became Vicar. He held the rectory of
Stockport too for a time.
1608 Cattle Fair began to be held three times yearly.
1610 Inquiry held in the town to define the Boundaries of the Parish.
1615 Henry Tilson, M.A., became Vicar; the only Vicar of the parish
who became a Bishop, being raised to the See of Elphin, 1639.
1619 John Holt, Stubley, was High Sheriff of Lancashire.
1623 "Sweating Sickness" visited the parish; 587 burials took place in
the Churchyard.
1626 Manor Survey, a valuable record, made.
„ Goose Lane Estate comprising 43a. 3r. 20p. at Pinfold, and on the
Freehold valued at £22 a year.
1630 Court for dealing with minor offences existed.
1631 Richard Entwisle, Foxholes, and Jordan Chad wick, Healey Hall,
fined £10 each for refusing the order of Knighthood.
1635 Robert Bath became Vicar.
1638 Sir John Byron purchased the Manor.
1640 William Ashurst, Esquire, and Roger Palmer, Knight, represented
the district in Parliament.
1642 Capt. James Schofield, Schofield Hall, commanded a Parliamentary
force in defence of Bolton.
,, "Protestation" to maintain the Established Religion and to protect
the King, taken by all males in the parish above 18 yeare of
age; over 2,100 signed.
,, Garrison of 1,200 men placed in the town and 800 more on Black-
stone Edge during the Civil War.
1643 Three hedgehogs for the Church supplied at a cost of 1/-, also lib of
candles, 4d.
„ April. Thanksgiving Day observed in the Parish Church for Asshe-
ton's victory over the Earl of Derby.
„ Oct. 24. Sir John Byron created Baron Byron of Rochdale.
1645 Church plate in St. Chad's Church removed into Yorkshire " in
time of danger."
1649 Jan. Day of Humiliation on the death of Charles I. observed.
1651 Lord Byron declared, by Parliament, a rebel who was to expect no
pardon.
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1661 John Entwisle elected Recorder of Liverpool.
„ April 23. Coronation of Charles II. observed.
1662 Robert Bath, Vicar, declining to conform was ejected.
„ Hy. Pigott, M.A., became Vicar. He held the living for nearly
sixty years.
1665 Great Plague ; local death rate largely increased.
1671 Theophilus Howarth, M.D., Great Howarth, died in Manchester
" where he had distinguished himself by his fidelity to the
cause of Charles I."
1672 Dissenting meeting-house, said to be in Lower Gates, existed.
1675 Alexander Butterworth, Belfield, was High Sheriff of Lancashire.
1678 Collections made in the Churches in the Parish toward rebuilding
St. Paul's Cathedral.
1688 John Wolfenden by will bequeathed £100 to the poor of Hundera-
field.
1689 Feb. 13. William III. and Mary proclaimed King and Queen,
Rejoicings in the district.
1690 Ralph Webb, Parish Clerk for nearly sixty years and who in his
time buried 1,100 persons, died.
,, " Amen Corner " stood in a garden which sloped down to the river.
1692 Brearley's Charity for the poor of Spotland, founded.
1693 West Gallery and, six years later, South Gallery erected in St.
Chad's Church. They were removed in 1855.
1694 Poll Tax " for carrying on a vigorous war against France " collected
in the Parish.
1695 William, 9th Earl of Derby visited the town.
1696 Jeremy Hargreaves bequeathed the income of £20 to the Grammar
School for teaching writing.
1698 Hallfold Chapel founded.
1700.
1700 Pack of harriers kept at Pike House.
„ Population estimated at 8,000.
1702 Shepherd's Charity for the benefit of six poor women of Whitworth
founded.
1709 John Collier " Tim Bobbin," born at Urmston.
1712 James Holt, Castleton Hall, left the interest of £100 to the Grammar
School for the education of six poor boys.
„ John Bower left £3 a year to the Grammar School.
„ Jacobite Club—'* The Honourable Corporation of Rochdale " formed,
„ Gartside Charity founded. The funds exceed £5,400.
1713 Manor House, The Orchard, existed.
„ The town " supported a bookseller," R. Schofield.
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1717 200 dissenting families lived in the town.
,, Littleborough Chapelry contained 182 families, of which number
four were dissenters.
„ Blackwater Street Chapel recorded **a meeting place for an assembly
of Protestants dissenting from the Church of England. "
1718 Dorothy Holt's Charity for distributing the income of £120 in the
purchase of books of devotion, and for teaching and clothing six
poor girls, founded.
,, Mrs. Graham left the income of £30 for gowns for ten poor women.
1719 Castleton Hall, as we now know it, was built.
1721 Interchange of letters between London and the town took nine days
to effect.
,, Letters despatched from Manchester to the town three times weekly
and vice versa.
1722 Aug. Duel in the town between Captain W. Buckley and Major
S. Crooke. Crooke was killed.
„ Samuel Dunster, D.D., was instituted Vicar.
17*24 Daniel Defoe went over Blackstone Edge in a snowstorm.
„ " Old Falinge " was erected.
1731 Act of Parliament to prevent stealing of flannel pieces whilst in the
fields to dry and whiten passed.
1732 Mary, the sixth wife of Nathan Stott, Hades, buried in the Parish
Churchyard.
1734 Road over Blackstone Edge turnpiked.
1738 Samuel Cheetham, Castleton Hall, was High Sheriff of Lancashire.
1739 Sexton at St. Chad's voted 5/- per annum for keeping the Church
Steps clean.
1740 Jan. 21. Sam Hallows, Ash worth, " to the great joy of all his
neighbours," died.
„ Taylor's Charity School for teaching twenty poor children founded.
1741 St. Mary's Church, The Baum, opened as a Chapel of Ease ; con-
secrated by Samuel Peploe, Bishop of Chester, 28th June, 1744.
1744 Falcon Inn, Littleborough, existed.
1745 Aug. Two Days' Poll as to supplying a new bell for St. Chad's
Church Tower. Votes for, 189 ; against, 539.
„ Nov. 30. Detachment of the Pretender's adherents visited the town;
a few recruits enrolled.
„ Charles Wesley visited the town.
1746 Riot arising out of the Stuart Rebellion took place at the Roebuck
Inn.
1749 Oct. 18. John Wesley's first visit to the town. He writes: "...
the lions at Rochdale were lambs in comparison of those at
Bolton."
1751 Ashworth Manor (1018a. lr. 36p.) sold to Thomas Ferrand for
£12,200.
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1751 Dr. Richard Pococke, the Eastern Traveller, visited the town.
1752 John Wesley preached at Bankhouse, Bagslate.
„ Col. Richard Townley, Beltield Hall, was High Sheriff of Lancashire.
,, St. Chad's Vicarage rebuilt by Dr. Dunster.
1754 Road leading from the town to Manchester turnpiked.
,,• Nathaniel Forster, D.D., became Vicar ; buried in Bristol Cathedral,
1757.
„ Road leading from the town to Burnley turopiked.
1757 James Tunstall instituted Vicar.
1758 Littleborough Parish Church Registers begin.
1759 Rev. J. Haigh appointed Incumbent of Milnrow.
1760 Poor Rate in the Parish Is. in the £.
„ Firat town reservoir constructed ; it was situated in Leyland Brow,
Church Steps.
1761 Nov. 4. Coronation of George III. observed.
1762 Rev. T. Wray collated Vicar.
1763 Whitworth Parish Church Registers begin.
,, Act of Parliament sanctioning leases of the Glebe for 99 years
1764 Greenhill, residence of Mr. C. M. RoydB, M.P., built about this
time.
1765 £40 a year was the stipend of the Curate at St. Chad's.
1766 Thoruham Estates, on the death of Sir R. Assheton, Bart., passed
to Lord Suffield, son-in-law.
1769 Moss School erected.
1770 John Wesley preached in a building, afterwards a Theatre, erected
on the site of the Pioneer's Central Store.
„ Keighley Methodist Circuit at this time included Rochdale.
,, Hartley's Library formed.
1772 " Human Passions Delineated " by Tim Bobbin published.
1773 Sacrilege at St. Chad's Church ; Edmund Tattersall transported for
life.
1773 Oct. 12. Nine persons were baptised in the River Roche by Rev. J.
Hirst, Baptist Minister.
1774 Healey Hall rebuilt.
1775 Town Meadows Chapel built. It was closed in 1833.
1777 Coach to London commenced running ; five days' journey.
1778 Dr. Robert Hind, Chaplain to the Bishop of London, became Vicar.
„ Ann Bamford left £100 to poor housekeepers not receiving parish
relief.
,, Rev. Thomas Threlkeld, a man with a prodigious memory, began his
28 years pastorate at Blackwater Street Chapel.
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1783 Sun-dial placed in St. Chad's Churchyard.
,, 200 dwelling-houses stood on the Glebe.
„ Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, addressed a letter to
Col. Townley, Belfield Hall, on the subject of Sunday Schools.
„ Glebe Estate contained 134 Lancashire acres divided for the most
part into small fields.
1784 Baptist Chapel, Ogden, built ; present structure erected 1862.
,, Methodist Sunday School opened.
1785 Market Cross removed.
„ Strike in the fustian trade.
„ Milnrow Church Sunday School opened.
1786 July 14. Tim Bobbin died, aged 76 years.
1787 Theatre stood near the site of the Town Hall. Miss Farren, after-
wards Countess of Derby, on one occasion it is Baid, appeared
here.
,, May 20. Robert Brearley, Milnrow centenarian, born.
,, Steam engine, first in the district, erected at a colliery at Small-
bridge.
1788 Lord Byron, Baron Rochdale, poet, born.
„ Fare to Manchester by the York Royal Mail Stage Coach 5/-
,, Canal from Sowerby Bridge to the town opened.
1789 Kenion's Charity for apprenticing poor boys and girls to trades
founded.
,, New Clock and Chimes placed in St. Chad's Church Tower; the
bells played seven tunes.
1790 " High Flyer," first stage coach from the town to Manchester, began
running.
,, Packer Meadow mown, it is said, for the last time.
„ July 28. Dr. T. Drake instituted Vicar.
„ John Wesley, then 87 years of age, last visited the town.
1791 Jesse Lee born ; " as a herald and genealogist few could surpass him."
1792 Cloth-hall built by public subscription for an Exchange.
1793 Foxholes Hall rebuilt.
,, Harmony Masonic Lodge formed.
„ Theatre opened in Toad Lane.
„ Discovery at Tunshill of the right arm and hand of a silver statue of
Victory and several Roman coins.
,, May. Union Street Wesleyan Chapel opened; rebuilt 1826.
1794 Littleborough Church burial ground consecrated.
„ Volunteer Corps raised for the general defence of the country during
the War against France.
,, Whitworth Church burial ground consecrated.
, Road leading from the town to Edenfield turnpiked.
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1795 The town became the centre of a Methodist circuit, which included
Heywood and Bacup and other outlying places.
,, Printing first begun in the town.
,, Riot Act read to disperse a " meal and flour" mob, two men killed,
a boy injured.
,, Mr. Thomas Ferrand, The Wood, appointed Coroner.
,, Hanging Road Mill erected.
1796 Aug. 25. Rochdale, Bolton, and Stockport Volunteers reviewed on
Kersal Moor.
1797 Road leading from the town to Bury turnpiked.
1798 Mr. Jno. Entwisle was High Sheriff of Lancashire.
,, Town House, Littleborough, rebuilt.
,, Milnrow Church rebuilt
„• Feb. 8. James Leach, Wardle, composer of the " Psalmody," killed
by the breaking down of a coach.
1799 The Hon. Mrs. Murray in Companion to the Lakes, describes the
town as being " very dirty and the streets very narrow ; . . . .
the Rochdale women are in general handsome."
1800.
1800 Dec. 17. Postboy on horseback carrying the mail to Manchester
was attacked and robbed by highwaymen.
,, Hollingworth Lake and Whiteholme Reservoir constructed.
„ Large numbers of sheep were kept on the neighbouring moors.
,, Roebuck Hotel, premises now occupied by the Union Bank, South
Parade, was the leading hostelry.
1801 Sep. 30. Bamford Chapel opened.
,, Population of the town about 11,000.
1802 Jan. 26. John Taylor, first " Whitworth Doctor" died, aged 62
years.
„ Volunteer Corps disbanded.
„ Col. Townley, Belfield Hall, patron of Tim Bobbin, friend of Fox
and other celebrities, died.
„ Jacob Bright, senr., settled in the town.
1803 Rev. Josh. Cook, Union Street Chapel, expelled on account of his
doctrinal views.
,, Anacreontic Society, a musical union formed ; name changed to the
"Rochdale Harmonic Society" in 1806, and the "Rochdale
Choral Society " in 1878.
1804 July 23. Sir J. P. Kay-Shuttleworth, Bart, author of Scarsdale,
born at Meadowcroft.
„ Dec. 21. Rochdale Canal, which cost nearly £500,000 to construct,
was opened.
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1804 Rouleau of Roman brass coins unearthed at UDderwood.
„ College Street mill built by Mr. J. Pilling.
,, Act of Parliament to enable the Canal Co. to complete their works
passed.
,, Act of Parliament for making a new road from New Wall to Man-
chester passed ; amended 17th June, 1823.
1806 Jan. 2. Providence Chapel, High Street, opened ; a secession from
Union Street.
1807 Feb. 11. Burial ground attached to Providence Chapel first used.
,, Methodist Sunday School Scholars were, up to this time, taken
regularly to St. Chad's Church.
1808 June 1. " Shuttle Gathering," serious woollen trade dispute ; New
Bailey burnt to the ground. Military called in.
„ Coach and Horses Inn, Lord Street, was known as a Trades-Union
house.
„ Daniel Lambert was on exhibition in the town. He weighed 52
stones.
,, Friends' Meeting House, George Street, opened.
1809 Summercastle Barracks were occupied by the Hereford Militia.
„ Wesley Chapel, Wardle, built ; cost £700.
1810 Drake Street, named after the then Vicar, opened about this time.
,, Particular Baptist Chapel, Hope Street, opened; School added in
1817.
,, Wellington Hotel opened ; originally it waB the residence of Mr. T.
Smith, a wealthy woollen manufacturer.
,, Primitive Methodists sprang up about this time.
,, Eighty licensed houses existed in the town.
1811 Nov. 16. John Bright born.
„ Mr. Jacob Bright refusing to pay Church rate, his goods were dis-
trained upon.
„ Secession from Union Street Chapel — many joined Black water
Street Chapel.
,, Hallfold Sunday School opened.
,, Lord Byron paid his only visit to the town.
1812 St. Stephen's Church (Lady Huntingdon's Connexion) opened.
1813 Sept. 29. New Burial Ground Drake Street opened.
„ Lieut. J. Hop wood, 25th Rifles, fell at Arcangues before Bayonne.
„ Quakers in the town numbered about one hundred.
,, Tithes of Rochdale and Saddleworth sold by public auction.
,, Nine pews in St. Chad's Church sold by public auction — a pew con-
taining ten sittings fetched £205.
,, Pitt Club, in memory of the great Statesman, formed; dissolved,
1822.
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1814 Bill to erect a new Parish Church introduced into Parliament ; it
was subsequently abandoned owing to opposition.
„ March 14. Providence Chapel taken over by Congrogationalists.
„ June 12. Rev. John Ely commenced his pastorate at Providence
Chapel.
,, Redcross Street National School built.
1815 Act of Parliament passed for building a Chapel of Ease (St. James's).
,, June 17. Tom Livsey, a local worthy, born.
„ Methodist New Connexion formed by Mr. W. W. Barton, Town
Surveyor.
1817 Edwin Waugh born.
„ March Reform Meeting on Cronkeyshaw, Samuel Bamford spoke.
,, John Cockerill, Birches, founded the gigantic iron and steel works
at Servaing, Belgium. In 1882, the firm employed 10,000
persons.
,, John Kershaw became Pastor of Hope Street Chapel.
,, Stoppage of Messrs. Rhodes Bank.
„ Ladies' Charity formed.
,, Sunday School Union formed.
,, Sept. 28. Rev. T. Littlewood, thirty- two years pastor of Town
Meadows Chapel, died.
„ Nov. 29. Mr. T. B. Potter born.
,, Syke Chapel built.
1818 Rochdale Savings' Bank opened ; stopped payment 1849.
»» Clegg Hall licensed as a public-house ; license taken away 1869.
„ Sixteen Sunday Schools were conducted in the town.
,, Clover Street Unitarian Chapel built.
,, Post Office stood at Bridge End ; Miss Jane Lee, postmistress.
„ June 4th. Corner Stone of St. James's Church laid.
1819 William Howitt visited the Whitworth Doctors.
,, Aug. 16. Peterloo Gathering ; two Rochdalians injured.
„ Rev. W. R. Hay, M.A., became Vicar. He it was who ordered the
Riot Act to be read at Peterloo.
,, First Local Bank opened.
„ Miles Ash worth, as one of the Guard, sailed to St. Helena with
Napoleon I.
,, John Walmsley, Castlemere, was High Sheriff of Lancashire.
,, Mr., afterwards Archbishop Tait visited the Whitworth doctors.
1820 Number of rate assessments 1,040.
,, Beam engines introduced by Messrs. Petrie.
„ Power Loom Weaving introduced at Messrs. Pilling & Brierley's,
College Street.
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1820 Aug. 3. Trinity Church, Littleborough, was consecrated.
„ Nov. 8. Last Bull Bait in the Roche. Fall of the battlement of
the river ; seven persons killed. ^
„ Sun-dial hung outside Mr. Lawton's shop, Lord Street; removed
in 1897.
1821 Feb. Mrs. Betty Stott, Smallbridge, by will, left an estate at Count
Hill, Oldham, to the Baptist Church, Town Meadows.
„ July 19. Coronation of George IV. loyalty celebrated.
„ Sept. St. James's Church consecrated by Bishop Law ; Rev. W. J.
ffarington, M.A., Incumbent.
,, Nov. 25. Panic in Union Street Chapel.
1822 Jan. 21. Sir William Bagenall Burdett, Castleton Hall, qualified as
a County Justice.
,, Feb. 25. Highway robbery on Middleton Road — thief sentenced to
death.
„ Zachary Chapel, College Street, built.
„ Stocks near St. Chad's Church for punishing delinquents last used.
„ Lord Byron sold the right to hold a Market to the present pro-
prietors.
1823 Foundation Stone of the Old Town Hall laid by John Roby— building
pulled down in 1858.
„ Jan. 31. Dr. W. R. Hay, Vicar, resigned the Chairmanship of the
Salford Quarter Sessions.
„ Lord Byron sold the Manor to Mr. James Dearden.
1824 Jan. 12. Market Hall opened ; cost £30,000.
,, Rochdale Cricket Club was in existence ; thirty-one subscribers.
„ Discovery of a leaden coffin and a lachrymatory in the Parish Church.
„ March 9. Mr. J. Entwisle, High Sheriff, left the town amid great
rejoicings to meet the Judges.
„ April 19. Lord Byron died at Missolonghi.
,, Bridge erected across the river, Manchester Road.
„ Smallbridge Independent Chapel erected.
,, May 24. Rochdale Gasworks, a private enterprise, which cost
£11,000, opened.
1825 8,000 flannel pieces were manufactured weekly in the town and
neighbourhood.
„ Rev. Isaac Gaitskill licensed to the Curacy of Whitworth.
,, The town covered an area of three-quarters of a mile in all directions
from the Market Place.
„ Act of Parliament for improving the road to Oldham passed.
„ Iron footbridge leading to The Walk erected by Messrs. Vavasour.
„ FirBt Act of Parliament for the government of the town obtained.
„ Methodist Sunday School opened opposite the site of Spotland
U.M.F. Church.
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1825 Government grant of £500 in aid of Ideal relief owing to depression
in the woollen trade.
,, Twelve watchmen appointed to watch and regulate the town.
1826 Hooley Bridge mills erected ; ceased running in 1861.
„ Rochdale Races " fully established.''
,, Caledonian Society for mutual aid in sickness and distress formed.
,, March. Wesley Chapel, Union Street, opened ; the building cost
£6,000.
,, Oct. 8. J. H. Wolfenden, an actor of repute, born. He died at
Hull in 1861, when 20,000 persons attended his funeral.
1827 Jan. 6. Rochdale Recorder, a constitutional newspaper, price 7d.,
published weekly by J. Astin. Became defunct 29th March,
1828.
„ Rev. J. W. Inchbald, M. A., appointed Vicar of St. Mary's Church,
The Baum.
„ Messrs. Leach and Tweedale, Healey Hall, introduced the Spinning
Jenny — a strike followed.
1828 Two public billiard-rooms were established in the town.
,, Historical and Topographical Account of the Town and Parish of
Rochdale, by J. Butterworth, published.
„ Value of the living of Rochdale exceeded £2,000 per annum.
,, Last public cock-fight ; it took place at Bagslate ; stake, ten guineas
a battle and two hundred guineas a main.
„ Messrs. Kelsall & Bartlemore, now Kelsall & Kemp, Ltd. established.
,, John Martin, the celebrated painter, finished the " Fall of Nineveh ""
at Hollingworth Lake.
1829 Mr. Charles Johnson appointed Chief Constable.
,, St. John's Roman Catholic Church erected. Accommodation, 500.
,, May 2. Second "Shuttle Gathering." A serious disturbance by
woollen weavers owing to the introduction of power-looms —
ten persons killed.
„ Feargus O'Connor addressed a political gathering in the old Theatre,.
Toad Lane.
,, Traditions of Lancashire, by John Roby, then residing in the town*
published.
,, Independent Chapel, Moore Street, opened.
1830 June 28. William IV. proclaimed King amid general rejoicings.
,, Sep. Manchester and Liverpool Railway opened for traffic.
,, Great Strike in the woollen trade.
,, Rev. (afterwards Canon) Parkinson, B.D., instituted Incumbent of
Whitworth.
,, St. James's (Wardleworth) Schools established.
,, Sunday School Union re-formed.
„ Ben Bull, local character, transported for life for horse stealing.
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1831 March 11. Public Meeting to advocate the town's claims to be
included in the Reform Bill, Mr. Elliott, Solicitor, presiding.
„ Dispensary founded; premises in South Parade rented. The institu-
tion afte wards removed to Lord Street, and left there in 1871 for
Elliott Street.
,, Belfield Wesleyan School opened ; new school erected in 1852.
,, Barracks between Black water Street and Toad Lane in existence.
,, Primitive Methodist Chapel, Drake Street, afterwards JefFerye's
Music Hall, erected.
1832 June. The town became a Parliamentary borough.
„ Aug. 22. Passing of the Reform Bill observed ; procession through
principal streets ; 2,000 poor folks entertained.
,, Aug. 28. Henry Hunt gave an open-air Address in the town.
,, Weavers' Society (with Library) at Wardleworth established.
„ Nov. 15. William Cobbett gave an Address in Clover Street Chapel.
,, Revision Court (first) held at the Flying Horse Inn.
„ Good Samaritan Society formed.
„ Fieldhouse Institute formed to provide education chiefly among
Messrs. Bright's workpeople.
,, Dec. Mr. John Fenton elected first M.P.
1833 March. Town Meadows Chapel closed.
„ West Street Chapel built.
„ Factory Act passed, Mr. J. Bright opposing.
„ April. Literary and Philosophical Society, for many years an
important institution, formed.
„ Milnrow Parsonage built.
1834 Sep. 10. Heywood Branch Canal opened.
„ Moore Street British School opened.
,, Public Sale at Reed Hotel of goods seized for non-payment of
Church rate.
,, Rev. Robert Jones, late Cemetery Registrar, then a Missionary,
read the Emancipation Proclamation to his Congregation of
Slaves in Jamaica.
,, Rochdale Temperance Society formed ; incorporated in 1895.
,, Rev. J. Ely, minister at High Street Chapel, resigned.
„ Smallbridge Church consecrated by Bishop Law.
„ Water Street Chapel, now Central Hall, built.
,, Rochdale Sunday School Union re-established.
1835 Jan. 6. Fleece Inn entered by thieves who stole £127 in gold.
Thieves not discovered.
,, April 3. St. Clement's Church consecrated. Rev. G. H. Cotton, -
incumbent.
„ Fish last caught in the Roche about this time.
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1835 Mr. John Entwisle elected M.P. for the borough.
„ Lord F. Egerton and Mr. B. Wilbraham elected County members
for the district.
„ June 19. Stage Coach overturned in Black water Street. Several
persons seriously injured.
,, Aug. Local prisoners first tried at Liverpool Assizes.
,, Sep. Secession from Union Street Chapel which led to the forma-
tion of the U.M.F.C.
,, Mr. T. Ferrand Dearden succeeded his uncle, Mr. T. Ferrand,
Coroner.
,, Calf Hey Methodist School opened.
„ Sep. 24. Mr. A. H. Royds and Mr. W. E. Royds were robbed by
three highwaymen at Slattocks.
1836 July 4. Act of Parliament to enable the construction of the Man-
chester and Leeds Railway received Royal assent.
1837 Jan. 8. --Baillie Street U.M.F.C. opened, cost £4,000. Gallery and
class-rooms added, 1840.
,, Jan. Rochdale Union formed. Mr. W. Roberts, Clerk.
„ April 17. Mr. John Fen ton elected M.P. See Elections.
,, June 26th. Victoria proclaimed Queen ; great rejoicings.
„ July 1. Mr. Thomas Spencer appointed Registrar of Marriages, &c.
He held the office until December, 1879.
„ Mr. W. Heaton appointed Magistrates' Clerk at a salary of twelve
guineas per annum.
,, Ash worth Chapel enlarged.
,, British Schools, Baillie Street, publicly opened; Mr. J. J. Curtis,
Master.
„ Dec. 31. Belfield Sunday School established.
1838 Aug. 29. Mr. Henry Kelsall, one of the first Nonconformists to be
appointed, qualified as a J. P.
,, Oct. Anti-Corn Law Association formed; Mr. John Bright elected
a member of the Provisional Committee.
„ Nov. 7. Feargus O'Connor and J. R. Stephens spoke at a torch-
light Chartist demonstration in a brickfield, now the site of
Messrs. Kelsall & Kemp's Mill, Baillie Street; 2,000 persons
present.
„ Town Meadows Chapel Burial Ground discontinued.
,, Owenites opened a Social Hall opposite St. James's Church.
„ Rev. E. C. Lewis began his labours at St. Stephen's ; resigned Sep.
1876.
„ Public Timekeeper, erected by subscription, placed in the wall of
the Post Office, South Parade.
„ Mr. J. Eccles appointed Superintendent of the Fire Brigade.
„ Annual Assembly of the Association of Methodists held in the town ;
Rev. J. Molineux, President.
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1839 June 4. Manchester and Leeds Railway opened as far as Little-
borough.
,, June 11. Earthquake shock felt in the town.
„ Dec. 29. Dr. J. E. N. Moles worth, Vicar, read himself in.
,, Messrs. Brierley's Mill, Manchester Road, opened.
,, Commissioners' Rooms, Smith Street, where municipal affairs were
transacted till 1871, erected.
,, Father Dowling commenced a Roman Catholic Mission in the town.
,, Radical Club opened next to Weavers' Arms, Yorkshire Street.
„ Rev. R. K. Cook, Head Master of the Grammar School, appointed
Incumbent of St. John's, Smallbridge ; preferred 1881.
,, Court of Requests, for the trial of small causes, opened.
1840.
Jan. 23 Chartist Meeting in The Butts to adopt a petition for the release
of Jones, Williams, and Frost, imprisoned Chartist Leaders.
,, 29 Branch of the Anti-Corn Law League formed.
March Petition against the Corn Laws presented to Parliament — 9,700
signatures; 170 feet long.
Sep. Summit Tunnel, begun February 1838, completed. Forty-one
fatal accidents occurred during its making. The tunnel is
2,986 yards in length.
Queen Victoria's Wedding observed.
Mr. E. Wrigley, founder of E. Wrigley & Sons Ltd., appointed
Postmaster. He held the office till 10th September, 1859.
Spodden Brook was fished at this time.
1841.
Mar. 1 Manchester and Leeds Railway opened throughout.
May Boat Inn, Belfield, opened. The boat formerly carried passengers
on the branch canal, between Bluepits Railway Station and
the town of Hey wood.
July 1 Mr. W. S. Crawford (L) elected M.P.
Oct. 1 Rochdale Conservative Sick and Burial Association formed,
Mr. John Roby, President ; incorporated September, 1897.
Nov. 1 Rev. I. Gaitskill, M.A., succeeded Canon Parkinson, Vicar of
Whitworth.
„ 24 Constabulary Force formed.
Dec. Great distress among the working classes.
Newbold Friendly Society formed; Mr. J. Sharrocks, President.
Chartists' Room over a warehouse at the top of Penn Street,
existed.
Buckley Wood Reservoir completed ; holding capacity estimated
at 24,271,312 gallons.
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1842.
May 1 Common Sense, promoted by Dr. Molesworth, published.
„ 14 Vicar's Lantern, started in opposition to Common Sense by
Mr. E. Taylor and others; both journals died in August,
1843.
June 2 Unsuccessful attempt made to levy a Church Rate of one half-
penny in the £.
Aug. 10 "Plug Drawing," a strike for higher wages; great disturbances.
Dec. 12 John Bright, Cobden, and W. J. Fox addressed an Anti-Corn
Law Meeting in the old Theatre ; £1695 5s. 5d. subscribed
towards the League Funds.
,, Oil Lamps used for Street Lighting owing to a dispute between
the Town Commissioners and the Gas Company.
Annual Assembly of Association Methodism held in the town.
John Bright elected President of the British Temperance Associa-
tion. .
Jonathan Fildes, Quarry Hill, by will left £2,000 to St. Clement's,
Willbutts ; £2,000 to St. John's, Smallbridge ; and £1,000 to
Redcross Street National School.
1843.
Jan. 30 Free Trade Hall, Manchester, opened ; John Bright spoke.
Mar. 17 Earthquake shock felt in the town.
April 4 John Bright contested Durham and was defeated ; the election
was declared void on account of bribery.
„ 18 Foundation Stone of Sparrow Hill School laid. A procession,
consisting of three bands of music, the Clergy, County Con-
stabulary, Freemasons, Orangemen, &c.,' paraded the town.
,, 29 Danby's celebrated picture, " Opening of the Sixth Seal," worth
a thousand guineas, on view at the Town Hall buildings, was
mutilated by some person unknown and rendered valueless.
July 25 John Bright elected M.P. for Durham.
Aug. 1 Act of Parliament to repair " The road from the New Wall on
the Parade in Castleton " to Manchester, passed.
Nov. 23 Petty Sessions adjourned on account of Van Amburgh's wild
beasts appearing in the town.
Price of Gas 7s. per 1,000 feet.
1844.
Jan. Rochdale Journal published by Jesse Hall ; only one copy issued.
Nov. 20 Messrs. Cobden, Bright, and Sharman Crawford addressed a
crowded Free Trade meeting in the Public Hall.
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Nov. Gas works taken over by the Town Commisioners.
Dec. 21 Pioneers' Society commenced business ; stock in trade : — butter,
1 cjr. 22 lb.; sugar, 2 qrs.; flour, three sacks at 37s. 6d., and
three at 36s.; candles, 2 doz.; meal, one sack; total cost
£16 lis. lid.
Bagslate races re-established.
Second Improvement Act passed ; town divided into three wards.
Number of Commissioners, 60.
Mr. W. W. Barton elected Town Surveyor and Valuer.
St. John's, Smallbridge, Chapel of Ease, assigned a separate
parish.
St. James's, Chapel of Ease, Wardleworth, assigned a separate
parish.
Rochdale Protestant Female Friendly Sick and Burial Society
formed ; the Society met at the White Lion Inn, Yorkshire
Street.
Rev. W. N. Molesworth presented to the living of St. Clement's.
Yeomanry Cavalry Troop formed ; Mr. A. H. Royds, Captain.
Rev. T. S. Mills, M.A., appointed Vicar of Littleborough.
1845.
March Milkstone Sunday School built; site given by Mr. J. Hoyle,
Larkfield.
Aug. 14 Relief fund opened in aid of the sufferers by the great Quebec
fire.
Cant Hill Well Masonry erected by Dr. Molesworth.
Debt of the town £2,000 — it was occasioned by the widening of
Lord Street.
Rev. Hugh Bourne, a founder of Primitive Methodism, preached
at Drake Street Chapel.
Memorials of the Rochdale Grammar School published.
1846.
Jan. 10 Manchester Examiner and Times, of which John Bright was one
of the promoters, first published.
Mar. 23 Petition for the Repeal of the Corn Laws, signed by 8,000
persons, presented to Parliament.
July 8 Demonstration to celebrate the Repeal of the Corn Laws ; 12,000
persons took part in it ; Elihu Burritt spoke.
Aug. 2 Ernest Jones and Feargus O'Connor addressed 10,000 Chartists
on Blackstone Edge.
Moore Street School built.
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Dr. Moles worth placed in St. Chad's Church the font now used
there.
Barracks off Toad Lane were given up.
Grammar School, School Lane, was pulled down.
The town became a municipal borough.
Wood-turning by machinery introduced by Messrs. T. Robinson
and Son.
Bridge Inn Sick and Burial Society formed.
Annual Assembly of Association Methodism held in the town.
1847.
, Jan. 11 Thirty-five couples were married at St. Chad's, being First
Market Monday.
,, 15 Rochdaie Pilot and Rochdale Reporter, No. 1, published.
„ 24 Temporary Church and School for Healey opened in Mr. Robert
Tweedale's mill, Broadley.
Feb. 26 Hon. B. Denman sat at the Wellington Hotel as Arbitrator in
the matter of the confirmation of certain Vicarage Estate
leases.
Mar. 8 Elihu Burritt, the American writer, lectured in West Street
Chapel.
April 2 Providence Sunday School opened ; cost £1,300.
,, 15 County Court first held: Mr. J. S. F. Greene, judge; Mr. J.
Woods, registrar ; Mr. H. Lord, bailiff.
July 28 Mr. George Fyler, London, Conservative candidate for the
borough, addressed a meeting in front of the Wellington
Hotel, Mr. J. Dearden presiding, and afterwards published
an address.
,, 29 Mr. W. Sharman Crawford returned for the borough unopposed,
Mr. Fyler having withdrawn.
,, John Bright elected one of the members for Manchester un-
opposed.
Sep. 1 Bishopric of Manchester created ; Dr. Prince Lee first Bishop.
Sep. Carlyle visited John Bright at One Ash.
Church Institute formed.
Grammar School, Sparrow Hill, erected.
Mr. Robert Bell appointed Gas manager.
1848.
Feb. 9 Meeting of Spotland ratepayers to urge the separation of the
Spotland Township from the Rochdale Union.
April 11 Owners of Building Property Protection Association formed,
"owing to the arbitrary action of the Waterworks Co."
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May Messrs. Bright, having obtained a lease of a portion of Cronkey-
■haw, let the same in allotments to their workpeople.
Sep. 25 Rochdale Borough Benefit Building Society formed.
Oct. 6 Public Fast ; services in churches and chapels ; shops and public-
houses closed.
Dec. 17 Wesleyan School, Red Lumb, opened.
ged School opened by John Ashworth, Author of Strange
Pales.
Eight thousand houses estimated to have been built at this time.
Dr: S. Radcliffe founded a £40 Scholarship at Brazenose College,
Oxford, to maintain two poor scholars from Rochdale Grammar
School, or any of the Undergraduates of Brazenose that might
be preferred.
1849.
Jan. 3 St. Bartholomew's Church, Whitworth, consecrated.
Feb. Rochdale Lantern published ; two numbers issued.
May 9 Parish hearses and gears sold under distraint for assessed taxes —
carriage duty not having been paid.
July 12 Foundation Stone of Christ Church, Healey, laid by Mr. Jacob
Tweedale with Masonic ceremony. The edifice was opened
in the year following ; Rev. R. Minnitt, Vicar.
Aug. 6 Richard Oastler addressed a large meeting in the Public Hall, in
support of the Factory Act.
Dec. 22 Rochdale Savings' Bank failure, liabilities £100,403 ; Number of
depositors, 2,963.
Pioneers' Society commenced their Educational department.
Mr. John Entwisle, Foxholes, was High Sheriff of Lancashire.
Messrs. Bright introduced carpet weaving.
Whitworth Co-operative Society formed; present premises opened
March, 1861. ;
Hallfold Chapel built.
Brickfield Co-operative Society formed ; taken over by Pioneers'
Society in 1896.
Rev. F. R. Raines, M.A., F.S.A., Vicar of Milnrow, installed
Hon. Canon of Manchester.
Oddfellows' Literary Institution existed in School Lane; 900
books.
A number of Hungarians visited the town.
I860.
Mar. 21 Mr. Clement Royds, High Sheriff of Lancashire, left to meet the
Judges. A procession accompanied him as far as Bluepits.
April 22 Milnrow Pioneers' Society formed; premises opened in Kiln
Lane ; wound up, 1896.
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June 18 Mr. John Roby, Author of Traditions of Lancashire, drowned
on the sinking of the " Orion " near Portpatrick Lighthouse ;
remains buried in Providence Chapel graveyard.
July 26 Bagslate Races were held for the last time.
Sep. 14 Rochdale Freeholders Benefit Building Society formed. 24 acres
of land on the Freehold were purchased for £10,000, and
divided into 500 allotments.
Oddfellows in the district numbered about 3,000.
Walton Anglers' Society formed.
Rochdale and District Corn Mill Society formed ; premises taken
at Swallow Mill, Smallbridge.
Annual Assembly of Association Methodists held in the town.
Passmonds Mill (Messrs. Tweedale's) opened ; closed November,
1893.
1851.
Jan. 10 Strike in the iron trade — lasted six months.
April Pioneers' Store, which previous to this date was opened in the
evenings only, opened throughout the day.
May 20 Mr. E. Miall adopted as Liberal candidate for the borough.
Oct. 5 Yeomanry Cavalry Troop paraded in the Butts and marched to
Woraley, where, on 9th October, with their regiment, they
formed a guard of honour to the Queen.
Dec. 7 East Window placed in St. Chad's ; cost £175.
Harridge Mill erected.
Belfield Hall sold by Mr. R. G. Townley, M.P., to Mr. Robert
Nuttall.
" Victoria " Gasometer erected ; capacity, 160,000 feet.
Hamer Pasture reservoir constructed; holding capacity, about
72,532,152 gallons ; cost £8,980 6s. Od.
Rochdale Advertiser and Rochdale Recorder published ; only five
numbers issued.
1852.
Mar. 2 John Bright spoke at a meeting held in Manchester to reconsti-
tute the Anti-Corn Law League, when £27,000 was subscribed.
„ 18 Rev. H. W. Parkinson began his ministry in the town ; died
20th August, 1874.
„ 19 Messrs. Kelsall and Bartlemore presented those of their employees
who suffered by the Bank failure, with 7s. 6d. in the £ on
their deposits.
July 8 John Bright re-elected one of the members for Manchester.
July Mr. E. Miall (L) elected member for the borough.
Lowerfold Chapel erected.
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1853.
Nov. 12 Rochdale Sentinel, 4d. weekly, published ; discontinued Sep. 1855.
Dec 15 J. B. Gough, Temperance Orator, gave an Address in Baillie
Street Chapel.
Third Act of Parliament for the government of the town passed ;
number of Commissioners reduced from 60 to 42 ; public works
authorised.
Joiners' Club, to secure an increase of wages and equalisation of
working hours, had its headquarters at the Clock Face Hotel.
Hallfold Day School opened.
John Bright, in consideration of his exertions in the Repeal of
the Corn Laws Agitation, was presented with a Library of
12,000 books ; cost £5,048 8s. Id.
1854.
Jan. 8 Holland Street Schools opened.
Park Baptist Chapel opened ; cost £2,107.
Mar. 23 Milton Congregational Church, Smith Street, opened.
April 2 Ten per cent. Demonstration on Bagslate Racecourse ; 5,000
persons present.
,, 14 Brimrod Chapel opened ; cost £650. Site given by Mr. R. Heape.
„ 17 G. V. Brooke, Actor, appeared as " Othello " at the Theatre.
„ 26 Day of Humiliation, " in consideration of the just and necessary
war."
July 9 Weekly Offertory begun at St. Chad's Church after considerable
opposition.
,, 15 St. Alban's Church Foundation Stone laid by Mr. Abraham
Brierley; consecrated 1855; Rev. J. W. Parker, Vicar.
August Rope Street Obstruction Case.
Dec. 24 U.M.F.G, Lowerplace, opened.
Mr. Thomas Ashworth, Belle Green, elected Chief Constable.
Whitworth Literary Institute formed.
Police Court translated from the Flying Horse Inn to the Com-
missioners' Rooms, Smith Street.
Rochdale Co-operative Manufacturing Society, "Mitchel Hey,"
formed.
684,047 letters passed through the Post Office.
Whitworth and Rochdale Agricultural Show first held ; the out-
come of an annual sheep show held at Whitworth.
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1855.
Feb. 28 Burial Ground, Drake Street, closed by Order in Council.
April 19 Drinking Fountain, which stood opposite the Wellington Hotel,
erected by the Pioneers' Society.
„ 24 St. Mary's Ragged School opened.
„ 28 Cemetery, Bury Road, opened ; 10,000 persons estimated to have
been present.
Sep. 21 Town's Meeting to consider the proposed incorporation of the
town.
Oct. 3 Mr. W. Sharman Crawford, M.P. presented with silver plate, &c,
in recognition of his services to the town.
Come whoam to thi childer an* me, by Edwin Waugh, published.
Brown House Reservoir completed ; holding capacity, 47,010,448
gallons ; cost £6,798 19s. 2Jd.
Hopwood Will Case heard — the trial extended over seven days.
Rochdale Banner, a weekly newspaper, commenced.
Corn Mill, Weir Street, erected.
Y.M.C. A. formed ; it promoted educational classes and possessed
a library of several hundred volumes.
81,432 bales of cotton brought from Liverpool.
1856.
Jan. An Amateur Dramatic Society held its meetings in a room
opposite St. James's Church.
Feb. 3 Blackwater Street old Chapel last used for service. Corner-stone
of the new structure laid 23rd April.
Primitive Methodist Chapel and School, Haugh, opened.
Rochdale Observer (L) No. 1, published ; eight pages ; price 2d.
On March 22nd the paper was reduced to four pages; price Id.
St. Alban's Church opened after the Consecration.
Corner-stone of Wesleyan Chapel, Lowerplace, laid.
20 Government Inquiry to report upon the Petition for a Charter of
Incorporation began.
21 Sunday School Conference (9th) of Teachers of Lancashire, York-
shire, and Cheshire, held in Baillie Street Chapel.
25 Election of Churchwardens for St. Chad's took place in the
Churchyard owing to the large attendance, the Vicar taking
the Chair — one of the tombstones.
Rev. R. S. Rowan, B.D., Curate at St. Chad's, appointed resident
Curate of Buersill and Lowerplace.
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April 11 Mr. Richard Hey worth, Whitworth, appointed Relieving Officer
for Spotland.
„ 16 Mr. W. A. Scott at a meeting of the Town Commissioners advo-
cated the formation of a Free Library and Museum.
„ 23 Working - Men's Educational Institute, Ragged School, Mill
Street, numbered 220 members ; average attendance at even-
ing classes, 70.
Paddle steamer and boats placed on Hollingworth Lake.
May 16 Foundation Stone of St. James's Church, Wardle, laid by Mr.
A. H. Royds ; procession of Yeomanry, Freemasons, Druids,
Oddfellows, and others.
„ 24 Mr. T. Livsey, in giving evidence before a select committee on
local charges on shipping, stated that Rochdale paid to Liver-
pool for import and export dues, £4,100 per annum.
„ 29 Celebration of the Treaty of Peace. The town was gaily illu-
minated at night, and numerous social functions were held.
„ 30 Mr. John Oldham, Schoolmaster, appointed Registrar of Births,
etc. , for Spotland Further Side.
June 26 Rochdale and Wellfield Cricket Clubs amalgamated, and num-
bered 166 members.
,, 29 A series of Sunday Concerts on Cronkeyshaw began " as a protest
against undue influence exercised in London and other places;"
large attendance.
Catholic population estimated at 5,000.
July 11 Large gathering to celebrate the victory of the Three Ward party
over the Five Ward party, on the incorporation of the borough,
held.
,, 22 Dissenters' Mortuary Chapel, the Cemetery ; opened.
Aug. 2 Eel weighing 7 lb. 1 oz., 3 ft. 7 in. long, caught in the canal.
„ 4 Ancient Order of Foresters High Court held in the town ; 300
delegates present.
„ 23 The Lancashire Fly-by-Neet, No. 1, a weekly comic journal edited
by John Scholes, a local author, published.
Twenty Waterloo heroes, accompanied by a fife and drum band,
left the town to witness the unveiling of the Wellington
Statue, Manchester.
Sep. 13 Daily Railway Service to Manchester, 13 trains ; to Leeds, 10 ;
to Liverpool, 8.
,, 28 Wesleyan Chapel, Lowerplace, opened.
Charter of Incorporation received.
Burgess Association, to watch the proceedings of the Town
Council, formed.
Oct. 4 Rochdale Standard, (Independent L) No. 1 published ; four pages;
price Id.
„ 19 Parish Church opened after alterations ; the north aisle having
been rebuilt and the clerestory restored.
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Practiced Handbook for the use of Suitors, by Mr. Joseph Butter-
worth, Chief Clerk, County Court, published.
Nov. 11 Mr. J. Cheetham, M.P. for the County Division, and Mr., now
Sir E. Watkin, addressed the members of the Y.M.C.A. in
the Public Hall.
,, 21 Henry Russell gave his descriptive Entertainment, "The Far
West," in the Public Hall.
Dec. 11 Election of thirty Councillors under the new Charter.
,, 19 Mr., now the Rt. Hon. Jacob Bright, elected first Mayor.
„ Mr. Z. Mellor appointed Town Clerk. He held the office till his
death, 13th September, 1897.
Bagslate Industrial Provident Society established ; Capital £12.
Pioneers' Society opened their first branch — Oldham Road.
New Wall, now South Parade, widened 18 feet; The Butts
widened 14 feet ; river bed narrowed.
1857.
Jan. 5 Dr. Mark and his " little men " gave their popular Entertainment
in the Public Hall.
„ 23 Mr. Edward Miall, M.P., addressed his constituents in the Public
Hall.
,, 24 Mr. James Gibson interred in the New Burial Ground (then
closed), before a large assemblage of persons.
„ 26 Stormy Town's Meeting to consider the propriety of opening
Museums, &c, on Sundays; the resolution lost by a small
majority.
Mr. William Storey, St. Helens, was elected Superintendent of
Police.
Feb. 11-12 Louis Kossuth, Ex-Governor of Hungary, lectured in the Public
Hal] ; Mr. Jacob Bright presiding.
,, 22 Mr. Charles Cheetham was elected Assistant Overseer of Castleton
Township. He held office till 1896.
Borough Arms, in the preparation of which Canon Raines rendered
great service, obtained.
Mar. 4 Town Council supported a proposal to make Manchester an Assize
Town.
,, 11 Mr. J. H. Callender was appointed Superintendent of the Borough
Police.
„ Government Inquiry at the Commissioners' Rooms, Smith Street,
as to the expediency of opening private graves in the New
Burial Ground.
,, 28 John Bright and the Rt. Hon. Milner Gibson, members for Man-
chester, were rejected at the General Election.
„ 30 Sir A. Ramsay, Bart., (C) elected M.P. for the Borough. See
Elections.
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Police Force consisted of one superintendent, two sergeants, and
thirteen constables. The sergeants were paid a guinea per
week each ; the constables 17s. 6d. each.
April 9 Stained Glass Window, which cost £150, placed in Smallbridge
Church by Messrs. R., H., T., and E. Healey.
„ 25 Rochdale Standard amalgamated with the Rochdale Observer.
Pawnshops in the town numbered 13.
A List of Votes polled at the recent Parliamentary Election, classi-
fied according to Trades, and dedicated to the non-electors,
published.
May 5 Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, in which great interest
was shown in this neighbourhood, was opened by the Prince
Consort.
„ 5 Pablo Fanque, a well-known Circus Proprietor, occupied the
Newgate. He made periodical visits till late in the sixties.
„ 30 Rochdale Pilot, (C) No. 1, published. It ran till 3rd July, 1858,
was re-started in 1859, and succumbed 2nd December, 1871.
June 11 Blackwater Street New Chapel opened.
July 2 Election Petition against the return of Sir A. Ramsay, Bart.,
was dismissed after six days' hearing.
,, 29 "United Methodist Free Churches" was the name given to the
Amalgamated Societies of the Wesleyan Methodists' Associa-
tion and the Wesleyan Reformers, at the 22nd Annual
Assembly, held in Baillie Street Chapel.
Aug. 10 John Bright elected M.P. for Birmingham, unopposed and free
of expense. He represented the town till his death, 27th
March, 1889.
,, 11 Rev. R. N. Sharpe, M.A., appointed Vicar of St. Mary's, The
Baum.
Sep. 19 Rev. S. W. Morton, presented with an address, canonical robes,
and a purse of gold, by the Working Men's Educational
Society.
,, 27 Belfield Chapel opened. The number of scholars was 215.
Oct. 7. A Day of Fast and Humiliation on account of the Indian Mutiny ;
special services were held in the churches and business was
suspended.
Nov. 4 Banquet to Sir A. Ramsay, M.P., in Larkfield Mill, Alderman
Royds presiding.
Borough Protection Association formed, in consequence of alleged
undue influence practised at the previous Municipal Elections;
Mr. Thomas Schofield, Chairman.
Thirty-nine mills, employing 7,835 hands, were working short
time.
Dec. 17 Town's Meeting adopted a resolution in favour of Manhood
Suffrage, the Ballot, Triennial Parliaments, and Redistribu-
tion of Seats; Mr. R. T. Heape, presiding.
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1858.
Jan. 13 The Mayor and Corporation took over the powers, property, and
liabilities of the Old Commissioners.
„ 21 Wardle Church consecrated ; Rev. J. Ducker, M.A., first Vicar.
He held the living till October, 1892.
,, 22 Town Council adopted an address to the Queen on the marriage
of Princess Royal, which Alderman R. T. Heape and Alderman
Royds presented at a Levee, 18th February.
ged Schools, Church Stile, conducted at the expense of Mr.
9 T. Kemp.
Brotherod Mills (Lu nib's), erected.
Feb. 24 Messrs. Rawstron placed a large stained window in Whitworth
Church.
Mar. 19 Liberal Electors' Association formed by leaders of the party.
A Prosecution Club for protection of rights existed.
April Steam printing introduced by Messrs. E. Wrigley & Sons.
May 9 Mr. James Wilkinson, Shoemaker, who for forty years conducted
the services at Clover Street Unitarian Chapel, died. He per-
formed the services gratuitously.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to revive Bagslate Races.
June 15 Madame White-Mario, friend of Orsini and Mazzini, lectured in
the Public Hall on Italian Politics.
July Lamplighters' wages were 16s. per week. The men were required
to undergo drill and act as supernumerary constables.
Aug. 4 Last interment inside the Parish Church took place, the body
being that of the Lord of the Manor's daughter.
„ 14 Ann Street Infants' Day Schools opened ; cost £900.
„ 30 Mr. William Roberts, Solicitor, appointed Poor- Law Auditor for
South Lancashire.
Alderman R. T. Heape and Mr. J. Schofield, Littleborough, were
appointed County Justices.
Railway Excursions were run to Blackpool and Southport and
back ; return fare, Is. 6d.
Sep. 4 First local Excursion to the Crystal Palace ; fare for four days,
first class 23s., third class 12s.; 440 tickets issued.
,, 9 Cricket Match : XXII. of Rochdale v. an English XI, begun at
Merefield. Hunt, one of the XL, whilst walking to the
Railway Station, was killed by a train.
,, 30 Mr. John Holgate, Solicitor, appointed Clerk to the Guardians.
He held the office till his death, 19th May, 1886.
Oct. 4 Chapel for the Destitute opened by John Ashworth, Author of
Strange Tales.
„ 7 Mr. E. M. McDougal, Leeds, appointed Town Surveyor at a
salary of £200 per annum.
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Dec. 3 Public Hall Benefit Building Society formed.
„ 23 Mr. C. Temple, Q.C., succeeded Judge Greene in the County
Court.
Messrs. Jonathan Nield, J. Holt, and B. Healey were appointed
County Justices.
Mr. James Collier, B.A., succeeded Mr. William Littlewood,
(deceased), as Master of Townhead School.
Secularist Institute in existence.
1859.
Jan. 9 Union Street New Day and Sunday Schools opened; cost of
buildings, £1,500.
„ 12 General Tom Thumb appeared in the Public Hall.
,, 28 Demonstration in the Public Hall to commemorate John Blight's
restoration to health ;• 1,100 persons present.
Messrs. W. W. Schofield and James Butterworth were appointed
County Justices.
Feb. 24 Canon Stowell gave an Address to the members of the Y.M.C. A.
in the Lyceum.
,, 28 Mr. Andrew Stewart, Mayor, presented by resident Scotsmen
with a Silver Cup (28 J oz.), " as a memento of their esteem."
Mar. 2 Whitworth Vale Gas Co. formed ; Capital, £30,000 in £5 shares.
„ 11 Town's Meeting vigorously condemned Mr. Disraeli's Reform
Bill ; Mr. Jacob Bright presiding.
„ 21 Thomas Cooper, Author of Purgatory of Suicides, commenced a
series of Lectures in the Public Hall on " Christianity."
Castleton Association for the Preservation of Ancient Footpaths
formed, in consequence of Mr. Entwisle proposing to divert
a footpath from Sparth Bar to Castleton Moor.
Wesleyan Preaching Boom, Church Stile, was in existence.
April 29 Mr. R. Cobden, (L), then in America, elected M.P., for the
borough.
May 27 Samuel Bamford, the Radical, gave Recitals from his works, in
the Public Hall.
June 30 St. Paul's, Norden, Corner-stones laid by Alderman A. H. Royds
and Mrs. T. Rawstron.
July Burial Ground attached to Wardle Wesleyan Chapel, closed.
Aug. 17 Mr. Cobden, M.P., addressed a large meeting in a marquee in
William Street, to commemorate his return. On the follow-
ing evening he addressed 5,000 persons in the same place.
„ 23 Rev. G. Snashall, B.A., ordained Pastor of Providence Chapel.
„ 24 Whitworth Agricultural Show first held at Mount Falinge. In
1861 the name was changed to " Whitworth and Rochdale
Agricultural Show;" in 1871 the name " Whitworth," was
abandoned.
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Aug. 28 Harriett Street Baptist Chapel opened. Accommodation for 260
persons.
Sep. Mr. J. Matthews appointed Postmaster.
Oct. 25. "Royal Charter" foundered off Anglesey; Mr. W. Watson, of
this town, who was returning from a successful sojourn in the
Australian goldfields, was amongst the 459 souls lost.
Nov. 9 " Mayor's Lamps " first provided ; Mr. T. Ash worth, Mayor.
„ 14 Subscription Turkish Baths, Church Cottages, corner of School
Lane, opened.
Dec. 29 The local Rifle Volunteer Corps, which had been recently formed,
held their first drill.
St. James's Church Clock began to register time.
Masonic Rooms, Ann Street, opened.
Whitworth Church Institute established.
Post Office removed from Market Place to Baillie Street.
Typographical Society formed.
Neddy Fitton's visit to the Earl of Derby, by Miss M. R. Lahee,
published.
Superintendent Pickering succeeded Superintendent Storey of
the County Police.
I860.
Jan. Town Hall Buildings, Lord Street, erected. A Newsroom, with
early telegraphic information, opened there.
,, Bagslate Manufacturing Co. formed.
Feb. 20 St. Alban's Day Schools, which cost £1,200, opened.
Mar. 6 Captain J. Fen ton, Lieutenant H. Fish wick, and Ensign Philippi
attended the Queen's Levee to Volunteer Officers.
,, 18 Bagslate Wesley an Sunday School opened.
April 17 Rifle Volunteer Corps paraded for the first time. Accompanied
by the Yeomanry Cavalry Band, the Corps marched to Little-
borough.
,, 19 The Wood Estate selected as the site for a Town Hall.
,, 26 Mr. Charles Walker, 25 years Reform Association Secretary,
resigned.
May 18 Town's Meeting approved of Lord J. Russell's Reform Bill.
June 7 Proposal to lay out the New Burial Ground, Drake Street, for
an open space, made at a meeting of ratepayers in the vicinity ;
abandoned.
,, 8 Captain H. Butterworth, who served in several engagements in
the Peninsular War, died.
„ 26 Public Meeting held to express sympathy with Garibaldi in his
efforts to help Italy ; £76 13s. 3d. raised.
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June 28 Sir A. Ramsay, Bart. , presented with an address and silver plate
by Conservative Working Men at a Demonstration in Messrs.
E. Leach & Son's, " Castle Works."
Littleborough Manufacturing Co. formed; Capital, £20,000 in £10
shares.
July 4 St. Martin's Church, Castleton Moor, Corner-stone laid. The
edifice, which cost £3,000, was consecrated 14th June, 1862.
Aug. 23 St. James's Church, Calderbrook, Corner-stone laid by Mr. J. G.
Dearden, whose father built and endowed the Church.
Rev. Charles Garrett, the well-known Wesleyan preacher, was
presented with addresses, plate, &c., by admirers, on leaving
the town.
„ 19 Rev. W. F. Burchell, 20 years Pastor of West Street Chapel,
presented with an address and £62, and later, with £175 10s.
„ 28 Edmund Crossley, Calderbrook, died, leaving 8 children, 45
grand-children, 74 great-grand-children, and one great-great-
grand-child — all living.
October Smallbridge Mechanics' Institute inaugurated ; 81 members.
Nov. Shawforth Cotton Spinning and Manufacturing Co. formed.
Co-operative Land and Building Co. formed.
Millgate and Facit Cotton Spinning Co. formed.
Dec. 5 Town Mission formed at a meeting in Providence Chapel.
„ 20 Rev. J. B. Winter, B. A., succeeded Rev. C. R. Pilling (deceased),
Master of the Grammar School.
„ Considerable feeling aroused, owing to a woman named Mason
being non-suited in the County Court, for not believing in a
state of future rewards and punishments.
„ Castleton Cotton Spinning and Manufacturing Co. formed ; failed
February, 1894.
,, Mr. Edward Hill appointed Sheriff's officer. He held the office
till his death, 30th June, 1884.
Co-operative Sick and Burial Society formed.
Scarsdcde, a novel dealing with the locality, by Sir J. Kay-
Shuttleworth, Bart. , published.
The Post Office was situate in Baillie Street.
1861.
Jan. 17 Penny Bank established, Mr. J. J. Curtis, Secretary. Opened
at the Y.M.C.A. rooms, 23rd February, when 615 deposits
were made.
Feb. Whitworth Manufacturing Co. formed.
Mar. 29 Ogden New Baptist Chapel ; Corner-stone laid by Mr. H. Kelsall.
Chapel opened 18th April, 1862 ; preacher, the Rt. Hon. Lord
Teynham.
,, Mona Hotel and Quoiting ground opened.
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: April 11 Indian Famine Fund opened ; £634 15s. 8d. raised.
„ Census taken. The returns showed that the town contained four
times as many inhabitants as some boroughs returning two
members.
May 1 Mr. Ebenezer Rhodes elected Borough Auditor. He held office
till his death, 11th December, 1885.
,, 10 Alderman T. Livsey was presented with £400 in admiration of a
long and useful public career.
,, 21 HoUiiigworth Lake Guide, by Mr. J. B. Davenport, published.
„ 25 Royal Music Hall, King Street, opened.
June 2 East Window placed in St. Clement's Church, at a cost of £400,
by Messrs. Uhadwick, Oakenrod, was unveiled.
„ 26 Mr. Cobden addressed 5,000 persons in Messrs. Kelsall & Kemp's
Warehouse, Baillie Street ; Mr. Bright, Mr. T. Bazley, M.P.,
and Sir Charles Douglas, M.P. present.
,, Hyde Park Gardens, Milnrow Road, were, and for many years
continued to be, a popular resort.
July 24 Middleton aud Thornham Estates offered for sale ; reserve bid
for the Thornham Estate, £90,000.
,, Rifle and Gymnasium Club formed by dissatisfied members of the
Volunteer Corps; Mr. J. Hartley, Solicitor, President. A
400 yards range opened at Roche Mills.
Sep. 8 Rev. E. C. Pike, B. A., appointed to West Street Chapel.
,, 16 'Busses commenced running to Oldham, to bring passengers into
communication with the new route to the south.
„ 21 Wesleyan Chapel, Castleton Moor; Corner-stone laid by Mr.
James Booth ; Chapel opened 18th April, 1862.
,, Post Office Savings' Bank opened ; seventy -nine accounts opened,
and £452 9s. paid in during the first three months.
Oct. 13 St. Patrick's Schools, Watts Street, opened.
„ 17 Mr. W. Sharman Crawford, M.P. for the borough from 1842 to
1852, died.
Nov. 1 Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Co.'s town receiving warehouse,
5, Baillie Street, opened.
„ 3 St. James's Schools, Eastgate Street, enlarged ; cost £793 17s. 9d.
„ 22 Thirty charges of intimidating Messrs. Bright's employees for
working on improved machinery, were tried by the magis-
trates, Mr. Ernest Jones defending. Various sentences
followed.
„ 24 Whitworth Road Sabbath School opened.
Dec. 3 Mr. Bright, in the Public Hall, distributed the prizes awarded to
students by the Working Men's Educational Institute.
„ 11 Castleton Local Reform Association inaugurated.
„ 23 Prince Consort's funeral observed; large procession formed in
The Butts and proceeded to the Parish Church, where a
special service was held.
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Jan. 13 Relief Committee formed, to meet the distress owing to the
American War.
„ 28 Rochdale Lyceum, "for the diffusion of knowledge among all
classes," formed. President, Mr. G. T. Kemp; Secretary,
Mr. Henry Fishwick.
Feb. 5 Signoro J. White-Mario, the Florence Nightingale of Italy-
lectured in the Public Hall on Italian Independence.
,, Soup Kitchen opened. Down to 22nd January, 1863, the Relief
Committee received £26,697 18s. 5d. for distribution among
the unemployed.
Mar. 25 Savings' Bank (George Haworth's) Depositors met in large num-
bers in the Public Hall, to urge the Government to make
good the loss sustained by Haworth's irregularities.
,, Mr. R. R. Grey, Warrington, appointed Head Master of Grammar
School.
Mr. T. B. Stephens was Mayor of Brisbane.
A booth, the "Royal Standard," existed in Newgate.
Upwards of 10,000 persons visited Mason's, Globe Works, to in-
spect machinery to be shown at the International Exhibition,
where it occupied a space of 1,400 feet.
April 2 Sixth Gasometer, "Prince Albert," erected; depth 26 ft., diam.
100 ft., holding capacity 300,000 ft.
„ 11 Newbold Gardens and Nursery Grounds were a popular resort.
„ 17 Mr., afterwards Sir H. Parkes, Governor, lectured in the Public
Hall, on New South Wales as a field for emigration.
„ 18 Perseverance Mill, belonging to Milnrow Co-operative Society,
opened.
The Borough Corporation Temperance Band Friendly Society in
existence.
May 1 Numerous local exhibits on view at the International Exhibition
opened this day.
„ 13 Rev. A. J. Plow, B.A., appointed Curate of St. James's, Roch-
dale ; became Vicar of Todmorden, 1863 ; murdered by Miles
Weatherill, March 1868.
,, 15 Public Meeting in favour of the Permissive Bill held.
Cotton Famine ; 3,879 cotton operatives wholly out of employ-
ment ; 2,861 on short time.
June 7 Shawforth Branch Railway Bill approved ; it was opposed by the
Fieldens, who declared that the scheme would be for years,
it might be for ever, a constant drain on the income of the
L. & Y. Railway Co.
„ 17 Rev. J. C. Bates, M. A., appointed incumbent of St. Martin's.
Striking instance of commercial rectitude shewn by Mr. Edmund
Leach (E. Leach & Sons), Castle Works, who having in 1828,
through no fault of his own, compounded with his creditors
for 48. in the £, discharged his liabilities in full.
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July 1 St. Martin's Churchyard first used as a burial ground.
,, 12 Hollingworth Lake Bowing and Regatta Club formed.
,, Temperance Hall in existence in St. Mary's Gate.
1 1 Wages of over 6,000 operatives did not average Is. 6d. each weekly
owing to trade depression.
Aug. 7 Proposal made in the Town Council to purchase Cronkeyshaw
Common for a recreation ground ; the immediate object being
to find work for the unemployed.
,, 22 8,000 Operatives met on Lobden Moor to consider the distressed
condition of the district.
,, 24 Bicentenary Commemoration observed in the Dissenting Chapels.
Fourteen Mills out of Twenty -five in the Whitworth Valley were
stopped ; nine working from one to three days a week.
Sep. 11 Festivities extending over three days began at Burnage on Mr.
Joseph Milne coming of age, when private friends, farmers,
tenantry, cottagers, workpeople, and the poor were bounti-
fully entertained.
,, 19 Pioneers' Society ran an Excursion to London (G.N.R.) at the low
fare of 6s. return ; 380 tickets issued.
, , 20 Waterworks Company announced that the water would be " turned
entirely off the town and neighbourhood next Tuesday morning
at the hour of six," and might " remain off three days."
„ 23 Town's Meeting adopted a resolution sympathising with Garibaldi
in his efforts to secure the independence of Italy.
„ 30 Tunshill Colliery, " Victoria Shaft," begun Hth September, 1861,
completed.
„ Charge for Telegraph Messages 2s. 6d. for twenty words.
Oct. 15 Town's Meeting adopted a resolution urging the provision of Baths
on the Wood Estate and a Park on Broadfield.
„ 29 Mr. Cobden addressed 3,000 persons in Alderman Tatham's new
machine works.
„ 30 Mr. Cobden visited the Sewing Classes to relieve the distressed,
held at St. Chad's, St. James's, and Holland Street Schools.
Nov. 8 Rev. S. Todd, Baptist Chapel, Drake Street, resigned.
„ 21 Escape of two prisoners en route to Salford New Bailey. Whilst
the officer in charge was having a drink in a vaults the hand-
cuffs were filed in two. One of the prisoners was not captured
till 5th November, 1865. The officer was punished by forfeit-
ing a week's pay and receiving a reprimand.
„ 24 Cemetery Registrar charged with illegally disinterring bodies ;
committed to Liverpool Assizes, and there ordered to come up
for judgment when called upon.
„ 26 Samuel Whittam, Birches, Waterloo hero, buried in Healey
Churchyard with Military honours.
Dec. 13 18,000 persons were relieved by the Soup Kitchen during the week
ended this day ; in addition the Guardians relieved 13,226.
„ 25 U.M.F.C, Hamer, opened; Rev. J. Everitt, pastor.
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Jan. 11 St. John's, now All Saints' Schools, Hamer, opened.
,, People's Hall, Black water Street opened.
„ Mr. and Mrs. E. Belmont appointed Master and Matron of Mom
School,
Feb. 3 Town's Meeting adopted a resolution thanking the Citizens of New
York for their sympathy during the Cotton Famine. John
Bright spoke.
„ 5 Rev. Robert Jones, Darlington, appointed Cemetery Registrar.
„ Captain W. C. Sylvester, Castleford, appointed Chief Constable.
, , 10 Rev. R. S. Rowan, B. D. , became Vicar of St. James', Wardleworth
„ 16 30,000 Bream, Perch, and Dace placed in Hollingworth Lake.
,, 28 James Sanderson, "Treacle," Whitworth, a well-known runner,
won the 1 J mile championship and £100 at Sheffield.
" Alabama," the Confederate Cruiser, carried on board in several
engagements a Rochdale youth named Bell.
Mar. 10 Prince and Princess of Wales' marriage observed a general holi-
day ; procession 1 J mile in length formed, a fountain played
in the river. At night the town was gaily illuminated.
April 1 Borough Rate 4d. in the pound, yielded £2,000.
,, 9 Modern Methodists' Chapel, Elliott Street, offered for sale by
public auction.
„ 22 Town's Meeting held to express sympathy with the Poles.
,, 29 Tom King gave an Exhibition of Boxing in the Newgate.
May 5 Merchants' and Tradesmen's Association formed.
„ 9 Government Inquiry held as to the best mode of employing the
adult able-bodied men out of work by reason of the distress.
,, 18 A Centenarian, Foulkes Foulkes, died in Marland Workhouse.
Formerly a lamplighter in London when streets were lighted
with oil lamps, he came here in 1829 to act in a similar capacity.
June 10 Spring Hill Estate, Buersill, 23 acres 23 perches, sold for £4,400.
„ Burgess Hall, Drake Street, previously a Primitive Methodist
Chapel, opened. The building in 1865 became Jefferye's Music
Hall.
„ Mr. T. Watson, Horse Carrs, was presented by the French
Government with a bronze medal in recognition of his services
to the Commission in negociating the Commercial Treaty
between England and France.
July 27 Town Mill Brow Day School opened by Mr. S. Clegg who held
the position of master till July, 1898.
„ 29 Annual Assembly of the U.M.F.C. begun in the town.
„ 30 Mr. J. Fenton, first M.P. for the Borough, interred at Bamford.
Rochdale Anti-Sectarian Theological Society "for young men
desirous of pursuing a study of theology freed from the fetters
of Sectarianism," formed.
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Aug. 1 Primitive Methodist Chapel, Smith Street, Corner Stone laid by
Mr. G. L. Ash worth. The chapel was opened, 5th May, 1864.
„ 3 Prince of Wales' Visit to open Halifax Town Hall attracted a
large number of Bochdalians to that town.
„ 11 Co-operative Wholesale Society formed, Mr. Abraham Greenwood,
president.
,, 17 Lowerplace Wealeyan Schools opened.
,, 24 John Street New Bridge begun. The old structure was a foot-
bridge.
,, 28 Queen's Hotel, Milkstone Road, and Bowling Green Inn, Miln-
row road, licensed.
Sep. 20 Rev. J. Pillars, Manchester, appointed to Blackwater Street
Chapel.
,, 29 £39,446 distributed by the Guardians in Poor Relief for the year
ended this day — a record.
,, Lowerplace Village contained one licensed house for every 53
dwelling-houses.
Oct. 6 Earthquake Shock felt in the town.
,, 9 Telegraphic Messages at a rate of Is. for 20 words, exclusive of
address, first dispatched from the town.
„ 23 The Twelve Original Christy's Minstrels appeared in the Public
Hall.
A cutting from the tree which grew over Napoleon's grave at St.
Helena, presented to the Cemetery Committee, and planted
in the Cemetery.
Nov. 2 Railway through Milnrow to Oldham opened for passenger traffic.
„ 9 Mr. S. Stott and Alderman Livsey were nominated for the
Mayoralty, the former being elected by the casting vote of
Mr. G. L. Ashworth— unseemly proceedings.
„ 18 Alderman Livsey was entertained in the Public Hall by 400
Liberals in recognition of 25 years' service to the town ; an
address on vellum presented.
,, 24 Rev. A Pitt appointed to Park Baptist Chapel.
,, ,, Messrs. Cobden and Bright addressed 3,500 persons in Robinson's
Works, Fishwick Street, on Reform.
„ 25 Hon. A. Egerton, Mr. W. J. Legh, M.P., Sir A. Ramsay, and
Mr. J. Sowler, Q.C., Deputy County Court Judge, were enter-
tained by the Conservative Sick and Burial Society in the
Public Hall.
,, 8,359 Persons estimated to be out of work in consequence of the
American Civil War.
Dec. 2 The "Southern Independence" Club essayed a Lecture in the
Public Hall in favour of the Southern States. A great crowd
attended. Supporters of the Northern Programme ultimately
got control of the hall and severely handled the lecturer.
,, Rev. E. Brierley, Whitworth, appointed Incumbent of Christ
Church, Great Broughton.
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Dec. Grocers and Provision Dealers' Association in existence.
1,011,231 Letters, &c, delivered through the Post Office.
Bnersill Athletic Festival first held.
1864.
Jan. 7 Town Council voted £20,000 a sufficient estimate for the erection
of a Town Hall to comport with the importance of the town
and its increasing wants. Cost of the hall when opened in
1871, £150,000.
„ 12 Mally Garside died at Buckley, aged 91 years 11 months, leaving
11 children, 72 grandchildren, 73 great-grandchildren, and 2
great-great-grandchildren.
„ 30 Alderman T. Livsey interred in the Cemetery in the presence of
a vast concourse of people.
Feb. 16 Jubilee of Union Street Wesleyan Chapel observed.
Mar. 7 Ernest Jones gave a Lecture to the Branch of the Union and
Emancipation Society on the American War — enthusiastic
gathering.
,, Fund raised for the relatives of the 250 persons who lost their
lives by the bursting of a reservoir at Sheffield.
Apl. 23 Tonic Sol-fa system of Notation introduced at a concert in the
Public Hall, by members of Baillie Street Chapel.
„ 25 Shakespeare Tercentenary observed ; elocutionary entertainment
in the Public Hall by the local Shakespeare Society.
Borough Rate 6d. in the pound, produced £3,000.
May 3 Town's Meeting to consider Mr. Somers' Bill to enable a three-
fourths majority to close licensed houses on Sundays. A
branch of the National Sunday Closing Association formed.
„ 18-19 Conference of the Lancashire and Cheshire Association of Baptist
Churches, held at West Street Chapel.
„ 20 William Street U. M. F. C. Corner Stone Laying by Mr. O. Ormerod.
A procession of 3,000 persons proceeded from kaillie Street
Chapel to the site.
„ 26 Public Park Scheme abandoned, doubts having arisen as to the
powers of the Corporation to hold the lands.
June 8 Mr. W. B. Brett, Q.C., afterwards Lord Esher, was adopted
Conservative Candidate for the Borough at a meeting in the
Public HalL
,, 12 Providence Chapel Jubilee observed.
„ John Bright appointed a member of the Royal Commission on
Capital Punishments.
Beech Trees flourished in St. James's Churchyard in large
numbers.
July 14 Corner Stone of Wesley Chapel, Castlemere, laid. The building
was opened for worship, 20th July, 1865.
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July 26 Mr. J. J. Curtis, 28 years master of the British. School, succeeded
Mr. Aruodel at Summercastle Academy.
Aug. 16 Rev. J. Briggs, Clover Street Chapel, was presented with an
address and other marks of esteem on vacating the pastorate.
Th' Felleyfro* Bachda's Visit to th' Oreyt Eggshibiahun, by Oliver
Ormerod, published in collected form.
Rochdale Property and General Finance Company Ltd. formed.
Sep. 26 Earthquake Shock distioctly felt in the town.
,, 27 John Street Bridge and Molesworth Street opened for traffic.
Alderman Stott, Mayor, raised £800 towards effecting the
improvement.
Oct. 9 St. Clement's Church opened after being re-pewed ; Gothic Rood
Screen erected ; gas first used.
„ 27 Mr. W. B. Brett, Q.C., Hon. A. Egerton, M.P., and Mr. C.
Turner, M.P., addressed a large Conservative gathering in
Messrs. Schofield's warehouse, Hey brook, Mr. J. S. Entwisle
presiding.
Nov. 12 Bagslate U.M.F.C. opened after extensions.
,, 23 Mr. Cobden's last speech in the town. He addressed upwards of
4,000 persons for nearly two hours in Messrs. Robinson and
Sons' works.
,, Earl of Chichester visited the town in reference to a division of
the Glebe Lands revenues.
,, Rev. T. Carter, M.A., appointed Vicar of Littleborough.
Dec. Solicitors first observed the Saturday half -holiday and closed at
6 o'clock on other week-days.
Glebe Lands produced about £4,000 per annum.
Marland Workhouse erected.
History of the Reform Bill, by the Rev. W. N. Molesworth, M.A.,
published.
"Rope and Anchor" and other buildings in Packer Street, pulled
down.
1865.
Jan. 2 Wardleworth Conservative Burgess Association formed, Mr. W.
W. Schofield, J. P., president.
„ 8 Park Baptist School opened.
„ 19 Spotland Liberal Burgess Association formed at a meeting held
in the Old ^Temperance Hall, St. Mary's Gate.
Feb. 2 Grammar School Tercentenary Celebration. Musical and dramatic
entertainments were given. The scholars then numbered 40.
„ 14 Manifesto issued by master masons, bricklayers, and slaters,
against sub-contracting.
Mar. 1 L. & Y. Railway Co. began a cheap train service to Manchester ;
single third-class fare 8d., return Is.
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Mar. 14 Rev. J. Freeston's recognition at Union Street Chapel.
„ 19 Calderbrook Church licensed ; accommodation for 450 worshippers.
Apl. 2 Mr. R. Cobden, M.P., for the borough died.
„ 10 John Bright addressed a meeting in Messrs. Kelsall & Kemp's
Warehouse in support of Mr. T. B. Potter's candidature.
,, 12 Riotous proceedings at Mr. Brett's meeting in the Public Hall ;
several persons seriously injured and much damage done.
,, 15 Tenth Parliamentary Election — Mr. Potter returned. Serious
rioting took place at the Talbot Inn, Mr. Potter's committee
room, and at the Britannia Inn, Mr. Brett's.
„ 19 Belfry added to St. John's Church, Ann Street, by public sub-
scription.
„ 29 All Saints', Hamer, Corner Stone laid by Mr. J. S. Entwisle. A
large Procession consisting of Cavalry, Volunteers, Sunday
School Scholars, &c, accompanied by five bands of music, was
formed in The Butts, and marched to Hamer.
May 4 Town's Meeting to express indignation at the Assassination of
President Lincoln.
June 1 Mr. Joseph Butterworth, County Court Office, was presented with
a gold watch and chain by friends and suitors in recognition of
the faithful discharge of his official duties.
„ 10 Buersill Sports, for many years an annual fixture, held.
,, ,, Littleborough U.M.F. Chapel Corner Stone laid.
„ 18 Eleven Waterloo Veterans in the neighbourhood were entertained
by the local Waterloo Relief Institution.
July 11 Mr. T. B. Potter re-elected M.P. for the borough unopposed.
„ „ Mr. W. Fenton (L.), Beaumonds, unsuccessfully contested the
City of Chester. The contest cost him nearly £3,000.
„ 13 Mr. Jacob Bright contested Manchester against Mr. E. James
and was defeated.
„ 14 Comte de Paris and M. Jules Simon visited the Pioneers' Store,
Toad Lane.
,, 17 Rochdale Freedmen's Aid Society's first meeting. Dr. Stobbs,
Cincinnati, spoke on the condition of the freed people.
„ 20 South Lancashire Parliamentary Election. — See Elections.
. ,, „ Wesley Chapel, Castlemere Street, opened ; cost, including site,
£6,000.
„ 22 Mr. W. W. Schofield laid the Corner Stone of Blackpool Parish
Church.
„ 26 Horse Carre Mill opening ceremony when Messrs. Watson enter-
tained 500 persons to dinner.
,. 28 Oldham Road and Crawford Street P.O. opened.
„ 31 Construction of Shawforth Railway commenced by turning a sod
near Foxholes.
Aug. 1 Smithy Bridge Murderer acquitted on the ground of insanity ;
ordered to be detained during Her Majesty's pleasure.
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Aug. 3 Mr. T. Walker, Birkenhead, appointed Borough Surveyor in
succession to Mr. A. M. Fowler.
„ 19 Jefferye's Music Hall, Drake Street, opened. Originally P. M.
Chapel. Messrs. Duckworth's Central Depot now occupies
the site.
„ 31 Mr. John Standring, Solicitor, " father of local Building Socie-
ties," was presented with a testimonial by thirteen Building
Societies.
,, Bust, by Papworth, of Mr. John Fenton, Crimble, placed in Bam-
ford Chapel.
Sept. 6 William Street U.M.F.C. opened, Dr. Joseph Parker preaching
the sermon.
,, 7 Smallbridge Congregational Church opened.
„ Marble Obelisk, by subscription, placed over the grave in the
Cemetery, of Mr. J. Moffatt, Temperance advocate, who died
28th December, 1860.
Norden Coach Co. Limited formed, capital £700 in £1 shares.
Oct. 27 Lord Palmerston's Funeral observed ; special services in the
churches; business suspended.
Nov. 3 Silver Cradle presented to the Mayoress, Mrs. John Tatham, to
mark the occasion of the birth of a daughter during the
Mayoralty of her husband.
„ 4 Alderman T. Livsey Memorial Stone in the Cemetery unveiled.
Dec. 8 Town's Meeting to Memorialise the Government to enquire into
the cause of the Jamaica outbreak.
„ 20 Viscount Milton, M.P., and Dr. W. B. Cheadle lectured in the
Public Hall on the Rocky Mountains Expedition.
,, 29 Mr. George Healey, J. P., was presented with a bronze timepiece
in appreciation of his services to the town.
Rev. E. C. Lewis, St. Stephen's Church, elected President of the
Lady Huntingdon Connexion.
1,365 Persons estimated to live in cellar dwellings.
Rev. J. R. Parr, M.A., appointed Vicar of Balderstone.
Toad Lane Theatre pulled down.
Mr. A. H. Royds was High Sheriff of Worcestershire.
1866.
Jan. 3 John Bright and Mr. Potter, M .P. , addressed a meeting in Pickul's
Theatre, Newgate, in favour of the Extension of the Franchise.
,, 22 Mr. Potter, M.P., presided over the final meeting of the Union
and Emancipation Society held in the Town Hall, Manchester.
„ Balderstone Church Schools opened.
Feb. 2-3-5 Poultry Club National Show held in the town, 956 entries.
Among the local committee were Dr. Sellers, Messrs. C. W
Brierley, E. Leech, and W. Ashworth : Mr. J. Hartley, Solici-
tor, acting as secretary.
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Feb. 5 Final meeting of the Relief Committee. One million sterling esti-
mated to nave been lost in wages through the depression.
„ 12 Chamber of Commerce formed on the initiation of Aldermin
Willans. On June 14th Mr. W. Fenton was elected president.
The Chamber then numbered 300 members.
„ 17 Post Office removed from Baillie Street to South Parade. The
premises are now occupied by Mr. J. R. Hartley, Solicitor,
owner.
„ 24 XTown Council decided to purchase the Waterworks ; a perpetual
annuity of £4 4s. Od. being offered for every £42 share, and
a perpetual annuity of £1 8s. Od. for every third share in
addition.
Mar. 4 Congregational School, Bluepits, opened.
„ 17 Moss Lane Works (Tatham's) Fife and Drum Band held their
first parade. The uniform comprised scarlet Garibaldi, white
trousers, Scotch caps, Ac.
,, ,, Proposal to levy a voluntary church rate of Id. in the pound on
assessable property in Milnrow Chapelry for repair of the
Churchyard carried by 655 to 391.
„ 24 Mitchel Hey new shed opening ceremony. The shed cost £10,000.
„ 30 Nineteenth Annual Lancashire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire Sunday
School Conference, held in the Public Hall, Mr/ Bright spoke.
„ 31 Town Hall Corner Stone laid by Mr. Bright. At One Ash a
procession was formed and marched to the site, accompanied
by bands of music. Luncheon was served in the Public Hall
and speeches followed.
,, Cattle Plague in the district involving farmers in heavy losses.
„ Life and Times of T. Livsey, by Miss Lahee, published.
Apl. 4 Reform Demonstration in Mitchel Hey, when John Bright and
Mr. Potter addressed some 5,000 persons.
„ 21 Alleged Treasure Trove Case at Gravel Hole, a workman in re-
moving a staircase having found a bag containing £112 which
he refused to give up. The Coroner held an enquiry and the
jury found that the money belonged to a miserly man named
Wild, who died in 1838, and who had similarly secreted a
sum of £300 which was discovered in 1845.
May 2 Bust of Cobden, by Noble, presented to the town by Mr. Potter.
,, 4 Wesleyan Chapel, Littleborough opened ; cost £2,000.
„ 10 Stoppage of Messrs. Overend, Gurney & Co., the well-known
bankers ; local losses.
„ Rochdale Waggon and Railway Plant Co., registered; capital
£50,000 in £10 shares.
June 18 Waterloo Veterans in the town and district paraded through the
streets, headed by Moss Lane Works Fife and Drum liand.
They were entertained to dinner, when R. Bentinck, who beat
the soldiers to arms, attended with the identical drumsticks
he used on that memorable occasion.
„ 24 Temperance Hall, Smith Street, opened.
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June 28 Waterworks Act, enabling the Corporation to purchase the old
Waterworks and to construct Cowm and Spring Mill Reser-
voirs, passed.
July 14 First Regatta of the Littleborough Rowing Club ; £50 in prizes
offered.
„ 21 Rochdale Athletic Club's First Festival took place on the Cricket
Ground, Merefield. The club was the outcome of the Rifle
Club formed five years before.
„ Cobden Club inaugurated through the efforts of Mr. T. B. Potter,
M.P.; Mr. Gladstone presided.
Aug. 2 Sentence of death passed on James Burrows for the murder of
J. Brennan in a barn at Slattocks. He was executed 25th
August.
„ Vicarage Estate Act passed.
„ 4 Rejoicings in Milnrow on Captain Schofield attaining his majority.
The festivities were continued until the 9th, and comprised a
banquet to a large number of friends and relatives ; procession
of workpeople and tenants, accompanied by three bands of
music and the Volunteers ; dinner to 1,050 persons ; trip for
750 persons to Mold, and a ball to 300 persons.
„ 13 6,000 Miners of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the West Riding held
a Conference at Hollingworth Lake.
„ 18 Festival of local Choirs in St. Chad's Church — 80 voices.
„ Rev. E. C. Pike ceased his labours at West Street Chapel and
was presented with over a hundred guineas.
„ Messrs. J. Griffith Dear den, C. M. Royds, James Brierley, and
Joshua Radcliffe were appointed County Justices.
Sep. 24 2,000 townsmen, headed by a band of music, took part in the
Reform Gathering at Campfield, Manchester, when 80,000
persons were present. John Bright and Mr. Potter spoke.
„ £420 subscribed by townspeople for a lifeboat, Mr. R. T. Heape,
J. P., promoting the scheme.
„ Presbyterian Church Services were held in the Lyceum at this
time.
Oct. 1 £1,700 subscribed at a meeting in aid of the Northern Counties
Asylum for Idiots, Lancaster ; a local committee formed.
„ 2 Mr. Samuel Ash worth, one of the " 28," presented with an
address and timepiece on being appointed Manager of the N.
of England Co-operative Wholesale Society.
„ 10 Mons Elie Reclus, in the Public Hail, addressed an " extra"
meeting of the Social Science Congress then being held in
Manchester.
„ 13 Shawclough Branch Shop and News Room of the Pioneers' Society
opened.
„ 30 The Rev. G. Snashall, B.A., ceased his ministry at Providence
Chapel.
„ 31 Public House Closing Act, requiring licensed premises to be closed
between the hours of 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. adopted.
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Oct. Mr. R. H. Hutchinson appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the
County.
Nov. 3 Opening of St. Clement's Church after removal of the Organ from
the West entrance to the S.E. side of the Church.
10 " Rochdale and Catherine Rasleigh " Lifeboat launched on Holling-
worth Lake ; 10,000 persons present.
16 Heavy rainfall. — See Storms.
19 Captain Rowland Davies appointed Chiof Constable.
22 All Saints' Church, Hamer, consecrated.
Penny Readings were a popular public entertainment.
Dec. 18 General, the Hon. Neal Dow, originator of the Maine Liquor Law,
addressed a meeting in the Public Hall.
„ 26 United Presbyterian Church, then numbering 310 scholars and 28
teachers, held its first annual meeting.
Daily delivery of Letters, Sundays excepted, at 7 a.m., 1-45 p.m.,
and 5 p.m.
1867.
Jan. 1 Torchlight Demonstration on Cronkeyshaw to protest against the
Reform Bill. 10,000 persons present ; a boy killed.
,, 8 Popular French Classes introduced by Dr. J. A. Emerton. John
Bright spoke at the inaugural meeting.
,, 25 Professor Goldwin Smith addressed a meeting of Messrs. Bright'*
hands to protest against attacks on John Bright's character;
an Address presented to Mr. Bright.
„ Rev. J. A. Lobley, M.A., appointed Incumbent of All Saints',
Hamer.
Feb. 14 Lectern in Littleborough Parish, which had given offence to the
Low Church Party, stolen. It was subsequently found secreted
in a field in Gale Road.
,, 22 Presentation to the Rev. E. C. Lewis of £300 and an Address in
recognition of his 28 years' ministry at St. Stephen's Church.
„ Commencement of a 13 weeks' Strike of 2,500 Woollen Weavers
at Milnrow for 5 per cent, advance ; result, a compromise.
Mar. 6 Rev. J. Kershaw, 50 years minister at Hope Street Chapel, was
presented with an Address, £362, gold watch and chain, &c.
„ Rev. S. Chapman appointed to West Street Chapel.
Apl. 20 Carved Alabaster Font presented to St. James's Church by Miss
Leech.
May 2 Savage attack upon a Conservative Meeting in the Public Hall in
support of the Reform Bill ; serious stone throwing.
,, 3 Vale Milk, John Street, opened.
June 1 1,500 Liberals marched to the Railway Station en route for Stret-
ford, where a great Reform Demonstration was held.
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June Rev. A. H. Drysdale, M.A., appointed to the United Presby-
terian Church, then recently formed ; inducted 25th August.
July 21 Clover Street Sunday Schools opened.
„ Bagslate Manufacturing Company's dividend for seven successive
years averaged 14 per cent.
,, Rev. J. C. McCappin appointed to Providence Chapel.
Aug. 21 Festival of Church Choirs in the Parish, held in St. Chad's Church,
Archdeacon, afterwards Bishop Durnford, preached.
,, ,, 20,000 persons attended the Agricultural Show, at Greenhill.
„ 24 12,000 persons attended a Band Contest and Athletic Festival
promoted by the Agricultural Society.
„ Mr. Robert Jackson, Solicitor, succeeded Mr. J. Woods, Registrar
of the County Court.
„ Mr., now Aid. W. Baron, elected a Councillor for Wardleworth.
Sep. 12 Boundary Commission as to proposed extension of the borough, sat.
„ 28 Pioneers' Central Stores, Toad Lane, opened by Alderman John
Robinson ; Architect, Mr. , afterwards Alderman J. Cheetham,
J. P.; cost £13,400.
„ Fenian Scare. Police supplied with arms.
Oct. 6 St. Patrick's R.C. Church consecrated by Dr. Turner, Bishop of
Salford.
Science and Art Classes formed at the Lyceum.
Cobden's portrait presented by townsmen to John Bright.
Sir Wilfred S. Lawson addressed a U.K. A. meeting in the Public
Hall.
Norwich Street Mills, Messrs. J. Pilling & Sons, opened.
Rev. E. W. Gilbert, M. A. , appointed incumbent of Falinge.
Sir A. Ramsay, Bart., Mr. A. Egerton, M.P., and Mr. C. Turner,
M.P., were entertained at a Conservative Banquet, in Nor-
wich Street Mills.
„ 22 Theatre, "Prince of Wales," Manchester Road, opened with
"The Hunchback "—cost £6,500. In 1883, the name was
changed to " Theatre Royal." — See Fires.
„ 26 Mr. Jacob Bright elected M.P. for Manchester.
„ Considerable uneasiness was felt in the town owing to the Fenian
outbreak, Sergeant Brett having been shot, 18th November.
Special Constables sworn in.
„ River Wall fronting the Town Hall erected.
Dec. 14 " The Railway Station," by Frith, R.A., on view in the Lyceum.
„ ,, Fenian meeting in the Public Hall suppressed. Secret drilling at
Bamford discovered ; extra precautions taken at the gasworks.
„ 20 Remarkable Demonstration, display of feeling towards a young
butcher named Whittaker for selling beef at cheap prices. A
procession, in which several thousand persons joined, accom-
panied by two bands of music, marched round the town ; an
address presented to Whittaker.
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Dec. 23 Large meeting in the Theatre to congratulate Mr. Jacob Bright
on his return for Manchester. John Bright spoke.
Philharmonic Society formed ; reorganised 1889.
„ Rochdale Football Club, Sparth Bottoms, formed.
The Town was the only Borough having a circular boundary.
1868.
Jan. 5 Opening of a New Organ at Blackwater Street ChapeL *
,, 12, Sunday Services begun at Town Mill Brow School. They were
continued until the opening of St. Edmund's Church, 7th May,
1873.
,, Building Society boom ; about 20 societies in existence.
Feb. 27 Ploughing Matches were promoted by gentlemen in Thornham to
encourage the art. They became an annual fixture for many
years.
Mar. 25 Mr. Alfred Jackson appointed Assistant-Overseer for Spotland.
„ Anti-Popery Riots took place during the month ; Public Hall and
St. John's R.C. Church attacked by supporters of Mackay,
Houston, and Murphy, and much damage done ; 30 Hussars
billeted in the town.
ApL 4 Miles Weatherill executed at Salford for the murder of the Rev.
A. J. Plow, formerly Curate of St. James's.
„ Industrial Card Manufacturing Company Ltd. formed. One of
the objects of the promoters was to divide all profits above 7J
per cent, equally between Capital and Labour. The concern
failed in 1874.
„ Paved Streets in the Borough numbered 116.
„ Rev. J. R. Richards, M. A., appointed Vicar of St. Peter's.
May 7 Castleton Liberal Burgess Association formed.
„ 9 Mr. Henry Kelsall and Mr. G. T. Kemp were presented with
Addresses by their Employees.
,, 17 Norden Church Scandal, when the removal of flowers from the
altar by a Churchwarden led to police court proceedings.
June 2 At the Annual Fife and Drum Band Contest, Belle Vue, in the
presence of 15,000 persons, the Bands of St. James's and Capt.
Schofield competed.
„ 6 Rochdale Spectator ceased to be published.
„ 27 Smith Street Public Baths opened ; Mr. J. Milligan, Superin-
tendent ; cost £9,600.
July 2 Cricket Ground, Milnrow Road, opened with a match between
Aboriginal Black Cricketers from Australia and XL of Roch-
dale ; ground abandoned September, 1877.
„ 8 Mr. J. P. Dickin unsuccessfully appealed against the Justices'
decision ordering the destruction of 3,804 copies of the " De-
pravity of the Priesthood."
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July 19 Captain J. Fenton, at Wimbledon, won the Albert Cup with the
highest possible score (7 bull's-eyes at 500 yards).
,, 26 Organ in Wesley Chapel, Castlemere, opened ; builder, Harrison
of this town.
„ Swimming Club formed ; Alderman Moore, President.
Aug. 8 Milnrow Parish Church Corner Stone laid for the fourth Church
on as many different sites within 500 years. Five years pre-
viously Mr. James Schofield, Milnrow, bequeathed £3,000
towards the building fund.
„ Free Protestant Association, outcome of the Anti-Popery Agita-
tion, formed.
„ 15 Milnrow Wesleyan Chapel Corner Stone laid to replace a chapel
built in 1847.
„ 28 Albert Hotel, Spotland Road, licensed.
„ 30 Facit Wesleyan Chapel opened.
„ The American Government presented to the Town Council &
beautifully bound volume containing a compilation of the
addresses to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln on the President's death.
„ Great drought extending over three months and causing the stop-
page of many mills and workshops, ended. Water obtained
from Messrs. Stotts' Dearnley Colliery had for several weeks
previously been doled out to householders from carts, and
supplies were also obtained from mill lodges.
„ Mr. J. Eccles, 30 years superintendent of the Fire Brigade, was
presented with an address in recognition of his services.
Sept. 1 Rev. J. Morgan, M. A. , licensed to the curacy of St. Chad's.
„ 3 Mr. H. Rofe was appointed Waterworks Manager.
Dearnley Wesleyan Chapel opened.
Castleton Bowling Club, Merefield, formed. Green opened 29th
May, 1869, Mr. R. Lawton, president.
12,489 casuals visited the Night Refuge during the year ended
this year.
Cab Stands at the following places were approved :— Yorkshire
Street, opposite Townhead House ; Cheetham Street, near St.
Mary's Church ; The Butts ; South end of Molesworth Street ;
and opposite the New Burial Ground.
Smithy Bridge Railway Station opened.
Ernest Jones in the Public Hall, denounced the Irish Church,
Alderman Willans presiding.
„ 13 Rt. Hon. F. Peel and Mr. Yates Thompson, Liberal candidates
for South-East Lancashire, addressed a large meeting in the
Public Hall.
„ 19 Milton Church Mission opened a preaching room opposite St.
James's Church, formerly occupied by Secularists.
„ 22 Dr. James Lawton appointed Public Vaccinator for the Borough.
„ 24 Bagslate British School erected by Messrs. J. Baron and J. Tatter-
sall, opened.
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Oct. 29 Hon. A. Egerton and Mr. J. Snowden Henry, Conservative can-
didates for South-East Lancashire, addressed a large meeting
in the Public Hall.
Nov. 9 Mr. George Mansell, on being elected Mayor, stipulated that
instead of giving Mayoral dinners, &c., during his term of
office, he should give £500 to charitable institutions. He
gave the sum to the Infirmary,
„ 16 Hustings opposite the Wellington Hotel erected for the last time.
10,000 persons estimated to have been present.
„ 17 First Parliamentary Election after the passing of Household
Suffrage. A female vote polled. Result declared from the
hustings. — See Elections.
Mr. Jacob Bright elected a M.P. for Manchester.
,, 24 Mr. Robert Schofield, Woollen Manufacturer, was presented with
a timepiece by inhabitants of Well-i'th'-lane for supplying
them with water during the drought.
,, 26 Hon. A. Egerton (C.) and Mr. J. Snowden Henry (C.) returned
for South-East Lancashire. Their expenses exceeded £8,200.
See Elections.
, , Disturbances at St. Chad's Church on account of alleged Ritualism,
which led to police court proceedings, the Vicar being fined
for technical assault.
„ John Bright re-elected M.P. for Birmingham.
, , Mr. W. Fen ton, Beaumonds (L. ), contested North-East Lancashire
and was defeated.
Dec. 3 Fagnani's Portrait of Bright and Cobden, which hangs in the
Mayor's Parlour, was presented to the town by Mr. T. B.
Potter, M.P.
,, 9 John Bright received by the Queen on becoming President of the
Board of Trade. He was sworn a Privy Councillor.
,, 14 Rochdale Conservative Co-operative Industrial Society formed.
.,, 15 Professor J. Stuart, afterwards M.P., lectured in the Pioneers'
Assembly Room on "Meteors."
„ 25 Wesley Sunday School, Peel Street, opened. It was unroofed
two days later whilst Mr. John Ash worth was preaching, 38
persons being injured. A fund in aid of the sufferers realised
£297 18s. OJd.
„ 26 At St. Mary's Church, Wardleworth, the Christmas Decorations
were torn down by some person unknown. The candlesticks on
the altar were carried away, and several vestments destroyed.
Boundary of the Parliamentary Borough extended.
Yorkshire Street Bridge, as existing, opened.
500 Dwelling-houses erected, or partially erected, during the year.
The Esplanade was opened.
Cowm Reservoir construction begun.
Literary Union formed. The Union published a MSS. Magazine.
The Board of Management for the Order of Druids was stationed
in the town for the second year.
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1869.
Jan. 4 Dearnley National Schools for Girls and Infants opened.
,, „ Clover Street Day School opened, Mr. J. Lofthouse, Master.
„ 12 Milton Congregational Schools Corner Stone laid by Mr. G. T.
Kemp.
,, 17 P. Moran, confined in the lock-ups, made his escape. Procuring a
disguise he visited several towns in Yorkshire. He was re-
captured.
„ 19 Professor J. £. T. Rogers began a Series of Lectures on Political
Economy in the Pioneers' Assembly Room.
„ 22 A Prisoner committed suicide by hanging in the lock-ups.
„ 25 Thomas Cooper began a Series of Lectures on Christianity in the
Public flail.
„ 30 A Deputation of Liberals attended the Funeral of Ernest Jones
at Ardwick Cemetery.
Feb. 10 Whitworth Ratepayers assembled in large numbers to urge the
lighting of the turnpike road to Shanter.
„ ,, Infirmary Scheme projected at a town's meeting, £3,550 being
promised by gentlemen present. Alderman Robinson's pro-
posal to set apart a ward for homoeopathists was warmly
discussed. Manifesto issued by the medical profession declin-
ing to support the project in any way if the proposal were
accepted.
„ 19 Presentation of £20 to the Rev. R. N. Sharpe, M.A., to purchase
vestments to replace those stolen from St. Mary's Church.
„ Conservative Store, 62, Water Street, opened.
Mar. 15 Earthquake Shock felt throughout the town. Gas was ex-
tinguished and articles of furniture, &c, were shaken.
„ 25 1,467 Interments in the Cemetery for the year ended this day, an
excess of 282 over the previous year ; increase attributable to
hot weather and scarcity of water.
,, 31 Mr. Joseph Heap and Mr. T. Buckley appointed joint Justices'
Clerks.
„ Branch of the English Amnesty Committee to procure the release
of the Irish political prisoners formed ; Mr. J. T. Worth,
Secretary.
„ Clock placed in St. Martin's Church Tower, Castleton, by Mr. R.
Stott, Trub Smithy; diameter of dial 6 ft. 6 in.
April 4 Polly Green Chapel, Syke, opened.
„ 12 Milnrow Gas Company's Bill passed the Lords' Committee.
,, 13 Three days' poll for the Office of Assistant Overseer for Spotland
resulted as follows : — Jesse Wynn 2,630 votes, J. Hill 2,907
votes, Brierley 2,456 votes.
„ 22 Castlemere U.M.F.C. Organ, by Harrison of this town, opened. —
See Fires.
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April Congregational Schools, Victoria Street, Littieborough, opened.
„ Alderman Taylor's " Night Soil " system first adopted by pro-
perty owners.
,, Forty-one houses were known to the police as the resort of thieves.
,, Fifty-nine common lodging-houses existed.
May 1 Wesleyan Chapel, Bagslate, Corner Stone laid by Mr. William
Ormerod, on the site of a Chapel built 1810.
„ 3 Government Inquiry as to the means of remedying Rivers Pollu-
tion, held in the town.
„ 5 Mr. S. Stevens appointed Chief Constable.
„ 15 Congregational Chapel and Schools, Castleton, Memorial Stone
laid.
„ 25 Inaugural Meeting of the Young Men's Association of the
Liberation Society held.
,, 29 Castleton Bowling Green, Merefield, opened.
Walks in Canaan, by John Ashworth, published.
June 5 Mr. J. Sharrocks presented by the Newbold Friendly Society,
then numbering 15,000 members, with an address and a time-
piece, in appreciation of 20 years' services as president.
„ ,, Protestant Hall, Milkstone, Corner Stone laid by Mr. C. E.
Cawley, M.P. for Salford. Subsequently purchased by the
Secularists ; the building is now a Liberal Club.
„ 12 Large Procession of Conservatives to the railway station en route
for Pomona, where a great Irish Church Demonstration was
held.
,, 14 Milnrow Ratepayers rejected a proposal to form a local board for
the district.
,, 19 Siamese Twins on view at the Public Hall. Chang died 15th
January, 1874 ; Eng died two days afterwards.
,, 20 Wardle Primitive Methodist Chapel opened ; 120 sittings.
„ „ Trinity United Presbyterian Church opened, Rev. A. H. Drysdale,
Pastor. In 1896 a spire was added by public subscription.
„ 23 Proposal to form a Local Board for Littieborough rejected.
„ 26 Altar at St. Paul's Church, Norden, stripped of its cross and
ornaments during the night by some person unknown.
July 8 The heraldic casque which surmounts the coat of arms on the
parapet of Yorkshire Street Bridge was struck down by some
person unknown.
,, 11 Rev. J. Freeston concluded his five years' labours at Clover Street
Chapel.
,, 15 Wesleyan Chapel, Milnrow, opened.
„ » Captain Fenton won the Albert Prize, value £100, at Wimbledon.
,, 18 Further disturbances at St. Chad's Church owing to alleged
Ritualism; police court proceedings.
,, 20 The price of bread was 7d. per quartern loaf.
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Aug. 7 St. Peter's Church, Newbold, Corner Stone laid by Mr. J. Shar-
rocks ; large procession of Churchmen and Friendly Societies.
During the night the stone was removed and several coins
thereunder were abstracted.
,, 20 Mr. Sothern, Actor, fulfilled an engagement at the Theatre.
,, 21 Milnrow Church consecrated, Mr. G. E. Street, architect.
„ 27 At Brewster Sessions the licenses of the George Inn, Lord Street ;
Old Weaver's Arms, Cheetham Street ; Hare and Hounds,
Clegg Hall ; Amen Corner ; and the Grey Mare, Whitworth
Road, were refused.
„ Royal Albert Insurance Company failed, seriously involving local
investors.
Sept. 9 Wholesale refusal of renewal of licenses at the adjourned Brewster
Sessions.
,, 11 Milton Congregational Schools opened ; the buildings cost £2,800.
„ 18 Lowerplace U.M.F.C. Day and Sunday Schools opened.
Tonic Sol-Fa Choral Union formed ; 30 members enrolled.
Oct. 10 St. Anselm's Roman Catholic Church, Whitworth, opened.
„ „ Molesworth Street New Connexion Chapel opened. Rev. T. Master-
man, Resident Minister. The building cost £4,000.
,, 16 Hamer Church bells, six in number, first rung.
,, 24 Rt. Hon. Lord Teynham preached two sermons at Milton Con-
gregational Church.
,, 25 St. Clement's National Schools, Meanwood, opened ; cost £1,600.
„ 30 Pioneers' opened Branch premises at Sudden.
Movement on foot to construct a Branch Railway to Norden.
Nov. 1 Lowerplace British School opened ; Mr. O. G. Abbott, Master.
„ 2 Mr. Lloyd Jones, the well-known Co-operator, lectured in the
Pioneers' Assembly Room.
„ 3 Equitable Paving and Sewering Association formed by dissatisfied
property owners.
„ 9 Mr. Edmund Hartley, Machinist, a native of Rochdale, elected
Mayor of Oldham.
„ 24 Madame Sainton-Dolby gave her final concert in the Public Hall.
„ 25 Mr. W. W. Schofieid, at a banquet at Leach's Summercastie
Works, was presented with plate, which cost £700, in recogni-
tion of his campaigu against Mr. Potter.
,, 28 Baptist Preaching Room & Sunday School, Henry Street, opened.
Dec. 7 Hon. E. Lyulph Stanley lectured in the Pioneers' Assembly Room
on " Landed Property."
„ 12 Holling worth School first used for Church Services.
„ 14 Mr. E. A. Leatham, M.P. for Huddersfield, lectured in the
Pioneers' Assembly Room on " Cromwell."
„ 15 Norden Working Men's Constitutional Association inaugurated
at Mr. Knight's Mill. The Hon. A. Egerton, M.P., and Mr.
E. K. Hornby present.
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Dec. 17 Milnrow Ratepayers decided to form a Local Board by 546 votes
to 466.
„ Mr. J. A. Bright presented to the Pioneers' Society 700 volumes
of books, forming Fieldhouse Library.
,, Bankruptcy Jurisdiction removed to the Oldham County Court.
,, A Beerhouse called " Live and Let Live," existed in Black water
Street.
Granite Setts first used in the Borough, a length being laid in
Smith Street, opposite the Commissioners' Rooms.
Three Telegraph Companies existed in the town.
1870.
Jan. 2 Disturbances at St. Chad's Church.
„ 5 Edwin Waugh gave readings from his works in the Public Hall.
„ 20 Mr. E. Miall, M.P. for the Borough from 1852 to 1857, addressed
a Liberation Meeting in the Public Hall.
„ 22 Norden Liberal Association inaugurated at Bamford School.
„ 26 Mr. John Molesworth, Solicitor, elected County Coroner on the
death of Mr. fferand Dearden. He held office till Dec, 1886.
,, 28 The City of Boston which sailed from Halifax and was never
heard of afterwards, carried on board a mechanic of this town
named John Taylor and his wife.
„ 29 Telegraphs passed into the hands of the Government. Down to
the opening of the new General Post Office, 1st November,
1875, messages were despatched from Old Market Chambers.
„ „ Protestant Hall, Milkstone Road, opened.
Feb. 14 Hoax played upon a townsman who having received a jury sum-
mons for the ensuing Assizes was assured that the summons
was merely a valentine. The judge, however, fined him £5
for absenting himself.
„ 24 St. Mary's, Balderstone, Church Institute, inaugurated.
„ The Volunteer Corps numbered 461. The capitation grant was
£403.
Conservative Store, Smallbridge, opened.
Bluepits Congregational Church opened.
Shore Church School opened for Divine Service.
Calderbrook Church consecrated, Rev. T. Carter, Vicar ; first
church consecrated by Dr. Fraser ; cost of building £3,000.
Lowerfold (J.M.F.C. opened.
Canadian Elms planted in the Esplanade.
Baptists took over the building now Central Hall, Water Street.
Mr. Z. Mellor and Aid. G. L. Ashworth gave evidence before the
Commons' Committee against the Oldham Water BiU.
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May 7 Slopes, West of the Town Hall, opened to the public.
,, ,, St. Edmund's, Falinge, Church Corner Stone laid with Masonic
rites, by Mr. A. fi. Royds, founder.
•,, 16 Provident Co-operative Society formed by aggrieved members of
the Pioneers' Society on account of the fitter's dealings with
the Wholesale Society.
-,, 18 Observer buildings opened.
i, Public Libraries' Act adopted by town's meeting; Aid. Willans
presiding.
?,, A Parliamentary Return of endowed charities in the borough
mentioned the following : — Grammar School, income £17 ;
Free School £110 17s. lOd ; Gartside £127 (£1 for sermon,
£126 for clothing); Grantham £3 4s. 7d.; John Kenion, in
consols £7,933 6s. 8d., income £238.
,, Pioneers' Central Newsroom opened.
-June 4 Liberal Newsroom at the junction of Oldham Road and Drake
Street opened
„ 7 Rev. W. N. Molesworth, M.A., presided over the Co-operative
Congress, Manchester.
; ,, 8 Provident Co-operative Society commenced business. First
week's turnover £19 ; number of members 36. Stores : 38,
Cheetham Street.
-,, 12 Mr. Edmund Mellor, Coptrod, for removing a Cross from the
altar at St. Clement's, cited to appear at York ; proceedings
stayed on Mr. Mellor paying costs.
„ 18 Facit Church Corner Stone laid by Mr. E. Whitworth ; site
given by Mr. J. H. Scholfield.
,, 23 Organ Recital at Merefield Organ Works on an instrument built
by Harrison, for St. James's Church, Morpeth, at a cost of
1,000 guineas.
,, 25 Castleton Cricket Ground, Sparth, opened.
-,, Post Office removed from South Parade to corner of Nelson Street
and Drake Street.
,, Capt. Fenton, at Wimbledon, won the Cambridge Cup, " the blue
ribbon of rifle shooting."
,, Drinking Fountain in the Cemetery, presented by Mr. Garner,
Huddersfield.
July 3 Wesleyan Chapel, Bagslate, opened.
,, 16 Railway Accident at Milkstone, about a dozen persons receiving
a severe shaking.
„ 18 Angling Match at Hollingworth Lake, promoted by the Walton
Anglers' Association ; 250 competitors.
-, , 31 Blackwater Street Unitarian Chapel opened after a disastrous fire.
„ Rev. S: Chapman concluded his ministry at West Street Chapel.
-,, Captain Fenton, at Wimbledon, won the Albert Cup a second
time, scoring the maximum marks at 200 yards and 800 yards.
At 600 yards he was one point under the maximum.
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Aug. 1 St. Alban's Church bells, eight in number, the gift of Col. Nield,
first rung.
,, 5 Government Inquiry at Marland Workhouse as to the death of
James Doran.
„ 16 Mrs. T. B. Willans was presented by Members of the Town
Council with a Silver Cradle on the birth of a son during her
husband's Mayoralty.
„ 18 Milnrow Local Board first met ; Mr. James Heap, Chairman.
„ Messrs. Macmillan &Co., Publishers, presented 100 volumes of
books to the proposed Public Library.
Sep. 1 The inhabitants of Sussex Street presented a Memorial to the
Town Council for permission to plant trees in that street ?
project abandoned.
„ 7 Franco-Prussian War Sick and Wounded Fund opened. £762 4s. 2d.
was subscribed, and large quantities of flannel and clothin g
were given.
„ 10 Fenian affray at Syke, when two men named O'Shea and Roach h
deserters from the brotherhood, were shot at.
„ 21 Buersill Local Board formed ; Mr. Joshua Radcliffe, Chairman.
„ 27 New Organ in Castlemere U.M.F.C. to replace the instrument
destroyed by fire, opened.
Oct. 1 Halfpenny Postage and Postcards introduced. £100 worth of
cards issued during the week from the Post Office.
„ 26 " Weavers' Arms," Cheetham Street, which had existed for 70"
years, deprived of its license on appeal.
„ Rev. R. P. Downes, editor of Cheat Thoughts, was Resident
Minister at Union Street Wesleyan Chapel.
Nov. 1 Railway opened as far as Facit ; extension to Bacup opened 1st
December, 1881.
„ ,, First Municipal Contests since 1864. Successful candidates : —
Castleton Ward, J. Tomlinson (C), J. Leach (C), C. Preston
(L.), and R. Mattley (C.) ; Spotland Ward, G. Lund (L.) and
J. Law (L.) ; Wardleworth Ward, D. Howarth (L.), J. Law-
ton (L.), J. Rushworth (L.), andG. Miller (L.). A Conserva-
tive gain of three seats.
„ 14 St. Martin's Church, Castleton, New Organ opened by Mr. W. T*
Best.
„ 21 First Meeting of Buersill Local Board ; Mr. Joshua Radcliffe v
Chairman.
„ 26 First School Board Election.— See Elections.
Dec. 8 Mr. (afterwards Sir) George 0. Trevelyan, M.P., gave a Lecture
in the Pioneers' Assembly Room on " Army Reform." Mr.
Brown, M.P. for Wenlock; Mr. Price, M.P. for Tewkesbury:
and Mr. Potter, M.P., were present.
,, 15 Mr. Edmund Ashworth elected First Chairman of the School
Board.
„ 20 Professor Dicey lectured at the Pioneers' Assembly Room on
" American Institutions and People."
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Dec. Literary Union dissolved.
,, A Beading Boom at Bent Meadows in existence.
„ John Bright resigned the Presidency of the Board of Trade.
„ Tablet in Memory of Mr. Henry Kelsall placed in West Street
Chapel.
Denominational Schools in Castleton Township numbered 17,
Spotland 14, Wardleworth 8.
Branch of the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, Packer
Street, opened.
Sparrow Hill School-house, St. Alban's Street, built.
Hudson Street opened.
1871.
Jan. 1 200 persons applied for licenses under the Pedlars' Act, which
came into force this day.
.,, 11 Hon. George C. Brodriok lectured at the Pioneers' Assembly
Boom, on the "Irish Question."
,, 18 Mr. J. Hartley, Solicitor, was presented with a timepiece by
members of the Bifle Club in appreciation of his services.
„ 21 Mr. C. Temple, Q.C., County Court Judge for the district died.
„ 22 Mitchel Street U.M.F.C. Day and Sunday Schools opened.
„ 28 Cricket Match, Bev. W. H. Haines' XI. v. Mr. James Schofield's
XI., and Curling Match on the ice at Hollingworth Lake.
„ Bev. T. Harwood Pattison appointed to West Street Chapel.
JTeb. 2 Mr. T. Hewson, C.E., was appointed Borough Surveyor. He
was succeeded in October, 1881, by Mr. S. S. Piatt, M.I.C.E.
„ 14 The revenue derived by the Post Office from the transmission of
Valentines was estimated at £133.
„ Mr. J. Osborne, Q.C., appointed County Court Judge.
Mar. 1 Contest for the office of Borough Auditor ; T. L. Whitehead (C. )
464 votes; G. Webster (L.) 209 votes; E. Bhodes (L.) 172
votes.
„ 6 Mr. G. H. Wheeler was appointed Clerk to the School Board.
„ 14 Bev. J. Fish, M.A., instituted Vicar of St. James's, Ash worth;
died 26th November, 1883 ; successor, Bev. F. E. Waldie.
,, 23 Whitworth Vale Liberal Association formed.
„ 27 Dr. J. B. Lightfoot lectured at the Pioneers' Assembly Boom on
' ' England 600 years ago. "
April 3 Census taken : 29,712 males, 33,761 females, in the parliamentary
borpugh.
Sunday burials at the Cemetery discontinued except in cases of
emergency.
„ 7 Drowning of Mr. Bobert Bell, Gasworks Manager.
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April 9 Wesleyan Chapel, Newbold, opened.
,, 15 Dearnley National New Schools Corner Stone laid.
„ 20 Hornets Football Club prior to this date was known as the Roch-
dale United ; number of members 66.
, , 26 Rowdy Meeting in the Public Hall in support of Brace's Licensing
Bill ; great disorder prevailed.
„ 29 All Saints*, Hamer, New School Corner Stone laid.
,, ,, Mr. George Hanson appointed Librarian at the Free Library.
May 2 Mr. E. Barnish appointed Librarian to the Pioneers' Society, in
succession to Mr. G. Hanson.
„ 3 Mr. Samuel Hunter appointed Gas Manager. Appointed to-
Salford, September, 1875, he was succeeded by Mr. T. 0.
Paterson.
„ 9 Large Meeting of Operatives in the Public Hall in favour of ceas-
ing work at noon, instead of two o'clock, on Saturdays. One
p.m. closing was shortly afterwards generally adopted.
„ 20 St. Peter's Church, Newbold, consecrated by Bishop Fraser;
cost £3,800.
„ 29 Bank Holiday first observed in the town.
,, Rev. R. K. Cook, M.A., Smallbridge, appointed Hon. Canon of
Manchester ; died 18th March, 1891, aged 78 years.
June 1 First Encampment of the 24th Lancashire (Rochdale) Rifle Volun-
teers. The rank and file, 264 men, from Littleborough, Mid-
dleton, and Rochdale, departed to Lytham, and returned four
days later.
„ 15 Lieut. -Colonel Fenton won the Cambridge Cup, " the blue ribbon
of rifle shooting," for the second time.
,, 22 Provident Co-operative Society opened Branch Premises at the-
Corner of Wood Street.
July 1 First Annual Band of Hope Demonstration, 3, 500 persons paraded
the principal streets en route for Howard House.
„ 26 Town's Meeting adopted a Resolution in support of the Ballot
Bill.
,, „ Rev. T. Masterman concluded his Pastorate at Moiesworth Street
Chapel.
„ 29 "British Workman Public-bouse, or a Public-house without
Drink," formerly the Concert Inn, Brickcroft, opened. The-
building since 1875 has been used as the Workmen's Club.
,, President Lincoln's gold-headed Staff was bequeathed by Dr.
Smith, U.S. A. Consul, Dundee, to John Bright, in accordance
with the President's wishes.
„ History of England, by the Rev. W. N. Moiesworth, M.A.,.
published.
Aug. 5 Gen. Tom Thumb, his wife, and Commodore Nutt paid their last
visit to the town.
The proportion of licensed houses to the inhabitants of the-
bo rough was 1 in 190.
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Aug. 23 First "Rochdale" Agricultural Show, held at Greenhill, the
Rochdale Committee of the Whitworth and Rochdale Society
having dissevered themselves on a question of precedence of
title ; prize money £600 ; entries 1,835.
„ „ Union Cricket Club's first annual athletic festival held.
„ ,, Bridge Mills Spinning and Manufacturing Company formed.
Sept. 7 Mr. Henry Butterworth, Jeweller, issued a medal commemora-
tive of the opening of the Town Hall, bearing on the obverse
side a portrait of Mr. G. L. Ashworth, Mayor, and on the
reverse side a representation of the Town Hall. Town Council
voted Mr. G. L. Ashworth, Mayor, £1,000 to meet the expen-
diture to be occasioned by the opening of the Town Hall.
,, 18 St. Peter's Schools, Newbold, Corner Stone laying by Bishop
Fraser.
,, 27 Town Hail opened by Mr. G. L. Ashworth, Mayor. A long pro-
cession of civic officers, trade societies, Sunday school scholars,
ftc., accompanied by bands of music paraded the town. At a
banquet in the evening Bishop Fraser and the following M.P*s.
were present : — Messrs. Hibbert, Egerton, Potter, Jacob
Bright, T. Whitworth, and J. Piatt.
Oct. 5 First meeting of the Town Council in the new Chamber.
„ 12 Mr. Joseph Heap, Solicitor, appointed legal adviser to the School
Board.
„ 24 Mr. Hugh Birley, M.P., spoke at a Tradesmen's and Working
Men's Banquet, in the Town Hall, to celebrate the opening.
,, 25 Town's meeting to express sympathy with the sufferers in the
Chicago Fire, which took place on the 8th. Relief fund
opened, over £1,000 raised. Milnrow raised over £300 in
addition.
Nov. 1 Municipal Elections. Successful candidates : for Castleton, F.
Bolton (C), J. S. Littlewood (L.), Fishwick (C), J. Hartley
(C); for Spotland, Joseph Brierley (C), and H. Shaw(C);
for Wardieworth, T. Schofield (L.), Adamson (L.), Baron (L.),
and J. Clegg (L.)
„ 6 Pioneers' Society's Building Department formed.
„ 10 Bishop Fraser addressed the L. & Y. Company's employees at
the Railway Station.
„ 11 Alderman John Tatham having adopted unsolicited the 9 hours
system at Moss Lane Works, was presented with plate and an
address by his 900 employees.
„ „ Amusing Election of Mayor of the Freehold.— See Rochdale
Observer ', 18th November.
„ 14 Major Henry Fishwick gazetted Lieut. -Colonel.
„ 15 Bishop Fraser gave a Lecture in the Pioneers' Assembly Room on
" Lord Bacon."
„ ,, Bluepits Ratepayers' Association formed ; Mr. R. Webster, Chair-
man
,, ,, Colonel Nield presented a handsome Pulpit to St. Alban's Church.
Dec. 1 Facit Church consecrated by Bishop Fraser ; cost £3,500.
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Dec. 2 Rochdale Pilot ceased to be published.
,, 9 The Lawrence Newall Memorial in Littleborough Churchyard,
erected by East Lancashire Freemasons, was unveiled with
Masonic Ceremony.
„ ,, Rochdale Times, No. 1, published by a limited liability company
composed of a few leading Conservatives.
„ 21 Funeral of Father Do wling. Fifty priests present. Elaborate
ceremonial. Thousands of persons turned out to witness the
cortege.
,, 29 Masonic Ball in the Town Hall — 250 persons present.
Simple Records, by John Ashworth, author of Strange Tales,
published.
Fifty-four hours working week in general observance.
By Will of Miss Holt, Broadhalgh, the Infirmary received a legacy
of £450.
Dials in St. Chad's Church Tower removed.
Medical Aid Association formed.
Mayor's Chain and Badge of Office first invested. The insignia
cost £250.
Infirmary and Dispensary removed from Lord Street to Elliott
Street.
Mitchel Hey Mill paid a dividend of 16 per cent, for the year ;
Millgate Spinning and Manufacturing Company 25 per cent. ;
Crimble 32 per cent.
1872.
Jan. 10 Rt. Hon. Sir J. Pakington, M.P., entertained to dinner in the
Town Hall, by Conservatives. The Hon. A. Egerton, M.P.,
Mr. E. K. Hornby, M.P., and Sir A. Ramsay, Bart., were
present.
„ 21 Smallbridge Wesleyan Chapel opened ; erection cost £1,150 ; 450
sittings.
,, 27 Good Templar Lodge opened at the " British Workman," Brick-
croft.
„ „ An Amateur Dramatic Society met on alternate Tuesdays in the
large room of the Hare and Hounds Hotel. It was formed for
"intellectual recreation, combined with a desire to render
assistance to charitable institutions."
„ „ Rev. E. C. O'Neill appointed to St. John's R. C. Church.
Feb. 10 Mitchel Street Sunday School opened.
„ 27 Thanksgiving Day on the restoration to health of H.R.H. Prince
of Wales ; special services in churches and chapels.
„ 28 J. Roberts, Jr., the famous billiard player, gave an exhibition
game at the Hare and Hounds Hotel.
Mar. 9 Liberal Reading Room, Mitchel Street, opened.
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Mar. 20 First Police Court Sitting in the Town Hall, Mr. W. T. Shaw-
cross, Mayor, presiding.
,, 21 Portrait of Mr. G. L. Ashworth, J. P., by Westcott, presented
to the town by Mr. T. Booth on behalf of subscribers.
,, 23 Bust of Mr. J. Fen ton, first M.P. for the borough, presented to
the town by his widow.
,, 30 St. Chad's Church restored, the porch and tower having been re-
built and the gallery removed ; cost £3,000, towards which
the Vicar gave £500.
April 1 St. John's R. C. Schools, Ann Street, opened ; cost £800.
,, 2 Mr. Disraeli's Visit to Pomona was improved by local Conserva-
tives who attended in large numbers and presented the right
hon. gentleman with an address.
„ 13 Holling worth Lake Amateur Rowing Club inaugurated.
,, 20 A number of townsmen attended the funeral of Samuel Bamford,
the Radical, at Middleton Church.
„ 24 Temple Wesley an Chapel opened ; erection cost £2,300.
„ Thirty Blind Persons resided in the town at this time.
,, Rev. R. G. Williams began his Ministry at Providence Chapel.
May 11 Freehold Conservative Burgess Association Newsroom, Trafford
Street, inaugurated.
„ ,, Councillor T. Schofield was presented with an Address in recogni-
tion of his services as Superintendent of Baillie Street Sunday
School for 22 years.
„ 12 Introduction of the Block System on the railway between the
town and Manchester ; eight block stations provided.
,, 15 Public Meeting of residents at Merefield and Sudden to urge the
L. & Y. Railway Company to provide a Station at New Barn
Lane.
„ 16 Police Offices, Union Street, vacated.
,, 20 The Order of United Free Gardeners held their Annual Confer-
ence in the town. The Order numbered 33,136 members, of
whom 817 were in the Rochdale district.
,, At Marland Workhouse five children of a widow named Ellis,
aged respectively 4, 9, 11, 16, and 20, died of typhoid fever in
one week.
„ Mr. Arthur Brierley presented a handsome font to St. Alban's
Church.
June 19 Borough Improvement Bill, opposed by the Buersill Local Board,
rejected.
,, 20 Annual Assembly of Presbyterians, Unitarians, and Congrega-
tionalists of Lancashire and Cheshire held at Blackwater Street
Chapel.
July 1 St. Mary's Church, Balderstone, built by Messrs. Radcliffe at a
cost of £8,000, was consecrated.
„ 11 Staffordshire's Testimonial to John Bright made. It consisted of
an Address and a Cabinet, 10ft. long by 6ft. , containing the
choicest specimens of ceramic art. — See The Graphic, 27 th
July.
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July 11 Two Pews in the Chancel of St. Chad's, belonging to the Hoyle
family and let at £15 per annum, were sold by public auction
for £70 each.
,, 25 Fifth Act for the better government of the town received the
Royal Assent. By this Act the Parliamentary and Municipal
Borough became coterminous.
,, 29 Rochdale Joint Stock Bank, Baillie Street, opened. No new
bank had been opened for forty years.
„ Butcher's meat having risen to an almost prohibitive price owing
to a plague among cattle, the trade decided to close their
shops for three days a week and to kill half the usual quantity.
„ Buersill Local Board dissolved.
Aug. 10 Rev. A. Salts, B.A., L.L.M., Curate of St. Chad's, inducted to
Holy Trinity Church, Littleborough.
„ 27 Rev. J. H. R. Shillito, B. A., appointed Curate of St. Chad's.
„ Present hours of closing public-houses first observed.
,, Belfield Colliery Company formed — an ill-fated concern.
,, Corner Stone of St. Alban's Institute laid.
Sep. 18 Free Public Library, Town Hall, opened, Bishop Fraser gave an
address. The library comprised 14,396 books.
„ 25 St. Peter's Schools opened by Bishop Fraser; buildings coBt
£2,300.
,, 30 British School, Baillie Street, transferred to the School Board.
From its commencement 11,193 pupils passed through the
School and £6,000 was voluntarily subscribed towards its
maintenance.
,, Balderstone Church Institute and Library dissolved.
,, Borough Bench sanctioned by Royal Commission; first sitting
18th October.
Oct. 5 Chemist's Association inaugurated, Coun. J. Booth, President.
,, 9 Public Meeting to promote a Museum and Art Gallery held.
,, ,, Balderstone Conservative Association inaugurated; Mr. Joshua
Radcliffe, President.
,, 14 Two Japanese High Commissioners visited the town and were
conducted over the principal industrial concerns and public
buildings by Alderman Willans.
„ 31 Funeral of Sergt. -Major Seckerson, 24th L.R.V., amid full mili-
tary honours. The remains were placed on a gun carriage
covered with the Union Jack and bearing the arms and accou-
trements of the deceased. The Staff of the Bury Militia and
Officers and men of the Oldham and neighbouring Corps and
a firing party attended. A great crowd present.
Nov. 1 First Municipal Elections after the extension of the borough. —
See Elections.
„ 7 Mr. J. Osborne, Q.C., County Court Judge, sat for the last time.
,, 8 Arthur Orton, the "Tichborne Claimant," delivered an Address
in the Theatre in aid of a fund for his defence ; Mr. T. B.
Ash worth, Chairman.
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Nov. 23 RidiDgs Mill Reading Room opened by Messrs. T. B. Willans & Go.
for the use of their workpeople.
Dec. 5 " The Esplanade " received its name on the suggestion of Alder-
man Taylor, a proposal in Council Meeting to name the
thoroughfare "Corporation Street" being lost.
„ 7 Pioneers' Milkstone Branch opening ceremony ; Edwin Waugh
present.
„ 23 J. Roberts, Jun., and Cook, the famous billiard players, gave an
exhibition game in the Public Hall.
,, Shawclough Institute for Instruction and Recreation opened.
,, Milkstone Infants' School transferred to the School Board.
,, Amateur Orchestral Society formed.
1873.
Jan. 9 Mr. Crompton Hutton first sat as County Court Judge for the
district.
„ 22 Prosecution of Messrs. J. Ashworth, Thomas Schofield, J. Duck-
worth, and others for refusing to pay School Board rate on
the ground that a portion of the rate was devoted to denomi-
national schools. The defendants' goods were distrained upon.
On February 4th a large demonstration was held in their
support.
,, 30 Town's Meeting in favour of abolishing Slavery in Africa. Rev.
C. New, the LivingBtone Search Expedition Interpreter, spoke.
,, Mr. E. A. Clegg and Mr. W. Law gave a reredos of Caen stone
to Littleborough Church in memory of the late Vicar, Rev. T.
Carter.
,, The Youth of Jesus, and other poems, by Joseph Lineham, pub-
lished.
Feb. 3 Pioneers' Society met to consider a proposal to pay their employees
a bonus on profits and turnover ; proposal lost.
„ 8 Calderbrook Church Day School opened.
„ 17 Home Rule Association formed.
,, 25 Mr. Joseph Arch, founder of the Agricultural Labourers' Union*
gave a lecture in the town.
„ Shore Day School opened ; cost of building £1,000.
Mar. 1 Healey Liberal Association inaugurated ; 70 members.
„ 6 School Board's precept for £500 refused by the Town Council.
Mandamus granted 20th May. The Council eventually paid
the money, but refused to meet the next precept, which was
for £600, and a second Mandamus was applied for.
„ Mr. W. J. Hodgson, M.D., appointed Vaccination Surgeon.
„ 13 Mr. J. Matthews, Postmaster, presented with a silver tea and
coffee service by postal officials.
„ 14 A portion of Scotland Workhouse, which stood upon the site of a
disused coalpit, gave way, causing considerable alarm.
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Mar. 22 Castleton East Ward Conservative Club inaugurated ; Mr. F.
Bolton, President.
„ Board School fees were : boys, full day 4d. weekly ; half -day, 3d.;
girls, full day 3d ; half-day 2d. ; infants, 2d.
April By Will, Mr. R. Stott, Trub Smithy, bequeathed £500 to St
Martin's Church and Schools, Castleton Moor.
,, Rev. J. A. Lobley, M.A., first Vicar of Hamer, resigned on being
appointed Principal of Montreal College for the Clergy.
May 7 St. Edmund's Church consecrated amid imposing Masonic cere-
mony. 600 members of the craft walked in procession from
the Town Hall to the Church. The edifice, which cost £30,000
to finish, was the gift of Mr. A. H. Royds.
,, 13 Hon. Gen. Neal Dow addressed a large Temperance meeting in
the Public Hall.
,, 28 Government Inquiry at Whitworth in reference to the proposed
formation of a Local Board for the district.
,, Rev. J. Hamilton Fox, M. A., appointed to All Saints', Hamer.
,, Rev. B. T. Winterborn, B.A., succeeded the Rev. J. Morgan,
M.A., Curate of St. Chad's.
June 12 Lancashire and Cheshire Association of Baptist Churches Annual
Conference, held at West Street Chapel.
„ West Street Centenary Sunday Schools, Memorial Stone laid by
Mrs. Kemp.
„ Signor Gavazzi, friend of Garibaldi, gave an Anti-Popery lecture
in the Public Hall.
„ St. Alban's Church Nursing Institute formed.
„ Local members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers num-
bered 437
July 10 Castleton Footpaths' Association, formed in 1859, dissolved.
„ 19 Lieut. -Col. Fen ton, at Wimbledon, won the Dudley Prize, £50.
,, 30 U.M.F.C. 17th Annual Assembly begun in the town, when the
Rev. J. Adcock was elected President.
„ Practice of holding preliminary inquiries, and dispensing with
inquests in certain cases, begun.
Aug. 5 Rev. Walter Cooper, B.A., became Curate of St. Alban's; ap-
pointed Vicar, September, 1874; resigned 1892; died, 31st
July, 1894.
„ 8 Rev. R. P. Downes ceased his Ministry at Union Street Chapel.
,, 9 Strike of 10,000 Cardroom and Blowing Room Hands in the dis-
trict for 15 per cent, advance in wages; 35 mills wholly
stopped for several weeks. The strike proved abortive.
,, 11 Funeral of Mr. G. L. Ash worth, J. P., observed throughout the
town.
,, 29 Mr. Edwin Collingwood, for 41 years assistant justices' clerk, was
presented by members of the legal profession with a testimonial
in recognition of Mb services.
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Sep. 6 Mr. David Coventry, Bank Manager and late Borough Treasurer*
was presented with an illuminated address by the Town
Council.
,, 17 Bluepits U.M.F.C. Schools opened ; cost of buildings £1,100.
,, 18 Duke of Newcastle paid a private visit to Greenbooth Mills,
Buckley Mills, Railway Works, and other places.
Oct. 11 Centenary of the Baptist Church in Rochdale celebrated and
observed.
John Bright appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Wesleyan Chapel, Gravelhole, opened.
Littleborough U.M.F.C. Sunday Schools opened ; buildings cost
£2,000.
Highway from Rochdale to Halifax disturnpiked.
Sparth Toll House, corner of New Barn Lane, sold by auction,
and shortly afterwards pulled down. A toll house formerly
existed near Dunster.
„ 28 Jubilee Singers, 1 1 Students of Fisk University, U. S. A. , appeared
at the Town Hall.
,, 29 Sudden new branch premises of the Pioneers' Society opened. A
shop was opened here 30th October, 1869.
„ Jeffrey Gott Memorial Window, St. James's Church, unveiled.
Dec. 4 Town Council ordered Mr. Crossland's Commission as Architect
of the Town Hall, amounting to £10,329 6s. 2d., to be paid.
„ 6 Mr., afterwards Sir W. T. Charley, Q.C., M.P., addressed a Con-
servative gathering at Smallbridge.
„ 9 Mr. A. Ulingworth, M.P., addressed the local branch of the
Liberation Society.
„ ,, Milnrow Conservative Industrial Co-operative Society formed ?
business begun 11th February, 1874.
„ 11 Funeral of Mr. W. W. Schofield, J.P.
,, 15 Queen's Hotel, Milkstone Road, three dwelling-houses adjoining
in Milkstone Road, and five dwelling-houses adjoining in
Tweedale Street, two cottages behind, also a stable in Devon
Street, and vacant land adjoining, sold for £3,640. In 1897
the hotel alone was sold for more than three times that sum.
„ 27 Mr. James Wrigley was presented with an address and silver
plate by old Sparrow Hill Scholars.
Back from Canaan, by John Ash worth, published.
Rev. T. Carter appointed to Blackwater Street Chapel.
Science and Art Classes begun by the Pioneers' Society.
The right of the Lord of the Manor to hold a Fair was purchased
by the Corporation for £350.
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Jan. 8 Mr. H. Birley, M.P., and Mr. J. T. Hibbert, M.P., spoke on
commercial topics at the Merchants' and Tradesmen's dinner
in the Lecture Room.
Mr. O'Connor Power, in the Public Hall, lectured on Irish Politics.
Mr. G. Dixon, M.P., Birmingham, addressed a large meeting in
the Town Hall, on Unsectarian Education.
Rochdale Chimes, a satirical monthly journal, edited by Mr.
William Swift, No. 1 published.
Whitworth Ratepayers by 1,069 votes against 554 votes, decided
to form a Local Board for the district.
Parliamentary Election on the fall of Mr. Gladstone's Ministry.
— See Elections.
South-East Lancashire Parliamentary Election. — See Elections.
Sudden Liberal Club formed ; Mr. R. T. Heape a generous donor.
Election of two Borough Auditors : J. M. L. Chadwick (C), 727;
E. Rhodes (L.), 492 ; J. H. Heap (L.), 143.
,, 20 " George Howarth Lane," Milnrow Road, which the Corporation
sought to make a public thoroughfare, declared at Assizes to
be a private road.
,, 28 Wardle Liberal Association inaugurated.
,, Portrait of Alderman T. Livsey, which hangs in the Mayor's
Parlour, presented to the town.
„ Wesleyan Sunday Schools, Littleborough, opened ; cost £2,500.
„ Broadley Wood Mills Cotton Spinning and Manufacturing Com-
pany formed.
April 3 Brimrod U.M.F.C. Day and Sunday Schools opened.
Wesleyan Chapel, Wardle, opened ; cost of buildings £4,000.
Conference of the Lancashire Union of Conservative and Con-
stitutional Associations held in the Town Hall, Mr. Romaine-
Callender, M.P., presiding.
Mr. Macdonald, M.P., addressed a large gathering in the Town
Hall to celebrate the first direct return of Labour representa-
tives to Parliament.
Bengal Famine Relief Fund opened ; £1,180 5s. 7d. subscribed.
„ Blackpits Cotton Spinning and Manufacturing Company Limited
formed.
,, Local Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters num-
bered 56 members.
„ Thorney Lee Spinning and Manufacturing Company Limited
formed.
May 17 West Street Chapel Schools opened ; cost of erection £3,000.
„ 23 Bowling Green behind the Mona Hotel opened. A green pre-
viously existed on the opposite side of the river.
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May Hollingworth Workhouse closed ; inmates removed to Marland.
„ Healey Spinning Company formed.
„ Bakebridge Provident Store opened.
June 4 Seam of Coal, 4 ft. in thickness, struck at Belfield Colliery, a
distance of 130 yards below the surface.
,, 16 Lowerplace U.M.F.C. opened ; foundation stones laid 12th July,
1873.
,, 27 St. Michael's Schools, Bamford, corner stones laid. The scholars
at that time worshipped in an old barn at Gnat Bank.
„ Mr. J. T. W. Mitchell appointed Chairman of the Wholesale
Co-operative Society. He held the office till his death, 16th
March, 1895.
„ Lieut. -Col. Fish wick published the History of Kirkham.
July 7 Rev. C. H. Spurgeon gave addresses in the Town Hall and in
Baillie Street Chapel in aid of West Street Schools. Nearly
6,000 tickets for admission were applied for.
„ 12 Millgate and Shawforth Wesleyan Schools opened; Chapel in
course of erection, the whole to cost £7,500.
„ 30 Mr. C. M. Jones, Roebuck Hotel, was presented with a hand-
some service of plate by Licensed Victuallers in recognition of
twenty years' service to the trade.
„ Lieut. -Col. Fen ton, at Wimbledon, won the Dudley Prize, £50,
for the second time. He also shot with the English eight for
the Elcho Shield.
Aug. 1 Broadfield portion of the Park opened to the public.
,, 13-14-15 Cricket Match : Lancashire v. Yorkshire, played on the
Castleton ground, Sparth.
„ 24 Funeral of the Rev. H. W. Parkinson, Pastor of Milton Congre-
gational Church.
„ 26 Wuerdle and Wardle Local Board first met.
Sep. 22 Rev. W. Cooper, B.A., succeeded the Rev. J. W. Parker, M.A.,
Vicar of St. Alban's.
„ 24 Mr. Thomas Hughes, Q.C., distributed the prizes awarded to
students at the Pioneers' Science and Art Classes.
Oct. 1 Spotland Liberal Club, Blackwater Street, opened.
„, 12 First Meeting of the Whitworth Local Board.
„ 21 A Lunar Rainbow was visible ; " the colours were quite distinct
and the arch perfect."
„ 24 Town Council rejected a proposal to make a Tramway between
the Coal Siding and the Gasworks.
,, St. Alban's Church Nursing Institute, Drake Street, built by
Colonel Nield at a cost of £12,000, was completed.
Nov. 17 Mr. Robert Clough, Temperance Advocate, was presented with
a service of plate and a purse of gold in recognition of twenty
years' services in the cause.
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Dec. 11 A horse jumped from the bridge at Sunny Bank into the river.
The river was considerably swollen at the time, and the horse
was carried over the weir a distance of a quarter of a mile
before recovering itself. The animal sustained no injury.
,, 12 Rev. J. F. Jenkins, M.A., 10 years Curate of St. Chad's, was
presented with an Address and £70.
„ 18 Election of Assistant Overseer for Wardleworth : — G. Roberts
(L.), 1057 votes ; J. T. Wren (C), 735 votes.
,, 29 Mr. A. L. Caiman took over entire charge of the Chapel for the
Destitute.
Workmen's Club Buildings Company Limited formed.
Church Institute, The Walk, a venerable institution with an
excellent library, dissolved.
Ring Spinning introduced.
Underbank Mills Company, Whitworth, formed.
1875.
Public-houses opened till midnight on account of First Market.
Banquet to Mr. R. W. Gamble, Q.C., to celebrate his campaign
against Mr. Potter. Mr. Romaine Callender, M.P., and Mr
E. Hardcastle were present.
St. Alban's new Schools, Latin Street, opened.
Funeral of John Ash worth, author of Strange Tales.
Conservative Club, The Walk, opened by Mr. C. M. Royds,
President.
Rochdale Past and Present, by Robertson, published.
St. Luke's Church projected ; services were subsequently com-
menced in a coach-house in Durham Street.
„ ,, Mr. J. R. Thornber appointed Liberal Agent ; died 2nd October,
1888.
„ Paper Manufacturing Company Limited, Belfield, formed ; an
ill-starred concern.
Mar. 15 Town's Meeting to support the "New Lancashire Manufacturing
Town's Railway Scheme," a project for joining Manchester
with the Midland system at Colne via Middleton, Heywood,
Rochdale, Bacup, and Burnley.
„ Hamer Lane Colliery Company Limited, formed.
April 1 " Mors Janua Vitse," by Sir N. Paton, exhibited at Mr. Herron's.
„ 10 Rev. I. Gaitskill's fifty years' incumbency of Whitworth, com-
memorated.
„ 17 Lord Rosebery opened the Workmen's Club, Brickcroft. In the
evening he addressed a meeting in the Town Hall.
„ Mr., now Sir H. H.| Howorth, F.R.S., published the History
of the Mongols.
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April Parker Memorial Window, St. Alban's Church, unveiled.
„ Mr. Joshua Radcliffe elected Vice-Chairman of the L. & Y. Rail-
way Company.
May 1 Newbold Baptist Chapel and Schools Comer Stone laid by Aid.
J. Tatham. The promoters were seceders from Hope Street
Chapel.
„ 10 Lancashire and Yorkshire Branch Bank, King Street, opened.
,, 29 Mr. John Oldham, St. Clement's Schools, was presented with a
silver tea and coffee service in recognition of his 21 years'
mastership.
„ Rev. J. F. Jenkins, St. Chad's, appointed Vicar of Lydgate.
„ Grant of £800 made by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to pro-
vide a Parsonage for Facit.
June Rev. T. R. Elliott began his Ministry at Clover Street School.
July 3 Gibson Row and Oakenrod Working Men's Institute opened ;
160 members.
Aug. 9 O'Connell Centenary observed. Serious disturbances took place
on the Mount, hundreds of persons being armed with shille-
lahs, iron bars, and stones ; ring leaders sentenced at Quarter
Sessions to various terms of imprisonment.
,; 14 Workmen's Club began their Annual Excursion to London.
Owing to a misunderstanding with the G. N. Railway Com-
pany a large number of trippers were brought back by special
train by the Midland Railway Company.
„ First Meeting of the Castle ton Local Board. The Board adopted
the arms of the Fenton family.
,, A case of Premature Burial nearly occurred. The body of a
woman had been prepared for burial and the funeral arranged,
when the " corpse " showed signs of life, and was eventually
restored to health.
Sep. 28 Dr. T. Fletcher appointed to St. Edmund's Church, Falinge.
,, Skating Rink opened at Sladen's, Hollingworth Lake.
,, Rev. W. M. Arthur appointed to Bamford Chapel.
Oct. 2 Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P., distributed the Prizes awarded to the
Students at Whitworth Literary Institute.
„ ,, Mr. Samuel Hunter, Gasworks Manager, was presented with a
gold watch and an address on his appointment to Salford.
„ 7 Mr. T. 0. Paterson appointed Gasworks Manager.
„ ,, Dr. J. M. Wilson appointed Medical Officer of Health.
,, 10 Durham Street Primitive Methodist Schools opened.
, , 13 Tolls on the turnpike road to Burnley let for 12 months for £3,300.
,, Life and Labours of John Ashworth, by A. L. Caiman, published.
„ " Bluepits " Railway Station re-named " Castleton."
Nov. 1 Post Office, Town Hall Square, opened.
,, Hey wood Road disturnpiked.
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Nov. 19 Corner Stone of Newhey Church laid.
„ 24 First Market Holidays were at a Town's Meeting altered from
the first Monday and Tuesday after 6th January, to the first
and second working days of the New Year.
Dec. 17 Mr. Henry Whitworth, Clerk to the Barton-upon-Irwell Board
of Guardians, a native of this town, was presented with an
address and 500 guineas in recognition of 25 years' service.
„ Street Map of the Borough, published by E. Wrigley & Sons.
L. & Y. Hotel, Hollingworth Lake, opened.
Healey, by Jessie Folhergill, which deals with the district, pub-
lished.
1876.
Jan. 3 First Market Holidays held. The practice of extending the
opening hours of public houses till midnight was discontinued.
„ 18 Spelling Bees were a popular entertainment. On this date 300
competitors took part in a "Bee" in the Public Hall.
„ 31 Town's meeting protested against the Government Circular re-
specting Fugitive Slaves on British Ships.
Feb. 8 Rev. Father P. O'Keefe was presented with a handsome testi-
monial in recognition of his services to the Temperance cause.
,, 12 Mr. Jacob Bright's character having been adversely commented
upon during his parliamentary contest in Manchester, a large
meeting of sympathisers was held in the Town Hall.
,, 17 Mr. Jacob Bright elected M.P. for Manchester.
„ Drs. Richardson, Bland, and Ogden, hon. medical officers at the
Infirmary resigned. No applicants came forward to fill the
vacancies for a considerable time.
,, Golden Fleece Building Society formed ; an unfortunate concern.
Mar. 8 J. Roberts, Junr., and Cook, the billiard players, opened a new
table at the Wellington Hotel
April 5 A building, part of Goose Lane House, behind St. Alban's Inn,
fell with a heavy crash.
„ 6 Portrait of John Roby, author of Traditions of Lancashire, pre-
sented to the town by Mr. William Fenton.
,, 17 Charles Adams's Circus, probably the best of its kind to visit the
town, opened in the Newgate ; closed 22nd July.
,, 25 Rev. George White, M. A., appointed to St. Thomas's, Newhey.
" Wet Rake," a Beerhouse at the Corner of Oldham Road and
Milnrow Road, existed.
May 4 Mr. Pomfret Hikeley, York, appointed Baths' Superintendent.
„ 15 Horse Fair last held in Cheetham Street.
„ 17 Meeting of Friendly Societies to protest against the proposed fee
to be paid on granting children's death certificates.
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May 19 Market Company's powers over hawkers were by Court of Appeal
held to include the extended borough. Case remitted to the
magistrates, who imposed a fine of 6d. without costs.
, , Rochdale Carriage Company Limited, formed.
,, Rev. R. Lewis succeeded Rev. T. Harwood Pattison at West
Street Chapel.
, , History of the Whitworth Doctors, published at the Observer Office.
•June 5 The practice of manacling prisoners en route for jail drew from
Chief- Constable Stevens an eloquent protest. — (London Times.)
,, 15-16-17. Cricket Match, Lancashire v. Yorkshire, on the ground at
Sparth.
,, 19 James Sanderson, "Treacle," Whitworth, won the Four Miles
Championship Foot Race at Lillie Bridge Grounds against G.
Hazael, whom he again defeated at Oldham, 23rd September.
,, "Regent Street Assembly Rooms opened.
•July 12 H.R.H. Duke of Connaught, commanding the 7th Hussars, en
route from Liverpool to Edinburgh, was billeted at the Wel-
lington Hotel. He visited John Bright and inspected the
Town Hall.
Union Cricket Club, Mere Lane, Athletic Festival.
A hot day. 105*5 deg. F. in the sun; shade, 86*5.
Caledonian Society's Jubilee ; funds £2,698 13s. 5d. ; 127 members.
Striking instance of rent farming on the Glebe Estate disclosed
at a sale by auction, eight plots of land originally leased for
£53 19s. Od. having been sublet and produced £233 17s. 2d.
per annum.
Newbold Baptist Chapel opened ; cost of buildings £5,500.
Denshaw Water Scheme, Oldham Corporation, formally begun.
Presentation of £150 by the Ironmoulders' Association to J.
Farrington, a disabled member.
11,985 scholars attending the Elementary Schools.
Signor Gavazzi lectured in the Public Hall on the "Protestant
Church in Italy."
Crowded Town's Meeting to protest against Turkish Atrocities,
Mr. J. S. Littlewood presiding. Relief fund started ; £520
raised.
7-8-9 Cricket Match, North v. South on the ground at Milnrow Road.
Among the players were Messrs. W. G. and G. F. Grace,
J. Lillywhite, Ulyett, Selby, Emmett, and Pinder.
9 Canon Raines, 44 years Vicar of Milnrow, and Mrs. Raines were
the recipients of presents from parishioners valued at £200.
14 Rakewood Wesleyan Chapel opened.
20 Skating Rink, Castlemere Street, opened.
,, Hartley's Library dispersed. It comprised about 8,000 volumes
and was one of the oldest subscription libraries in the country
having been formed in 1770.
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Sep. 24 Rev. E. C. Lewis concluded his 38 years' ministry at St. Stephen's^
„ Trafalgar Hotel, Ramsay Street, erected. Few houses existed in
the neighbourhood at this time.
„ Discovery of a "Charm " against Evil Spirits, in a box concealed:
in the rafters of a shippon at Healey.
,, Bishop Blaize Inn sold to the Corporation, subject to a ground
rent of £135.
„ Cronkeyshaw Common conveyed to the Corporation.
Oct. 1 Rev. R. Lovett began his ministry at St. Stephen's.
„ 5 Eight Shares of £100 each in the New Market fetched £1,289 by-
public auction.
,, 16 Subscription Library opened in the Tower Room, Town Hall.
„ 19 A record Bazaar ; Baillie Street Chapel congregation raising
£2,756 Is. 6£d. by a Fair in the Town Hall.
„ 23 Mr., now Sir, J. T. Hibbert, distributed the Prizes and Certifi-
cates awarded to students of the School of Science and Art.
„ 30 Belfield Colliery wound up. £20,000 had been spent on the mine-
without return.
Nov. 17 White Gloves presented to Alderman R. T. Heape, Mayor — no.
charges for hearing at the Police Court.
,, Portrait of John Ash worth, author of Strange Tales, presented ta
the town by the Trustees of the U.M.F.C. The portrait
hangs in the Free Library.
„ Castleton New Railway Station opened.
Dec. 6 Rev. E. C. Lewis was presented with an Address and £850 by
his admirers. The presentation took place at Derby, owing
to Mr. Lewis's ill-health.
„ 11 Town's Meeting on the Eastern Question, Alderman R. T. Heape-
presiding.
,, 18 Lord William Lennox, nephew of the Duchess of Richmond, who
gave the ball at Brussels on the eve of Waterloo, lectured in
the Public Hall on " Personal Reminiscences of Wellington."
„ 21 St. Thomas's Church, Newhey, built at the sole cost, £10,000, of
Messrs. W. & J. Heap, consecrated by Bishop Fraser.
„ 25 An omnibus began to run daily between the town and Oldham ; :
fare inside 10d., outside 7d.
24 Elementary Schools existed in the borough.
Gymnasium in the Park erected ; cost £338.
Pioneers' Society numbered 8,892 members ; turnover £305,191.
Conservative Industrial Co-operative Society numbered 1390*
turnover £25,907.
1877.
Jan. 2 John Bright addressed the members of the Workmen's ,Club in*
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Jan. Cabman's Shelter, South Parade, since removed to The Butts,
opened.
,, As shewing the mildness of the season daisies and dandelion were
gathered at Greave.
„ Mr. S. R. Knight, B.A., Norden, was bracketed Fifth Wrangler
at Cambridge.
Feb. 10 Wellfield Workmen's Club opened.
,, 12 The Mayor having refused to convene a town's meeting to protest
against the purchase of the Bishop Blaize Inn, an indignation
meeting was held in the Pioneers' Assembly Room.
,, 14 40,000 Postal Packages were delivered, being three times the
normal delivery ; St. Valentine's Day.
•„ 24 Turning of the first sod on the site of the Cricket Ground, Dane
Street, by Mrs. E. E. M. Royds.
„ „ Wife Murder on the Mount by John McKenna. — See Crime.
Farmers' Association formed.
Mar. 1 Mr. and Mrs. R. Hey worth were appointed Master and Matron
of Dearnley Workhouse ; opened 19th December following.
,, Rev. E. Brierley succeeded Rev. I. Gaitskill, M.A., Vicar of
Whitworth.
April 14 Coffee House movement on foot. Limited liability company
formed.
,, 23 Town's Meeting condemned the action of the Government on the
Burials Bill.
„ 27 Dr. J. E. N. Molesworth, Vicar, was interred at St. Martin's,
Castleton.
May 7 First appearance of the Carl Rosa Opera Company at the Theatre.
„ 12 An Omnibus began to run daily to Littleborough ; fares, inside
5d. , outside 4d.
,, 19 Mr. G. T. Kemp, J. P., who died in Nubia, 20th March, interred
in the Cemetery.
,, Bishop Blaize Inn and warehouse adjoining pulled down.
„ Organ Recitals were given in the Town Hall on an instrument
temporarily erected there.
June 2 Rev. E. C. Maclure, M.A., Habergham Eaves, inducted Vicar by
Bishop Fraser; succeeded by Rev. J. M. Wilson, M.A.,
November, 1890.
„ 30 Skating Rink, Castlemere, closed.
•,, „ Captain Webb, of Channel fame, swam at Holling worth Lake.
,, Canon Cook, Smallbridge, appointed Rural Dean.
„ Failure of T. Booth & Sons ; liabilities £30,000.
July 14 Holman Hunt's "Shadow of Death" exhibited at the Public
Hall.
„ 17 Rev. T. B. Saul ceased his ministry at Baillie Street Chapel.
,, 21 First Public Coffee House, No. 42, Drake Street, opened.
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July 21 Castleton Cricket Club in a match against Rusholme made the
record score in local cricket. They made 484 runs for two
wickets, E. L. Chadwick 213 not out, F. Taylor 125.
,, 25 John Bright unveiled Cobden's Statue at Bradford.
,, 28 Peal of eight bells in Newhey Church tower first rung.
„ 31 Portrait of Mr. J. T. H. Chappell hung in Spotland Liberal Club,
Blackwater Street.
„ Lieut. -Col. Fen ton at Wimbledon won prizes valued at £123. He
shot with the English Eight for the Elcho Shield, making the
highest score. Out of 15 shots at 1,000 yards nine were bnll's
eyes, the remainder centres.
Aug. 2 Mr. Henry Brierley, Solicitor, was presented with a gold watch
and chain by teachers and scholars at St. Chad's.
,, 5 Rev. J. B. Aitken appointed to Milton Congregational Church.
„ 6 Cattle Fair Ground, Theatre Street, opened. Prior to this date-
the fair was held in Church Stile and adjoining streets.
„ 20-21. First visit of the Uppingham Rovers to Castleton Cricket Club.
„ 22 Agricultural Show at Greenhill last held ; severe thunderstorm.
,, „ Halstead's Foundry struck by lightning ; chimney fell.
„ Mr. Cyrus Field visited John Bright at One Ash.
Sep. 6 Southern India Famine Fund opened, over £2, 100 realised ; £1 ,0(K>
in addition raised by the outlying districts.
„ 8 Mr. Norris T. Collinge attempted to swim from Runcorn to Liver-
pool. He swam 17 miles, then the longest distance covered
by an amateur, and was in the water 2h. 7m. 6s.
,, 11 High School Company Limited formed; premises at Harelands.
taken.
,, 15 Last match on the Rochdale Cricket Ground, Milnrow Road.
,, „ Members of the Workmen's Club took part in the procession on
the opening of the Manchester new Town Hall.
,, 20 Healey Wesley an Chapel opened.
,, 22 Open Amateur Regatta promoted by the Hollingworth Lake
Amateur Rowing Club.
,, 25 John Bright distributed the prizes awarded the Students at the
Pioneers' Science Classes and gave an address.
„ 29 Wesleyan Day and Sunday Schools, Castleton, opened.
Oct. 1 Skating Rink reopened. It was shortly afterwards finally closed
for skating.
„ 22 Rev. E. C. O'Neill was presented with an address and £60 to
celebrate the completion of 25 years' ministry.
Nov. 7 Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., addressed a large meeting in the
Town Hall on " Liberal Policy," John Bright presiding.
„ 13 Rev. F. P. Wright, M. A., appointed Curate of St. Chad's.
„ 22 Presentation of Statuettes to the Mayor, Councillor J. Tweedale,
by members of the Town Council on attaining his 70th year.
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Nov. 29 Mr. J. D. Hutchinson, M.P., in the Public Hall gave an address
to the Branch of the Liberation Society.
»> St. Alban's Church Institute opened ; built by Colonel Nield at a
cost of £12,000.
Dec. 8 Organ erected in All Saints' Church ; cost 500 guineas.
,, 19 Dearnley Workhouse opened by Alderman T. Schofield ; cost
£85,000.
,, Large Map of the Borough, by Mr. T. Hewson, Borough Surveyor,
published.
Rochdale and District Teachers' Association formed.
Poor Children's Aid Committee formed during the year.
Cambrian Glee Club of male voices formed.
Meteorological Stand erected in the Park, Broadfield.
Roman Catholic Mission, Littleborough, begun about this time.
Fulton's Buildings, Cheetham Street, originally intended for an
hotel erected ; cost £10,000.
Parish Church Club, Church Stile, formed.
1878.
Jan. 11 Town's Meeting on the Eastern Question held ; a policy of non-
intervention recommended. .
„ 31 Cloth Hall Tragedy occurred.
Feb. 2 Great Conservative meeting in the Theatre in support of the
Vote of Credit for £6,000,000 for war purposes.
„ 6 Castleton East Ward Liberal Club, Crawford Street, formed.
„ 9 Norden Ratepayers resolved to form a Local Board.
,, 16 Penny Bank, opened in 1861, finally closed.
Mar. 1 Election of two Borough Auditors ; result, J. M. L. Chadwick
(C.) 468, E. Rhodes (L.) 163, S. Lees (L.) 41.
„ 3 Welsh Presbyterian Chapel, Portland Street, opened. The con-
gregation prior to this date met in Baron Street.
„ 6 Rev. D. M. Sykes licensed Curate of St. Clement's Church.
,, 9 Mr. Archibald Forbes in the Town Hall narrated his personal
experiences as War Correspondent during the Russo-Turkish
War.
„ ' James Brierley, " Old Trundle," an eccentric local character, was
interred at Middle ton, habilitated in his " best black suit."
April 4 Whitworth U.M.F.C., Market Street, opened ; cost of building
£4,000.
„ . 6 Election of Assistant Overseer for Butterworth :— C. Whitehead
(C), 827; J. Taylor (L.), 817.
i, 19 Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Lancashire, Cheshire, and
Derbyshire Sunday Schools' Association held in the town.
John Bright gave an address.
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Apl. 28 Rev. D. Morgan, M.A., inducted Chaplain of Dearnley Work-
house.
May 2-3-4. Cricket Ground, Dane Street, opened with a match between
XX. of Rochdale and a United South XI. , which included Dr.
W. G. Grace and Mr. G. F. Grace ; cost of ground £2,000.
,, 8 Bishop Fraser delivered an address to the inmates of Dearnley
Workhouse.
,, ,, Town's Meeting passed a resolution condemning the policy of the
Government on the Eastern Question ; noisy proceedings.
„ 12 Facit Church Schools opened ; cost of buildings £1,800.
„ 18 Conservative Central Stores and Offices, Milurow Road, opened ;
cost £3,000.
,, Farthings were in general use in the Tobacco trade owing to an
increase in duty.
June 1 Ashworth Memorial Statue in the Park unveiled by Mr. T. B.
Potter, M.P. The statue cost 800 guineas.
„ 5 Meeting of Operatives in the Lecture Room, Public Hall, of
sufferers through the great Blackburn lock-out.
„ 6 Choral Society, established in 1803, re-formed.
,, Four Masonic Lodges existed in the town ; 158 members.
,, Rev. A. W. Wiseman, M.A., appointed Curate of St. Chad's.
July 1 1 Mr. Potter's Bill to assimilate the law as regards the real and
personal property of persons dying intestate rejected by the
House of Commons by 193 votes to 157.
Aug. 1-2-3 Australian Cricketers' first visit; after paying expenses the
colonials received eighty per cent, of the receipts.
„ 3 East Window in Healey Church unveiled.
„ 13 Brierley's Model Lodging House, Church Stile, opened.
,, 21 Rochdale Cricket Club's first Athletic Festival on the Cricket
Ground, Dane Street, held.
Sep. 16 Madame Angelo, a mulatto, performed the feat of walking 1,000
miles in 1,000 hours in a field near the Fox Inn.
„ 17 Professor Williamson distributed the prizes awarded to Students
of the Science Classes, Baillie Street.
„ St. Peter's, Newbold, three manual organ erected ; first organ in
the district blown by hydraulic pressure.
,, Funeral Reform and Mourning Association formed.
Oct. 21 Funeral of Canon Raines, F.S.A., 46 years Vicar of Milnrow.
„ St. Michael's Church Schools opened ; cost of buildings £2,500.
Nov. 13 Littleborough Ratepayers' Association, to check the lavish expen-
diture of the Local Board, formed.
,, 15 Mrs. Gray, a well-known local personage, weighing 28 stones,
died.
,, 16 Gymnasium in connection with the Hornets' Football Club opened
over the Market Hall, Toad Lane.
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Nov. 20 Rev. E. C. Maclure, M.A., Vicar, installed Honorary Canon of
Manchester.
Town's Meeting passed a resolution condemning the attitude of
the Government towards the Ameer.
23 Football Match, Hornets v. Halifax, played this evening with the
aid of the electric light.
26 Fenton's Bank stopped payment. The beginning of a series of
commercial disasters in the district. '
28 Sir Wilfred Lawson, M.P., addressed a U.K. A. meeting in the
Public Hall.
Rev. H. Crosbie, M.A., accepted the incumbency of Milnrow.
Fourteen weeks' frost began.
Dec. 5. Halifax Road Board School opened ; cost of building £4,500.
,, 18 Library of Canon Raines dispersed ; realised £500.
Mr. T. A. Collinge appointed Borough Analyst; died 31st of
October, 1882.
Marian d Fever Hospital opened.
1879.
Jan. 2 Lord Derby addressed the members of the Workmen's Club in the
Town Hall. He also visited Greenbooth Mills and Fieldhouse
Mills.
,, 4 First Meeting of the Norden Local Board ; Mr. R. H. Hutchin-
son, Chairman.
,, 11 Whitworth Cemetery, Church of England portion, consecrated
by Bishop Fraser.
,, „ Relief Committee formed to meet the exceptional distress which
prevailed ; £800 raised.
,, 21 Miss Emily Faithful lectured in the Public Hall on "Modern
Extravagance."
,, 22 Horse and Trap crossed Hollingworth Lake on the ice.
,, Probation, which deals with the district, by Jessie Fothergill,
then residing at Summit, published.
Feb. 5 Literary and Scientific Society instituted.
„ 9 Mr. E. Vansittart Neale lectured in the Pioneers' Assembly Room
on " Co-operation."
,, 22 Butterworth Liberal Hundred formed.
,, Shawclough Liberal Association formed.
„ Street Directory of the Borough, published by Messrs. E. Wrigley
and Sons.
Mar. 3 Branch of the Union Bank of Manchester opened.
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Mar. 17 Dividend of 2s. 6d. in the £, absorbing £55,000 paid to Fenton's
Bank creditors, Mr. James Fenton having agreed to allow his
dividend on £130,000 to remain in abeyance until the creditors
received 10s. in the £.
,, Townhead House taken over by Wardleworth Overseers.
,, John Bright appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
April 3 Library of Mr. H. Healey , Smallbridge, dispersed ; realised nearly
£1,000.
,, Wardleworth Workhouse purchased for use as Chapel for the
Destitute ; opened 4th May.
May 3 Collection of Paintings belonging to Colonel Nield, Captain
Fenton, and Mr. W. Fenton dispersed ; realising £55,573 15s.
The collection included "Sport in the Highlands," Landseer,
1,450 guineas ; "King of the Forest," Landseer, 1,000 guineas:
" La Fete de Jeanne," Israels, 1,610 guineas ; "Harvest Din-
ner," Linnell, 1,610 guineas.
„ 12 Bishop Fraser addressed a large meeting in the Town Hall on
Funeral Reform.
,, Brotherod Colliery closed ; 100 men disbanded.
„ Mr. J. A. Bright was invited to contest Ashton-under-Lyne.
June 11 Yeomanry Cavalry in training for two days at Heaton Park.
,, 14 Buersill Athletic Festival revived.
,, 24 Seventy -four acres of land belonging to the Peel family, com-
prising nearly the whole of Littleborough, offered for sale, and
withdrawn at £37,000.
,, 25 Bishop of British Columbia preached at St. Chad's.
,, Canon Raines' memorial in Milnrow Churchyard, a granite monu-
ment 20 feet high, unveiled.
,, 30 Mr. John Stand ring, Solicitor, appointed legal adviser to the
Pioneers' Society.
July 3 Castleton Local Board district extended ; parts of Thornham and
Hopwood added.
„ ,, Trinity Wesley an Chapel, Lowerplace, opened ; cost of building
£4,800.
,, 6 Canon Cook, M. A. , completed his 40 years' vicariate at St. John's,
Smallbridge.
,, 21 J. M. Taylor, a local swimmer of repute, finished third in the
500 yards championship won by Beckwith.
„ 26 Norden Working Men's Club First Annual Athletic Festival.
,, Rochdale Lifeboat transferred from the Cornish Coast to West
Hartlepool.
„ Rev. F. W. Reade, B. A, appointed Curate-in-Charge of Norden.
Aug. 1 Presentation to Lieut. -Colonel Fenton of an address and photo-
graphic group by non-commissioned officers of the local corps
24th L.R.V.
, 2 Hey wood Park opened.
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Bicycle Club Athletic Festival at Belfield, 2,000 persons present.
Charity Organisation Society instituted.
Dr. Talmage lectured at the Skating Rink on "Big Blunders."
Fen tons' Bank premises sold for £3,050 ; freehold site, contents
303 square yards.
Rochdale Property and General Finance Company wound up.
John Bright at Dearnley Workhouse. In the visitor's book he
wrote " I fear many persons and families outside of it are in
far less comfortable circumstances than I find its inmates to
be."
Local Government Board Inquiry into the Corporation's applica-
tion to borrow £112,000 for sewage purposes.
Rev. T. Fletcher, D.D., Falinge. preferred to Saddle worth.
Art Society^ first public exhibition.
Newhey, Haugh, and Ogden Liberal Association inaugurated.
Professor Greenwood, Owens College, distributed the prizes
awarded to Students of the Pioneers' Classes. .
Littleborough Coffee House Company formed.
Hornets Football Club opened a season's fixtures behind Oakenrod
Old Hall.
Messrs. W. S. Caine, W. Hoyle, and F. W. Newman addressed
a crowded U.K. A. meeting in the Public Hall.
3,000 Liberals left the town to attend a Reform Demonstration in
Manchester, addressed by Lord Hartington and John Bright.
Dr. J. Henry appointed Medical Officer of Health.
Public Hall, Castle ton, opened ; the building collapsed 1896.
Smithy Bridge Liberal Club formed.
Road to Manchester disturnpiked throughout.
Cronkeyshaw Board School opened.
Rev. E. Paxton Hood lectured at West Street Chapel.
Starr-Bowkett Building Society formed.
Mr. J. Smith, Lancashire Steeple Jack, climbed to the top of St.
George, Town Hall.
Town Hall Platform Company Limited formed by members of
the Choral Society.
Mr. Theo. Butterworth appointed Assistant Inspector of Schools
in succession to Mr. W. J. Cooper.
Mr. James Fletcher, Calliards, gave 5,465 square yards of land
for Dearnley Cemetery.
Dec. 6 Northern Counties' Fire Insurance Company failure; many local
sufferers.
„ 9 Messrs. A. Brierley and R. Schofield appointed Borough Justices.
„ „ Healey Conservative Club Buildings Company Limited formed.
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Dec. 11 Lord Headley distributed the Annual Prizes to the Volunteer
Corps.
„ 18 Welcome Home in the Town Hall to Mr. T. B. Potter, M.P.,
after four months' absence in America. Mr. John Bright and
Mr. Hugh Mason present.
Dane Street Bridge opened ; cost, including purchase of buildings
for widening purposes, £10,578.
1880.
Gilchrist Educational Trust Lectures begun in the Public Hall.
Sir Rowland Hill's testimonial fund realised £27 4s. 7Jd.
An anonymous donor, it was announced, offered £2,500 for pro-
viding an income for the Vicar of Bamford.
Colonel Shaw, U.S.A. Consul at Manchester, lectured at the
Workmen's Club on "American Humour."
Almanack Shows were a popular public-house attraction. At a
show held this day the exhibits numbered 161, which were
visited by 1,700 persons.
Beamers, Twisters, and Drawers' Trade Association formed.
Mr. J. J. Moore appointed Registrar of Births, &c. , for Castleton
Nearer-Side, vice Mr. T. Spencer resigned.
Mr. T. B. Potter re-elected M.P. The last election at which
hired conveyances could legally be used. — See Elections,
Jubilee of the Sunday School Union observed.
Messrs. R. Leake (L.) and W. Agnew (L.) elected for South-East
Lancashire. Their expenses were returned at £12,640 9s. lid.
Mr. Robert Butterworth, Whitworth Road, gave £1,000 to liqui-
date the debt on Molesworth Street Chapel.
A Liberal Club for Castleton Ward West was opened at No. 54,
Mills Street.
Mrs. Lucas, sister of John Bright, distributed the prizes awarded
by the Sunday School Union.
Rev. A. Pickles concluded his ten years' ministry at Water Street
Chapel.
Tuesday Half-holiday began to be generally observed. .
Mr. Anthony Baldwin, Manager of Fentons' Bank, appointed to
the L. & Y. Bank.
St. Andrew's Iron Church, Dearnley, opened by Bishop Fraser,
Rev. D. Morgan, Curate-in-Charge.
Belneld Liberal Club inaugurated.
Crimble Hall, the residence of Lieut. -Colonel Fen ton, sold for
£12,300.
Meeting of persons claiming relationship with Sir Andrew Chad-
wick to decide upon united action to obtain the real estate of
the deceased baronet, computed to be worth £7,000,000.
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June Petition against Sunday Closing signed by 18,440 adult persons
in the neighbourhood.
„ Golden Ball Inn, Packer Street, demolished. The Central Hotel
stands upon the site.
„ Mr. T. O. Patterson, Gasworks' Manager, appointed to Birken-
head ; successor, Mr. W. Romans.
,, Bibliography of Rochdale, by Lieut. -Colonel Fish wick, published.
,, 2,000 hands of Messrs. Abraham Brierley & Sons struck against a.
reduction in wages. At the end of eight weeks they accepted
a reduction of 5 per cent.
July 10 Salisbury Conservative Club, Smithy Bridge, opened.
„ „ Healey Conservative Club, Ending, opened.
,, 24 Opening of a New Organ at St. James's, Wardleworth ; cost £500.
Aug. 11 Rev. Josiah Bennett, Lowerplace, a popular Liberal lecturer, waa
presented with an address, &c, on leaving the town.
,, 20 New Burial Ground, Drake Street, repaired at a cost of £400.
,, 28 Centenary of Sunday Schools observed; 12,000 teachers and
scholars took part in the proceedings.
„ Mr. T. Collingwood, Medical Officer for the Union for over thirty-
years, resigned.
,, Mill Bridge, Norden, raised.
Sep. 1 Professor Stuart, M.A., distributed the prizes awarded to the
Pioneers' Science and Art Classes.
,, „ On the Prison Van arriving at Strange ways with several prisoners,
the committal warrants could not be found. The van waa
driven back to Rochdale and there being no authority for the
prisoners' detention they were released.
,, 8 Burials' Act, enabling Dissenters to use churchyards, came into
operation ; first interment took place at Calderbrook Church
on the 28th.
„ 11 Dr. Pinck appointed Medical Officer for the Union.
,, 18 Wardleworth Conservative Club, Ogden Street, opened ; number
of members 300.
„ 24 Large Demonstration in favour of Robert Tweedale, Cronkey-
shaw, on his release from imprisonment for refusing to have
his child vaccinated.
,, Mr. J. Elliott, Oldham, appointed Borough Accountant; suc-
cessor Mr. S. Boothman.
Oct. 1 Turnpike Trust between Rochdale and Burnley expired.
„ 16 Parish Church New Institute opened.
„ 23 Rev. E. W. Gilbert, M.A., exchanged livings with Rev. E. C.
Norris, M.A., Essex.
„ Peal of Bells placed in St. Anselm's Church, Facit.
„ Mr. G. T. Davies, Pembroke Dock, succeeded Mr. Downes, Post-
master, deceased.
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October Hornets F.C. commenced their first season on the Dane Street
ground.
Nov. 7 Captain Sylvester, formerly Chief-Constable, commenced a lengthy
series of Evangelical Services in the Public Hall.
„ 15 John Bright elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University.
,, 20 Newhey Church Schools opened ; cost £1 } 500.
„ 25 Government Inquiry into the Town's application to borrow
£80,000 to complete Spring Mill Reservoir.
,, East Lancashire Nomenclature and Rochdale Names, by Mr. H.
C. March, M.D., published.
,, Rev. J. H. Fox, M. A., All Saints', Hamer, preferred to Penshaw
Rectory, Durham.
,, Rev. C. F. D. Hodge, M.A., appointed Vicar of Hamer.
Dec. 14 "Ye Three Cups " Coffee House, Sudden, opened.
„ 16 Rev. J. H. R. Shilleto, B. A., licensed to Thornham Church.
Hospital Saturday observance projected.
1881.
Jan. 6 Mr. R. Jackson and Mr. J. Heap, Joint Justices' Clerks at a
salary of £1,000 per annum, resigned owing to pressure of
business ; resignations subsequently withdrawn.
„ 11 Two Bream weighing 3 lb. 2 oz., and 2f lb., found embedded in
the ice in Hollingworth Lake.
,, „ Sir Charles Halle and his famous orchestra gave a Concert in the
Town Hall.
,, 23 Annual Exchange of Pulpits among the Nonconformists first
observed.
,, 26 Church Defence Association formed.
,, Mr. W. Welburn appointed Surveyor of Middle ton.
Feb. 2 Messrs. Royds' Bank amalgamated with the Manchester and
Salford Bank.
,, 7 Catholic Club formed ; premises in Lord Street taken.
,, 23 Hollows Chapel, the gift of Mr. T. Watson, Horse Carre, opened;
cost of buildings £3,500 ; 350 sittings.
,, Electric Light introduced by Messrs. Bright.
, , Telephone introduced by Messrs. Kelsall & Kemp.
,, St. Michael's, Bamford, assigned a separate parish, Rev. J. C.
Butter worth, incumbent.
Mar. 1 Rev. W. Goss licensed to St. Peter's, Newbold ; appointed Chap-
lain of Prestwich Asylum, Sept. 1882.
,, 28 Industry House, two Mills in Redcross Street, and ten acres of
vacant land purchased by Mr. T. Watson for £9,500.
„ 31 Smallbridge U.M.F.C. opened ; cost of buildings £3,500.
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March " Hark up to Glory " Ian, St. Mary's Gate, renamed "Harkaway
Hotel."
April 3 Census taken. — See Population.
„ Canon Cook, M.A., 42 years Vicar of Smallbridge, preferred to
El wick, Durham. In the following month he was presented
with £256.
Smallpox Epidemic began. Up to May, 1882, 662 houses and 847
persons were affected ; 101 deaths.
May 2 Mr., now Sir, E. Ashmead Bartlett, M.P., addressed a Conserva-
tive meeting in the Public Hall.
,, 9 Rev. W. N. Molesworth, M.A., installed Hon. Canon of Man-
chester.
,, 17 Rev. E. C. Maclure, M. A., succeeded Canon Cook as Rural Dean.
,, Castle Works, E. Leach & Sons, dispersed.
„ Public Hall purchased by Mr. T. Watson, Horse Carrs.
June 22 Extraordinary Plague of Caterpillars in the neighbourhood of
King's Road, when myriads of insects infested the fields and
gardens for over a week.
,, 27 Hudson's Coach from York to Liverpool commenced running
through the town ; withdrawn 1st August.
„ Byron Club, Cloth Hall, opened.
„ Union Paper Works Company took over Belfield Works.
„ Hollingworth Lake and Gardens Company Limited formed. .The
company disfigured the picturesqueness of the Lake by erect-
ing a large hoarding near the L. & Y. Hotel
July 11 Mr. A. Wallis, Solicitor, appointed Town Clerk of Hey wood.
, , 31 Rev. T. M. Booth ceased his labours at Baillie Street ChapeL
Aug. 4 Mr. T. B. Ball, Leeds, appointed Gasworks Manager.
,, Old and New fiochdale, by W. Robertson, published.
,, Rev. J. Swan Wi thing ton commenced his labours at Baillie Street
Chapel.
Sep. 14 Parliamentary Debating Society formed.
„ Mr. T. Hewson, C.E., appointed Borough Surveyor of Leeds.
Oct. 1 Captain Webb swam in Hollingworth Lake for five consecutive
hours; drowned in the Niagara Rapids, 24th July, 1883.
,, 6 Mr. S. S. Piatt, C.E., appointed Borough Surveyor.
, 20 Union Street Chapel opened after considerable structural altera-
tions.
„ 29 Milnrow Conservative Club opened.
„ 31 Gilchrist Trust Lectures commenced.
,, Blue Ribbon Army movement commenced in the town.
Nov. 9 West Street Chapel opened after alterations, which cost £2,500.
,, 16 John Bright's seventieth birthday celebrated; great rejoicings ;
torchlight procession; 30,000 people on Cronkeyshaw at night.
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Nov. 22 Sir Richard Cross addressed a meeting of Conservatives in the
Town Hall, Mr. R. H. Hutchinson presided.
,, 24 Spotland Workhouse opened as a Fever Hospital during the
Smallpox epidemic.
„ 26 Dearnley Burial Ground consecrated by Bishop Fraser.
,, Dawson Memorial Window, St. Mary's, The Baum, unveiled.
„ Mr. S. Stevens, Chief Constable, appointed to Nottingham.
Dec. 1 Railway from Facit to Bacup opened for traffic.
„ 3 Capture of a Pike, 10 lb. 6 oz. in weight, in Holling worth Lake,
by a member of the local Walton Anglers' Society.
, , 17 Railway Works Coffee House erected by Messrs. T. Robinson and
Son for the use of their employees opened by the Mayor,
Alderman Baron.
„ 20 Movement to found Cotton Spinning Mills on the Oldham prin-
ciple on foot. Crawford Spinning Company projected.
,, 22 Mr. Joseph Wilkinson, Kendal, appointed Chief Constable ; re-
tired June, 1893.
Haugh Spinning Company Limited formed.
1882.
Jan. 1 St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Li ttlebo rough, opened ; cost
£1,000.
,, 12 Daisies in bloom were gathered on Wardle hills.
„ 17 Colonel Shaw, U.S.A. Consul at Manchester, gave a Lecture to
members of the Workmen's Club on "President Garfield."
,, 20 Presentation of an Address to Mr. John Holgate by the Board of
Guardians on attaining his seventieth birthday.
„ 26 Cutgate U.M.F.C., erected by Mr. T. Watson, Horse Carrs,
opened.
,, 28 St. John's, Ann Street, new Boys' School opened.
Feb. 11 Egerton Conservative Club, Smallbridge, opened; cost £2,000.
,, 14 Baillie Street U.M.F.C. New Class Rooms opened ; cost £2,500.
,, 16 Mr. Joseph Rushworth succeeded Mr. W. Ormerod, deceased, on
the School Board.
„ 21 Jubilee of the Good Samaritan Society observed.
,, Bntterworth Hall Collieries purchased by Messrs. Piatt.
Mar. 6 Derby Street Board School opened ; cost £5,000.
,, 12 Salvation Army, at the Skating Rink, commenced its mission.
,, 18 Government Inquiry into the Town's application to] borrow
£100,000 to complete Spring Mill Reservoir held.
„ 20 Brokers' Sick and Burial Society formed.
,, 27 First meeting of Shareholders of Crawford Spinning Company.
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Mar. 28 Mr. T. Watson announced his intention of giving an Infirmary
to the town.
,, 30 Rev. R. Lovett, M.A., on leaving St. Stephen's Church, was
presented with an address and plate ; successor, Rev. F. M.
Bayne.
,, Wardleworth Liberal Club, George Street, opened.
,, Rochdale Joint Stock Bank in liquidation.
ApL 1 Rochdale, Observer enlarged to 56 columns.
,, 8 Mr., now Rt. Hon. John Morley visited the town to deliver an
address to the members of the Rochdale Workmen's Club.
Owing to a meagre attendance the meeting was abandoned.
,, ,, Charles Bradlaugh, at the Theatre, gave a lecture on his Parlia-
mentary struggle.
May 11 Town's Meeting denounced the Assassination of Lord Frederick
Cavendish and Mr. Burke, Alderman Baron presiding.
Debt of the town £1,132,985 13s. 4d.
, , Jefferye's Music Hall, Drake Street, closed.
June 11 Rev. J. E. Clayton appointed to Hallfold Chapel.
,, 23 Messrs. Jacob Tweedale & Sons, Healey, suspended payment;
liabilities £60,000 ; 200 hands thrown out of employment.
„ Oldham Joint Stock Bank, now London City and Midland, Branch
opened in Baillie Street.
July 17 John Bright, Chancellor of the Duchy, resigned on the Bombard-
ment of Alexandria.
,, 27 Tramways Construction begun by Alderman Tweedale removing
two paving stones at the junction of Oldham Road and Drake
street.
,, History of the Church of England from 1660, by Canon Moles-
worth, published.
,, Police Band formed; £250 raised by subscription for the pur-
chase of instruments, &c.
,, Tennis became a fashionable out-door game.
Aug. 15 Centenary of Union Street Schools observed.
,, Statute passed giving Justices power to refuse "off" licenses.
Sep. 4 Several hundred persons in the district attended Preston Guild
festivities which began this day.
,, 23 Mr. J. Pearce succeeded Mr. Prior, Town Missionory.
Oct. 3 Sir Wilfred S. Lawson, M.P., and Mr. W. S. Caine, M.P., ad-
dressed a U.K. A. meeting in the Public Hall.
,, 28 Ohmy's Circus, Newgate, now Circus of Varieties, opened.
Nov. 1 Mr. W. S. Butterworth, a well-known County Cricketer and Foot-
ball player, on leaving for Texas, was presented with a rifle
and a purse of gold.
„ Edenfield Road disturnpiked, effecting a saving of £400 per annum
in tolls to Norden inhabitants.
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Nov. 27 Mr. W. T. Shawcross elected Chairman of the School Board.
„ St. Clement's Schools, Holmes Road, opened ; cost £1,200.
,, Swift's Summary, a satirical journal, conducted by W. Swift,
first published.
Dec. 2 Castleton East Ward Conservative Club, Wilfred Street, inaugu-
rated.
„ 5 Presentation to Canon Maclure, M.A., by the Infirmary Work-
men's Committee.
,, 11 Town's Meeting approved of the Manchester Ship Canal scheme.
„ 12 Organ in the Public Hall erected at a cost of £1,200, opened by
Mr. W. T. Best.
„ 20 Mr., afterwards Right Hon. A. H. D. C. Acland, M.P., began a
series of Lectures in the Pioneers' Assembly Room, on " Co-
operation."
„ Dr. R. B. Sellers appointed to the Hon. Medical Staff of the In-
firmary, vice Dr. R. C. M. Pooley, resigned.
Facts and Fancies, a weekly periodical (begun 30th Dec., 1881,
by E. Wrigley & Sons, Printers), discontinued during the
year.
1883.
Jan. 13 St. Alban's Mission Church, Sudden, opened ; cost £1,200.
,, 26 Mr. Daniel Adam son addressed a meeting in the Public Hall,
convened in support of the Ship Canal.
„ 31 Mr. J. Kenny, M.P. for Ennis, gave an Address to the members
of the Catholic Club.
,, Sunday Boating, &c, at Hollingworth Lake, introduced.
Feb. 6 Recognition of Rev. D. 0. Davies to Baptist Chapel, Water Street.
,, 12 Infirmary formally opened by John Bright.
,, 16 Tynan, the notorious "No. 1," founder of the Irish Invincibles,
visited the town and left a number of incriminating papers
at the Navigation Inn. Chief Constable Wilkinson gave evi-
dence before the Parnell Commission in reference to this visit.
,, 28 Funeral of Mr. John Petrie, senr., who died on the 23rd, aged
91 years.
Mar. 17 The present check system in use by the Pioneers' Society intro-
duced.
,, 22 John Bright installed Lord Rector of Glasgow University.
„ „ The honorary degree of LL.D. of Glasgow University conferred
upon Canon Molesworth.
,, 23 Freedom of the City of Glasgow conferred upon John Bright.
,, A brief account of Baillie Street Sunday School, by H. Howorth,
published.
„ History of the Wesley an Sunday School, by the Rev. J. B. Maltby,
published.
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March. Mr. T. Watson, J. P., announced his intention of giving £100 per
annum for ten years to found Scholarships in Board Schools.
Apl. 7 Cutting of the First Sod on the site of Garfield Mill, Newhey, by
Mr. W. Watts, F.G.S., Chairman.
„ 10 Town Hall Spire destroyed by fire. " Elijah" was being per-
formed in the large hall when the conflagration began.
,, 27 Wellington Bridge, as now existing, completed. Prior to this
date it was a footbridge.
May 2 Howard Street Mission Room in connection with St. Mary's, The
Baum, opened.
,, 7 Tramways opened to the public. The first car started from the
Wellington Hotel for Buersill, and returning, proceeded to
Littleborough.
,, 9 A Conservative Club for Sudden was opened at Pleasant View.
,, 11 Mr. W. Holt appointed Sanitary Works Manager in succession
to Mr. J. Harescough deceased.
June 9 Ogden Baptist Chapel Centenary celebration.
„ 13 John Bright's 25th Anniversary as M.P. for Birmingham cele-
brated throughout a whole week. Mr. Bright was presented
with his portrait and a silver service which cost 600 guineas.
,, 16 Councillor Harley, the only Mayor of the borough who has died
during his term of office, was interred.
July 7 Lloyd Street Schools, Whitworth, opened; cost £1,100.
,, 15 Corporation Baths, Smith Street, first opened on Sundays.
„ 20 Lacrosse introduced by Indian and Canadian teams then touring
through the country.
„ 25 Mr. J. G. Schuler, B.A., Conductor of the Pioneers Society's
Languages Classes since 1873, was presented with an address
on his appointment to a professorship at Tubingen University.
,, 31 U.M.F.C. Annual Assembly, extending over five days, began in
Baillie Street Chapel.
Aug. 1 Parcels' Post introduced. It necessitated the employment of two
extra clerks and three deliverers.
„ 23 Crawford Spinning Company's "A" mill engines commenced
running.
,, 30 Mr. F. W. Purcell's lesseeship of the Theatre, Manchester Road,
began. Barry Sullivan opened the house.
„ Rev. A. H. Drysdale, M.A., ceased his ministry at Trinity Pres-
byterian Church.
Sep. 11 Mr. J. Slagg, M.P., distributed the prizes, &c, awarded to Stu-
dents at the Pioneers Society's classes.
„ 19 Littleborough Temperance Hall opened; accommodation for 1000
persons.
„ 22 Mr. W. W. Bradbury, 42 years with Messrs. Radcliffe, Moss Hall
Mills, presented with a timepiece and vases by employees of
the firm.
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Sep. 26 Steeplechases on Baxendale's Farm, Milnrow Road, promoted by
tne Rochdale Hunt, held ; one mile course.
,, Mr. W. Sadler appointed Assistant Inspector of Schools.
,, Hazlehurst Estate, Bamford, sold for £3,500.
Oct. 18 Millgate Baptist Chapel opened ; cost £3,500.
„ 20 Rev. F. P. Wright, M.A., inducted to the Vicariate of Milnrow.
,, 29 Circus of Varieties, Newgate, opened by Messrs. Smith, Lee, and
Hargreaves.
Nov. 2 Two Javelins presented to the town by Chief Constable Wilkinson
for use by the Chief Magistrate on important occasions. They
hang in the Police Court.
„ 1 400th Anniversary of Luther's birth commemorated in the Non-
conformist Churches by special services.
„ Tramway as far as Ending opened ; extension to Whitworth
opened, 11th July, 1884.
Dec. 6 John Bright, in the Ashworth Memorial Chapel, gave an address
to the blind.
„ 12 Sir Wilfred S. Lawson, Bart., M.P., addressed a U.K. A. meeting
in the Skating Rink .
,, 15 Mons. A. Guilmant gave an Organ Recital in the Public Hall.
„ 19 Last visit of the Carl Rosa Opera Company to the town.
1884.
Jan. 10 Charity Commission Inquiry into the Grammar School and Moss
School endowments.
,, 23 Rev. W. Tees appointed to Trinity Presbyterian Church.
,, 26 Norden Liberal Association inaugurated.
,, First local petition under the new Bankruptcy Act presented.
„ Rev. F. W. Reade, B.A., appointed Curate-in-charge of St.
Mary's Church, Balderstone.
Feb. 2 Poll, extending over several days, for the office of Assistant
Overseer of Spotland :— D. W. Hoyle, 3,228 votes; G. H. Hill,
3,185 votes.
„ Rev. D. Morgan, M.A., instituted Vicar of High Crompton.
6 A Lecture in the Public Hall, by an " Escaped Nun," caused
considerable disturbance in Baillie Street.
„ Weston, predestrian, whilst performing the feat of walking 5,000
miles in 100 days, passed through the town.
11 Mr., now Sir Elliott Lees, and Mr. T. Nash addressed a crowded
Conservative meeting in the Public Hall.
Gank Day School closed.
Mr. James Holden, Marland, gave an East Window to St.
George's Church, Mossley ; cost £400.
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Mar. 3 Rochdale Spinning Company projected.
,, 8 Valuable gift of books to the Free Library made by the British
Museum Trustees.
„ 13 Mr. Elliott Lees at a large meeting in the Town Hall was adopted
Conservative Candidate for the borough.
,, ,, Buersill Head Spinning Company, now defunct, formed.
,, 24 "Rochdale Exchange" Company, to erect an Exchange in the
Town Hall Square, promoted by manufacturers. For want of
support the project fell through.
„ Demolition of a large number of buildings in Church Lane, The
Gank, and King Street, took place.
„ Brimrod Day School surrendered to the School Board.
ApL 11 30,000 persons estimated to have visited Hollingworth on Good
Friday.
„ 19 Reform Club, Littleborough, opened.
„ 20 Betting Raid on a public-house at Castleton ; fifteen persons sub-
sequently summoned and fined in all over £100 and costs.
„ Rev. H. Davies, M.A., accepted the benefice of All Saints',
Hamer, vacant by the preferment of Rev. C. F. D. Hodge, M. A.
May 1 Victoria Station, Manchester, reopened after extensive altera-
tions. No. 6 platform assigned to Rochdale.
Secular Hall, now Liberal Club, Mil ketone Road, opened.
Tramway to Bury opened throughout.
First Sod cut on the site of the Rochdale Spinning Company's
mill by Mr. John Smith.
Arkwright Spinning Company formed.
Corner Stone of St. Michael's Church, Bamford, laid by Dean
Oakley.
,, ,, Spotland Liberal Club, Julia Street, Corner Stone laying. The
premises were opened in December following.
,, Mr. H. Rofe, manager of the Waterworks, resigned.
July 4-5 Castleton Cricket Club played a match against the Gentlemen of
Philadelphia then touring through England.
„ 6 St. John's, Smallbridge, Jubilee Festival observed. This church
was built out of the " million " grant.
,, 23 Buckley Hall collection of Verta, &c, dispersed.
., 24 Adjourned Town's Meeting as to proposed diversion of the Moss
School, Grammar School, and Kenion's Charity endowments,
held ; proposal rejected ; stormy proceedings.
„ 25 Right Hon. James Lowther, M.P., Hon. A. Egerton, and Mr.
W. E. M. Tomlinson, M.P., addressed a Conservative meeting
in the Town Hall.
,, 26 John Bright, at Pomona, Manchester, addressed 20,000 persons
on the Franchise Bill.
„ Improvement Act passed.
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Aug. 1 Return Railway Tickets for distances within twelve miles, which
had previously been available for seven days, restricted to day
of issue and following day.
„ 7 Stonemason's Society gave £100 to B. Holt, a disabled member.
,, 9 Co-operative Corn Mill Society celebrated the erection, at a cost
of £10,000, of roller milling machinery by Messrs. T. Robin-
son & Sons Limited.
,, 20 Mr. Frank Taylor scored 54 not out in the County Cricket Match
v. Surrey.
,, 25 Liverpool Model Yacht Club held a Regatta at Holling worth.
,, Subway at Smithy Bridge Station opened ; cost £2,000.
,, Healey Hall Brass Band became defunct.
Sep. 7 Rev. R. Veitch, M.A., began his labours at Providence Chapel.
„ £6,380 awarded to the owner of the Golden Fleece Inn as com-
pensation on the widening of the L. & Y. railway line.
,, 22 Dean Oakley distributed the prizes awarded to the students
attending the Pioneers Society's classes.
Oct. 9 Mr. T. Watson elected Chairman of the School Board.
,, 10 Hollingworth Lake touched its lowest level since 1868.
,, 11 Liberal Demonstration and Procession to condemn the attitude
of the Lords towards the Franchise Bill ; large gathering.
,, 30 Free Library, The Esplanade, opened ; structure cost £5,000.
,, Mr. W. Tomlinson appointed Waterworks Manager.
,, Mr. R. T. Heape, a non-member of the Town Council, elected
Alderman for Wardleworth Ward East, there beinff no re-
turning officer for the ward in consequence of the death of
Alderman Shawcross.
„ Borough Brass Band dissolved.
Nov. 13 Mr. J. A. Bright coopted a member of the School Board.
„ 23 Rev. J. J. H. Cottle, M.A., commenced his labours at Healey
Church.
„ 29 Conservative Club, Crossfield Cottage, opened.
„ Footpath leading from Church Steps to Church Stile diverted.
,, Newhey Spinning Company formed.
Dec. 4 Advertising and Billposting Company, South Parade, formed.
,, 6 Spotland Liberal Club, Julia Street, opened ; cost £850.
„ 10 Crawford Spinning Company resolved to erect their "B" mill.
,, 13 Sir U. K. Shuttleworth, Bart., gave an Address at the annual
gathering of the Pioneers' Society.
„ 23 H.M. Royal Horse Guards (Blues) Band appeared at a Concert
in the Town Hall.
„ Empty property in the borough comprised 943 dwelling-houses,
17 mills, 14 workshops, and 49 shops.
„ Union Cricket Club dissolved.
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1885.
Jan. 4 Mrs. Mary Kitson, who died this day, by will bequeathed hand-
some legacies to local benevolent and religious bodies.
„ 20 Rev. Robert Lewis concluded his nine years' ministry at West
Street Chapel.
, , , , Arthur Orton, Tichborne Claimant, gave an Address in the Circus,
Newgate. He also appeared there on August 23rd.
,, 23 Jubilee Singers, U.S.A., paid a second visit to the town.
,, Higher Grade School, Bailiie Street, opened.
,, Rochdale Plate Glass Company Limited formed.
Feb. 28 First Sod on the site of the Arkwright mill cut.
„ Natives who have left Rochdale and become famous, by James
Ogden, published in collected form.
,, Church Lands in Rochdale, by Alderman E. Taylor, published in
collected form.
Mar. 1 Tramway to Roy ton opened ; extension to Oldham opened on
August 1st.
,, 16 Lending Department of the Free Library, The Esplanade, opened.
,, 17 A Court of Queen's Bench upheld the contention of the proprie-
tors of the New Market that the latter's rights over the sale of
goods in the streets extended to the new borough boundaries.
Justices decision reversed.
,, 31 Town's Meeting as to the action of the School Board in raising
the Half-Timers' Exemption from the second to the third Stan-
dard ; uproarious proceedings, the Trades' Council leading the
opposition.
„ Rev. A. W. Wiseman, M.A., on leaving St. Chad's Church, was
presented with an address, a gold watch and chain, and £80.
„ Smallbridge Reform Club opened.
„ Mr. T. Watson, Horse Carrs, adopted Liberal Candidate for Ilkes-
ton Division.
April 3 Tramway to Facit opened throughout.
,, 5 St. Clement's Church Jubilee celebration observed.
,, 11 Rochdale Hunt Steeplechases first held at Buersill.
., 14 Mr. John Taylor, jeweller, presented to the Free Library a large
timekeeper, coupled with an offer to keep it in repair gratu-
itously.
„ Mr. T. Crowther appointed Liberal Agent for the Middleton
Division.
„ Messrs. Radcliffe's Richard Street Mills, required for railway
extensions, closed.
May 13 Boys' Reading Room, Free Public Library, opened.
„ 16 Colonel Sch wabe chosen Liberal Candidate for Middleton Division.
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May 23 Ladies' Beading Boom, Free Public Library, opened.
,, 28 Mr. W. L. Bright chosen Liberal Candidate for Stoke-on-Trent.
, , Mr. J. S. Ay ton appointed General Manager of Tramway Company.
June 6 Lancashire Fire Brigades' Friendly Society held their Annual
Demonstration in the town ; fifty brigades present — a pretty
spectacle.
„ 10 Littleborough Gas "A" Shares, £10 paid up, realised £20 5a.
each in open market.
„ Fund in aid of the National Aid Society (Soudan and Egypt)
realised £43 9s. 6d.
„ Messrs. J. A. Bright, J. H. Lancashire, A. Law, and C. Whitaker
qualified as County Justices.
,, Castleton Cricket Club was represented in the Lancashire County
Matches against Yorkshire, Cheshire, and Sussex, by Messrs.
W. E. and R. C. Leach, F. Taylor, and C. Haigh.
July 10 Littleborough News, a weekly Liberal Newspaper, after an eighteen
months' run, succumbed.
„ 18 Milnrow Church Sunday School Centenary celebrated.
,, 25 St. Michael's Church, Bamford, consecrated ; cost of structure
£4,000.
„ Sir W. B. Brett, Conservative Candidate for the borough in 1865,
elevated to the, House of Lords under the title of Lord Esher.
,, Twenty -nine Clubs returned as existing in the borough, seventeen
of which were political, eleven social, and one established for
betting, the latter having a membership of 500 members.
,, Messrs. T. Bobinson & Sons, Limited, were awarded the Grand
Prix for corn-milling machinery at the Paris Exhibition.
Aug. 27 Bochdale Spinning Company's Engines were started by Mr. John
Smith.
Sep. 12 Messrs. Seed's mills, Sudden, closed.
„ 27 Baillie Street Chapel Jubilee observed.
„ A batch of New Market £100 shares fetched on an average
£152 108. per share at a public sale.
Oct. 1 Sixpenny Telegrams introduced. Business at the local Post Office
increased 100 per cent.
„ 2 Fireman James Cragg was presented with an engraved purse,
containing £50, by readers of The Referee, and a purse con-
taining £76 0s. 8d. and other testimonials, for bravery dis-
played at a fire at Baker's Hosiery Shop, on August 19th.
„ 13 Norden Congregational Church, a secession from the Wesleyan
body, opened.
„ 19 Erection of the Town Hall new Spire was begun.
„ 22 Bishop Fraser died, aged 67 years.
, 28 St. Chad's Church, as existing, opened. The Archbishop of York
preached. Cost of improvements about £4,500.
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October. Messrs. G. J. Booth, G. W. Malim, and C. Farrow, appointed
Borough Justices.
,, Hargreaves' Bookseller's Shop, corner of Drake Street and Water
Street, and cottages adjoining, pulled down.
Nov. 9 Chief Constable Wilkinson and Fireman Cragg, accompanied by
the dog rescued from Baker's fire, took part in the Lord
Mayor's Procession, London.
„ 11 John Bright spoke in the Circus, Newgate, in support of Mr.
Potters candidature.
,, 14 School Board Contest. — See Elections.
„ 15 Miss Maria Berry, who died this day, by will left to the Infirmary
£100 and six Waterworks Annuities valued at £120 each.
„ 18 Sims Reeves sang at the Amateur Orchestral Society's Concert in
the Town Hall.
„ 21 Rev. S. R. Aldridge, B.A., began his labours at West Street
Chapel.
„ 23 Sir J. Fergusson, M.P., and Mr. W. H. Holdsworth, M.P., ad-
dressed a Conservative meeting in the Circus, Newgate.
,, „ Mr. J. T. Pagan, who died this day, by will bequeathed £500 to
the Infirmary.
„ 24 Mr. W. L. Bright elected M.P. for Stoke-on-Trent.
,, 26 Mr. T. B. Potter re-elected M.P. He took no part in the contest
owing the death of Mrs. Potter. — See Elections.
„ 27 Subscription Library transferred from the Free Public Library to
58a, Yorkshire Street.
Dec. 1 Mr. T. Watson (L.) elected M.P. for the Ilkeston Division of
Derbyshire.
„ „ Wesleyan Chapel, Vavasour Street, Newbold, dedicated; cost
£780.
„ 2 Colonel Salis Schwabe (L.) elected M.P. for Middleton Division.
See Elections.
,, 9 Mons. A. Guilmant gave two Organ Recitals at the Public Hall.
„ „ Crawford " B" Mill Engines commenced to run.
„ 15 "Nell," the Fire Brigade dog, was accidentally killed. The dog
attended every fire to which the Brigade was called for nine
years, and was a remarkably intelligent animal.
„ 22 A Public Meeting to urge the release of John Rouse, sentenced
17th April, 1883, to twenty years' penal servitude, was held ;
a petition signed by 12,500 persons subsequently presented to
the Home Secretary, who declined to reconsider the sentence.
„ Mr. F. N. Molesworth was presented by Mr. J. Williamson, High
Sheriff, with a massive solid silver salver in recognition of his
services as returning officer at the first Parliamentary election
for the Heywood, Middleton, and Prestwich Divisions.
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Jan. 17 New Aisle in Blackwater Street Chapel dedicated ; cost £1,300.
„ 28 Election of a Borough Auditor on the death of Mr. E. Rhodes: —
James Schofield, 1,918 votes; W. S. Lewis, 605 votes.
Feb. 4 Hollingworth Lake and Gardens Company Limited in liquidation.
,, 6 Mr. Elliott Lees was presented with an address and a silver
epergne, valued at £85, by the Conservative Working Men's
Union, in appreciation of his political campaign. On March
4th he was presented with silver plate, valued at £100, sub-
scribed for by the leading Conservatives.
,, 10 Mr. A. L. Mills succeeded Mr. J. M. L. Chadwick, Conservative
Agent.
„ 14 Sunday Opening of the Free Public Library began; 976 persons
visited the rooms.
Mar. 24 Dearnley Pit closed ; 100 hands thrown out of employment.
„ 31 Funeral of Detective Inspector Marshall, a well-known officer.
Apl. 17 Rochdale Hunt Steeplechases held at Buersill.
„ 28 A Liberal Club in Milnrow Road, for Castleton Ward North,
opened by Mr. Potter, M.P. In September the club took over
the premises formerly Gledhill's Temperance Hotel, Summer-
castle.
,, Rev. S. E. Clarke, M.A., concluded his curacy at St. Clement's.
May 1 1 Peat Bog unearthed and flint chippings discovered during building
operations at Mr. R. Schofield's warehouse, Well i'th' Lane.
,, 15 Facit Conservative Club opened by Mrs. T. Fielden.
„ 20 Football Charity Cup competition projected.
,, 24 Tramway Waiting Room, South Parade, opened.
,, 27 First Afternoon Wedding solemnized. It took place at Hope
Street Chapel.
,, „ Mr. R. A. Leach was appointed Superintendent Registrar of
Births, &c.
,, Mr. E. Rothwell, appointed Tramways Manager; died February
6th, 1898. Succeeded by Mr. J. Brindle.
June 1 Wardleworth Station Goods Warehouse opened.
,, 8 Mr. H. Green, a well-known vocalist, seventeen years Choir-
master at St. James's, was presented with a gold watch and
chain on leaving the town.
„ 10 Mr. R. A. Leach appointed Clerk to the Rochdale Union.
„ 30 The degree of D.C.L. honoris causa, conferred on John Bright at
the Oxford Commemoration.
„ Mr. J. Broadbent succeeded Mr. R. H. Brown, Manager of the
Manchester and Liverpool District Bank.
July 2 Mr. Jacob Bright, (G.L.), elected M.P. for S. W. Manchester.
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July 3 Mr. Potter re-elected M.P. for the borough. — See Elections.
„ 7 Right Hon. J. Stansfeld, M.P., addressed a large political meet-
ing in the Reform Club, Littleborough.
„ „ Mr. T. Watson, (G.L.), re-elected M.P. for the Ilkeston Division
of Derbyshire.
„ 8 Mr. T. Fielden, (C), elected M.P. for the Middleton Division.—
See Elections.
„ 27 Colour-Sergeant Barrett of the local Volunteer Corps, having
" tied " for the Queen's Prize at the Wimbledon Meeting,
received a remarkable welcome home from his comrades-in-
arms and the public.
„ 31 Rev. T. P. Spedding, Stockport, inducted to Clover Street Chapel.
„ Mr. W. L. Bright, (G.L.), re-elected M.P. for Stoke-on-Trent.
Aug. 30 Dr. William Pooley elected a member of the Honorary Medical
Staff of the Infirmary.
„ 31 Drinking fountain and pillar lamp, opposite the Wellington
Hotel, presented to the town by the Pioneers' Society in 1855,
demolished by a runaway horse.
Sep. 8 Mr. D. G. Booth appointed Postmaster of Castleton.
„ 18 Gas first lighted from Cutgate to Norden. To mark the event
a dinner was held when the Due de Ferrari, of Italy, was
present.
,, Habitation of the Primrose League formed. Inaugural meeting
held in the Public Hall, October 16th, Mr. Elliott Lees pre-
siding.
„ Rev. F. C. Dearden ceased his Curacy at St. Alban's.
Oct. 7 Proposal to form a separate Court of Quarter Sessions for the
town rejected by the Town Council.
,, 30 Arkwright Spinning Company's engines formally started.
,, „ Facit and Millgate Liberal Clubs opened by Mr. R. Leake, M.P.
,, Red Rose League, a local organisation to oppose the Primrose
League, formed. Its existence was short-lived.
Nov. 7 Mr. Robert Butter worth, cotton spinner, who died this day, by
will left £250 to the Infirmary.
„ 8 Newbold Board School, Vavasour Street, opened.
,, The Walk Bridge was widened.
Dec. I Wednesday edition of the Rochdale Observer (L.), first appeared.
„ 8 Rochdale Times (C), first published bi-weekly.
„ 9 Southport and St. Anne's Lifeboats' disaster; local fund opened,
over £600 raised.
„ 13 Local centre of the St. John's Ambulance Association formed.
,, 23 Block of buildings at the junction of Drake Street and Water
Street, now Reform Club, &c. , opened.
„ Mr. F. N. Moles worth succeeded his father as County Coroner.
Flannelette introduced during the year.
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Jan. 2 Rev. W. R. Holman began his ministry at St Stephen's Church.
„ 4 Amalgamation of the Congregations worshipping at Water Street
and Newbold Baptist Chapels took place. Water Street
Chapel closed.
,, 8 Wardle Conservative Club formally opened ; cost £1,200.
,, 15 Dean Oakley gave an Address on Co-operation at the annual
gathering of the Pioneers' Society in the Public Hall.
„ Lieut. -Col. Healey retired from the Volunteer Service with which
he had been connected since 19th December, 1861.
,, Canal Company's Shares, £85 paid up, quoted at 103 J. In Dec,
1898, the quotation was 36 to 38 per £100.
,, Branch of the Irish National League formed.
,, Victoria Glee Club of male voices, formed.
„ A Glossary of JRochdale-toith-Rossendale Words and Phrases, by
H. Cunliffe, published posthumously.
Feb. 2 Jubilee Celebration of Littleborough U.M.F.C.
„ 3 Exhumation at Castleton of the body of Mrs. Finley, who died
in February, 1886, mother of Mrs. Berry the Oldham poisoner.
Verdict of wilful murder found against Mrs. Berry who was,
however, executed on the Oldham charge.
, , 16 Town's Meeting decided to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee by erect-
ing a Technical School.
„ Mr. Robert Standring appointed Conservative Agent for the
Middleton Division.
„ Mr. C. M. Roy ds presented the "Nora Royds" Lifeboat to St.
Anne's-on-Sea station.
Mar. 9 Lancashire Congregational Union Annual Assembly held in the
town.
„ 10 Mr. T. Watson, M.P., Horse Carrs, was interred.
Apl. 2 First Football Charity Cup Competition took place ; 16 entries.
St. Clement's team beat Milnrow and won the cup.
„ 5 4,000 Trout placed in Cowm and Spring Mill Reservoirs.
,, 13 Town's Meeting adopted a resolution condemning the action of
the Government on the Irish Coercion Bill.
,, „ Unveiling of a Memorial Tablet in St. Stephen's Church to Rev.
E. C. Lewis, thirty-eight years pastor there.
,, 22 Mr. Bradlaugh, M.P., in moving the need of a Royal Commission
to enquire into Market Rights, &c, specially instanced the
case of Rochdale.
,, 23 Grammar School Old Boy's Association formed.
„ Sutcliffe'8 Brewery, Moles worth Street, taken over by Rochdale
and Oldham, now Rochdale and Manor Brewery Company
Limited.
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Apl. 30 The income of the New Market for the previous three years
averaged £3,740 3s. 9d.; the expenditure £1,370 10s. 9d.
„ The Rochdale Anglers' Association formed; Mr. C. M. Royds,
President.
May 3 Opening of the Manchester Jubilee Exhibition. The visit of the
Prince and Princess of Wales drew several thousands of towns-
men to Cottonopolis.
„ 20 Robert Brearley, Milnrow, attained his hundredth birthday.
„ 24 Hey wood 'Bus, which for many years ran from Old Market Place
to the neighbouring borough, ceased running.
,, 28 Rochdale Women's Liberal Association, formally inaugurated by
Miss Jane Cobden, to whom an illuminated address was
presented.
„ 30 United Centenary Meetings of the Yorkshire, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Baptist Association commenced. John Bright spoke
at one of the meetings.
June 20 Cutting of the first sod on the site of St. Luke's Church, Deeplish,
by Mrs. J. Robinson, Mount Falinge.
„ ,, The Queen's Jubilee and the completion of the New Town Hall
Spire celebrated ; large public procession ; fireworks display ?
beacon fires on Blackstone Edge, Knowl Hill, and Brown
Wardle, &c.
,, Norden Manufacturing Company formed.
July Mrs. Tweedale, Standrings House, Bagslate, gave £300 to the
Infirmary, and £200 to repair the Minister's House at Hope
Street Chapel.
„ Richard Street Mill demolished.
Aug. 4 Rev. R. Jones, twenty-four years Registrar of the Cemetery,
resigned. 30,000 bodies were interred in the Cemetery whilst
he held office.
Sep. 1 Mr. J. Matthew appointed Registrar of the Cemetery.
,, 10 First Infirmary Gala, Foxholes, held. 16,000 spectators present..
,, 14 Jubilee of Wardle Agricultural Show celebrated.
„ 17 Bagslate U.M.F.C. Jubilee observed.
% Oct. 1 Jubilee of Belfield U.M.F.C. observed.
„ 11 Mr. J. A. Picton, M.P., in the Town Hall, distributed the annual
prizes awarded by the Sunday School Union.
,, 25 Rochdale Ornithological Society formed ; 33 members.
,, 29 Monstre Jubilee Pie provided at Littleborough for old folks in
the district. It contained : — beef, 235 lb. ; mutton, 20 lb. ;
tongue, 16 lb. ; a quantity of veal ; 4 rabbits ; 12 ox-tails ; 3
large geese ; a couple of ducks ; 9 chickens, half-a-dozen cows'
hearts ; and other ingredients. Served up with the pie were
1£ loads of potatoes ; 3 cwt. of carrots and turnips ; and 40
cabbages.
„ „ Tramway Company's Shares, £10 paid up, were quoted at 20s..
per share.
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October. Tramways' Winding-up Petition presented to Court. £500,000
had been expended on the undertaking ; debts owing by the
Company, £160,000.
„ Union Manufacturing Company Limited, Castleton Gales, formed.
Weaving started 27th March, 1889.
Nov. 14 Fourth week-day delivery of letters, embracing all places within
the free town delivery, instituted.
„ 22 Ben Brierley, Lancashire Author, gave readings from his works
in Smith Street Primitive Methodist School.
,, 26 Poll of Littleborough ratepayers as to proposed extension of the
Chancel at Holy Trinity. Votes : against, 312 ; for, 273.
„ Marland Infectious Diseases' Hospital opened.
Dec. 1 Town Hall Clock began to register time. Diameter of dials 11
feet 6 inches, being 6 inches less than the original ; length of
pendulum 15 feet ; weight of hour bell 59 cwt.
,, 7 Stormy Meeting of the Newbold Friendly Society in reference to
a proposal to remove the Society's offices from the Fox Inn.
Poll taken 21st January, 1888 ; result, 4,571 votes in favour
of and 9,614 against the proposal.
*, 8 Dr. Dallinger gave a Lecture in the Public Hall on "Contrasts
in Nature."
,, 17 Newhey Liberal Club opened by Mr. S. Barlow ; cost £2,000.
„ ,, Mons. A. Guilmant gave an Organ Recital in the Public Hall.
,, 29 W. Webster, confined in the police cells, made his escape. He
was captured at Hull, 11th April, 1888.
1888.
Jan. 12 Liberal Unionist Association formed.
„ 20 Councillor H. Sharp was presented with an illuminated address
by Mr. Elliott Lees on behalf of the Conservative Working
Men's Union.
„ 28 Thomas Watson Memorial Tablet, Shawclough U.M.F.C, un-
veiled.
Feb. 4 Rochdale Mail Bag containing jewellery, cheques value £400, a
mortgage deed for £10,000, and 12,000 letters, stolen at Vic-
toria Station, Manchester. Bag subsequently discovered in
Salford, the contents having been rifled.
„ 7 Golf Club instituted.
„ Seven £4 4s. Perpetual Waterworks Annuities sold for £861.
Mar. 5 Presentation to J. Nolan by members of the Hornets Football
Club on his leaving town for Australia with the English Foot-
ball team.
„ 7 Chamber of Commerce re-formed.
„ 19 Rev. C. E. Dickenson concluded his labours at Smallbridge Con-
gregational Church.
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Mar. 27 Mr. J. A. Bright was adopted Liberal Unionist Candidate for the
borough. He resigned in June owing to his father's ill-health.'
„ Mr. J. B. N. Entwisle, Foxholes, was High Sheriff of Leicester-
shire.
Apl. 1 1 John Bright's Statue at Birmingham was unveiled.
„ 23 St. Luke's Church Corner Stone laid by Bishop Moorhouse.
,, 25 Mr. T. D. Sullivan, M.P., addressed a large meeting in the Town
Hall, on Irish Politics.
„ Bridge Inn Sick and Burial Society registered under the Com-
panies' Acts.
„ Buckley Hall Orphanage opened.
May 3 Mr. H. Brierley, Solicitor, appointed Registrar of Bury County
Court ; transferred to Wigan County Court, April, 1898.
,, 6 Socialist Demonstration on Blackstone Edge; 15,000 persons
present.
,, 26 Liberal Excursion to Ha warden. Mr. Gladstone addressed the
trippers.
,, 31 Mr. Z. Mellor, Town Clerk, was presented with his portrait in
oils, by Mr. R. T. Heape, on behalf of subscribers.
June 26 Rev. W. J. Bradford, M. A. , presented to St. Mary's, Balderstone.
„ Mr. H. Brierley, Solicitor, was appointed a Borough Justice.
„ Drinking Fountain, South Parade, erected.
,, Sewage Farm brought into operation.
July 9 Parsees Cricket Eleven, then touring through England, played a
match against the Rochdale Cricket Club.
,, 14 Rochdale Amateur Prize Band won the First Prize, £37 16s., at
the Belle Vue Competition.
„ 21 Second Infirmary Gala, Foxholes, held. 28,000 persons present.
„ Mikado of Japan conferred the Order of the Rising Sun upon
Professor John Milne of this town for his researches in Seis-
mology.
,, Bamford Hall was purchased by Mr. E. S. Massey.
Aug. 15 Mary Kelly, a noted local character, left for America.
,, 26 Mr. Charles Bradlaugh gave three lectures in the Secular Hall,
Milks tone Road.
,, 30 The portion of the Town Hall hitherto set apart as a residence
for the Chief Constable, ceased to be used for that purpose.
„ Considerable feeling was aroused in favour of hawkers in con-
sequence of prosecutions by the Market Company.
,, Ordnance Survey of the town, first since 1847, begun.
,, Rev. S. R. Aldridge, B.A., ceased his ministry at West Street
Chapel.
Sep. 23 Bishop Moorhouse held an Ordination service at St. Chad's.
,, 29 Rochdale Hunt Steeplechases were held at Halifax owing to the
promoters being unable to secure the course at Buersill, where
the meeting had been held since 1885.
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Sept. Tramways' reconstruction scheme announced. The existing
Company formed.
Oct. 1 Dean Hole and Sir. B. Leigh ton, Bart., in the Town Hall, ad-
dressed an "extra" meeting of the Church Congress, then
being held in Manchester.
„ 4 Lord Ripon in the Town Hall distributed the prizes awarded to
Science and Art students.
, , 5 Sir Edward Clarke, Q. C. , M. P. , addressed a large Unionist gather-
ing in the Town Hall.
,, 6 Y.M.C.A. Rooms opened in The Butts.
,, 15 Mr. A. C. Moorhouse succeeded Mr. J. R. Thornber, deceased,
Liberal Agent.
,, 24 Whitworth Reform Club opened by Mr. C. Hop wood, Q.C.
Nov. 3 Milnrow Reform Club opened by Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P.
,, 14 Lord Ripon addressed a large Liberal meeting in the Town Hall
on Irish politics.
,, 17 Mr. Entwisle's proposed gift of Foxholes Park to the town an-
nounced.
,, Oldham Road Mill, formerly Booth's, closed.
Dec. 1 Chamber of Commerce Reading Room, Town Hall Buildings, now
Unionist Club, opened.
,, 8 .William Morris, author of An Earthly Paradise, addressed a
Socialist gathering in the Central Hall.
,, 21 Mrs. Jenny Brierley, mother of the Rev. E. Brierley, Vicar of
Whitworth, celebrated her 100th birthday ; died 3rd February,
1890.
A Report on a Religious Census of the parish, including Saddle-
worth, ordered to be taken by the Town Council, contains
the following figures : — Sittings, Church of England, 25,449 ;
Nonconformist, 56,240 ; unclassified, 5,615 : Teachers and
Scholars, Church of England, 17,987 ; Nonconformist, 34,652;
unclassified, 837.
1889.
Jan. 15 First County Council Election. — See Elections.
,, 28 Manchester Examiner and Times (L. ) the leading daily newspaper
of the district first appeared as a Liberal Unionist journal ;
defunct, 10th March, 1894. £70,000 lost during the last two
years of its existence.
„ 30 Mc.Naught Memorial Window, St. Peter's Church, unveiled.
„ Mr. A. Bell appointed joint manager of the L. and Y. Bank with
Mr. A. Baldwin.
Feb. 7 Alderman Tweedale, Councillor James Cheetham, and Mr. B.
Heape were appointed Borough Justices.
„ Colonel Fish wick, Messrs. E. Clegg, G. Petrie, and J. R. Heape
were appointed County Justices.
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Feb. 10 Earthquake Shock distinctly felt in various parts of the town.
„ Standard Spinning Company Limited formed. First sod on the
site of the mill turned 11th March. Spinning began 17th
March, 1890.
Mar. 13 Rochdale and District Liberal Union formed.
„ 19 U.M.F.C. Smithy Bridge opened ; cost £1,500 ; 320 sittings.
„ 23 Royal Commission Inquiry as to the Markets and Fairs in the
borough, held in the Town Hall.
„ Canon Molesworth, M. A. , LL.D., 45 years' Vicar of St. Clement's,
resigned.
„ 30 Funeral of John Bright, who died on the 27th.
„ Old Pack Horse, Church Stile, a noted inn, closed.
April 1 The town became a County Borough.
,, „ Dr. Tanner, M.P., addressed a Liberal meeting in the Reform
Club, Milurow.
„ 6 Central Hall, Water Street, taken over by Canon Maclure.
,, 15 Mr. J. A. Bright elected Unionist M. P. for Central Birmingham,
by 5,621 votes to 2,561 votes recorded for Mr. P. Beale (G.L.)
He retired July, 1895.
„ 26 Town's Meeting decided to erect a bronze statue of John Bright,
and to devote any surplus funds raised towards the foundation
of a Scholarship in Victoria University.
„ 28 Rochdale New Railway Station opened. The site of the exten-
sions cost £70,000.
,, Rev. T. J. Bensted, M.A., St. George's, Manchester, instituted
Vicar of St. Clement's.
„ School Board Cookery Classes began in Kelsall Street.
„ Tramcars to Littleborough at this time started from Cheetham
Street.
, , Rev. W. Tees ceased his ministry at Trinity Presbyterian Church.
May 6 Petition, containing 11,921 signatures, for the release of John
Rouse, presented to the Home Secretary, who declined for the
second time to interfere with the sentence. — See Crime.
„ 11 Lieut. -Col. C. M. Royds, J. P. , D. L. , High Sheriff of the County,
left the town to meet Her Majesty's Judges at Manchester.
„ 18 Golf Links, Shawforth, formally inaugurated.
„ 28 Rev. D. M. Sykes, Curate of St. Clement's, on leaving the parish
was presented with a purse of gold.
„ 30 Partial opening of St. Luke's Chapel of Ease, Deeplish; com-
pleted, 23rd April, 1898.
„ Removal of a large number of bodies in the Parish Churchyard
owing to the widening of Church Stile.
„ Healey Dell, Broadley end, partially closed to the public.
„ Mr. James Cross, Station Master, resigned. He had been con-
nected with the Company for 47 years.
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June 1 Bridge Mills Cotton Spinning Company Limited dissolved.
„ 2 Rev. J. C. Butterworth vacated St. Michael's, Bamford.
,, 14 Betting Raid at a Littleborough Inn ; fines exceeding £50 imposed.
„ 26 Mr. T. Clegg appointed Liberal Agent; resigned 1897.
,, 27 Rev. J. B. Aitken on vacating the pastorate of Milton Congrega-
tional Church was presented with £120 and other marks of
esteem.
,, 29 Mr. R. B. Dawson was appointed Master of the School of Art.
,, Mr. Crompton Hutton, Judge of the County Court since 1873,
resigned.
,, Mr. 6. T. Walker, a native, attained the first position in the
Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge University.
„ Rev. A. D. Davies, M.A., was appointed Vicar of St. Michael's,
Bamford.
July 4 Mr. Edwin Jones, Manchester, appointed Judge of County Court.
„ 20 Infirmary Gala, third, held at Foxholes; 17,000 persons present.
„ 25 Old Clock Face Hotel, Lord Street, offered for sale and with-
drawn at £4,000.
Aug. 31 Superintendent J. Tindall of the County Police retired after 41
years' active service. On November 5th, the Magistracy
presented him with an address and 100 guineas.
,, Florence Maybrick's Release Petition signed by 1,500 persons.
Sep. 3 School of Art, Town Hall, inaugurated.
„ 17 " Joyful News " Home, Castleton Hall, opened.
„ 24 Robert Brearley, Milnrow, in his 103rd year, was interred in
Milnrow Churchyard.
,, Mr. Thomas Hey wood was appointed Superintendent of County
Police; retired 31st May, 1897.
,, Lobley Memorial Window, All Saints' Church, unveiled.
,, Font in St. Clement's Church presented by parishioners in me-
mory of Canon Molesworth.
,, Littleborough Ratepayers decided to establish a Burial Board.
Oct. 3 Mr. James Leach, Solicitor, appointed Deputy Town Clerk.
,, 5 Rochdale and District Temperance Union formed.
„ 14 Social and Political History of Rochdale, by W. Robertson, pub-
lished.
„ 21 Mr. H. H. Asquith, M.P., addressed a large meeting of Liberals
in the Town Hall.
,, 24 Betting Raid on the Byron Club, Cloth Hall; 17 persons arrested
of whom nine were on November 7th convicted and heavily
fined.
Nov. 12 Lord Derby addressed the members of the Chamber of Commerce
in the Town Hall.
„ „ Rev. A. Scobie, M. A., inducted to the pastorate of Trinity Pres-
byterian Church.
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Nov. 13 Crawford Spinning Company Frauds discovered ; total defalcations
£8,158 17s. 6d.
„ 16 First John Bright Birthday Celebration took place in the Public
Hall. Professor J. E. Thorold Rogers was the chief speaker,
Mr. C. M. Royds, High Sheriff, presiding.
,, 28 Discovery of 12 lb. of gunpowder and a box of chemicals at the
Lyceum, Baillie Street — supposed to have been placed there
with the intention of destroying the building.
„ 30 Bolton Memorial Windows in St. Peter's Church unveiled.
Dec. 3 Bishop Barry, Primate of Australia, gave an Address in the
Public Hall, on the S.P.G.
„ 6 ^Eolian Choir first appeared in public.
„ 14 Assembly Room and improvements at St. Stephen's Church
opened ; cost £755.
„ „ Judge Hughes, Q.C., author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, gave an
Address on Co-operation in the Pioneers' Assembly Room.
„ History of the Parish of Rochdale, by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry
Fish wick, F.S.A., published.
1890.
Jan. 11 A native, named Harrison, was blown off the roof of Lion Mill,
Roy ton, and fell a distance of 90 feet, alighting on some newly
made concrete material; he sustained no injury.
„ 15 Branch of the National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to
Children formed.
„ 19 Rev. J. H. Hollowell commenced his ministry at Milton Congre-
gational Church ; resigned 1897.
Feb. 6 Mrs. Jenny Brierley, mother of the Vicar of Whitworth, aged
101 years, was interred.
„ 22 John Bright Memorial Clock, Milnrow, began to register time.
„ Mr. J. M. L. Chad wick was appointed Sheriff's Officer.
„ Mr. Councillor J. Cheetham appointed Mayor's Auditor.
„ Mr. J. Pearson succeeded Mr. E. H. Osborn, Factory Inspector.
Mar. 1 Crawford Spinning Company declared a profit of £4,998 Us. Od.
for the quarter ended this day.
„ 13 Old Chartists' gathering held in the town, about thirty townsmen
who took part in the stirring times of the '40's being present.
,, „ John Tatham & Sons Limited went into liquidation. At one time
the concern employed 1,000 men.
„ „ Mr. George Grossmith, the popular entertainer, appeared in the
Town Hall.
„ 25 3,439 Dwellinghouses erected since 1872.
„ 26 Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P., addressed a meeting of Liberals in the
Town Hall, on the Irish Question.
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Mar. Littleborough Co-operative Store Library dispersed.
„ Mr. W. L. Bright, M.P. for Stoke-on-Trent, retired.
„ Rev. T. Carter, twenty-three years minister at Black water Street
Chapel retired.
Apl. 11 Dr., now Archbishop Vaughan, addressed a meeting of the
Catholic Children's Rescue Society, in St. John's Roman
Catholic Schoolroom.
„ 14 Parcel Post Mail Cart began running.
,, 17 Lady De Trafford opened a four days' Conservative Bazaar in the
Town Hall.
„ 22-23 Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Mr. T. B. Potter's return as M.P.
for the borough celebrated. Sir W. S. Lawson, M.P., Mr.
John Morley, M.P., and Mr. J. A. Picton, M.P., took part
in the proceedings.
„ Pioneers' Society's Bakery, Milton Street, erected ; cost £6,000.
Weekly out-put 10,000 lb. in loaves besides confectionery
cakes.
„ Reaund hi th* Derby, dec, by John Trafford Clegg, "Th' Owd
Weigh ver," published.
„ Borough Debt £1,297,979 ; assets £119,000 in excess of that sum.
May 4 Edwin Waugh, Lancashire author, was interred at Kersal Moor
Church.
,, 8 Mr. T. Reid appointed Registrar of Births, &c, for Wardleworth.
,, "Sequah," a "medicine man," who had occupied the Cattle
Ground for several weeks, left the town amidst a great de-
monstration ; 15,000 persons present.
, , A Parliamentary Return showed that the number of * ' on " licenses
in the borough was 4*5 per 1,000 inhabitants.
June 2 Town's Meeting on the question of the Licensing Clauses for com-
pensation to publicans held ; stormy proceedings.
,, 10 Alderman J. S. Littlewood, J. P., twenty-one years a member of
the Town Council, resigned.
,, 12 Mr. E. L. Chad wick coop ted a member of the School Board, vice
Mr. R. Jackson, Solicitor, resigned.
,, Eagle Spinning Company Limited, Balderstone, formed.
„ Rochdale Masonic Hall Buildings Company Limited, Yorkshire
Street, registered.
July 2 Jubilee of the Penny Post officially observed at the Post Office.
, , 14 Canon Maclure accepted the Deanery of Manchester.
,, 19 Fourth Infirmary Gala, held at Foxholes; parachute descent by
Baldwin ; 38,000 persons present.
,, 21 Corporation Turkish Baths, Smith Street, opened.
„ 22 It was announced that the Rev. J. M. Wilson, M.A., Clifton,
had accepted the Vicariate of St. Chad's.
„ Elocution for the Masse*, by Edwin Barnish, published.
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July Mr. C. M. Royds elected President of the Warrington Clergy
Institution.
Aug. 2 Lord Ripon came to unveil the John Bright Memorial Bust, by
Bruce Joy, subscribed for by Messrs. Brightfa employees.
The Bust, which cost 500 guineas, was lost in transit and did
not reach the town until the 4th.
,, ,, Lord Ripon visited Buckley Hall Orphanage.
„ 7 In Spotland Nearer Side District, with an estimated population of
13,000 inhabitants, only five deaths took place during the
following five weeks.
Sep. 9 First Exhibition of the Rochdale School of Art held ; 400 exhibits.
,, 24 Wellington Hotel and Vaults offered for sale and withdrawn at
£6,000; sold 3rd August, 1898, for £10,850.
,, 26 New Chancel in Littleborough Parish Church consecrated ; cost
£6,000. Mr. W. Law was a munificent donor.
,, 27 Mr. G. B. Shaw, the well-known critic, gave an Address at the
Socialist Rooms, Blackwater Street.
,, 30 Rev. R. S. Rowan, B.D., St. James's, Wardleworth, was pre-
sented with an address and altar ornaments by his parishioners.
, , , , Suspension of the ' ' Co-operative Pool," a London financial lottery
in which many persons in the district were interested.
Oct. 12 Clover Street Chapel closed, the congregation having joined the
x Blackwater Street Unitarians.
„ 14 Farewell Service to three "Joyful News" Evangelists. Mr.
Argent, one of the three, was murdered in China.
,, 24 Settling Tanks at the Sewage Farm erected.
, , 27 Mr. C. M. Royds, J. P. , was introduced to the electors as Unionist
Candidate for the borough.
, , 28 Rev. J. M. Wilson, M. A. , Vicar, sworn Archdeacon of Manchester.
,, 28 Canon Maclure installed Dean of Manchester. He preached his
farewell sermon at St. Chad's, November 2nd.
Nov. 3 Mr. A. Illingworth, M.P., and Mr. B. Priestley, M.P., addressed
a Liberationist meeting in the Public Hall.
„ 8 Sir J. Fergusson, M.P., Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and
other M.P.'s addressed a Unionist meeting in the Public HalL
,, 16 Rev. J. M. Wilson, M. A., preached his first sermon at St. Chad's.
,, 19 John Bright Anniversary Celebration held ; meagre attendance.
,, 24 Rochdale Photographic Society formed, Mr. J. A. Bright, M.P.,
president.
,, Mr. W. Holt, Sanitary Works Manager, appointed to a similar
position under the Birmingham Corporation.
Dec. 1 New School Board Offices, Baillie Street, opened.
„ 19 Mr. F. W. Brookman appointed Sanitary Works Manager.
,, 27 Mr. Robert Stott, thirty years master of Sparrow Hill School,
was presented with a testimonial by Old Scholars.
,, ,, Moss Spinning Company's engines started.
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1891.
Jan. 28 General Booth addressed a meeting on his Darkest England
Scheme. Over £616 subscribed locally.
„ Serious outbreak of "pink eye" in the district, causing heavy
losses to horse owners.
„ Sir Guildford Molesworth was awarded the Bimetallic League £50
premium for the best Essay on International Bimetallism.
Feb. 16 Cardinal Vaughan visited Dearnley Workhouse.
,, 17 Meeting of Manufacturers to protest against Sir Henry James's
amendments to the Factory Acts.
,, 20 Mr. B. C. Crossley appointed Organist at the Parish Church.
,, 24 Mr. C. M. Royds gazetted Lieut. -Col. of the Yeomanry Cavalry.
He joined the troop as Cornet in 1861.
„ 28 Rochdale Corps of the Church Army formally enrolled.
,, A return showed that of 301 " on " licenses in the borough, there
were only 33 where owner and occupier were the same person.
Mar. 4 Football Match, Hornets v. Broughton Rangers, at night by the
aid of Wells' light.
„ 8 Rochdale Bowling Green and Buildings Company Limited regis-
tered.
,, 9 The Rochdale and District Branch of the National Educational
Association formed.
M 11 Lord Spencer, Mr. Vesey Knox, M.P., and others, addressed a
large meeting of Liberals in the Town Hall, Mr. Potter pre-
siding.
,, 24 Mr. T. W. Russell, M.P., addressed a large Unionist Demonstra-
tion in the Town Hall.
„ 25 294 Dwellinghouses were erected during the year ended this day.
,, 31 Dog Licenses for the year ended this day produced £777 15s.
Apl. 5 Last Services held in the Old Providence Chapel, High Street.
„ ,, Census taken : 71,401 inhabitants.
„ 13 Miss Jane Cobden gave an Address to the members of the
Women's Liberal Association.
„ 14 Inaugural Meeting of the Rochdale University Extension Stu-
dents' Association. Professor Munro, Manchester, gave an
Address ; dissolved October, 1896.
„ 24 Proposal to raise the Half -Time Exemption from 10 to 12 years,
rejected by Town's Meeting.
,, 30 Lieut. -Col. Royds elected Chairman of the Williams Deacon and
Manchester and Salford Bank.
,, Mr. W. Taylor appointed Surveyor and Valuer to the Assessment
Committee of the Rochdale Union. '
May 2 Portraits of Messrs. James Wrigley and Robert Stott, former
Head Masters, hung in Sparrow Hill School.
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May 10 Influenza Epidemic ; 1,000 persons affected at this time ; death
rate doubled.
,, 18 Mr. J. A. Bright, M.P„ was appointed a member of the Royal
Commission on Vaccination.
„ 25 Mr. George Jackson, Solicitor, succeeded his uncle Mr. Robert
Jackson, Clerk to the County Justices.
„ Mr. J. T. Worth, Solicitor, succeeded Mr. R. Jackson, Registrar
of the County Court.
June 3 Rev. E. O'Neill, St. John's Roman Catholic Church, installed
Canon of Salford.
„ 5 Mr. J. R. Hartley appointed Clerk to the Borough Justices.
„ 6 A canvass of householders taken on the question of reducing the
number of licensed houses. Result : — for reduction, 7,251 ;
against, 767 ; neutral, 1,380. A large number of papers were
not returned.
„ 7 Unveiling of windows in St. James's Church in memory of Mr. A.
Coventry and Mr. J. Holt. \
„ 10 Mr. H. Blackburn appointed Clerk to Milnrow Local JSoard.
,, Mr. J. R. Hartley resigned the leadership of the Conservative
Party on being appointed Justices' Clerk.
July 12 Unveiling of six windows in Healey Church in memory of members
of the Royds, Leach, and Tweedale families.
„ 14 Rev. M. T. Myers, Baillie Street Circuit, re-elected President of
the U.M.F.C. Assembly.
„ 18 Infirmary Gala, fifth, held at Foxholes. 47,000 persons present.
Parachute descent, second, by Baldwin.
„ 27 Mr. H. Brierley, J. P., appointed Chairman of the Conservative
Party.
,, The old Stocks were erected in St. Chad's Churchyard.
„ G. N. R. Company declined a proposal of the Chamber of Commerce
to run a competing line to the town. L. & N. W.R. Company
had declined previously.
Aug. 1 Post Office express delivery service commenced.
,, 5 Presentation of an Address and a purse of gold to Canon O'Neill
by his flock.
„ „ Three Tuns Inn, which stood on the site of the Central Board
School, Fleece Street, pulled down.
,, 13 Record rainfall ; 2*124 inches registered.
„ 14 Spring Mill Reservoir rose 2 ft. 4 in. in twenty-four hours, owing
to heavy rains.
„ 31 Government Grant earned by Elementary Schools for the year
ended this day was £8,276 14s Od.
„ Belfield Hall last tenanted.
„ First portion of the Terraces on the Slopes opposite the Free
Library completed from designs and at the sole cost of Mr.
James Ogden, Kilnerdeyne.
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Sep. 7 Fees in Board Schools, except the Higher Grade School, abolished.
The cost of freeing the Schools was £420 per annum.
,, 9 Board of Trade Inquiry as to the fatal railway disaster at Facit.
„ 21 Moss School closed. It existed 122 years.
„ 26 Celebration of the Jubilee of Newbold Friendly Society. Number
of members, 24,000.
, , Toad Lane Charity School, founded in 1 740 by John Taylor, closed.
Oct. 1 Jubilee of the Rochdale Conservative Sick and Burial Society
observed. Mr. H. Byron Reed, M.P., spoke.
„ 3 Lord Londonderry and Mr. J. L. Wharton, M.P., addressed an
open-air gathering at Greenhill.
„ 10 Alderman T. Schofield, J. P., completed fifty years Sunday School
work and was presented with an Address and a Medallion Bust
of himself.
,, ,, John Bright Statue, Albert Square, Manchester, unveiled by Lord
Derby.
„ 24 John Bright Statue, Town Hall Square, unveiled by Mr. John
Morley, M.P. The Statue is 9 feet high and stands on a
pedestal of 11 feet ; cost £2,000.
„ 26 Mr. W. S. Caine, Mr. Vesey Knox, M.P., and Mr. Potter, ad-
dressed a meeting of Liberals in the Town Hall.
„ Rochdale Musical Union formed.
„ Great clearance of old cottage property in the neighbourhood of
Great George Street, Priestley Square, and School Lane.
,, Mr. G. H. Wild appointed Clerk to Littleborough Local Board.
Nov. 9 Alderman E. Taylor elected Mayor. He resigned during the day
owing to the Town Council refusing to adopt the principle of
paying a salary to future Mayors. On the 14th, Councillor
J. Duckworth was elected in his stead.
„ 11 St. Alban's Institute opened as a Home for Waifs and Strays.
„ 15 Pleasant Sunday Afternoon movement introduced.
„ 18 Eighth School Board Election ; third contest. See Elections.
„ 29 Unveiling of the Robert Taylor Heape Memorial Tablet in Black-
water Street Chapel.
„ Messrs. C. E. Brierley, H. Radcliffe, L. Shawcross, and William
Tatham appointed Borough Justices.
„ Galleries in St. James's Church, Wardleworth, removed.
,, Board Schools Savings' Banks established.
Dec. 7 Culeen's Circus, a wood structure, erected in Arctic Street, near
the Dane Street Cricket Ground, at a cost of £600 ; closed
16th January, 1892.
„ 27 Ex-Alderman G. Mansell, who died this day, left £250 to the
Infirmary.
,, 29 Presentation to Mr. E. Belmont, 29 years master of Moss School.
,, Cutting of the first sod on the site of Messrs. Tweedales and
Smalley's Works, Castleton.
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Dec. The front of an Elizabethan house in Yorkshire Street presented
to the Parks Committee by Messrs. Samuel Shepherd & Son,
Auctioneers.
Fieldhouse School closed during the year.
John Bright Memorial Fund realised £4,093 9s. 4d. £1,767
4s. lOd. paid to Victoria University for foundation of the
Bright Scholarship in English Literature.
St. Alban's Inn, a beerhouse in Manchester Road, sold for £900.
In 1896 the property fetched nearly three times that sum.
1892.
Jan. 2 Mr. W. Law, Littleborough, presented a New Organ to Holy
Trinity Church.
„ 7 " Gala " Bed— £1,000— presented to the Infirmary.
„ 20 Duke of Clarence Memorial Service held in St. Chad's Church.
„ 25 Burns Club re-formed.
„ Rochdale Shop Assistants' Union formed.
Feb. 1 Miraculous Escape at Yew Mill, Hey wood, of W. Butterworth,
a Rochdale youth, who fell a distance of 70 feet. Alighting
upon some loose sand, he sustained no injury beyond a shaking.
„ 20 St. Luke's, Deeplish, Schools opened ; cost £2,500.
Mar. 25 Rochdale Spinning Company declared a 12J per cent, dividend for
the ninth time in succession.
,, „ Russian Famine Fund realised £430 16s. 2d.
„ The number of deaths for three months exceeded the births ; a
similar occurrence had happened three times within two years.
Apl. 1 Night Shelter for Women opened in the old lockups.
„ 8 Sir Charles Russell, Q.C., M.P., addressed a meeting of Liberals
in the Town Hall.
,, 9 Radciiffe Memorial Window, St. Mary's Church, Balderstone,
unveiled.
„ 25 Dr. Vaughan, Archbishop Elect of Westminster, visited Buckley
Hall Orphanage.
,, ,, Brilliant display of Aurora Borealis observed.
,, Rochdale Chrysanthemum Society formed.
May 9 Maiden Sitting at the Police Court ; white gloves presented to
the Mayor. It was stated that whilst the population had
increased 27,000 since 1872, crime had decreased 50 per cent,
during that period.
,, 19 A woman residing in Bury Road gave birth to triplets.
,, 21 Ellenroad Spinning* Company Engines started.
,, 26 Portion of St. Luke's Church, Deeplish, consecrated.
,, 29 Baillie Street Chapel opened after considerable structural altera-
tions. New organ, stained glass window, &c, added; cost
£2,700.
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May Twenty-nine Licensed Houses stood within a radius of 200 yards
from the Duke of Wellington, Blackwater Street.
,, Mr. James Cryer appointed first working-man magistrate.
,, Butts House, the residence of the Kelsalls, pulled down.
„ Rev. A. D. Davies, M.A., Vicar of Bamford, accepted the curacy
of St. Luke's on the resignation of the Rev. Ratnbone Hartley.
„ Rochdale, ': The Birthplace of Modern Co-operation, by William
Robertson, published.
June 4 Tim Bobbin Memorial, St. Chad's Churchyard, unveiled.
„ 6 Co-operative Congress, extending over several days, held in the
town ; a remarkable gathering, 8*33 delegates present.
,, 10 United Service of Nonconformist Sunday School Scholars held in
the Town Hall Square, Whit-Friday ; 6,000 scholars present.
,, 26 Rev. W. R. Hoiman concluded his ministry at St. Stephen's.
,, Anti-Smoke Crusade vigorously prosecuted during this and fol-
lowing months.
July 4 Parliamentary Election for the Borough. — See Elections.
„ 11 Mr. J. A. Bright re-elected M.P. for Central Birmingham.
„ „ Mr. Jacob Bright re-elected M.P. for South- West Manchester.
,, 12 Parliamentary Election for Middleton Division. — See Elections.
„ 16 Infirmary Gala, sixth, held at Foxholes ; 29,500 persons present.
„ Mr. H. H. Howorth elected M.P. for South Salford.
Aug. 18 Result of a Ballot of the Rochdale and District Power-Loom
Weavers' Association on the Eight Hours' question declared :
1,010 voted for, 850 against adopting the system. Out of 600
spinners 282 voted for, 93 against.
Sep. 10 Mr. W. T. Stead gave addresses in the town. The Social Questions
Union was the outcome of his visit.
,, 12 Bishop Smythies spoke at a great Missionary Meeting of Church-
men and Nonconformists in the Public Hail.
Oct. 1 Mr. J. T. Lord succeeded Mr. A. L. Mills, Conservative Agent.
,, 5 Rochdale and District Farmers' Association formed. Thirty-
three members enrolled.
„ 12 Tatham's Works, Moss Lane, dispersed piecemeal.
,, Rev. J. Ducker, M.A., Vicar of Wardle, resigned.
Nov. 5 Strike of 50,000 cotton operatives against a 5 per cent, reduction
in wages, extending over a period of twenty weeks, began.
Rochdale was only affected in a small way.
,, 6 Salvation Army Citadel, Lord Street, opened. Accomodation
for 2,000 persons. Cost £3,000.
,, 9 It was announced that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners intended
to release the ground rent on the Park, £380 per annum,
and give 3£ acres of land near Messrs. T. Robinson & Sons'
Works for a public recreation ground.
,, 13 Corporation Sunday first observed. The Mayor and Corporation
attended Divine Services at St. Chad's Church in the morn-
ing, and the U.M.F.C. Castiemere in the evening.
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Nov. 18 Presentation of an Address to Lieut. -Colonel Royds by the Con-
servative Working Men's Union.
,, 19 Pioneers' Society's Furnishing Department, Toad Lane, opened.
The structure cost £4,000.
,, 26 Rev. A. Dimock, B.A., inducted to the living of Wardle.
,, 29 Mr. H. H. Howorth, M.P., was invested with the Order of the
Star of India, by Her Majesty at Windsor.
, , Rev. Walter Cooper, B. A. , 18 years Vicar of St. Alban's, resigned.
Y.M.C.A. dissolved.
Dec. 9 Fenton's Bank final dividend paid, making a total dividend of
16s. 3Jd. in the £.
„ 16 Labour Bureau and Shelter opened at the Warehouse, Bridge
End, Yorkshire Street, formerly occupied by Messrs. J. Leach
and Sons.
„ 29 Coldest day for a quarter of a century ; 25 J degrees of frost.
„ Messrs. A. Brierley, H. Radcliffe, J. £. Schunck, and W. Shaw,
were appointed County Justices.
„ Volunteer Officers' Decoration granted to Colonel Philippi, Major
R. Healey, and Captain Howard Healey.
„ 766 empty dwelling-houses in the town.
Drink Bill for the borough estimated at £250,000 for the year.
1893.
Jan. 10 Presentation to Mr. James Wrigley, Henry Street School, by old
Scholars.
„ 23 Conservative and Unionist Club, Lord Street, opened.
„ ,, Rev. F. S. C. Crane, M.A., appointed to St. Chad's ; appointed
Vicar of Lower Crumpsall, 1898.
,, 30 Sagar's Vaults, Yorkshire Street, sold by auction for £5,800.
,, Cycle industry introduced to the town by Mr. Samuel Tweedale,
Oldham Road.
Feb. 3 To widen Yorkshire Street and Whitworth Road the Consistory
Court sanctioned the taking away of a portion of St. James s
Churchyard.
. ,, ,, Town's Meeting adopted a resolution in favour of the Rating of
Ground Values.
„ 6 Discovery of an ancient Stone Font near the western boundary
of St. Chad's Churchyard.
„ 7 Mr. C. Dickens, Q.C., in the Public Hall, gave readings from his
father's works.
,, 11 Rev. H. Edmonds, A.K.C., inducted to St. Alban's.
„ 24 Cabmen's Shelter, Station Road, opened ; cost £200.
„ Mr. A. Baldwin, manager of the L. & Y. Bank, retired.
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Feb. Syke Artificial Lakes completed.
,, Rain fell on twenty -four days during the month.
Mar. 6 Dr. H. C. March and Messrs. A. Molesworth, J. Duckworth,
J. T. W. Mitchell, J. Turner, W. T. Heap, and J. Rushworth,
were appointed Borough Justices.
„ 24 -Twenty weeks' Cotton Strike settled by an all-night conference
at Brooklands.
Apl. 11 Cophetuats Bride, a Comic Opera, by John Trafford Clegg and
David Clegg, produced.
„ 13 Meeting of Churchmen to protest against the Welsh Suspensory
Billheld.
„ 17 King's Head Inn, Lord Street, sold by auction for £2,325.
,, „ Red Lion Inn, Lord Street, offered for sale and withdrawn at
£2,720.
„ 26 Technical School opened by Sir Bernard Samuelson, M.P-
,, „ Higher Grade School, Fleece Street, opened.
„ 27 Sir H. H. Howorth, M.P., elected F.R.S.
,, 29 Cyclist Parade ; £200 raised for the Infirmary.
„ Rochdale Public Coffee House Company Limited wound up. For
every £1 share the shareholders received £3 12s. 3d.
„ Large Boulder found at Castleton, placed in the Park.
May 5 Town's Meeting approved of the Local Veto Bill.
„ 8 Pew in St. Chad's Church sold for £86.
„ ,, Chief Constable Wilkinson resigned owing to ill health.
,, 217,308 visits to the Reference Library estimated to have been
made since May last.
„ Kenion's Charity funds exceeded to £8,000.
June 10 Fire Station, Alfred Street, opened.
„ 22 H.M.S. "Victoria" foundered. John Shaw, Newhey, was one of
the few survivors.
,, 27 Miss Colenso, daughter of the famous Bishop, gave a Lecture in
the town.
„ Messrs. J. King & Sons' Moss Mills closed.
„ Yeomanry Cavalry Troop first encamped at Southport. Since
1846 the annual training had taken place at Lancaster.
July 21 Mr. C. Buck, Margate, commenced his duties as Chief Constable.
, , 22 Infirmary Gala, seventh , held at Foxholes ; 40,000 persons present.
,, 24 Ex-Chief Constable Wilkinson presented with an address and
£250.
,, 29 Ambulance Corps formed.
,, Knighthood of the Golden Cross of the Saviour conferred upon
Mr. J. T. W. Mitchell, by the King of Greece.
Aug. 1 Sale of Gale Inn, Whitworth Road, for £3,010 ; Royds Arms
Hotel, Spotland, £3,125; and Bush Inn, £1,010.
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Aug. 19 Great Swimming Match at Hollingworth Lake: McCusker, an
American, v. J. Nuttall, for the World's Championship. J.
Nuttall won easily. 40,000 persons present.
,, 29 Dr. Parker, of the City Temple, lectured in Castlemere U.M.F.C.
on "Clocks and Watches."
,, Free Baths for School Children sanctioned.
Sep. 6 Issue of Books at Hamer Board School in connection with the
Free Public Library began.
„ 8 Fred Maccabe, the entertainer, last appeared in the town.
,, ,, Novel Swimming Match at the Public Baths between Alderman
Duckworth, Mayor, and Councillor Diggle ; the former won.
„ 9 Cronkeyshaw Recreation Ground opened ; cost £1,000, towards^
which Alderman Duckworth gave £800.
„ 20 National Coffee Tavern Association held its Annual Conference
in the town.
,, 30 Liberal Club opened in the premises, late Secular Hall, Milkstone
Road.
Oct. 10-11 2,500 Sunday School Teachers and Scholars attended Alderman
Duckworth's reception in the Town Hall.
,, 11 Mr. George Kemp, B.A., Beechwood, adopted Unionist Candi-
date for Heywood Division.
,, 18 Town's Meeting approved a scheme for a Railway from Manches-
ter through Rochdale to Newcastle ; the scheme fell through.
„ 23 Mr. J. R. Hartley was presented by the Conservative party with
a portrait in oils of himself.
Nov. 1 Separate Bankruptcy Jurisdiction for Rochdale came into force.
,, 4 Bandstand in the Park presented by Alderman Duckworth.
,, 9 First Conservative Mayor, Mr. Councillor J. Cheetham, elected.
„ ,, Honorary Freedom of the Town conferred upon Alderman Taylor.
,, 13 Town's Meeting approved a resolution to establish a Municipal
Lodging House.
„ 15 Price of House Coal, 2/- per cwt.
,, 17 End of the Coal Strike which had extended over four months
and was estimated to have caused a loss of £5,000,000 to the
country.
,, 18 Ash worth Memorial Window, Milnrow Church, opened.
,, Nonconformist bodies made a Visitation of the town.
Dec. 7 Centenary of the Harmony Lodge of Freemasons celebrated.
„ 11 Fifth daily delivery of letters began.
,, 12 Sir Robert Bail lectured in the Public Hall on Astronomy.
,, 23 Billiard and Recreation Room at the Fire Station opened.
,, 31 Rev. R. Veitch, M.A., concluded his pastorate at Providence
Chapel.
,, Dean Maclure presented to the town a life-size plaster cast of
Bishop Fraser.
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Dec. Roche House pulled down during the year.
Fifteen Joint Stock Spinning Companies in the district made twice
as much profit during the year, as seventy-eight Oldham
Companies.
1894.
Jan. 5 Lieut. -Col. C. M. Royds, J. P., D.L., gazetted Hon. CoL of the
2nd Volunteer Battalion of Lancashire Fusiliers.
„ 6 Coldest day in local records.
„ „ Syke Artificial Lakes first used for skating.
Feb. 3 Golf Links at Heyhead Farm, King's Road, opened.
,, 4 St. James's Mission Church, Entwisle Road, opened.
„ 5 Presentation of Plate to Mr. H. Brierley, J. P., by the Primrose
League.
„ 11 Canal embankment at Castleton burst. Three miles of waterway
emptied.
,, 12 Disastrous failure of the Castleton Cotton Spinning Company,
Limited.
„ 18 St. Andrew's Church, Dearnley, opened. First Church in the
district to be lighted by electricity. Cost £3,000.
„ 26 Rochdale Church League formed, Mr. A. Brierley, J. P. , President.
„ 28 Two shops, &c, numbered 34 and 36, Yorkshire Street, sold for
£3,000.
„ Mortuary behind the Town Hall opened.
„ Petition for the release of Thomas Mc.Gah presented to the Home
Secretary.
Mar. 1 700th Anniversary of St. Chad's Church observed. Dr. Maclagan,
Archbishop of York, present.
„ 3 Bishop of Lichfield laid the Corner Stone of Coventry Street
Schools. Bishop of Chester present.
„ 6 Presentation to Mr. Robert Walker of a portrait of himself, on
behalf of members of the Rochdale Bowling Club.
,, 7 Lady Henry Somerset addressed a Temperance meeting in the
Town Hall.
„ 13 Rochdale Athletic Club formed ; Lieut-Col. Royds, President.
, , 17 Lecture Room and Class Rooms added to William Street U. M. F. C.
„ 20 Fieldhouse School, erected 1839, pulled down.
„ 25 392,651,000 feet of gas consumed during the year ended this day.
ApL 3 Roach Mills Chimney (150 feet) felled by Mr. J. Smith.
„ 16-17-18 National Conference of Charity Organisation Societies held
in the town.
„ 17 Mr. J. W. Radcliffe, J. P., entered upon his duties as High
Sheriff of Lancashire.
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ApL 21 Poll on the question of forming a School Board for Littleborough ;
706 for, 676 against.
„ 23 Pioneers' Society decided to discontinue their Science, Art, &c,
Classes, commenced in 1873.
„ 30 Michael Davitt gave an Address on Irish Politics in the Public
Hall.
May 1 Rent of £380 per annum on the Park lands remitted by the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners as from this date.
„ 4 Board of Guardians increased from twenty-four to thirty-three
members, twenty seats being allotted to the borough.
„ 5 Cycle Parade, second, in aid of the Infirmary; receipts £199
3s. 5d.
„ „ Mr. J. Schofield, twenty-six years President of Newbold Friendly
Society, retired ; successor, Mr. T. Cryer.
„ 21 Manchester Ship Canal formally opened by the Queen. 10,000
Bochdalians visited Cottonopolis.
„ 24 Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P., chosen a Privy Councillor.
,, 26 Heavy Snowfall on Blackstone Edge.
June 9 Athletic Grounds, Milnrow Road, opened.
„ „ Littleborough School Board contest; three Churchmen and four
Progressives elected.
,, 21 Fox Inn, Milnrow Road, sold by auction for £3,175.
,, 30 Lifeboat Saturday Demonstration ; receipts £358.
„ Rochdale and District Commercial and Postal Directory, by J. G.
Duncan, published.
„ Memorials of the Lodge of Harmony of the Order of Freemasons,
compiled by Bros. R. Greenwood and R. R. Grey, published
by Bro. J. Clegg.
July 10 U.M.F.C. Annual Assembly commenced in the town. Alderman
J. Duckworth elected President.
,, 21 Infirmary Gala at Foxholes. 27,334 persons present.
,, 28 Voluntary Aid Society opened Clayclough Farmhouse as a home
for poor children in need of fresh air.
,, 29 Dr. A. T. Schofield a well-known scientist and a native of Roch-
dale gave an Address in Nuttall Street School.
,, Brickfield Co-operative Society amalgamated with the Pioneers'
Society.
„ David's Loom, by "Th' Owd Weighver" (John Trafford Clegg),
published in collected form.
Aug. 11 First Norden Agricultural Show held at Redf earns Farm.
,, 17 Spotland Liberal Club's "going off fund" amounted to the sum
£1,450 3s. 6d.
,, 22 Grapes Inn, Milnrow Road, License lapsed.
, , Crawford Spinning Company lost £2,015 on the quarter's working.
Sep. 6 Mr. Robert Clough, Temperance Advocate, interred.
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Sep. 8 Mr. G. E. Miles, twenty-four years' Treasurer of the Newbold
Friendly Society, resigned ; successor Mr. T. Asquith.
,, 10 Branch of the Commercial Traveller's Association formed.
„ 14 Mr. R. D. Mattley, Solicitor, appointed Clerk to the Norden
Local Board.
,, 19 Colonel Royds chosen Unionist Candidate for the borough.
,, 24 A fine specimen of Sigillaria, 7 feet in height, discovered near Nor-
man Road, Sparth.
„ 27 Alderman T. Schofield was presented by Sir J. T. Hibbert, M.P.,
on behalf of subscribers, with a portrait in oils of himself.
,, Rochdale Cricket Club won the Central Lancashire League Cup.
The club retained the trophy for several seasons.
,, Schmalz'8 Picture "Return from Calvary" exhibited in the
Public Hall ; visited by 9,000 persons.
,, The latest and largest gasometer, Dane Street, completed; 136
feet in height, 150 feet diameter ; holding capacity 2,403,293
cubic feet.
,, Mr. J. H. Hodgson twenty-four years' Revising Barrister for the
district retired.
Oct. 2 Rochdale Agricultural Society re-formed.
,, 3 The Yew Mill Strike which extended over several weeks, began.
Serious disturbances.
,, 6 Councillor J. Sharrocks was presented with the portrait of him-
self which hangs in the Beaconsfield Club, Baron Street.
,, 15 Mr. T. Snape, M.P., distributed the prizes awarded to Technical
School Students.
„ 17 Sir Charles Halle's last appearance in the town. Accompanied
by Lady Halle he gave a Recital in the Town Hall.
,, 20 Burgess Roil contained 15,066 names, of which over 3,000 were
women.
„ 25 Rochdale Waste Lands' Protection Society formed, in conseqeunce
of persons having been turned off Blackstone Edge.
„ 26 Jubilee of the Yeomanry Cavalry Troop celebrated.
,, A History of Lancashire (Popular County Histories), by Lt.-CoI.
Henry Fishwick, published.
Nov. 3 Crimean Veteran's Dinner held at the "Duke of Wellington Inn.
The number of veterans in the district was nineteen.
„ 10 Pioneers' Society's Jubilee celebrated. To commemorate the
event the Society gave £1,000 to the Infirmary.
,, 16 Bacup portion of the Rochdale Union transferred to Haslingden.
,, 17 Mr. R. D. Mattley, solicitor, was appointed Deputy County
Coroner for the district.
„ „ Millgate Liberal Club opened.
,, School Board Contest : five Progressives, two Churchmen, one
Independent Churchman, one Romanist, and two Labour re-
presentatives returned. Church Party lost two seats. See
Elections.
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Nov. Scheme for making a Railway to Norden announced ; abandoned
owing to want of financial support.
Dec. 2 Sidebottom Memorial Window, St. Martin's, Castleton, unveiled.
,, 7 Maiden Sitting at the Borough Police Court.
„ 11 " Flannelette " Test Case brought by local woollen manufacturers
who contended that the use of the word was misleading,
opened in London ; summons ultimately dismissed. Decision
upheld on appeal.
„ „ Sir Robert Ball gave a Lecture in the Public Hall on "Astronomy."
„ 17 First Election of the Board of Guardians as now constituted took
place.
A Scheme for making a Canal from Chadderton through Royton
to Castleton, to join the Rochdale Canal, projected.
Jolly's Note Book, by H. Fish wick, F.S.A., published.
1895.
Jan. 7 Mr. Robert Holt elected President of the Pioneers' Society.
„ 9 Mr. Potter announced his intention of resigning his seat at the
end of Parliament.
„ 10 First meeting of the enlarged Board of Guardians.
„ 31 u Castle ton -by -Rochdale " re-named " Castleton, Lancashire" in
public meeting.
Feb. 4 Magisterial inquiry as to the authenticity of certain declarations
put in at the Revision Court — summonses dismissed.
„ 14 Very few Valentines passed through the P.O. In 1871 the num-
ber dealt with was 20,000.
„ 16 Guardians Bye-Election in Wardleworth West owing to a tie: —
R. Purdy (C.) 257 ; A. Whitehead (L.) 227; G. Peniington
(S.) 164.
„ 19 Mr. Charles Santley sang in the Town Hall.
,, 22 Lord Cross was entertained at the Wellington Hotel by members
of the Conservative and Unionist Club.
,, 23 Robert Ackrigg sentenced to twelve years penal servitude for
outrage at Blackstone Edge.
„ 26 Mr. J. H. Wylie, M.A., H.M. Inspector of Schools appointed to
Shrewsbury.
Mar. 1 Election of two Borough Auditors : — J. Schofield (L.) 519 ; J. M.
L. Chadwick (C.) 506; R. Thompson (S. ) 320 ; P. Lee(I.L.P.)
retired, 11.
„ 2 Coventry Street Church Schools opened by Dr. Moorhouse; cost
£7,435.
„ 4 Theatre re-opened after the fire which occurred 27th January,
1894, with the "Bauble Shop," in which Mr. C. Wyndham
appeared.
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Mar. 20 Providence New Chapel, High Street, opened ; 600 sittings ; cost
£5,500. The first place of worship in the town lighted by
electricity.
26 Rochdale and Manor Brewery Company Limited incorporated ;
capital £161,000 in £10 shares.
Union Street Day School transferred to the School Board.
Norden Railway Bill for the construction of a line, 1 mile 5 fur-
longs in length, from Facit branch line, before Parliament.
2,000 persons estimated to be suffering from Influenza.
Apl. 6 Socialist Club, George Street, opened.
10 The Law Student's Association inaugurated ; Mr. Edgar Brierley,
Barrister-at-Law, President.
14 Peal of Tubular Bells, Ashworth Chapel, dedicated.
23 Mr. W. L. Bright (L.) gave his one public Address during his
Parliamentary campaign in the borough, illness preventing
his taking any further active work.
29 Town's Meeting denounced the Armenian atrocities. Professor
Thoumaian, an exile, spoke.
Tucker's Silk Mill, Sudden, after running for thirty years, stopped.
Shield of the N.U. of Teachers awarded to the Rochdale Branch,
for contributing the largest sum per member to the benevolent
fund of the Union. The Branch contributed £500.
May 23 Alderman J. Duckworth contested Leamington and Warwick :
Hon. A. Lyttleton (U), 2,815; Duckworth (L.), 2,236.
,, Norden Conservative Club Buildings Company Limited, formed.
,, Castleton (Lanes.) Liberal Club Buildings Company Limited,
formed.
June 5 Mr. William Law, Littleborough, presented an East Window to
Shakespere's Church, Stratford -on- Avon. ' * One of the greatest
improvements effected in the Church in this generation."
1 1 Mr. J. Elliott, Borough Treasurer, appointed to Saiford.
14 Rochdale Magazine Club, formed 1828, for the supply of current
periodicals, dissolved. The Club held a dinner half-yearly,
until a recent period, and an annual gathering away from the
town. Mr. George Craven was Secretary for sixty- two years.
„ Betting raid on four licensed houses. Eight persons fined in all
£115 and costs, and £21 extra costs, 26th June.
24 Mr. W. A. Peters, Ryefield, and Mr. A. T. Radcliffe, Healey
Hail, appointed County Justices.
26 Infirmary Building Extension Fund, projected at a meeting in the
Town Hall. £5,000 subsequently raised. Col. Royds, M.P.,
Alderman Duckworth, Mr. S. Turner, and Mr. F. G. Crowther
each contributed £500.
30 Four Memorial Windows to the Heape and Grundy families placed
in Blackwater Street Chapel.
Collinge Street, extending from Oldham Road to Starvation
Bridge, re-named Durham Street.
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July 3 Robert Clough Memorial in the Cemetery unveiled.
„ 4 Mr. S. Boothman, Nelson, appointed Borough Treasurer.
„ 7 Rev. T. J. Barker appointed to St. Stephen's Church.
„ 8 Mr. J. A. Bright, M.P., retired from the representation of Central
Birmingham.
,, 13 Agricultural Show, first since 1877, held on the Athletic Ground,
Newbold ; 1,300 entries ; 12,000 persons present.
„ 15 Borough Parliamentary Election: Colonel Royds (U.), 4,781;
W. L. Bright (G.), 4,359; G. N. Barnes (S.), 1,251. Cost:
Royds, £612 17s. Id., (2s. 6d. per vote) ; Bright, £504 Od. 4d.,
(2s. 3d.); Barnes, £160 lis. 0£d.> (2s. 6d.)
„ Sir H. H. Howorth re-elected M.P. for South Salford.
„ Mr. Edwyn Holt, Manchester, a member of an old Bamford
family, contested North-East Manchester against Sir James
Fergusson, and was defeated.
„ 18 Middleton Div. Parliamentary Election; T. Fielden (U.), 5,926;
C. H. Hopwood (G.), 5,061.
„ 20 Infirmary Gala ; 10,000 persons present ; a loss of £350.
„ 22 Mr. George Kemp, B.A., (U.) Beechwood, elected M.P. for Hey-
wood Division by 4,489 votes, to 3,933 votes recorded for Mr.
T. Snape(G.)
Aug. 7 Mr. J. Wrigley, Station-Master, was publicly presented by Colonel
Royds, M.P., on behalf of subscribers with an Address and
£755, in appreciation of thirty-four years services at the Rail-
way Station.
,, 10 Rev. J. A. Kempthorne, M. A., Gateshead, inducted to the living
of St. Mary's, The Baum.
„ Lieut. -Col. Fish wick, F.S.A., elected President of the Record
Society of Lancashire and Cheshire.
„ OldfClock Face Hotel, Lord Street, sold to the Crown Brewing
Company, Bury, for £6,000.
„ Pioneers' Society had under consideration the establishment of a
Co-operative Temperance Hotel in the town.
„ Star Inn, Drake Street, sold to Seed's Brewery for £6,000.
„ Mr. J. T. Worth, Registrar of the County Court, appointed first
Notary Public in the town.
„ Mr. G. Kemp, M.P., appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary
to the Secretary of the Admiralty.
„ Debentures first issued by the School Board on the security of
the local rates at 3 per cent., to raise loans.
Sep. 6 Sketches and Rhymes in the Rochdale Dialect, by John Trafford
Clegg, ("Th' Owd Weighver,") Vol. I. published. Vol. II.
completing the work, publishedJanuary 31st, 1899.
„ 12 Mr. F. H. Mellor first sat as Revising Barrister for this district,
having succeeded Mr. J. H. Hodgson.
„ 21 Rev. A. D. Da vies, M.A., inducted to St. Luke's, Deeplish.
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Sep. 26 Dearnley Church consecrated by Dr. Moorhouse ; 400 sittings ;
cost £3,300.
„ 27 Rochdale Spinning Company, Limited, declared a fifth consecutive
dividend of 10 per cent, having previously declared eighteen
dividends of 12$ per cent. each.
,, 30 Oldham Joint Stock, now London City and Midland, Bank's
premises, Bridge End, opened.
„ Master Bootmakers' Association formed.
Oct. 2 First Cremation from Rochdale took place at the Manchester
Crematorium, the body being that of Mr. Sam Standring,
Secularist.
,, 5 Mr. A. L. Mills presented with an Address and a cheque in recog-
nition of fifteen years' services as Conservative Agent.
,, 8 Dr. N. Buckley's valuable and extensive library dispersed at a
three days' sale. Eighteen years had elapsed since the previous
sale.
„ 9 Mr. W. H. Cruddas, Leeds, appointed Conservative Agent.
„ 17 Union Manufacturing Company, Limited, formed 1887, in liquida-
tion. Adverse balance, £17,530.
„ 23 Rochdale and District Reform Club established. Alderman Duck-
worth's offer of his Temperance Hotel for club premises was
accepted.
„ 27 Canon Boulaye inducted to Ann Street Roman Catholic Church.
„ 28 Mr. T. E. Wilkinson, Drake Street, who died this day, by will
left a legacy of £100 to the Infirmary.
,, 29 Licenses of the following beerhouses, ail on the Glebe, lapsed :—
Watchman's Home, Water Street; Joiners' Arms, River
Street; Duke of York, Livsey Street ; Freehold Tavern, Drake
Street ; Moss Tavern, Milnrow Road.
,, Portrait in oils of Edwin Waugh, Lancashire poet, presented to
the town by Mr. T. R. Wilkinson, Manchester.
Nov. 2 Temperance Club, Dower House, Cheetham Street, opened.
„ 4 Spotland Board School, Clarke's Lane, opened. Cost £14,000.
„ 12 Union Shed, Castleton Gales, which cost £40,000 to equip, sold
by auction for £13,150.
„ 13 Rochdale District Nursing Association formed.
„ 23 Mr. T. Bamford, Wardle, who died this day, by will left £500 to
the Infirmary.
,, 27 Professor John Milne, the eminent seismologist, in the Public
Hail, gave a lecture on " Earth Movements."
„ Rev. W. B. Berry, M.A. Vicar of Smallbridge since 1881, ap-
pointed Rector of Beelsby, Lincolnshire.
Dec. 5 Councillor James Cheetham elected first Conservative Alderman
since the extension of the borough, 1872.
„ 8 Presbyterian Church Spire, erected by public subscription, dedi-
cated ; height from the ground, 126 feet. Cost £1,070.
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Dec. 12 Canon Boulaye coopted a member of the School Board; vice Canon
O'Neill, deceased.
„ 14 Newbold Workmen's Club formed ; 160 members.
„ 22 Rev. J. T. Bradsell appointed Curate of St. James's Church.
„ 31 M. Leo Melliet, B. A. , LL. B., Mayor of Paris during the Commune,
gave a lecture at the Socialists' Club, Townhead, on "Ideas
and Facts."
„ John Baxter Limited, Brewers, incorporated; price paid for the
concern, £154,473 16s. 7d.
1896.
Jan. 15 Dr. Jayne, Bishop of Chester addressed a large Temperance
meeting in the Public Hall.
,, 25 Councillor T. Watson, J. P., elected President of the Reform
Association, vice Mr. G. Petrie, J. P., resigned.
„ Mr. H. C. March, M.D., presented to the town the collection of
Flints and Fossils now placed in the Free Public Library.
„ Sudden Silk Mill taken over by the Rochdale Rhea Fibre Spinning
Company Limited.
Feb. 8 Rev. C. H. Peters, M.A., inducted Vicar of St. John's, Small-
bridge.
„ 11 Shopkeeper's Union inaugurated ; 136 members.
„ „ John Bright Statue, Westminster Hall, unveiled by the Duke of
Devonshire.
„ 15 Rochdale and District Nonconformist Council of Evangelical Free
Churches formed, Mr. Charles Heap, President.
„ 29 Rev. G. W. Hunt, M.A., inducted to St. James's, Calderbrook.
„ Park Slopes connected by a bridge across the roadway leading
from the Esplanade to Sparrow Hill.
„ Skating Rink, Castlemere Street, demolished.
Mar. 2 Election of two Borough Auditors:— J. Schofield (L.) 522; J. M.
L. Chadwick (C.)344; R. Thompson (S.) 310; number of elec-
tors qualified to vote, 14,743.
„ 5 Mr. H. C. March, Police Surgeon, resigned.
„ 18 Drs. W. J. Kerr and A. Jefferson elected to the honorary medical
Staff of the Infirmary on the resignation of Drs. March and
Elliott.
,, 21 Norden Liberal Club opened in Pilling Street, Mr. J. E. Porritt,
President ; number of members 170. See 20th October , 1898,
,, 25 New Board Room, &c, Union Offices, Townhead, opened; cost
of alterations £4,880.
„ 27 Union Manufacturing Company Limited, Castleton Gales, dis-
solved; preference shareholders received 1/- in the £; ordinary
shareholders nil.
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Mar. Messrs. Schunck ceased working Wicken Hall Mills, Newhey.
„ Overseers fir^t appointed by Urban District Councils.
,, Second portion of the Park Slopes, near the Town Hall, completed
from designs by and at the expense of Mr. J. Ogden, Kilner-
deyne.
Apl. 3 Mr. Clement M. Royds, M.P., gazetted Colonel of the Yeomanry
Cavalry.
,, 23 Mr. James Holden, Marian d, who died this day, by will left
£2,000 to the Infirmary.
,, 28 Lord Rosebery opened the Reform Club, Drake Street. In the
evening he addressed a great Liberal meeting in the Town Hall.
„ Overseers' Offices, The Butts, opened.
„ The amount provided in the Government estimates for the local
postal department was £6,674, and for telegraph service £1,187.
May 9 Milnrow National Schools enlarged at a cost of £1,000.
„ 19 Mr. H. J. Tennant, M.P., and Commissioners, visited the town
to enquire into the state of health and safety of factory opera-
tives.
„ 22 Divers at work in Hollingworth Lake searching for the body of a
youth supposed to have been drowned ; a cruel hoax.
„ 23 Wesley Chapel, Castlemere, New Schools Memorial Stones were
laid.
„ Map of Rochdale, scale 6 inches to a mile, prepared by Mr. H.
Yarwood, published.
June 3 Yeomanry Cavalry in training at Carlisle after three annual visits
to Southport.
„ 14 Miss Bridge, Castleton, who died this day, by will left the interest
of £500 to increase the stipend of the Curate-in-Charge of
Thornham Church.
„ 17 Town's Meeting to consider the establishment of a Municipal
Lodging House ; proposal approved for the third time.
„ 18 Meeting of the Central Committee of the Royal Albert Asylum
for Idiots held in the Town Hall, Sir J. T. Hibbert, K.C.B.,
presiding.
„ 27 L. & Y. Railway Company introduced a cheap market train ser-
vice to the town from surrounding villages on Saturdays and
Mondays.
„ 29 Castlemere Board School, Tweedale Street, opened; accommoda-
tion for 440 scholars.
July 2 Mr. W. J. Kerr, M.D., appointed Police Surgeon.
„ 6 L. & Y. Branch Bank, Bridge End, opened.
,, 18 Last Infirmary Gala held ; 20,000 persons present.
,, Mr. Samuel Turner presented £700 to the Lifeboat Institution
for a new lifeboat in memory of his wife, deceased.
Aug. 2 Lowerfold U.M.F.C. Jubilee celebrated.
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Aug. 2 Memorial Tablet to the Presbyterian and Unitarian Ministers of
Rochdale, erected by Mr. Richard Heape, unveiled in Black-
water Street Chapel.
„ 6 Royle Barn Farm, Castleton, 46a. lr. 34p., sold for £8,000.
„ 22 Mr. F. W. Purcell ended his proprietorship of the Theatre Royal.
,, Rev. D. Heaton ceased his ministry at Union Street Chapel.
Sep. 3 Sewage Scheme, Roach Mills, extended ; total cost of works to
date, £72,000.
„ 8 Councillor John Turner, Mayor, gave a Fancy Dress Ball in the
Town Hall to about 150 juveniles ; a pretty spectacle.
,, 9 Rochdale Blind Society formed.
,, 21 Town's Meetings in the Town Hall and Public Hall, Baillie Street,
on the Armenian Question. Relief fund started; £361 16s. 4d.
raised.
,, Rev. A. Dimock, B.A., Wardle, exchanged livings with the Rev.
H. Baugh, Rector of Netherden, Suffolk.
,, Colonel Royds, M.P., attended the Inter-Parliamentary Con-
ference at Buda-Pesth.
Oct. 15 Fifty-seventh Anniversary of the Union of Lancashire and Cheshire
Institutes held in the town. Lord Derby and Sir U. J. K.
Shuttleworth, Bart., present.
„ 17 Spotland Reform Club, Lark Hill, formally opened by Alderman
T. Snape ; cost of building, £1,200.
„ 19 Rev. J. B. Phillips, M. A., inducted to the living of St. Edmund's,
vacant by the death of the Rev. C. E. Norris, M.A.
„ 21 Woolpack Hotel, Drake Street, two lock-up shops in Richard
Street, buildings formerly two cottages in Henry Street, and
No. 101, Drake Street, withdrawn at an auction sale at £6,800.
„ Mr. A. B. Pilling of this town, Town Clerk of Heywood, appointed
Town Clerk of Devonport.
Nov. 6 Rochdale Ice and Cold Stores Co. Ld. , Exchange Street, formed.
„ 16 Three Days' Conference of the National Union of Conservatives
began. Colonel Royds gave a reception in the Town Hall to
2,000 persons. On the following day the Rt. Hon. A. J.
Balfour, M.P. addressed meetings in the Theatre (Lord Derby
presiding), Town Hall, and the Circus. Marquis of Granby
and a large number of M.P.'s present.
„ 21 Freemason's Arms, School Lane, license annulled at Quarter
Sessions.
„ ,, Mr. G. T. Davies, Postmaster, appointed to Stockport.
„ 29 Jubilee of the Bridge Inn Sick and Burial Society celebrated by
a gathering in the Town Hall. Number of members, over
7,000.
,, Fleece Inn, Fleece Street, rebuilt.
Dec. 17 Mr. H. Broadhurst, M. P. , and Mr. E. J. Griffiths, M. P. , addressed
a Reform meeting in the Town Hall.
„ „ Mr. J. L. Toole began a three nights' engagement at the Theatre
Royal ; his last visit.
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Deo. 17 Earthquake shock felt throughout the town.
„ 24 Market first lighted by electricity.
„ Rochdale Nonconformist^ No. 1, a monthly magazine, published.
,, Water Supply averaged 1,750,000 gallons per diem.
Public Bowling Green, The Park, approved by the Town Council ;
abandoned owing to want of suitable area.
Eighteen Sick and Burial Societies with 60,000 members and
£135,000 in funds existed in the district.
Crossfield Mansion and 4 acres of land adjoining sold by auction
for £3,500.
1897.
Jan. 4 Mr. A. Mc. K. Howard, Postmaster, entered upon his duties.
„ 23 Alderman J. Duckworth, M.P., elected President of the Reform
Association.
„ 25 Indian Famine Fund opened. £4,090 17s. 9d. raised.
„ 29 Lieut. -Col. Fish wick, F.S.A., elected President of the Lancashire
and Cheshire Antiquarian Society.
,, 31 Rev. J. H. Hollowell ceased his ministry at Milton Congregational
Church.
„ "Blind Jimmy," a well-known local character, died.
„ Sir E. Kay, Lord Justice of Appeal, a son of Mr. Robert Kay, of
Bainford, resigned ; died 15th February.
„ Gartside Charity funds amounted to £5,383 10s. 5d.; income
£140 0s. 8d.
,, Rev. J. B. Phillips, M.A., commenced his vicariate at Falinge
Church.
Feb. 7 Rev. B. W. Jackson began his ministry at Providence Chapel.
„ ,, Poll on the question of forming a School Board for Castleton
(Lanes.) :— for a School Board 437, against 627.
„ 11 Lieut. -Col. Fish wick elected Chairman of the School Board.
„ „ Rev. Hugh Price Hughes addressed a great meeting in Baillie
Street Chapel.
,, 13 Presentation of an illuminated address to Mr. F. W. Purcell, late
proprietor of the Theatre.
„ 25 Funeral of Dean Moriarty, who died at Nice on the 16th; 2,000
persons present.
„ 27 Castleton Sewage Works, Trub, opened.
„ ,, Motor Car first passed through the town.
Mar. I Election of Borough Auditors: — W. Redman (C.) 795; J. Scho-
field (L.) 702 ; J. M. L. Chadwick (C.) 675 ; C. E. Lewis (L.)
575 ; R. Thompson (S.) 482.
„ 10 Mr. W. Watts, Piethorn Waterworks, appointed Engineer of
Sheffield Waterworks, at a salary of £800 per annum.
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Mar. 24 Colonel Roy da, President of the Manchester and District Bankers'
Institute, delivered his inaugural address.
,, 29 Rochdale Hunt Races first held at Rakewood ; 4 miles course.
„ 31 Dog Licenses in the borough for the year ended this day produced
£1,104 15s.; carriages, £497 2s.; spirits, £3,465 12s. 6d.
„ ,, Mr. Robert Young, 29 years Supervisor of Excise, retired.
„ Drake Street Baptist Chapel re-named Park Baptist Chapel.
„ Number of men ordinarily employed by the Corporation between
800 and 900 ; wages £1,000 per week.
„ Canon Boulaye, St. John's Roman Catholic Church, appointed to
Blackburn.
,, Rev. H. Chipp appointed to St. John's Roman Catholic Church.
„ Rev. T. Cusack appointed to St. Patrick's Roman Catholic
Church.
ApL 15 Wesley Schools, Castlemere Street, erected on the site of the
Skating Rink, opened ; cost £3,750.
„ 16 Conference of the Lancashire Association of Sunday School Unions
held in the town.
„ 21 Hon. Mons. Bergerein, Belgian Minister of Justice, visited Buckley
Hall Orphanage and Spotland Board School.
„ 22 Mr. J. T. Worth, Solicitor, elected Chairman of the Board of
Guardians.
„ 28 Redcross Street new Schools opened; accommodation for 700
children ; cost £3,500.
„ 30 First brick of the Era Mill, Woodbine Street, formally laid by
Councillor W. Dunning. Engine christened 16th July, 1898.
May 12 County Police Court House and Offices, Theatre Street, opened ;
the building cost £8,000. '
,, ,, Whitworth Sewage Purification Works opened.
„ 15 It was announced that Mrs. C. M. Royds intended to present
13,000 Jubilee medals to children attending elementary schools.
,, 20 It was announced that the Holden Trustees intended to endow
the new wing of the Infirmary with £18,000.
„ 22 Castle ton East Ward Conservative Club, Hulme Street, opened.
„ 27 Mr. R. Winter succeeded Mr. T. Clegg, Liberal Agent.
,, 27 Rev. John Watson, "Ian Maclaren," gave a Lecture in Trinity
Presbyterian Church, on " Annals of Drumtochty."
„ 31 Superintendent Thomas Heywood, County Police, retired.
„ It was announced that Colonel Royds, M.P., Alderman Duck-
worth, Mr. S. Turner, and Mr. F. G. Crowther, had each
. promised to give £1,000 to the Infirmary Endowment Fund.
„ Holt's Tobacco Shop at the Junction of Church Lane and Drake
Street, pulled down for street improvements.
June 1 Superintendent W. McQueen, Middleton, succeeded Superinten-
dent T. Heywood.
„ . 4 Mr. J. W. Gregson appointed Conservative Agent.
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June 19 F. E. Bacon, the World's Champion Runner, on the Athletic
Grounds, Milnrow Road, beat Deerfoot's one hour record of
11 miles 970 yards, by 273 yards. 20,000 persons present.
,, 22 Record Reign Celebration. Great rejoicings; brilliant decora-
tions ; procession of 12,000 Sunday School Scholars, Bonfire
on Blackstone Edge, 75 tons of material consumed.
„ Messrs. W. Hardman, H. Sharp, J. Henry, R. Walker, W. Cock-
croft, and J. W. Baron, appointed Borough Justices.
,, Rochdale and the Vale of Wkitworth, by W. Robertson, published.
July 2 Alderman J. Cheetham resigned the Chairmanship of the Conser-
vative party.
„ 17 Agricultural Show at Willbutts ; 5,000 persons present.
,, 24 Holden Wing of the Infirmary, opened by Lord Stanley, M.P.
„ „ Unveiling of Tablets at the Infirmary over beds endowed by the
gifts of £1,000 each from Colonel Royds, M.P., Alderman
Duckworth, and Mr. Samuel Turner, Chaseley.
,, Mr. J. Pearson appointed Manager of the Williams Deacon, &c,
Bank.
Aug. 18 Amount distributed by Savings' Clubs during the Rushbearing
holidays, £17,000.
„ 23 Professor J. Milne of this town ^ave a Lecture before the British
Association, at Toronto, on Earthquakes.
Sep. 23 Mr. J. Leach appointed Town Clerk at a salary of £500 per annum.
„ 28 St. Clement's Football Club disbanded.
Oct. 3 Spotland U.M.F.C, Rooley Moor Road, opened; cost £5,500.
„ 13 Sir J. T. Brunner, M.P., in the Town Hall, distributed the prizes
awarded to the Technical School Students.
,, 21 Rochdale Gymnasium, Sparrow Hill School, formally opened.
Nov. 4 Middleton Division Parliamentary Election, on the death of Mr.
T. Fielden. — See Elections.
„ 10 Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith, M.P., addressed a meeting of Liberals
in the Town Hall, on current politics.
,, 26 Lieut. -Col. Fish wick elected President of the Lancashire Parish
Register Society, of which he was the founder.
„ 27 Rev. W. J. Whitworth inducted to the benefice of Facit, vacant
by the death of the Rev. E. H. Aldridge.
,, 29 Lieut. -Col. Fish wick appointed Chairman of the newly elected
School Board.
„ . Rev. J. Evans accepted the pastorate of Milton Congregational
Church.
„ Local subscribers to the Telephone system numbered' 230.
Dec. 1 It was announced that Mr. W. Mather, Salford, declined to con-
test the borough in the Liberal interest.
,, 15 St. Aidan's Church, Marland, opened.
,, 20 Town's Meeting rejected the Waterworks Extension Scheme.
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Dec. 24 Electric Lighting installation, Edenfield Road, Norden, in*
augurated.
400 Penny-in-the-slot Gas Meters in use.
"Shaw" Railway Station re-named "Shaw and Crompton."
Prolonged dispute in the Engineering trade ; great lock-out of
unionists.
1,346 Half -Timers employed in the town; in 1873 the number
was 4,218.
Daily consumption of water, 1,952,000 gallons.
Income from water supplied for trade purposes, £6,040 ; in 1870
the income was £226.
1898.
Jan. Ward meetings were held throughout the town in favour of the
new Waterworks Scheme.
Feb. 11 Poll on the question of acquiring Todmorden Waterworks de-
clared : Votes for the scheme 8,692 ; against 4,368.
12 United Kingdom Commercial Travellers' Association Central
Board entertained by Councillor Miles Ashworth, Mayor.
20 Rev. Jonathan Evans commenced his ministry at Milton Congre-
gational Church.
24 Littleborough Ratepayers decided to oppose the new Rochdale
Water Scheme.
Archdeacon Wilson, M.A., elected Hulsean Lecturer, Cambridge
University.
Mr. J. Brindle, Secretary of the Tram Company, appointed the
Manager.
Mar. 1 Borough Auditors' Election :— W. C. Redman (C.) 875 ; J. Scho-
field (L.) 449; J. W. Scott (Lab.) 318; C. E. Lewis (L.) re-
tired, 15.
„ 3 It was announced that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had
agreed to waive the condition that the Corporation should
raise .£500 on the gift of land adjoining Robinson's works
being made.
,, 15 Dr. Daliinger gave a Lecture in the Public Hall, on "Spiders,
their work and wisdom."
„ 17 Presentation of Plate to Mr. R. A. Leach, Union Clerk, by Col.
Royds, M.P., on behalf of subscribers.
„ 26 Pioneers' Society's new offices, Toad Lane, opened.
„ „ Newbold Friendly Society's funds amounted to £53,332 9s. 9d.;
number of members 25,251.
,, 30 Earl Spencer addressed a large meeting of Liberals in the Town
Hall.
„ 31 Countess Spencer opened a four days Liberal Bazaar in the Town
Hall ; about £2,400 net realised.
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Mar. 31 Volume of Sewage dealt with at Roach Mills for twelve months
ended this day was 751 million gallons.
„ ,, Interments in the Cemetery during the previous twelve months
numbered 1,399.
„ „ Gas Profits for the year ended this day, £7,820 18s. 9Jd.
„ It was announced that Mr. C. Whi taker, J.P., had offered to the
town 8J acres of land at Brimrod for use as a recreation ground.
„ Rochdale Amateur Operatic Society formed.
ApL 21 Mr. Henry Wadsworth elected Chairman of the Board of Guard-
ians.
„ „ Mr. Joseph Rushworth, having been defeated at the polls, was
coopted a member of the Board of Guardians — he declined the
position.
„ 23 Nave of St. Luke's Church, and Baptistry, the latter in memory of
Mr. John Pilling Brierley, Lauriston, dedicated ; 474 sittings.
„ 25 A Tie for the Chairmanship of the Castleton Urban District Coun-
cil occurred. On reference to arbitration, Councillor T. Holt
(C.) was recommended for election, Councillor F. Hilton or a
nominee of the Liberal party to succeed him. A similar dead-
lock occurred at Milnrow.
„ Mr. Henry Brierley, Solicitor, appointed Registrar of the Wigan
County Court.
„ Price of the quartern loaf raised from 4d. to 6d. owing to the
Cuban War.
„ It was announced that the Harp Inn, Penn Street, and Cottages
adjoining, valued at £1,000, had been sold for £4,000.
May 2 Superintendent Leonard Barry, Wigan, appointed Chief Constable.
„ 4 Champion Banner of the Primrose League presented to the Roch-
dale Habitation.
„ 6 Tie for the Chairmanship of the Milnrow Urban District Council,
decided by arbitration in favour of Councillor W. Holt (L).
„ 10-11 Mr. Slattery and his wife, ex-Roman Catholics, gave Lectures
in the Public Hall, on the Romish Faith. 2,000 persons
assembled in the neighbourhood ; disorderly scenes.
,, 19 Rochdale Amateur Players formed.
,, 24 Dr. McLaren, the well-known Nonconformist, gave an Address
in Union Street Chapel.
„ 28 Funeral of Mr. Gladstone : Service in the Parish Church simul-
taneously with the State Ceremony in Westminster Abbey ;
members of the Corporation, School Board, &c., present.
June 2 Town Council adopted a resolution in favour of taking over the
undertaking of the Tramway Company within the borough in
1902.
„ 18 Centenary of the firm of Messrs. 0. & W. Ormerod, Leather
Curriers, observed.
„ „ Littleborough U.M.F.C. Choir won the first prize, open to all
comers, at the Annual Festival of the Nonconformist Choir
Union, held in London.
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June 20 Rev. T. W. Wareham, M.A., instituted Vicar of Newhey.
. „ 25 Lifeboat Saturday Demonstration. Large procession ; lifeboat
launched in the canal basin, &c. Net proceeds £353 15s. 3d.
,, 28 Sharrocks Memorial Window, St. Peter's Church, unveiled.
„ Shelters placed in Broadfield Park ; cost about £280.
,, J. Henry, M.D., appointed District Medical Referee under the
Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897.
July 11 Mr. E. B. Fielden adopted Unionist Candidate for the Middleton
Division of Lancashire.
„ 13 It was announced that Alderman Duckworth, M. P. , had succeeded
in obtaining the £20,000 he undertook to raise for theU.M.F.C.
Theological College.
,, 16 Era Mill, Woodbine Street, engines christened ; number of spin-
dles when complete 51,200.
,, 18 Irish Rebellion of '98 commemorated in the Public Hall ; Mr.
J. C. Flynn, M.P., present.
„ 23 Mr. J. Guest elected President of Newbold Friendly Society, vice
Mr. T. Cryer, resigned.
„ 25 Weavers' Arms, a freehold beerhouse as Stoneyfield, let at £18
per annum, sold by auction for £1,805— over 100 years' pur-
chase.
Wellington Hotel, Drake Street, sold by auction for £10,850.
Rochdale Water Act 1898, received Royal Assent.
A hot day; 87*5 in the shade, 108*5 in the sun.
Presentation of an illuminated address, &c, to Mr. S. Clegg, 35
years Master of St. Edmund's Schools.
Victoria Spinning Company Limited, Woodbine Street, projected.
Several Rochdalians were engaged in the Battle of Omdurman.
Whitworth Agricultural Show revived.
New Pulpit, St. John's Roman Catholic Church, Ann Street, the
gift of the Pozzi family, dedicated.
Rev. R. B. Willett, B.A., inducted Vicar of Norden.
Jubilee of Park Baptist Chapel, Drake Street, observed.
,, 23 Alderman Duckworth opened the new Wing of the U.M.F.C.
College, Manchester, built at his sole cost (£3,000).
,, 26-27 Messrs. Barnum & Bailey's Great Show, on tour through the
country, visited the town.
Oct. 1 Memorial Tablet to members of the Smith family, Moorhouse,
placed in Milnrow Parish Church, by employees.
,, 20 Lord Ripon formally opened Norden Liberal Club, Edenfield
Road. t
,, ,, Lord Ripon addressed a large meeting of Liberals in the Town
Hall.
,, 25 Conference of the Lancashire and Cheshire Union of Women's
Liberal Associations held in the town— 160 delegates present.
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Oct. 29 Whitworth new Church Schools opened ; cost £2,700.
Nov. 2 Countess Kearney gave a Liberal Lecture in Moorhouse U.M.F.G.
School-room.
7 It was announced that the Holden Trustees had given £10,000 to
the Children's Hospital, Pendlebury, and £10,000 to St.
Mary's Hospital, Manchester.
10 Interment of Mr. T. B. Potter (who died 6th November, aged
80 years), in Heyshott Churchyard, near Midhurst.
„ Meeting of the Wellington Hotel Company's Shareholders on
winding-up the concern ; a dividend of 32s. Id. per £1 share
shewn.
23 Eclipse Mill, Buckley, projected ; first sod cut 16th Jan., 1899.
26 Royle Bowling and Billiard Club, Castleton, opened ; cost £2,300.
Dec. 6 Theatre Hotel, Stabling and Cattle Sheds, withdrawn at a sale
by auction at £7,500.
10 9,283 tramps admitted to the Casual Ward, Dearnley, since 10th
December previously.
12 About 4,000 Vaccination Exemption Certificates were granted by
the local Justices to this date.
19 Duke of Marlborough presided over a Primrose League Conference
in the Public Hall. In the evening he addressed a large
meeting in the Town Hall.
27 Total Eclipse of the Moon ; the sky being clear a large number
of persons turned out to witness the spectacle.
31 There were 134 licensed victuallers, 153 beershop-keepere, 71
holders of grocers' licenses, 22 wholesale spirit dealers, and 9
holders of confectioners' licenses to sell wine, in the town.
Full strength of the police force, 81 men.
Thirteen Common Lodging-Houses were in existence.
Registers of the Parish Church of Bury, 1590— 1616, published ;
Mr. Henry Brierley, Solicitor, joint Editor with Kev. W. J.
Lowenberg.
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Some Memorable Accidents.
1798 — Feb. 8 James Leach, musician, killed at Blackley, by the over-
turning of the Leeds coach on its way to Manchester.
1819 — Aug. 16 Peterloo gathering ; two Rochdalians injured.
1820 — Nov. 8 Fall of the river wall during the last Bull-bait ; seven per-
sons killed.
1829 — May Shuttle gathering riot ; ten persons killed.
1835— June 19 Stage Coach overturned at the bottom of Black water
Street; several persons injured.
1847 — Jan. 13 Skating fatality at Hollingworth Lake ; three persons were
drowned.
1848 — Jan. 13 Two men descending Messrs. Knowles & Thompson's pit,
Sparth Bottoms, fell down the shaft owing to the breaking
of a rope, and were killed.
1854— July 15 Boiler explosion at Williamson's Bridgefield Mill ; ten per-
sons killed, and twenty injured. A bed in which lay two
children, whose parents were killed by the explosion, is
said to have been blown into the river.
,, Nov. 14 Owing to the breaking of a chain, seven persons descending
Messrs. Knowles' pit, Milnrow, were hurled to the bottom
of the shaft, a distance of 240 feet, and killed.
1859 — Nov. 4 Naptha explosion at Swift's drug shop, Cheetham Street ;
boy killed.
1860 — Aug. 25 Three men killed by the overturning of a cage whilst des-
cending to commence work at Gatehouse Colliery, Little-
borough.
1861 — Mar. 29 Two boats in collision on Hollingworth Lake; thirteen
persons immersed, of whom five were drowned.
,, Sep. 5 William Lord, Gibson Row, fell over Oakenrod Bridge and
was drowned; the river being in flood, the body was
carried to Heap Bridge, and recovered there Sep. 23rd.
1862 — Jan. 5 Warehouse, formerly used as a Theatre, in Anchor Yard,
fell with a tremendons crash.
„ Oct. 15 The floor of a building in The Baum gave way during a sale
of machinery ; three persons killed and many injured.
1863 — Sep. 25 A man killed and another seriously injured by a pulley and
chain falling down Brimrod pit shaft.
1865 — Aug. 23 Grand Stand at the Whitworth and Rochdale Agricultural
Show fell ; four ladies and a boy injured.
1866— Nov. 26 Horses attached to the Whitworth 'bus bolted. In Whit-
worth Road the vehicle collided with a lamp-post ; a man
killed by falling from the top of the 'bus.
1868 — May 28 Broadhalgh Colliery explosion ; two men killed.
1869 — June 29 A four-wheel drag containing five persons backed into Hol-
lingworth Lake, near the Fisherman's Inn, and fell a
distance of 14 feet. Two women drowned.
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Some Memorable Accidents— continued.
9— Dec. 20 R. Lomas fell down Brimrod pit shaft, a distance of 100
yards ; died the following day.
1870 — Jnly 13 Railway accident at Milkstone ; 12 persons injured.
1871 — Jan. 2 Boiler explosion at McOwen's Ironfoundry, Ramsay Street,
a portion of the boiler was blown a distance of 100 yards.
1872— June 14 Fatal fire-damp disaster at Brotherod pit owing to the use
of naked lights.
„ Sep. 18 Four women killed by the falling of ruins at Frankfort
Mill, Littleborough, which was destroyed by fire, August
23rd.
,, Oct. 22 Railway accident at Milkstone caused by a bullock jumping
from a passing cattle train. The animal fell in front of
an express train, the engine of which with four carriages
left the line.
1874 — Feb. 20 W. Taylor and Isabella Cannon, lovers, whilst walking on
the railway line at Bluepits, were knocked down by a
passing train and instantly killed.
„ Aug. 18 An excursion train carrying 300 scholars from Baillie Street
and Castlemere U.M.F.C. Sunday Schools to Ripon col-
lided with a train at Eastwood.
„ Dec. -4 Fatal hoist accident at Mitchel Hey Mill.
1875 — Nov. 12 Fall of earth at the gasworks during excavations; a youth
killed, two men seriously injured.
1877 — Mar. 3 Syke Lane Colliery accident; two men killed by stone
falling.
1878 — Feb. 21 Mr. Edmund Taylor, jeweller, was drowned in a mill
lodge whilst returning from Ashworth in the dark.
„ Apl. 23 First boating fatality at Hollingworth Lake for 17 years.
„ Aug. 15 Horse attached to a cab bolted in Drake Street and dashed
into the river. The cab was completely wrecked; the
horse and driver sustained but trifling injuries.
1879 — Feb. 10 A man killed at Messrs. Fish wick & Company's Colliery,
Cronkeyshaw, through the breaking of a chain ; narrow
escapes.
„ Apl. 9 Three men killed at Messrs. TattersalPs mill, Bagslate,
owing to an escape of steam.
,, Dec. 31 Boiler explosion at Baker's chain works, Fishwick Street.
Mr. Baker, his son, and a workman were killed.
1880 — Apl. 27 Mr. Edwin Smith drowned in Hollingworth Lake by the
upsetting of a canoe.
1882— Apl. 19 Explosion at Chemical Works, Castleton; Mr. W. Riley
and a child died from injuries.
1883 — Jan. 30 Two horses attached to a lurry bolted near the old Rail-
way Station. The carter was run over and killed. Dash-
ing down Drake Street the chain-horse freed itself, but
the animal in the shafts plunged into the river and carried
the lurry with it. The chain-horse followed and alighted
on the lurry. The horses sustained only trifling injuries.
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1885— Mar. 3
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1886— Aug. 12
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1888— July 11
Some Memorable Accidents — continued.
J. E. Birch, property man at the Theatre, fell from the
"flies" and alighting astride a door, sustained shocking
injuries.
Tram accident at the Dusty Miller Inn, Sudden. A car
broke away from the engine and ran down the road with
considerable velocity. Several persons injured.
Fall of a platform on the occasion of the laying the Corner
Stone of the Littleborough Baptist Chapel ; 80 persons
thrown to the ground.
Fall of brickwork at Mitchel Hey Mills, when four men
fell through the flooring of four storeys— a miraculous
escape.
A wall at Norwich Street Mills fell into the Canal ; tem-
porary stoppage of mills dependent on the canal for water.
Drinking fountain and pillar lamp opposite the Wellington
Hotel, Drake Street, demolished by a runaway horse.
Three men drowned in Tunshill Colliery through old work-
ings giving way.
Merchants and Tradesmen's trip accident at Crosby Garrett
on the return journey from Scotland; several persons
injured.
1890 — Apl. 7 John Healey drowned in Hollingworth Lake by the up-
setting of a canoe.
1891 — Aug. 29 Facit railway collision ; two persons killed, six injured.
1892 — Dec. 26 Skating fatality at Marland Dyeworks dam. Fourteen
persons were immersed, four of whom were drowned.
1894— Feb. 11 Canal embankment at Castle ton burst.
„ June 4 Two children of a man named Dean were burnt to death
in Back Crawford Street ; a third child succumbed to the
burns he received.
„ Aug. 28 Gas explosion at the Central Hotel, Town Hall Square ;
several narrow escapes.
„ Dec. 22 W. Horton, engineer at Norwich Street Mills, killed in a
railway accident at Chelford.
1896— Aug. 22 Collapse of "No. 4 Mill," Whitworth, during a dance;
several persons were injured.
„ Oct. 2 Milnrow Road, near Moss Street, collapsed for a space of
16 yards square, having been undermined by water.
„ Dec. 6 Public Hall, Castleton, collapsed ; a complete wreck.
1898— Apl. 7 Explosion of acetyline gas at Milnrow Co-operative Stores ;
several persons thrown to the ground.
„ June 18 Five persons injured by material rebounding on the fall of
a chimney, 90 feet high, at the Sanitary Works.
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Some Severe Storms.
1799 — Aug. Rushbearing flood ; caused great damage throughout the
district.
1821 — Dec. 1 Kenyon's mill blown down during a gale.
1823— May 29 Heavy snow storm. The Grammar School boys to obtain
sapling for Royal Oak Day had to walk through snow
which lay on the ground so deep that it covered their
boot tops.
1838— July 4 Spotland bridge, and Shepherd Mill bridge at Nor r den,
washed away, the water at the former place having risen
15 feet. Whitaker's mill and 400 flannel pieces washed
away. 2,000 panes of glass in Kelsall and Kemp's mill
broken by hailstones. Damage to property in the district
estimated at £80,000.
1854— Jan. 4 Heavy Snow storm, the day following the memorable
fire at Duncan Street mill. Streets impassable, mills and
workshops idle.
1857 — Aug. 14 Trows printworks reservoir burst owing to heavy rains.
„ „ Woman killed by lightning at Smithy Bridge.
1859 — Aug. 6 Brotherod weir washed away.
1861 — Sep. 5 Embankment of Lea mill dam, VVatergrove, gave way
owing to heavy rains ; damages £1,000.
1863— Dec. 23 Fall, during a gale, of the roof and portion of the walls of
the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Smith Street, in course
of erection.
1864— Dec. 16 Roof of Smallbridge Independent Chapel blown away.
1866 — June 30 Severe thunderstorm, when a coping stone weighing 2 cwt. ,
at Messrs. Brierley's mill, Manchester Road, fell at the
feet of several workmen.
„ Nov. 16 Heaviest storm of recent times. The river rose to the level
of Wellington Bridge. Lands in the neighbourhood of
Spodden, Oakenrod, and Sparth, lay several feet deep in
water.
1868 — Feb. 1 A house in Holroyd Street was demolished during a gale
by fall of a tall chimney belonging to Messrs. E. Leach
and Sons : a woman and three children buried in the
debris.
„ Dec. 27 Wesleyan School Room, Peel Street, was unroofed whilst
John Ash worth was preaching. 38 persons were injured
— one death occurred. Fund in aia of the sufferers rea-
lised £297 18s. OJd.
1873 — June 29 Ashbrook Hey dyeworks, Wardle, washed away by heavy
rains.
„ Sep. 14 St. James's Church tower and Baron's mill chimney, Union
Street, damaged by lightning.
1 874— June 24 Violent thunderstorm.
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Some Severe Storms — continued.
1875— Aug. 7 Terrific thunderstorm throughout the district. A machine
upon which a man was working at Smallbridge was shat-
tered by lightning. The man was killed.
1876 — June 21 During a thunderstorm a three-stall stable in which were
three horses and two boys, the latter being engaged in
harnessing a horse in the middle stall, was struck by
lightning. The boys and the horse were not injured, but
the other horses were killed simultaneously.
1877 — Aug. 22 Thunderstorm during which Halstead's foundry chimney,
Oldham Road, struck by lightning, felL Agricultural
Show held on the same day.
1882 — Dec. 6 Severe snowstorm ; drifts 30 feet deep on the moors ; mills
stopped running owing to operatives being unable to re-
turn to work. A woman perished at Wolstenholme.
1883— Dec. 11 Disastrous gale; Nook Factory Chimney blown down. A
chimney in Peel Street fell, alighting on a bed in which
. two persons were sleeping.
1884 — Feb. 1 Hollingworth Lake embankment gave way near the Fisher-
man's Inn during a gale. Spray from the lake rose 20
feet high in places.
„ Aug. 9 Severe thunderstorm. Whitworth Agricultural Show, the
last for many years, held on the same day.
1885 — Jan. 16 Heavy gale. Three steamers sank in Hollingworth Lake.
1886 — Mar. 1 Scaffolding 90 feet high, erected on the re-building of the
Town Hall spire, strewn across The Esplanade during
high winds.
1893 — Nov. 18 Gale causing considerable damage to buildings.
1894— Dec. 21-22 Heavy gale ; much damage done ; many narrow escapes.
1897 — Aug. 5 Severe storm at mid-day ; Parish Church wall, Church
Steps, swept away ; a man killed by lightning near Shaw-
f orth.
1899 — Jan. 12 Hurricane ; Mill Chimneys at Bamford, Whitelees, and
Caldershaw blown down. Great damage to property in
the town ; miraculous escapes.
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Some Memorable Fires.
1838 — Apl. 10 Jacob Bright's mill, newly erected, five storeys high, com-
pletely destroyed ; £20,000.
1853 — Oct. 23 Lomax's, afterwards Jennings' mill, George Street.
1864— Jan. 3 R. & J. Kelsall's Duncan Street mill ; £10,000. Two
women killed, forty injured. H. Radcliffe and A. Taylor
displayed conspicuous bravery in saving lives and received
a public testimonial.
1855— Oct. Jennings' mill, George Street.
1856— Aug. 15 Hill House mill, near Bury Road ; £2,000.
„ „ 26 Sleighty mill, Wardle ; £2,000.
„ Sep. 9 Livsey's Cotton mill, Wellfield ; £5,000.
1857— Dec. 3 J. & J. Schofield's Woollen mill, Milnrow Road ; £6,000.
1860— Nov. 22 Bankside mill, Manchester Road £6,000.
1862— June 9 J. Ashworth & Son's Soho mill, Oldham Road ; £3,000.
1863— June 11 Sudden Cotton mill ; £3,000.
1866— Nov. 16 J. Kershaw & Son's "Judy" mill, The Mount; £20,000.
A wall fell on an adjoining cottage and killed J. Bamford,
a pensioner.
1867— Dec. 27 W. Heap & Son's West View mills, Littleborough ;
£10,000.
1868 — Aug. 1 Great conflagration of heather on Blackstone Edge.
„ Nov. 12 Stott & Pilling's mill, Cheetham Street ; £7,000.
1869— May 5 William Leigh's Firgrove mill ; £12,000.
1870 — Jan. 29 Blackwater Street Unitarian Chapel organ, &c, destroyed ;
£600.
„ Apl. 5 Castlemere U.M.F.C. organ, &c, destroyed; £1,500.
„ May 10 Morgan Brierley's mill, and other buildings in Richard
Street.
„ „ 17 Stott & Pilling's, " Snapper's," Cheetham Street; £30,000.
1871— Jan. 25 Sunny Bank mills, new portion ; £6,000.
„ Mar. 5 J. Schofield & Sons, Buckley ; £3,000.
„ Apl. 1 Berry & Sons, Newhey ; £4,000.
1872— Apl. 8 T. Heap & Sons, Haugh ; £4,000.
„ July 18 Marland mill ; £7,000.
„ Aug. 23 Frankfort mill, Littleborough ; £30,000. Four women
killed by fall of ruins, 18th September.
1873— Feb. 4 W. Pilling & Son, Moss Lock mills ; £12,000.
„ „ 19 R. Butterworth's, "Cocktoes," Woollen mill, off Whit-
worth Road ; £10,000.
„ June 17 Israel Ogden & Sons ; £3,000.
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Some Memorable Fires — continued.
1873— Oct. 8 R. Kay & Sons' printworks, Trows ; £9,000.
„ Nov. 6 Haigh's Broadley mill ; £8,000. Superintendent Tipping,
Whitworth Fire Brigade, lost his life.
1874— Jan. 10 Morgan Brierley, F. L. Stott, and Littlewood & Heape,
Richard Street mills ; £20,000.
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1877— Jan. 26
Hoyle, Petrie & Co., Durham Street ; £2,000.
Waste warehouse, Dearden's Yard, Toad Lane ; £700.
Healey Spinning Company ; £8,000.
Primrose Hill mill ; £2,000.
Wood mill, Newhey, Morgan Brierley x s ; £3,500.
Lady house Spinning Company's mill ; £15,000. Two men
were killed on the following day by the falling of the roof.
„ Oct. 3 David Howarth's mill, Whitworth Road ; £10,000.
1879— May 2 A. & W. Law's woollen mill, Littleborough ; £20,000.
1880— Oct. 9 Princess Street mills, F. L. Stott's ; £5,000.
„ Nov. 5 Bankside mill, Manchester Road; £2,500. Fire escape
used for the first time.
„ Dec. 15 Watergrove mill, Wardle ; £7,000.
1881— Nov. 11 Hanging Road mill ; £15,000.
„ Dec. 25 L. & Y. Railway goods warehouse, Milnrow Road ; £40,000.
1882— Jan. 21 J. Whitworth & Sons, Facit ; £15,000.
„ Feb. 23 Sutcliffe's corn mill, near Halfpenny Bridge; £30,000.
„ Dec. 15 Baker's hosiery shop, Drake Street ; £1,000.
1883— ApL 10 Town Hall spire ; £20,000.
„ Oct. 4 W. Pilling & Sons, Lock Bridge ; £10,000.
1884— May 25 Simpson Clough mill ; £10,000.
1885 — Aug. 19 Mrs. Baker's hosiery shop, Drake Street. Three persons
injured. Fireman Cragg rescued two children ana a dog.
See pp. 88-89.
1886— Feb. 14 Clough House mills, Wardle ; £4,500.
„ Apl. 7 Hamer Hall new mill ; £8,000.
1889— Apl. 26 Littleborough Dyeing Company ; £10,000.
„ Aug. 6 Mitchel Hey mills ; £9,000.
„ Dec. 20 Brotherod old mill ; £5,000.
1890— Apl. 9 Tattersall's woollen mill, Wardle ; £6,000.
„ Aug. 27 Wasp mills, Wardle ; £30,000.
1891— Feb. 7 Tunnicliffe & Sons, Hamer Lane ; £10,000.
„ „ 26 Townhead mill , £4,000.
„ Mar. 3 Wallhead mill, Firgrove ; £2,000.
1892— Feb. 1 Edward Street leather works ; £3,000.
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Some -Memorable Fires— continued.
„ Sep. 14 Caldersfcaw mill ; £5,000.
1893— Dec. 19 Nail & Sons' woollen, mill, Broad Lane ; £5,000.
1894— Jan. 27 Theatre Royal, Manchester Road ; £8,000.
„ June 4 Two children burnt to death in a house in Back Crawford
Street ; a third child succumbed to burns.
„ July 22 Schofield's iron foundry, Littleborough 5 £4,000.
1895— Oct. 17 Sunnybank mills ; £3,000.
1896-Jan. 30 Townhead mill ; £6,000. A man injured.
1898— May 17 Eagle mill, Balderstone ; £1,000.
„ June 2 Horse Carrs mills, Shawclough ; £20,000. Three men
injured.
„ Sep. 21 Trows print works ; £10,000.
SoMfi Notable Crime.
1773— April Sacrilege at St. Chad's Church ; thief transported for life.
1795— Aug. Meal and Flour Riot, the price of bread having risen to
: " famine " price ; two men silled, a boy seriously injured.
1800 — Dec. 17 . Postboy carrying the mail from Rochdale to Manchester
on horseback was robbed ; £200 reward offered for the
capture of the thief.
1809 — Three men from Rochdale were executed at Lancaster
Castle for forgery and base coining.
1829 — May Thomas Kershaw, ringleader of a Shuttle Gathering Riot,
transported for life. He absconded and was arrested as
he stepped on board the New York packet.
1830 — Ben Bull, a local character, transported for life for horse-
stealing.
1835— Jan. 6 Theft of £127 in gold at the Fleece Inn, Fleece Street, by
persons unknown.
1855 — July 22 Half-Moon yard tragedy. Margaret Jones murdered by
Jonathan Heywood, who was captured at Coupe, and
hanged January, 1856.
1856 — May 8 Attempted murder of wife, child, and four persons by
James Taylor, at the Boar's Head, Baillie Street. Taylor
took poison whilst on the way to the lockups and died
almost immediately.
„ Apl. 19 Samuel Bell was robbed and mortally stabbed in Baillie
Street by a person unknown.
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Some Notable Crime — continued.
1868— Mar. 29 Mr. R. Wainwright, master of the Littlebo rough School,
murderously assaulted and robbed in a railway carriage
between Littleborough and Manchester; assailant sen*
tenced to penal servitude for life.
1862 — Feb. 1 Attempted wife murder by Joseph Isott by shooting in
Lord Street. Isott sentenced to penal servitude for life,
29th May.
1865 — June 11 Three Lane Ends, Smithy Bridge, wife murder by J. Kelly,
who was tried 1st August and adjudged insane.
1806 — May 21 Slattocks murder. J. Brennan (44) beaten to death by
James Burrows (18) in a barn opposite Hopwood Arms.
BurrowB was hanged by Calcraft in the front of the New
Bailey, Salford, in the presence of 30,000 persons, 25th
AugUBt.
1868 — Mar. 2 Miles Weatherill, at Todmorden Vicarage, shot dead Jane
Smith a servant, and wounded the Rev. A. J. Plow, M. A.,
formerly curate of St. James's, Wardleworth, who died
from the effects. Weatherill was hanged in front of the
New Bailey, Salford, 4th April, 1868; the last public
execution.
„ Mar.
An ti -Popery Riots took place during the month : — Public
Hall, Baillie Street, and St. John's Roman Catholic Church
attacked by supporters of Mackay, Houston, and Murphy;
much damage done. Thirty Hussars billeted in the town..
Theft of £210 from Sladen's Beach Hotel, Hollingworth
Lake, by persons unknown.
Ezra Whiteoak, farmer, at Calf Hole, Buersill, murdered
two of his children by cutting their throats. He also cut
his own throat and died from the injuries.
1870 — Ndv. 28 Reuben Bottomley met with his death at Pinfold ; assailant
sentenced to fifteen years penal servitude.
Attempted murder in Fitton Street.
Wife murder on the Mount by J. McKenna, who was ap-
prehended at Liverpool and executed 27th March.
„ Apl. 11 Garrotting of Mr. W. Snowdon by three men who were
subsequently sent to penal servitude.
Cloth Hall case.
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1877— Feb. 24
1878— Jan. 31
,, Oct. 31 Affair resulting in the death of a woman on the Mount,
for which a person was sentenced to penal servitude for
life, and released November, 1898.
1879 — May 1 Attempted murder of his wife and child by drowning in
Hollingworth Lake by Isaiah Nuttall, who was himself
drowned in the attempt.
1880 — Feb. 16 James Collier murdered his daughter in Lower Mere Lane,
and afterwards committed suicide.
„ Aug. Alleged child murder in Sheriff Street ; acquittal at the
Assizes.
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Some Notable Crime — continued.
1880— Sep. 19 Samuel Oldman attempted to drown his son in the River
Roach at Brimrod ; sentenced to penal servitude for life.
18S3 — ApL 16 John Rouse sentenced to penal servitude for life for injuries
to Martha Hilton ; released, April, 1893.— -Sec pp. 89-97.
1886 — Dec. 8 Nero, a coloured lecturer, imprisoned for six months for
obtaining money by false pretences.
1887 — Dec. 29 A man escaped from the police cells ; arrested at Hull,
April 11th, following.
1888— Feb. 4 Rochdale mail bag containing 12,000 letters, cheques value
£400, and a mortgage deed for £10,000, stolen at Victoria
Station, Manchester, by persons unknown. The bag was
found in Salford two days afterwards, the contents having
been rifled.
„ June 26 John Livsey, a Salvationist, threw himself into the canal
at Well i'th' Lane Bridge before a crowd of people and
was drowned, no one attempting to thwart his foolish
purpose.
,, Sep. 26 A workman was fined £10 and costs for intimidation during
a strike at Mason's foundry.
1889— June 20 Robbery at Victoria Station, Manchester, of a cash bag
containing £300, belonging to a local firm. A bag con-
taining stone, &c, was left in its place.
„ Nov. 13 Crawford Spinning Company frauds discovered ; total de-
falcations, £8,158 17s. 6d.
1893 — Dec. 11 Affray on the Mount for which a man was sentenced to
four years' imprisonment.
1894— Sep. 30 £400 worth of articles stolen from Mr. H. Samuels', York-
shire Street, by persons unknown.
„ Dec. 6 Blackstone Edge outrage. R. Ackrigg sentenced to twelve
years' penal servitude, 23rd February following.
1897 — July 31 James Smith died from the effects of a kick received at
Sudden.
1898— July 30 Townhead Post Oflice, Yorkshire Street, broken into by
persons unknown ; postal orders, postage stamps and cash
to the value of £135 taken.
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Vicars of Rochdale.
Geoffrey, Dean of Whalley
William de Duraplinton
John de Blackburne
Richard de Perebald
Thomas de Boulton
Radulph de Dewesbury
Radulph de Trumpyngton
Roger de Manchester
John filthier
John de Salley
Richard de Twyafield
Henry Merland
Richard Salley
Thomas Brotherton
John Walton
William Asheton
Nicholas Townley
Gilbert Haydock
Stephen Smith
Richard Gorstelow
John Hampson
Huntington
Richard Midgley
Joseph Midgley, M. A
Richard Kenyon, M. A
Henry Tilson, M.A
Robert Bath, M. A.
Henry Pigot, M.A
Samuel Dunster, D.D
Nathaniel Foster, D.D
James Tunstall, D.D
Thomas Wray, D.D
Richard Hind, D.D
Thomas Drake, D.D
William Robert Hay, D.D
John Edward Nassau Moles worth, D.D
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ANNALS OF ROCHDALE.
Parliamentary Elections for the
County Division.
From 1832 to 1867, the district was included in the South Lancashire
electoral area; from 1867 to 1881 it was part of the S.E. Lancashire
electoral area. First election for Middleton Division of the County,
2nd December, 1885.
1832. Votes.
Viscount Molyneux L.) > uw^wi
G.W.Wood(L.) j-Electeo:
1885.
Lord Francis Egerton (Tory). . . . 5,620
Hon. R. B. Wilbraham (Tory) . . 4,729
Viscount Molyneux (L.) 4,620
G.W. Wood(L.) 4,894
1837.
Lord F. Egerton (Tory) 7,822
Hon. R. B. Wilbraham (Tory) . . 7,645
E. Stanley(L.) 6,676
C. Townley (L.) 6,044
1841— July.
Lord F. Egerton (Tory) > Un-
Hon. R. B. Wilbraham (Tory) j opposed
1844— May.
Bye-election on the death of the Hon.
R. B. Wilbraham.
W. Entwisle (Tory) 7,671
W. Brown (L.) 6,973
1846— July 21.
Bye-election on Lord F. Egerton's
elevation to peerage.
W. Brown (L.) Unopposed
1847.
1857— March.
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1859— May 5.
Hon. A. F. Egerton (C.) 7,470
W.J.Legh(C) 6,983
J. Cheetham (L.) 6,835
J. Heywood (L.) 6,763
Successful candidates' expenses,
£6,810 14s. 4d.
1861— August 19.
C. Turner (C.) 9,714
J. Cheetham (L.)
1865— July 20. Votes.
Hon. A. F. Egerton (C.) 9,171
C. Turner (C.) 8,806
W. E. Gladstone (L.) 8,786
W.J. Legh(C) 8,476
H. Yates Thompson (L.) 7,703
J. Heywood (L.) 7,653
1868— November 26.
Hon. A. F. Egerton (C.) 8,290
J. Snowden Henry (G.) 8,018
Rt. Hon. F. Peel (L.) 7,024
H. Yates Thompson (L.) 6,953
Successful candidates' expenses,
£8,218 9s. 10d.; defeated can-
didates spent £5,421 14s Id.
1874— February 10.
Hon. A. F. Egerton (C.) 9,187
E. Hardcastle (C) 9,015
Peter Rylands (L.) 7,464
J. E. Taylor (L.). 7,453
1880— April 7.
R. Leake (L.) 11,318
"~ * new(L.) 11,291
Hon. A. F. Egerton (C.) 10.B
W. Agnew(
E. Hardcastle (C.) 10,419 *
Cost of the election exceeded £20,000 ;
hired conveyances last used.
1885— December 2.
G. Salis-Schwabe (L.) 5,882
Thomas Fielden (C.) 4,885
Col. Schwabe's expenses, £1,018 4s. 8Jd.;
Mr. Fielden spent £1,161 lis. 3d.
1886— July 8.
Thomas Fielden (C) 5,126
C. H. Hopwood, Q.C. (L) .... 4,808
1892— July 18.
C. H. Hopwood, Q.C. (L.) 6,389
T. Fielden (C.) 6,278
1895- July 18.
T. Fielden(C) 6,926
C. H. Hopwood, Q.C. (L.) .... 5,061
1897— November 4.
James Duckworth (L.) 5,964
William Mitchell (C.) 6,664
Bye-ejection on the death of
Mr. T. Fielden.
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Parliamentary Elections for the
Borough.
1882— December.
John Fenton (L.)
Jobn Entwisle (C.)
James Taylor (B.)
1835— January 9.
John Entwisle .(C.)
John Fenton (L.)
Votes.
277
246
109
369
1837— April 19.
Bye-election on the death of J. Entwisle.
John Fenton (L.) 383
Clement Boyds (C.) 339
1837-July 17.
John Fenton (L.) 374
Alexander Ramsay (C.) 349
1841— July 1.
W. S. Crawford (L.)
James Fenton (C.)
399
336
1847— June 23.
W. S. Crawford (L.) Unopposed
1852— July 8.
Edward Miall (L.) 529
Sir A. Ramsay, Bart. (C.) .... 375
1857-March 30.
Sir A. Ramsay, Bart. (C.) 532
Edward Miall (L.) 488
1859— April 29.
Richard Cobden (L.) Unopposed
1865— April 15.
Bye-election on the death of R. Cobden.
T. B. Potter (L.) 646
W. B. Brett, Q.C. (C.) 496
1865-July 11.
T. B. Potter (L.) Unopposed
1868— November 16.
T.B. Potter (L.) 4,488
W. W. Schofleld (O.) 3,261
1874— February 1.
T.B. Potter (L.).....- 4,498
R. W. Gamble, Q.C. (C.) 3,998
1880— March 31.
T.B. Potter (L.) 6,614
R. W. Gamble, Q.C. (C.) 3,716
1885— November 26.
T. B. Potter (L.) 6,552
Elliott Lees (C). 4,417
1886— July 3.
T.B. Potter (L.) 4,738
J. A. R. Marriott, M. A. (C.) . . 3,481
1892— July 4.
T. B. Potter(L) 5,460
C. M. Royds(C) 4,480
1895— July 15.
C. M. Rqyds (C.) 4,781
W\ L. Bright (L.) 4,359
G. N. Barnes (Soc.) 1,251
Mayors.
Jacob Bright
Robert Taylor Heape
Andrew Stewart
Thomas Ash worth . . .
J. H. Moore
J. T. Pagan
G. L. Asnworth
Samuel Stott
John Tatham
Samuel Stott
John Robinson
Charles Whitaker . . .
George Mansell
T. B. Willans
G. L. Ash worth
W. T. Shawcross ...
Charles Whitaker ...
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ANNALS OF ROCHDALE.
M ay ors — continued.
Samuel Tweedale
1874-5
J. S. Littlewood
1875-6
Robert Taylor Heape
1876-7
James Tweedale
1877-8
W. J. Petrie
1878-9
Thomas Schofield
1879-80
William Baron
1880-1, 1881-2
*John Harley \
William Baron J
1882-3
Thomas Schofield
1883-4
J. S. Hudson
1884-5
J. R. Heape
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J. E. Petrie
1887-8, 1888-9
W. T. Heap
tEdward Taylor
1889-90, 1890-1
1891
James Duckworth
1891-2, 1892-3
James Cheetham
1893-4
William Hardman
1894-5
John Turner
1895-6, 1896-7
Miles Ashworth
1897-8, 1898-9
* J. Harley died 13th June, 1883. W. Baron elected 27th June, 1883.
t Elected November 9th, resigned same day. J. Duckworth elected 14th November.
Aldermen
Since the extension of the Borough, 1872.
CASTLETON WARD (NORTH).
1872— Nov. 9 G. Mansell (L.)
1876— Dec. 14 J. S. Littlewood (L.)
1881 S. Tweedale (L.)
1892 J. E. Petrie (L.)
1898* J. Duckworth (L.)
* Transfer from Spotland West.
CASTLETON WARD (SOUTH).
1872— Nov. 9 W. Simpson (L.)
1881— Nov IQ W. J. Petrie (L.)
CASTLETON WARD (EAST).
1872— Nov. 9 John Tatham (L.)
1875— Nov. . . : S. Tweedale (L.)
1881— Nov. 22 J. S. Hudson (L.)
1896— Feb. 7 John Parker (L. )
1897— Sep. 2 W. Tatham (L.)
CASTLETON WARD (WEST).
1872— Nov. 9 James Booth (L.)
1881*— Nov W. Simpson (L.)
* Transfer from Castleton South.
1890— May 1 J. R. Heape (L.)
SPOTLAND WARD (EAST).
1872— Nov. 9 Edward Taylor (L.)
1896— Dec. James Cheetham (C.)
SPOTLAND WARD (WEST).
1872— Nov. 9 G. L. Ashworth (L.)
1878*— Aur. C. Whitaker (L.)
* Transfer from Wardleworth West.
1890— Nov. 10 J. E. Petrie (L.)
1893— Nov J. Duckworth (L.)
1897— July John Turner (L.)
WARDLEWORTH WARD (EAST).
1872— Nov. 9 W. T. Shawcross (L.)
1884— Oct. 80 R. T. Heape (L.)
1884— Nov John Milne (L.)
1892— Aufc. 4 W. T. Heap (L.)
WARDLEWORTH WARD (WEST).
1872— Nov. 9 C. Whitaker (L.)
1873— Aug W. Baron (L.)
WARDLEWORTH WARD (SOUTH).
1872— Nov. 9 R. T. Heape (L.)
1881— Nov. 10 T. Schofield (L.)
1897— March W. Hardman (L.)
WUERDLE WARD.
1872— Nov. 9 T. B. Willans (L.)
1881* J. S. Littlewood (L.)
* Transfer from Castleton North.
1890— July 3 John Robinson (L.)
1895— March 7 O. Topper (L.)
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Town Councillors.
Since the extension of the Borough, 1872.
CASTLETON WARD (NORTH).
1872— November 1. Votes.
J. Sharrocks (C.) 596
John Leach (C.) 694
P. Johnson (C.) 559
W. Simpson (L.) 468
J. Tatham (L.) 464
James Tweedale (L.) 482
1874— November 2.
P. Johnson (C.) 571
J.Howe(L.) 445
1888— November 1.
J. R. Hartley (C.) 488
F.Jones(L) 885
1884— November 1.
J. Ireland (C.) 505
J. Duckworth (L.) 410
1887— November 1.
H. Sharp (C.) Unopposed
1890— November 1.
H.Sbarp(C> 540
T.Taylor(L.) 402
1891— June 24.
W. Starkie(C) 471
A. Barraclough (L.) 414
1893— November 1.
H. Sharp(C) 490
T. Wdolfenden (L.) 285
1894— November 1.
J. Scotson (C.) 450
W. W:Shaw(L.) 426
1896— July 7.
J. H. Howarth (C.) 445
W. W. Shaw(L.) 357
CASTLETON WARD (SOUTH).
1872— November 1. Votes.
G. Mansell(L.) 664
J. S. Hudson (L.) 563
W. J. Petrie (L.) 562
R. Schofield (C.) 450
J. Tomlinson(C) 443
Robert Mattley (C.) 429
1872— November 21.
James Tweedale (L.) 539
James Tomlinson (C.) 461
1873— November 1.
J. Tomlinson (C.) 489
J. Butterworth (L.) 459
1874— November 2.
J. S. Hudson (L.) 568
H. Brierley (C.) 440
1878— November 1.
W. Tatham (L.) Unopposed
1881— October.
John Varty (L.) Unopposed
1881— December 6.
S. Stott (L.) 685
H. Brierley (C.) 531
1882— November 1.
H. Brierley (C.) 647
J. Parker (L.) 569
1883— November 1.
J. E. Petrie (L.) Unopposed
1885— November 2.
H. Brierley (C.) 793
T. T. Robinson (L.) 668
1887— August 18.
John Parker (L.) 595
H. Sharp (C.) 60S
1888— November 1.
W. Cunliffe (L.) 641
J. Barlow (C.) 609-
1890— November 22.
T. Taylor (L.) 875
H. Brierley (C.) 520-
1891— November 1.
W. Cunliffe (L.) 74T
J. Dearden (C.) 652.
1894— November 1.
W. Cunliffe (L.) 712
J. J. Jackson (C.) 634
1895— November 1.
T. Taylor(L.) 757
J. Whitaker(L.) 51£
1897— September 15.
J. Whitaker(L.) 703
Walter Pilling (C.) 701
1897— November 1.
W. Cunliffe (L.) 85T
W.PilUng(C) 801
CASTLETON WARD (EAST).
1872— November 1.
J. T. Booth (L.) 505
B. Butterworth (L.) 501
Joseph Handley (L.) 490
F. Bolton (C.) 460
T. W. Mercer (C.) » 436
J. Molesworth (C.) 427
1873^November 1.
F. Bolton(C) 667
J. Handley (L.) 374
1874— November 2.
J. T. Booth (L.) 448
E.Mellor(C) 441
1875— November 1.
Stephen Leach (L) 503
E. Mellor (C.) 468
1877— November 1.
C. Preston (L.) Unopposed
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ANNALS OF ROCHDALE.
Town Councillors — continued.
Oasti.rtok Warii (East)
1878— November 1.
W. J. Petrie (L.) Unopposed
1880— November 1.
T. Cheetham (L.) Unopposed
1881— November 1.
P. H. Robinson (L.) Unopposed
1883— April 28.
C. E. Cleg*(C.) 522
J. Salkefd Robinson (L.) 479
1883— November 1.
T. Cheetham (L.) 617
G. Thickett (0.) 533
1884— October 30.
James Ogden (C.) Unopposed
1884— November 1.
J. Varty(L.) 610
P. Whitehead (C.) 474
1890— November 1.
Jacob Fletcher (C.) 797
J. Varty(L.) 613
E. Blomley(Soc) 21
1891— November 2.
A. Wallace (C.) Unopposed
1892— November 1.
T. Cheetham (L.) 592
J.T.Lord(C.) 588
T. Crowther (Lab.) 165
1893— November 1.
J. Fletcher (C.) 779
H.Clark(Soc.) 403
1894— November 1.
W. Dunning(C) 649
H. Clark (Soc.) 601
1895— November 1.
T. Cheetham(L.) 544
J. W. Scott (Soc.) 235
1896— November 2.
J. Fletcher (C.) 775
J. W. Scott (Soc.) 308
1897— November 1.
W. Dunning (C.) 848
J. W. Scott (Soc.) 325
1898— November 1.
A. M Robinson (C.) 774
T. Cheetham (L) 748
CASTLETON WARD (WEST).
1872— November 1.
Joshua Heap (L.) 911
J. S. littlewood (L.) 595
C. Preston (L.) 574
J. Hartley(C) 448
J. Swift (C.) 428
1873— November 1.
James Tweedale (L.) Unopposed
1874— November 2.
James Ashworth (L.) 312
E. Ashworth (L.) 84
1875— November.
S. Porritt(IO Unopposed
1878— November.
A. Molesworth (L.) Unopposed
1876— December.
John Milne (L.) Unopposed
1880— November 1.
C. Kershaw (L.) .Unopposed
1882— November 1.
H. Howorth (L.) Unopposed
1884— November L
J.Milne(L.) 612
C. Morgan (C.) .. . 417
1884— November 22.
C. Morgan (C.)... 619
J. Duckworth (L.) 598
1885— November 2.
H. Howorth (L.) 705
G. W. Malim(C) 538
1887— December 16.
J. Duckworth (L.) Unopposed
1888— November 1.
J. Duckworth (L.) 684
J.Edwards(U.) 452
1890— November 1.
CMorgan(C) 671
J.Maden(L) 577
1891— February 7.
J.Leach(L.) 661
S.S. Ford(C.) 617
1891— November 2.
J. Duckworth (L.) 741
S.S.Ford(C.) 653
1892— November 1.
S. S. Ford(C) 793
James Howarth (Lab.) 281
1893— November 1.
J.Leach(L.) 654
J. T. Worth (C.) 592
1898— November 1.
W. W. Bradbury(C) 672
J. T.W.Mitchell (L.) 656
1894— November 1.
W.W. Bradbury (C.) 709
J.T. W.Mitchell (L.) 628
1897— February 13.
J. E. Jones (L.) 809
R.Wrigley(C.) 661
1897— November 1.
J.Walker(C) 808
E. Fletcher (L.) 676
1898— November 1.
S. 8. Ford(C.) 867
H. D.Rattray (L.) 684
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143
Town Councillors — continued.
SPOTLAND WARD (EAST),
1872— November 1.
John Tweedale (L.) 682
W. Lord, Mount Healey (L.) 551
T. Watson (L.) 540
H. Fishwick (C.) 500
W. Lord, Middle Healoy (C.) . . . . 475
D.Butterworth(G) 454
1878— November 1.
E. E. M. Royds (C.) 568
T. Watson (L.) 434
1874— November 2.
James Gheetham (C.) 559
D. Turner (L.) 501
1875— November 1.
W. Lord, Mount Healey (L.) 575
W. Lord, Middle Healey (C). ... 410
1877— May.
John Tweedale (L.) Unopposed
1881— November 1.
W. T. Heap (L.) Unopposed
1882— November 1.
W. Lord (L.) Unopposed
1890— November 1.
W.T.Heap(L.) 608
S. L. Lee (C.) 560
J. Holmes (Soc.) 22
1891— November 2.
R. Collinge (L.) 655
John Oldham (C.) 504
189?— August 10.
W. H. Duncan (L.) Unopposed
1895— December 21.
S. Turner (L.) 718
Joseph Walker(C) 513
SPOTLAND WARD (WEST).
1872— November 1.
E. Taylor (L.) 599
G. L. Ashworth (L.) 598
S. Tweedale (L.) 585
Joseph Brierley (C.) 457
H. Shaw (0.) 427
James Cheetham (G 424
1872— November 21.
R. Leach (L.) 529
John Robinson (L.) 498
J. Cheetham (C.) 331
H. Shaw (C.) 339
1874— November 2.
John Harley (L.) Unopposed
1875— November.
A. Tweedale (L.) Unopposed
1878— November 1.
Solomon Ashworth (L.) Unopposed
1883— November 1.
John Lofthouse (L.) Unopposed
1884— November 1.
John Hill (L.) Unopposed
1886— November 1.
Miles Ashworth (L.) Unopposed
1890— August 1.
John Turner (L.) Unopposed
1893— November 1.
J.Hill (L.) 698
R. Standring (C.). 537
1896— February 22.
James Taylor (L.) 728
. R. Standring (C.) 494
P.Lee(Soc) 80
1897— July 17.
T. Ogden(L.) Unopposed
WARDLEWORTH WARD (EAST).
1872— November 1.
W. T. Shawcross (L.) 479
T. Schofield (L.) 489
R. Brierley (C.) 421
W. W. Schofield (C.) 419
J. Rushworth (L.) . . : 409
E. W. Norris(C.) 864
1872— November 21.
H. Fishwick(C) 415
J. Rushworth (L.) 408
1874— November 2.
T. Schofield (L.) 456
J. B. Hadfield (C.) 415
1875— October 20.
E. Bamford Taylor (C.) 358
W. Brocklehurat (L.) 355
1881— December.
W. Hardman (L.) 504
E. W. Norris(C) 428
1882— November 1.
O. Topper (L.) Unopposed
1885— November 2.
O. Topper (L.) 582
H. Sharp (C.) 426
1890— November 1.
H. Fishwick (C.) 421
E. Clegg(Soc) 78
1892— November 1.
W. Hardman (L.) 522
T. Whittaker (Soc.) l&j
1893— November 1
H. Fishwick (C.) 881
T. Whittaker (Soc.) 117
1895— March 16.
S. Butter worth (L.) Unopposed
1895— November 1.
W. Hardman (L.) 431
T. Whittaker (Soc.) 104
1897— March 24.
•C. Redfern (Lab.) Unopposed
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ANNALS OF ROCHDALE.
Town Councillors — continued.
WAEDLEWORTH WARD (WEST).
1872— November 1.
J.Webster(L.) 477
W.Baron(L.) 473
C. Whitaker (L.) 468
J. B. Hadfleld (C.) 264
N. Nuttall (C.) 256
E. Crossley (C.) 245
1872— November 21.
J. Dearden (L/> 868
W. Ormerod (L.) 214
F. Bolton (C.) 174
1878— November 1.
•J. Rushworth (L.) Unopposed
•Retired November, 1876.
J. Butterworth (L.) Unopposed
1875— November 1.
D. Turner (L.) Unopposed
1876— November 1.
John Parker (L.) Unopposed
1877— November 1.
Ellis Lord (L.) Unopposed
1878— November 1.
J. A. Bright (L.) Unopposed
1885— November 2.
J.Parker(L.) 512
J. McDonnell (Ind.) 312
1886— February 19.
J. Diggle(L.) Unopposed
1884— November 1.
T. Watson (L.) Unopposed
1894— November 1.
J.Parker(L.) 868
O. Penlington (Soc.) 276
1895— March 2.
T. Smith (L.) 447
R.Purdy(C.) .. 286
1895— November 1.
J. Diggle(L.) 877
G. Penlington (Soc.) 120
1896— November 2.
J.Coates(L.) 450
G. Penlington (Soc.) 173
1897- March 24.
J. Burton (L.) Unopposed
1898— November 1.
T. Hacking (Soc.) 478
J.Holden(L.) 399
WARDLEWORTH WARD (SOUTH).
1872— November 1.
R. T. Heape (L.) 609
J. Booth (L).... 585
R. Adamson (L.) 558
J. Ireland (C.) 417
P.Lee(C.) 898
J. Cleminson(C.) 381
1872— November 21.
J.Hoyle(L) JfS
T Reid(L.) 467
J%elana(C.).. 886
P.Lee(C.) 373
1874— November 2.
Joseph Handley(L.) ) 518
J. Ireland (C.) 505
1875— November 1.
J. Hutchinson (L.).. 471
J.B.Hadfleld(C.) 448
R.Clough(L.) 228
1877— November 1.
J. Handley (L.) 63»
J. Hadfleld(C) 478
1878— November 1.
J. R. Heape (L.) Unopposed
1888— November 1.
A. Molesworth (L.) 680
W. Starkie (C.) 348
1889— November 1.
J. W. Bamford (L.) 581
T. J. Hardy (C.) 488
1890— May 9.
D. Turner(L.) Unopposed
1890— November 1.
J. Rushworth (L.) Unopposed
1894— November 1.
A. Whitworth (C.) 555
J.8mith(L.) 376
J. Firth(I.L.P.) 335
1894— December 4.
J. Cryer(L.) 701
T.J.Hardy(C) 475
P.Lee (Soc.) 147
1897— November 1.
A. Whitwerth (C.) 549
J. Pickles(L.) 526
WUERDLE WARD.
1872— November 1.
T. B. Willans (L.) 432
Joshua Stott, junr. (L.) 421
Joshua Lord(L.) 414
J. Whitehead (L.) 335
J.Heap(C) 333
E.MelIor(C.) 317
1872— November 21.
F. T. Philippi (L.) 428
J. Whitehead (C.) 310
1873— November 1.
Joshua Lord (L.) 485
JohnHeap(C) 358
1874— November 2.
J. A. Crabtree (O.) 451
Joshua Stott (L.) 410
1876— November 1.
Edmund Wrigley (L.) Unopposed
1877— November 1.
R. Whitworth (L.) 466
J. A. Crabtree (C.) 373
1881— November 1.
T.Lord(L.) Unopposed
1890— November 1.
W. W. Bottomley (L.) 544
J. Fitton (C.) 411
1891— November 2.
A. Barraclough (L.) 555
E. Wrigley (L.U.) 443
ig02 May.
John Whitworth (L.). ...... .Unopposed
1894— November 1.
A. Barraclough (L ) 585
W.Swift(C) 410
1898— June.
James Kershaw (L.) Unopposed
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School Board Elections.
Rochdale School Board— the third Board elected under the Education Act, 1870.
1870— November 26.
First Triennial Election. Votes.
Rev. M. Moriarty (R. Cath.). . - . 6.130
W. W. Schofleld (Church.) 5,163
A. Greenwood (Unsect.) 4,524
Jonathan Nield (Church.) 4,115
Joseph Brierley (Church.) 8,701
Henry Fishwick (Church.) 3,640
J. Rushworth (Unsect) 3,597
T. Watson (Unsect.) 3,248
E. Ash worth (Unsect.) 2,754
W. T. Shawcross (Unsect.) 2,731
John Petrie (Unsect.) 2,473
G. T. Kemp (Unsect.) 2,394
George Webster (Unsect) 1,044
W. Stone (R. Cath. ) 566
1873— November.
Second Triennial Election. No Contest.
John A. Bright (Unsect), Rev. H. W.
Parkinson (Unsect.), Rev. E. O'Neill
(R. Cath.) and R. Schofleld (Church.),
succeeded E. Ashworth, A. Green-
wood, Rev. M. Moriarty and W. W.
Schofleld.
1875— November.
Richard Hurst (Unsect.), succeeded
Rev. H. W. Parkinson.
1876— November.
Third Triennial Election. No Contest
W. Shaw (Unsect) and W. Onnerod (Un-
sect.), succeeded J. A. Bright and J.
Rushworth.
1879— November 4. No Contest
J. S. Littlewood (Unsect.) and C. M.
. Royds (Church. ), succeeded R. Hurst
and J. Nield.
1882— February 16.
J. Rushworth (Unsect.) coopted on the
death of W. Onnerod.
1882— November.
Fifth Triennial Election. No Contest.
J. A. Lancashire (Church.), R. Jackson
(Church.), J. R. Heape (Unsect), and
F. G. Crowther (Unsect.), succeeded
R. Schofleld, C. M. Royds, J. Petrie,
Junr., and J. S. Littlewood.
1884— November 13.
J. A. Bright (Unsect.), coopted on the
death of W. T. Shawcross.
1885— Nov. 14. Sixth Triennial Election.
H. Fishwick (Church.) 10,952
Joseph Brierley (Church.) 10,209
Robert Jackson (Church.) 8,667
T. Watson (Unsect) 8,467
J. Lofthouse (Unsect.) 8,350
J. Rushworth (Unsect) 8,242
J. H. Lancashire (Church.) 8,228
J. E. Petrie (Unsect.) 7,711
J. R. Heape (Unsect) 7,558
W. Shaw (Unsect) 7,508
E. O'Neill (R. Cath.) 5,702
J. U. Rothwell (Trades' Coun.) 4.570
A. L. Mills (Lab.) 4,066
1886—
J. Leach (Unsect.) coopted on the death
of J. Lof thouse.
1887— April
T. Watson (Unsect.) coopted on the death
of T. Watson.
1888— Nov. Seventh Triennial Election.
No Contest.
Richard Watson (Unsect) elected on the
retirement of T. Watson.
1890— June 12.
E. L. Chad wick (Church.) coopted in
place of R. Jackson, resigned.
1891— November 18.
Eighth Triennial Election.
H. Fishwick (Church.) 10,699
H. Radcliffe (Church.) 10,375
Joseph Brierley (Church.) 9,583
J. H. Lancashire (Church.) .... 9,493
W. Shaw (Unsect) 7,239
J. E. Petrie (Unsect.) 7,165
R. Watson (Unsect.) 7,026
J. R. Heape (Unsect) 7,000
John Leach (Unsect.) 6,873
J. Rushworth (Unsect.) 6,813
Canon O'Neill (R. Cath. ) 6,430
J. Holmes (Soc.) 6,349
1894— November.
Ninth Triennial Election.
H. Fishwick (Ind. Church.) .... 12,602
C. Redfern (Trades' Council.) . . 9,774
J. Rushworth (Progressive) 9,591
Canon O'Neill (R. Cath.) 9,540
P. Lee (Soc.) 9,346
W. Shaw (Prog.) 9,256
H. Brierley (Church.) 9,059
J. Leach (Prog.) 8,509
J. R. Heape (Prog.) 8,448
George Jackson (Church). 8,058
J. E. Petrie (Prog.) 8,013
R. Stott (Church.) 7,132
R. Standring (Church.) 7,1V3
H. Radcliffe (Church.) 6,068
Sam Standring (Ind.) 1,962
1895— December 12.
Canon Boulaye (R. Cath.) coopted on the
death of Canon O'Neill.
1897— February 11.
W. W. Shaw (Prog.) and Charles Heap
(Prog.) coopted on the deaths of W.
Shaw and J. Leach.
1897— May 13.
Rev. T. Cusack (R. Cath.) coopted on the
retirement of Canon Boulaye.
1397— July 19.
H. D. Rattray (Prog.) coopted on the
resignation of J. E. Petrie.
1898— November.
Tenth Triennial Election. No Contest.
R. Stott (Churah.) succeeded Henry D.
Rattray, retired.
1898— November 25.
G. J. Booth (Church.) and J. Sedgwick
(R. Cath.) coopted vice Henry Brierley
and Rev. T. Cusack, resigned.
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ANNALS OF ROCHDALE.
Members of the Board of Guardians
Of the Rochdale Poor-Law Union elected under the Local
Government Act, 1894.
ROCHDALE TOWNSHIP WARDS.
CASTLKTON (NORTH).
1894— December. Votes.
Hezekiah Sharp (C.) 390
J. H. Howarth (C.) 868
John Butterworth (L.) 167
J. WhitakerfL.) 154
G. Elliott (I.L.P.) 61
1898— ApriL
Jf. H. Howarth (C.) 351
Mary A. Buckley (L.) 270
S. N. Pickup (C.) 244
CASTLETON (EAST).
1894— December.
T. Wcolfenden (L.) 850
Herbert Radcliffe (C.) 337
S. Schofleld (L.) 301
T. Dawson (C.) 299
H.Clark (I. L.P.) 222
1898— April.
T. Wcolfenden (L.) ) tt«/««w«o*
H. Radcliffe (C.) . . > Unopposed
CASTLETON (WEST).
1894— December.
J.T. Worth(C) 395
W. Jackson (L.) 368
James Brierley (C.) 346
G. Taylor (L;) 328
J. W. Scott (I.L.P.) 100
1898— April.
J. T. Worth (C.) \ Unotmoafid
Elizabeth Barraclough (L) / Unopposed
CASTLETON (SOUTH).
1894 — December.
John Parker (L.) 489
F. Leonard (L.) 417
John Stott (C.) 154
James Mayall (C.) 137
JohnTattersall(I.L.P.) 105
1898— April.
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SPOTLAND (EAST).
1894— December.
R.Lord(L.) 466
T. Kershaw (L.) 437
James Hoyle (C.) 390
H. Crowther (C.) 339
Hannah Stott (I.L.P.) 139
1898— April.
Tho^&rshaw^):::: [Unopposed
SPOTLAND (WEST).
1894— December.
J. Taylor (L. ) 565
W. Crabtree (L.J 525
G. Walker (C.)
E. Buckley (C.) 258
J. W. Stott(I.L.P.) 114
1898— April.
James Taylor (L.) i'Unomioeed
William Crabtree (L.) . . . . f ^PP 080 *
WARDLEWORTH (EAST*
1894— December.
H. Wadsworth(L.) 867
J.Wild(L.) 321
A. Whitworth (C.) 288
James Butterworth (C.) 216
MaryA. Lee(I.L.P.) Ill
1898— April.
H. Wadsworth (L.) > TTnnnnoMd
J. Wild (L.) {Unopposed
WARDLEWORTH (WEST).
1894— December.
J. Rushworth (L.) 199
A. Whitehead (L.) 198
R. Purdy (C.) 193
G. Penlington (I.L.P.) 177
E. B. Taylor (C.) 151
R. Whitehead (I.L.P.) 134
1895— February 16.
R. Purdy (C.) 257
A. Whitehead (L.) 227
G. Penlington (I.L.P.) 164
Bye-election owing to a tie.
1898— April.
R. Purdy (C.) 861
C. Tierney (R. Oath.) 848
J. Rushworth (L.) 301
WARDLEWORTH (SOUTH.)
1894— December.
M. Jackson (L.) 528
T. Schofleld (L.) 485
Eli Whiteley (I.L.P.) 158
F. Mitchell (C.) 48
1897— April 10.
Charlotte A. Carter (L.) 627
John Rodley(C) » 486
Agnes S. Ormerod (I.L.P.) 106
1898— ApriL
M. Jackson (L.) > jT yt ^ nwvtUkA
Charlotte A. Carter (L.) .. [Unopposed
WUERDLE.
1894— December 17.
iSSSSr^..::::::::::}*"-"—
1897— July.
John Clegg (L.) Unopposed
1898— April.
J.Clegg(L.) 496
S. Taylor (L.) 862
T.Rhodes(C) 828
Rev. A. Rippiner (I.L.) 820
E. Crabtree (Soc.) 147
1898— November.
C. Thompson (C.) 468
A. Mitchell (L.) 871
Rev. A. Rippiner (I. L.) 837
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Board of Guardians — continued.
CASTLETON (Lanes.) TOWNSHIP.
1894— December.
1896— February.
H. C.Platt(L.) Unopposed
1898- April.
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LITTLEBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.
1894— December.
James Cryer (L. ) )
E. M. Hartley (u.) ) Unopposed
Klisha Whitworth (L.). ... J
1898— April.
J. Cryer(L.) )
Richard Stott (L.) r Unopposed
E. Whitworth (L.) J
MILNROW TOWNSHIP WARDS.
BELFIELD WARD.
1894— December.
Richard Robinson (L.) Unopposed
1898— April.
R, Robinson (L.) Unopposed
MILNROW WARD.
1894— December.
Wilton Mills (C.) Unopposed
1898— April.
Wilton Mills (C.) Unopposed
HA UGH WARD.
1894— December.^
R. Parker (L.) ..Unopposed
1898— ApriL
R. Parker (L.) Unopposed
NORDEN TOWNSHIP.
1894— December.
G. A. Kershaw (L.) Unopposed
1898— April.
W. Lord(C.) Unopposed
WARDLE TOWNSHIP.
1894— December.
T. Lord(C.) Unopposed
1898— April.
T. Lord (C.) Unopposed
WHITWORTH TOWNSHIP.
1894— December.
Joseph Rudman (G.) 674
W. E. Whitworth (C.) 642
W. Holt(L.) 497
Richard Law (L.) 449
1898— ApriL
J. Rudman (C.) )
W. E. Whitworth (C.). ...} Unopposed
W.Holt(L.) j
County Council Elections.
County Councils were created by the Local Government Act, 1888.
CASTLETON AND MILNROW
ELECTORAL AREA.
1889— January 15. Votes.
Samuel Barlow (L.) 1,090
C. M. Royds(C.) 1,040
1892— April 2.
Bye-election on Mr. S. Barlow
being elected Alderman.
J. Duckworth (L.) 1,184
W.Yates(C) 1,037
1898— March 3.
Dr. J. Chad wick (C.) 1,352
A. T. Radcliffe(L.) 1,191
LITTLEBOROUGH ELECTORAL
AREA.
1889— January 15.
A. G. C. Harvey (L.) 1,425
A. J. Law (C.) 1,050
WHITWORTH AND NORDEN
ELECTORAL AREA.
1889— January 15.
T. Smithson (L.) Unopposed
1892— March 1.
George Kemp (U.) Unopposed
1895— November 13.
R. A. L. Hutchinson (C.) Unopposed
Population of the Borough.
1841— April.
1851— April.
1861— April.
No. of Inhabitants 24,423
I 1871—,
29,178 1881—,
1898.— Estimated No. of Inhabitants
April. No. of Inhabitants 44,556
i 4 p !l}- » » 08,915
38,164_ J ,1891-April. „ „ 71)401
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ANNAL8 OF ROCHDALE.
Statistical View of Rochdale.
1888.
£ 8. d.
Borough Assets 1,419,601 15 9£
Borough Debt 1,319,887 14 9
Gas Rents 42,158 16 5
Gross Annual Value 313,106
Net Rateable Value 255,298
Parks, maintenance 2,034 15 8
School Board, one year's precept... 4,000
School Board Rate 4*39d.
Water Rental 25,383 19 0J
Waterworks Deficit (Revenue A/c) 12,841 12 1£
Yield of Penny Rate 1,000
1898.
£ s. <L
1,712,285 6 4£
1,518,588 13 10
50,698 2 4
364,888
298,199
2,019 16
14,400
ll-66d.
32,176 18
2,465 12
1,100
5
7i
8
1888. 1898.
Bathers at Corporation Baths, Gentlemen 31 ,008 46,663
Bathers at Corporation Baths, Ladies 718 1,734
Birth rate per 1,000 of population 250 25*6
Beerhouse keepers 166 153
Children attending Elementary Schools 11,924 12,673
Death rate per 1,000 of population 18*2 17*8
Free Public Library — Volumes exclusive of
Specifications of Patents, Pamphlets, &c. 40,646 51,348
Free Public Library— Books issued 173,256 280,529-
Gas consumed (cubic feet) 286,642,600 452,755,000
Grocers' Licenses to sell beer, &c 77 71
Houses certified 2,751 4,181
Licensed Victuallers 136 130
Interments in Cemetery 1,360 1,394
Municipal Voters 13,538 15,749
Parliamentary Voters 10,959 12,480
Persons proceeded against 1,361 1,515
Refreshment Houses with Wine Licenses 13 2
Strength of Police Force 66 89
Wholesale Spirit dealers 12 22
MERCHANTS' & TRADESMEN'S TRIPS.
1866— July 18 Windermere.
1867— July 11 Ripon.
1868— July 9 Scarborough.
1869— July 8 Chatsworth.
1870— July 6 Alton Towers.
1871— July 5 Wynnstay Park.
1872— July 10 Leamington.
1878— July 9 Belvoir Castle.
1874— July 8 Ludlow.
1875— July 14 Carlisle.
1876-July 12 *Bettws-y-Coed.
* Extensions first arranged.
1877— July 4 Keswick.
1878— July 10 Ripon.
1879— July 5 Bangor and Carnarvon.
1880— July 14 Hereford.
1881— July 13 Worcester and Malvern.
1882— July 12 Leamington.
1883— July 11 Nottingham.
1884— July 9
1885-^July 8
1886— July 21
1887— July 13
1888— July 11
1889-July 10
1890- July 9
1891— July 8
1892— July 20
1893— July 12
1894— July 11
1896— July 13
1896— July 8
1897— July 14
1898— July 13
Durham and Newcastle.
Barmouth.
Keswick.
Bristol.
Edinburgh and Glasgow.
/ London.
\ Paris.
Aberystwith.
Worcester, Malvern, and
Hereford.
Edinburgh and Glasgow.
j Bath, 1 day.
( Bournemouth, 8 days.
Great Yarmouth.
Tenby.
Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Torquay.
Clacton-on-Sea.
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The Famous Twenty- Eight Co-operators.
Miles Ashworth, woollen weaver, Chartist, President.
Samuel Ashworth, woollen weaver, Chartist, Salesman.
James Bamford.
John Bent, tailor, Auditor.
David Brooks, block printer, Chartist, Buyer.
John Collier, engineer, Owenite.
William Cooper, woollen weaver, Social Reformer.
James Daly, joiner. Secretary.
John Gartside, cabinet maker.
* George Healey, hatter.
John Hill, wool sorter.
John Holt, woollen weaver, Treasurer.
Charles Howarth, warper.
John Kershaw, warehouseman, Chartist.
William Mallalieu, cotton banding manufacturer.
James Maden, woollen weaver, Chartist.
James Manock, woollen weaver, Chartist.
Benjamin Rudman, woollen weaver.
Joseph Smith, wool sorter, Auditor.
James Smithies, wool sorter, Social Reformer.
John Scrowcroft, hawker, Chartist.
James Standring, woollen weaver, Social Reformer.
Robert Taylor, weaver.
William Taylor, loom jobber.
Ann Tweedale, Mount Pleasant.
James Tweedale, dogger, Social Reformer.
Samuel Tweedale, weaver.
James Wilkinson, shoemaker.
* Now of Windermere, J.P., the only survivor.
Presidents of the Pioneers* Society.
Miles Ashworth 1844
Charles Howarth 1845
James Smithies 1846
John Kershaw 1847
James Tweedale 1848
John Cockcroft 1849-50
John Kershaw 1851
J.J.Hill 1852
John Cockcroft 1853-5
Abraham Greenwood 1856
John Cockcroft 1857-60
Abraham Howard 1861
Thomas Cheetham 1862
Samuel Newton 1863
Robert Briggs 1864-6
John Ormerod 1867-8
R. Shepherd 1869-74
Abraham Howard . 1875-7
Benjamin Horbury 1878-83
James Whitworth 1884-5
Thomas Cheetham 1886-94
R.Holt 1895
J. Brearley 1896-9
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Some Gifts to the Town Council.
Portrait of Jacob Bright, M.P., first mayor, in the Town Hall, given by
subscribers.
Bust of Cobden, in the Town Hall, given by T. B. Potter, M.P.. May, 1866.
Portrait of Cobden and Bright, in the Town Hall, given by T. B. Potter,
Pec, 1866.
Bust of John Fenton, M.P., in the Town Hall, given by Mrs. Fenton,
June, 1871.
Drinking Fountain, in the Cemetery, Bury Road, given by — . Garner r
Huddersfield, June, 1870.
Portrait of George Leach Ashworth, twice mayor, in the Town Hall, given
by subscribers, March, 1872.
Portrait of Tom Livsey, alderman, in the Town Hall, given by Mary Livsey ,
March, 1874.
Portrait of John Roby, author of Traditions of Lancashire, in the Free
Public Library, given by William Fenton, Beaumonds, April, 1876.
Portrait of John Ashworth, author of Strange Tales, cfcc, in the Free Public
Library, given by the U.M.F.C. Trustees, Nov., 1876.
Statue of George Leach Ashworth, in the Park, given by subscribers,
June, 1878. •
Portrait of James Booth, chairman of the Free Library Committee, in the
Free Public Library.
Portrait of Sir Thomas Potter, in the Free Public Library, given by T. B.
Potter, M.P.
Javelins for use by the Chief Magistrate, in the Police Court, given by
Chief Constable Joseph Wilkinson, Nov., 1883.
Land behind the Town Hall, given by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
Medallion Windows, in the Free Public Library, given by James Ogden y
Oct. 10, 1884.
Medallion Bast of J. H. Woolfenden, actor, in the Free Public Library,
given by Wallett the jester.
Bust of Garibaldi, in the Free Public Library, given by T. B. Potter, M.P.
Portrait of Zachary Mellor, town clerk, in the Town Hall, given by sub-
scribers, May, 1888.
Improvements in the Slopes in the Park, completed from designs by and at
the cost of James Ogden, Aug., 1891.
Bust of John Bright, M.P., in the Town Hall, given by subscribers, Aug.,
1890.
Statue of John Bright, M.P., in the Town Hall Square, given by subscribers,
Oct. 24, 1891.
Recreation ground, Cronkeyshaw, cost of equipment of, borne by Alderman
James Duckworth, M.P., Sep. 1893.
life-size plaster cast of James Fraser, D.D., Bishop of Manchester, in the
Town Hall, given by Dean Maclure, Dec, 1893.
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Gifts to the Town Council — continued.
Bandstand, in the Park, given by Aid. J. Duckworth, M.P., Nov., 1893.
Park Rent (£380 per annum) remitted by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners,
May, 1894.
3£ Acres of Land at Newbold for recreation purposes, given by the Ecclesi-
astical Commissioners.
Portrait of Edward Taylor, first honorary freeman of the borough, in the
Town Hall, given by subscribers.
Portrait of Edwin Waugh, in the Town Hall, given by T. R. Wilkinson,
Manchester, Oct., 1895.
Collection of Flints and Fossils, in the Free Public Library, given by H. C.
March, M.D., 1896.
Portrait of John Trafford Clegg (" Th* Owd Weighver "), in the Free Public
Library, given by the members pf the Rochdale Branch of the Typo-
graphical Association, 1896.
8J Acres of Land at Brimrod for recreation purposes, given by Charles
Whitaker, J. P.
Portraits of Bishop Moorhouse, Archdeacon Wilson, and Captain Charles
Patrick, in the Free Public Library, given by C. M. Royds, M.P.
Portrait of Oliver Cromwell, in the Free Public Library, given by T. B.
Potter, M.P.
Height above Sea Level op some Points
in the Neighbourhood.
Brown Wardle Hill, 1,400 feet.
Cemetery, Bury Road, 500 feet.
Cowm Reservoir, 822 feet.
Farrier Sett, Norden, 559*4 feet.
Hamer Pasture Reservoir, 750 feet.
Hare and Hounds, Ash worth Moor, 975*8 feet.
Knowl Hill, 1,371 feet.
Knoll behind Masons Foundry, Church Lane, 473 feet; highest point
near the centre of tne town.
Meteorological Station, the Park, 470 feet.
Moorcock Inn, Rooley Moor, 1,324*6 feet.
Ogden Edge, about 1,200 feet.
Robin Hood's Bed, Blackstone Edge, 1,553 feet.
Rough Hill, Wardle, 1,425 feet.
River Roche, bed of, in centre of town, nearly 400 feet.
St. Edmund's Church, ground, 485 feet.
Spring Mill Reservoir 771 feet.
Tandle Hill, 708 feet.
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ANNALS OF ROCHDALE.
Infirmary Galas.
Paid for
Admission.
1887 16,000
1888 28,000
1889 17,000
1890 38,000
1891 47,000
1892 30,000
1893 40,000
1894 27,334
1895 10,000
1896 20,569
Income.
£ s. d.
738 17 2
1,002 4 1
712 9 10
1,168 17 2i
1,397 15 10
923 5 1
1,168 5 10
882 13 2
380 3
778 6
Expenditure
£ s. d.
348 Hi
492
545
568
1
6i
7*
664 13 1
696 6 6
688 9 1
751 1 4i
735 5 5$
593 13 2
Net profit.
£
390 16
510 3
167 2
600 14
733 2
226 18
479 16
131 11
Loss.
355 5
Profit.
184 12 10
d.
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Some Published Wills.
Personalty.
£ s. d.
Bamford, Thomas, Wardle, died Nov. 23, 1 895 34,639
Brierley, James, West Hill, cotton spinner, J. P., died Sep.
24,1896 111,912
Brierley, John Pilling, Lauriston, cotton spinner, died
Dec. 26, 1894 127,594
Brierley, Joseph, Castleton Manor, cotton spinner, J. P.,
died Feb. 22, 1896 91,963 15 3
Bright, Rt. Hon. John, M.P., died March 27, 1889 85,829 2 11
Bright, Thomas, Greenbank, died Jan. 8, 1890 26,669 5 6
Butterworth, John, Oakenrod Hill, died July 29, 1889 169,000
Hamer, John, cotton spinner, died March 9, 1895 63,901 11 3
Heap, James, Haugh, J.P., died April 7, 1892 67,938 3 10
Holden, James, High Birch, died April 23, 1896 162,317 18 1
Holt, Geo., Liverpool, ship owner, member of an old local
family, died April 3, 1896 594,480 14 10
Jackson, Robert, solicitor, died April 23, 1891 32,089
Leigh, George, Firgrove, died March 3, 1890 37,042
Mitchell, J. T. W., of the Co-operative Wholesale Society,
died May 16, 1895 350 17 8
Molesworth, Canon, M. A., died Dec. 19, 1890 65,390
Petrie, James, engineer, J. P. , died June 21, 1892 94,583 14
Philippi, F. T. , Belfield Hall, died March 5, 1890 56,986
Pilling, J. , Deeplish Hall, cotton spinner, died Apl. 28, 1891 58,656
Radcliffe, Joshua, Balderstone Hall, J.P., died Mar. 3, 1891 178,069
Radcliffe, Joshua Walmsley, woollen manufacturer, J. P.,
D.L., died Nov. 9, 1895 178,643 2 1
Shepherd, Jas., Sparthfield, corn miller, died May 21, 1891 152,151 15 5
Shepherd, John, Sparthfield, died July 15, 1891 290,624 13 10
Sutcliffe, Thomas, brewer, died Nov. 2, 1890 174,833 7 3
Watson, Thomas, Horse Carrs, M.P., died March 7, 1887.. 182,000
Young, William, West Street, died Oct. 3, 1895 29.726
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Public Companies.
Nominal Value When
NAME. of Share. formed.
&
Arkwright Spinning Co. , 75,300 spindles 5 ... June 1884
Bagslate Manufacturing Co 5 ... Jan. 1860
Blackpits Cotton Spinning and Manufacturing Co 5 ... Apl. 1874
Broadley Wood Cotton Spinning & Manufacturing Co.. 5 ... Mch. 1874
Crawford Spinning Co., 169,956 spindles 5 ... 1882
Castleton Brewery Co 5 ... May 1892
Eagle Spinning Co., 86,556 spindles 5 ... June 1890
Eclipse Spinning Co 5 ... Dec. 1898
Ellenroad Spinning Co 5 ... 1890
Era Spinning Co 5 ... 1897
Haugh Spinning Co., 27,148 spindles 5 ... Dec. 1881
Millgate and Facit Manufacturing and Mining Co 10 ... Nov. 1860
Moss Spinning Co., 75,000 spindles 5 ... 1890
Newhey Spinning Co. , 37,888 spindles 5 ... Nov. 1884
Norden Coach Co 1 ... Sep. 1865
Norden Manufacturing Co 5 ... June 1887
Rochdale Advertising and Billposting Co 5 ... Dec. 1884
Rochdale Amateur Athletic Grounds 1 ... 1893
Rochdale Carriage Co 5 ... May 1876
Rochdale Co-operative Manufacturing Co. (Mitchel
Hey), 54,580 spindles ; over 1 ,000 looms 5 ... 1854
Rochdale Conservative Industrial Co-operative Society. 1 ... Dec. 1868
Rochdale District Corn Mill Society 1850
Rochdale House and Estate Co 5 ... 1897
Rochdale Ice and Cold Air Stores Co 5 ... Nov. 1896
Rochdale Plate Glass Co 1 ... Jan. 1885
Rochdale Provident Co-operative Society 1 ... May 1 870
Rochdale Spinning Co. , 70,772 spindles 5 ... Mar. 1884
Rochdale and Manor Brewery Co. (old Company formed
April, 1887) 10 ... Mar. 1895
Rochdale Vintners Co 1 ... 1893
Thomas Robinson & Son, reconstructed 10 ... Apl. 1893
Standard Spinning Co. , 101,508 spindles 5 ... Feb. 1889
Tramways, new Co. (old Co. formed in 1881 £10 shares) 1 ... 1888
Underbank Mills 5 ... 1874
Victoria Spinning Co 5 ... Sep. 1898
Whitworth Manufacturing Co 5 ... Feb, 1861
Whitworth Vale Gas Co 5 ... Mar. 1859
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Churches and Chapels.
Parish Church, St. Chad's founded circa a.d. 1194, restored Oct., 1885.
St. James's, Milnrow, founded a.d. 1400, existing edifice consecrated Aug.
21, 1869.
Holy Trinity, Littleborough, founded a.d. 1741, existing structure conse-
crated Aug. 3, 1820.
St. Bartholomew's, Whitworth, founded a.d. 1582, existing structure con-
secrated Jan. 3, 1849.
St. Mary's, The Baum, opened a.d. 1741, consecrated June 28, 1744.
St. James's, Yorkshire Street, consecrated Sep. 1821.
St. James's Mission Church, Entwisle Road, opened Feb. 4, 1894.
St. John's, Smallbridge, consecrated a.d. 1834.
St Clement's, Willbutts, consecrated April 5, 1835.
Christ Church, Healey, consecrated a.d. 1850.
St. Alban's, Manchester Road, consecrated a.d. 1856.
St. Alban's Mission Church, Sudden, opened Jan. 13, 1883.
St. James's, Wardle, consecrated, Jan. 21, 1858.
St. Paul's, Norden, corner stones laid, June 30, 1859.
St. Martin's, Castle ton, consecrated June 14, 1862.
St. James's, Calderbrook, built and endowed by James Dearden ; corner
stone laid Aug. 23, 1860.
All Saints', Hamer, consecrated Nov. 22, 1866.
St. Peter's, Newbold, consecrated May 20, 1871.
St. John's, Facit, consecrated, Dec. 1, 1871.
St. Mary's, Balderstone, built by the Radcliffe family ; consecrated July
1 1872.
St. Edmund's, Falinge, built by A. H. Royds, J. P., D.L., at the cost of
£30,000; May 7, 1873.
St. Thomas's, Newhey, built by William and James Heap at the cost of
£10,000 ; consecrated Dec. 21, 1876.
St. Michael's, Bamford, cost £4,000; consecrated July 25, 1885.
St. Luke's, Deeplish, partial opening May 30, 1889; completed Apl. 23, 1897.
St. Andrew's, Dearnley, opened Feb. 18, 1894.
St. Aidan's, Marland, opened Dec. 15, 1897.
St. Stephen's, Lady Huntingdon's Connexion, Ball Street, opened 1812.
St. John the Baptist's, Roman Catholic, Ann Street, consecrated 1829.
St. Patrick's, Roman Catholic, Watts Street, consecrated Oct. 6, 1867.
St. Anselm's, Roman Catholic, Whitworth, erected Oct. 18, 1869.
St. Mary's, Roman Catholic, Littleborough, opened Jan. 1, 1882.
West Street Baptist, founded 1775 ; present edifice opened a.d. 1833.
Drake Street Baptist, now Park Chapel, opened a.d. 1854.
Newbold Baptist, existing edifice cost £5,500 ; opened July 23, 1876.
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Churches and Chapels — continued.
Ogden Baptist, existing edifice opened April 18, 1862.
Harriet Street Chapel, opened Aug., 1859.
Hope Street Baptist, erected 1810.
High Street Independent, founded 1806; existing edifice cost £5,500, opened
March 20th, 1895.
Bamford Independent, opened Sep. 30, 1801.
Norden Congregational, opened Oct. 13, 1885.
Milton Congregational, Smith Street, opened March 23, 1854.
Moore Street Independent, opened 1846.
Smallhridge Independent, opened Sep. 7, 1865.
Castleton Independent, March 30, 1870.
Trinity Presbyterian Church, Manchester Road, opened June 20, 1869,
Unitarian, Blackwater Street, existing edifice opened June 11, 1857.
Friends' Meeting House, George Street, a.d. 1808.
Union Street Wesleyan, existing edifice built 1858.
Castlemere Wesley, cost £6,000, opened July 20, 1865.
Littleborough Wesleyan, opened May 4, 1866.
Wardle Wesleyan, opened April 8, 1874.
Trinity Wesleyan, Lowerplace, cost £4,800, opened July 3, 1879.
Healey Wesleyan, opened Sep. 20, 1877.
Newbold Wesleyan, existing structure opened Dec. 1, 1885.
Milnrow Wesleyan, opened July 15, 1869.
Smallbridge Wesleyan, cost £1,500, opened Jan. 21, 1872.
Molesworth Street New Connexion, cost £4,000, opened Oct. 10, 1869.
Primitive Methodist, Smith Street, opened May 5, 1864.
The Brethren, Nuttall Street.
Baillie Street U.M.F.C, opened Jan. 8, 1837.
Brimrod U.M.F.C, opened April 14, 1854.
Castlemere U.M.F.C, opened Sep. 6, 1865.
Cutgate U.M.F.C., donor T. Watson, Horse Carrs, opened Jan. 26, 1882.
Shawclough U.M.F.C, built by T. Watson, Horse Carrs, at the cost of
£3,500, Feb. 23, 1881.
Lowerplace U.M.F.C, cost £3,000, opened June 16, 1874.
Hamer U.M.F.C, opened Dec. 25, 1862.
Rooley Moor Road U.M.F.C, cost £5,500; opened Oct. 3, 1897.
Whitworth U.M.F.C, cost £4,000, opened April 4, 1878.
Holland Street Chapel, opened Jan. S, 1854.
Chapel for the Destitute, founded 1858 ; edifice in Rope Street, opened
May 4, 1879.
Salvation Army Citadel, Lord Street, opened Nov. 6, 1892.
Welsh Presbyterian, Portland Street ; opened March 3, 1878.
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Local Facts Often Asked About.
Outlay on the Town Hall, £155,000.
Height of Town Hall spire, 191 feet, 6 inches ; old spire, 240 feet in height.
The hour by the Town Hall clock is indicated by the first stroke of the hour
bell, which weighs 59 cwt. , but the J, £, and } hours are intimated
by the first stroke of the chimes.
Bells in the Town Hall tower, 5 in number ; total weight 10 tons 13 cwt.
3qrs. 2 lb.; cost £1,100.
Town Hall clock dials are 11 feet 6 inches in diameter.
Pendulum of the Town Hall clock is 15 feet long.
Town Hall assembly room, exclusive of platform and alcove, is 30 yards
long, 20 yards wide, 68 feet high ; seats 1,200 persons, standing room
for 2,000 persons.
Public Hall, Baillie Street, is 80 feet long, 50 feet wide, 30 feet high.
Baillie Street Chapel seats 1,800 persons.
Circus of Varieties will hold 4,000 persons.
Union Street Wesleyan Chapel seats 1,650 persons.
At its widest the borough is over 3 miles from point to point.
Park ground rent remitted by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, £380 per
annum.
Acreage of the borough, 4,180.
Tramways undertaking cost over £500,000 to complete.
Tramways Company's powers expire 1902.
Cemetery, Bury Road, contains over 54,000 bodies.
St. Chad's Church steps are 122 in number.
Broadfield Park is about 16 acres in extent.
Mr. Samuel Turner, Chaseley, discovered the manufacturing properties of
asbestos.
Magna Charta picture by Holliday, cost £450 originally ; restored at the
cost of £200.
One Vicar of Rochdale, Henry Tilson, M. A., a.d. 1615-39, has been appointed
a Bishop.
Drink bill of the town estimated to exceed £250,000 per annum.
Trinity Presbyterian Church spire cost £1,070.
Cost of the maintenance of the Post Office, about £8,000 per annum.
Rochdale School Board was the third Board formed under the Education
Act, 1870.
County Police Court offices, &c, cost £8,000.
Newbold Friendly Society's members exceed 25,000 in number.
Kenion's Charity funds exceed £8,000.
Dearnley Workhouse cost £85,000 to erect.
Exchange Street is a private thoroughfare, owned by the proprietors of the
New Market.
Right to hold a Fair purchased from the Lord of the Manor by the Cor-
poration for £350.
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Local Facts — continued.
The land used for stallage at the bottom of Yorkshire Street comprises
about 48 superficial square yards. £1,000 has been refused for it.
Pioneers' Central Stores cost £13,400 to erect.
John Wesley made several visits to the town.
Size of the largest Swimming Bath, Smith Street, 65 feet 6 inches long,,
39 feet wide.
Mayor's Chain and Badge of Office cost £250.
Healey Viaduct railway lines are 105 feet above the river Spodden.
Length of Rochdale Railway Station main platforms 380 yards each.
Rise of the railway line to Facit, from the junction, near Milnrow Road,
302 feet 6 inches.
Summit Tunnel is 2,869 yards in length ; 23,000,000 bricks were used in its
construction. Total cost £251,000.
Largest Gasometer at the Corporation Gas Works is 136 feet high, 150 feet
in diameter ; holding capacity 2,403,293 cubic feet.
Spring Mill Reservoir holding capacity 185,000,000 gallons.
Cowm Reservoir holding capacity 230,000,000 gallons.
Hollingworth Lake covers 104 acres.
Distance round Hollingworth Lake by carriage road, 2 miles 372 yards.
Whiteholme Reservoir, Blackstone Edge, covers 92 acres.
Fenton's Bank paid a total dividend of 15s. 3Jd.
Glebe Lands rental exceeds £12,000 per annum.
Forty-two Locks separate the canal between Rochdale and Manchester.
John Bright Statue is 9 feet high, and stands upon a pedestal 11 feet high;
cost £2,000.
Rochdale Bridge is 92} feet wide between parapets.
Rochdale Canal cost nearly £500,000 to construct.
St. Edmund's Church, Falinge, cost £30,000 to complete.
John Bright & Bros., Fieldhouse Mills, were the first to use electric light
in Rochdale.
St. Alban's Institute cost £12,000 to complete.
Rochdale Cricket Ground, Dane Street, cost £2,000 to lay out, &c.
Ash worth Memorial Statue, in the Park, cost 800 guineas.
Value of the late Mr. T. Watson's gift of the Infirmary, £7,000.
Rochdale Grammar School Endowments produce a net annual income of
£25 10s. Od.
Gartside Charity Funds exceed £5,300 ; income about £140, £10 of which is
devoted to the ancient parish of Castleton, remainder in subscrip-
tions to convalescent homes and in providing nurses for the sick.
200,000 letters are posted and delivered weekly at the Post Office ; number
of parcels dealt with weekly, 3,000.
Elective Auditors' salary, £52 10s. per annum.
Infirmary Galas' receipts £9,152 14s. 5Jd.» net profit £3,069 13s. 7d.
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Obituary.
Note.— The figures in brackets denote the age of the deceased.
Ackroyd, T. W., saddler (71), Dec. 19, 1895.
Adamson, Robt., wholesale grocer, a former town councillor, Mar. 1, 1886.
Aldridge, Rev. E. H., M.A., first vicar of Facit (69), Aug. 28, 1898.
Askew, Peter, a well-known Wesley an, Nov. 25, 1887.
Ash worth, Edmund, Oakenrod, J. P., ex- town councillor (56), at Hammer-
smith, Jan. 19, 1885.
Ashworth, Edwin, Spotland Bridge, cotton spinner (42), Jan. 21, 1880.
Ashworth, Geo., Roche House, J.P. (61), May 25, 1861.
Ashworth, Geo. L., Roche Mount, J. P., twice mayor (50), Aug. 6, 1873.
Ashworth, James, Toad Lane, a well-known eating house keeper (81), Feb.
12, 1882.
Ashworth, James, Waterside, glazier, local poet (50), March 21, 1856.
Ashworth, John, author of Strange Tales, &c. (61), Jan. 26, 1875.
Ashworth, Miles, first president Pioneers' Society (76), April 13, 1869.
Ashworth, Samuel, one of the "28" (46), Feb., 1871.
Ashworth, Solomon, dyer, ex-town councillor (75), March 15, 1894.
Ashworth, Thomas, a well-known music teacher (73), July 18, 1888.
Ashworth, Thomas, Belle Green, J.P., mayor 1859-60 (53), Sep. 10, 1869.
Ashworth, T. B., solicitor (34), at Bury, Sep. 30, 1878.
Ashworth, Wm., Spread Eagle Hotel, freemason (50), April 4, 1880.
Atkinson, Wm., Yorkshire Street, smallware dealer (87), Jan. 4, 1882.
B
Bamford, J. W., Cronkeyshaw, chemist, town councillor (60), Nov. 11, 1894.
Bamford, Sam., editor of the Co-operative News (51), March 6, 1898.
Barlow, Abm., Sparth, gentleman (74), June 14, 1868.
Barlow, Edwd., Sparth, gentleman (73), suddenly, Jan. 12, 1884.
Barlow, Thos., Falinge Road, cotton waste dealer (72), June 18, 1894.
Barnish, John, a noted clock -maker (69), May 26, 1829.
Bartlemore, Wm., Castleton Hall, J.P., Feb. 13, 1855.
Barton, John, Regent Street, undertaker (63), July 13, 1895.
Barton, W. W., for 40 years town surveyor (67), Dec. 8, 1859.
Bell, Robert, gas works manager (47), April 7, 1871.
Benn, Sam., managing partner in the firm of W. H. Best (63), Jan. 14, 1895.
Bent, J., one of the "28" (78), March 25, 1894.
Best, W. H., decorator (66), July 31, 1897.
Bibbington, John, lime burner (43), Jan. 18, 1865.
Bolton, Edwin, timber merchant (57), June 21, 1888.
Bolton, Fletcher, timber merchant, town councillor, member of the Board
of Guardians (77); at Blackpool, Sep. 25, 1884.
Bolton, Thomas, timber merchant, a well-known amateur athlete (36),
Sep. 20, 1887.
Booth, James, Elmfield, alderman (75), Nov. 13, 1881.
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Obituary— continued.
Booth, Thomas, William Street, J.P. (75), Feb. 14, 1884.
Booth, William, Drake Hotel, musical instrument maker (44), Mar. 19, 1893.
Boothman, Wm., Yorkshire Street, an active member of the old Radical
club (44), June 14, 1869.
Bradbury, W. W., Milkstone Road, town councillor for Castleton west ward
1893-7 (65), Oct. 5, 1898.
Brandon, Thos., grocer (57), Oct. 9, 1877.
Brearley, Robt., the Milnrow centenarian (102), Sep. 19, 1889.
Bridge, Sutcliffe, White Swan Hotel (37), Feb. 13, 1883.
. Brierley, Arthur, cotton spinner, (formerly of Egerton Terrace) in London,
May 1, 1895.
Brierley, Abraham, West Hill, J. P., founder of the firm of Abm. Brierley
and Sons, Ld., July 20, 1864.
Brierley, James, West HU1, county and borough justice (80), Sep. 24, 1896.
Brierley, James, Grossfield, July 18, 1873.
Brierley, Joseph, Castleton Manor, J.P. , ex-alderman, member of the School
Board 1870-94 (78), Feb. 22, 1896.
Brierley, John, Mitchell Street, manager of the Provident Co-operative
Society (69), July 16, 1887.
Brierley, John Pilling, Lauriston (75), Dec. 26, 1894.
Brierley, Morgan, cotton spinner, antiquarian (73), Sep. 8, 1897.
Brierley, Robert, land steward, town councillor (45), Aug. 2, 1875.
Brierley, Samuel, Grove Place, Drake-st, schoolmaster (53), Nov. 12, 1889.
Brierley, Samuel, Glebelands (74), Jan. 8, 1876.
Brierley, Simon, butcher, a former member of Whitworth Local Board (58),
Feb. 12, 1896.
Bright, Grattan (30), at Bologna, Oct. 27, 1853.
Bright, Jacob, senior (76), July 7, 1851.
Bright, Rt. Hon. John, M.P. (77), March 27, 1889.
Bright, Samuel (46), at Geneva, March 27, 1873.
Bright, Thomas, Green Bank (75), Jan. 8, 1890.
Broadbent, J. C, Wellingrove, civil engineer (62), March 9, 1890.
Brogden, D. H., blacksmith, a well-known musician, June, 1898.
Buck, Chas., chief constable 1893-98 (41), April 9, 1898.
Buckley, Benj., surgeon dentist (51), Oct. 24, 1896.
Buckley, Nathaniel, Townhead, M.D. (49), Jan. 13, 1871.
Buckley, Thomas, solicitor, justices' clerk (46), Feb. 12, 1871.
Burchell, Rev. W. F., for 21 years' pastor of West St. Chapel, April 6, 1876.
Butterworth, Chas., Town Meadows, gentleman (82), Feb. 25, 1868.
Butterworth, Henry, jeweller (55), Sep. 26, 1882.
Butterworth, H. D., auctioneer (54), Feb. 5, 1888.
Butterworth, H. H., Castleton Villas, cotton spinner (51), Feb. 27, 1874.
Butterworth, James, Rake Bank, county justice, a former member of the
Board of Guardians (74), Nov. 30, 1894.
Butterworth, James, coal merchant; at Southport, Feb. 17, 1887.
Butterworth, James, Greenbooth, woollen manufacturer (82), May 3, 1868.
Butterworth, John, Elbow Lane mills (52), Nov. 1, 1873.
Butterworth, John, broker, whilst addressing an open-air Liberal meeting
(60), July 3, 1896.
Butterworth, John, Oakenrod Hill (75), July 29, 1889.
Butterworth, Joseph, bell-ringer, a well-known Conservative working-man
(72), Nov. 25, 1890.
Byron, Lord, Baron Rochdale (35), April 19, 1824.
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Caiman, A. L., of the Chapel for the Destitute (70), Jan. 1, 189.3.
Calow, Charles, Drake Street, watchmaker (70), Jan. 20, 1894.
Carter, Rev. T., M.A., vicar of Littleborough (41), July 21, 1872.
Cartwright, Henry, insurance agent (77), Feb. 18, 1877.
Cartwright, Thos. S., insurance agent (46), Dec. 27, 1878.
Chadwick, Edward Stott, wharfinger (57), Feb. 11, 1880.
Chad wick, Hector, (John Chadwick <fe Sons, flannel manufacturers), (72);
at Southport, September 25, 1897.
Chadwick, James, J.P. since 1854 (62), Feb. 18, 1871.
Chadwick, John, Oakenrod, flannel manufacturer (68), Aug. 20, 1883.
Chadwick, Jonathan, Grand Master of the Order of Modern Druids in
1868-9 (65), March 9, 1873.
Chadwick, Joseph, pawnbroker (70), Feb. 20, 1899.
Chadwick, Thomas, Wellington Terrace (87), Jan. 1, 1870.
Chadwick, Thomas, Bridge Street, machinist (43), March 15, 1894.
Chappell, J. T. H.. a promising cricketer (22), April 11, 1877.
Cheetham, J. K., M.D., March 24, 1864.
Clegg, Chas. £., King's Road, major in the Oldham rifles, town councillor,.
(45), April 26, 1884.
Clegg, Edward A., J. P., LL.D., Littleborough (45), July 5th, 1885.
Clegg, James, pawnbroker, ex-town councillor (60), Nov. 20, 1891.
Clegg, James Nuttall, formerly of Fenton's Bank (39), Dec. 19, 1885.
Clegg, John, father of " Th' Owd Weighver " (82), Nov. 29, 1896.
Clegg, John Trafford, " Th' Owd Weighver," local author and poet (38),
March 18, 1895.
Clegg, Levi, cloth merchant, Yorkshire Street (61), March 6, 1896.
Clegg, Robert, Griffin Inn, secretary of the Licensed Victuallers' Association.
(54), March 7, 1896.
Clegg, Wm. , Bilson House, Milnrow, flannel manufacturer (80), Feb. 18, 1887*
~*ough, Robert, a noted temperance lecturer (64), Sep. 2, 1894.
>bden, Richard, M.P. for the borough 1859-65 (61), April 2, 1865.
Cogswell, R. P., retired grocer, (66), May 4, 1897.
Collier, John, "Tim Bobbin" (76), July 14, 1786.
Collier, Luke, confectioners' machinist (72), Dec. 31, 1893.
Collinge, Robert, a well-known Druid, March 25, 1894.
Collinge, Thomas A., borough analyst (38), Oct. 31, 1882.
Collingwood, Edwin, stamp distributor, sometime assistant justices' clerk
(59),- Dec. 15, 1874.
Collingwood, J as. H., solicitor's managing clerk (48), Aug. 31, 1895.
Collingwood, Thomas, medical officer to Rochdale Union (67), Apl. 27, 1881.
Collingwood, T. B., Reed Hotel (40), Dec. 11, 1882.
Cooper, Rev. Walter, B.A., for 18 years vicar of St. Alban's Church,
July 31, 1894.
Cooper, William, one of the "28" (46), Oct. 31, 1868.
Coventry, David, manager of the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank
(74), July 11, 1879.
Crook, Capt. T. A., D.L., Townhead, Nov. 16, 1856.
Crowder, W. H. G., a well-known musician, April 21, 1871.
Crowther, F. C, The Orchard, surveyor (35), Sep. 1, 1884.
Crawford, W. Sharman, M.P. for the borough, 1841-52 (81), Oct. 17, 186L
Cunliffe, Henry, flannel manufacturer, antiquarian (60), April 21, 1886.
Curtis, J. J., Summercastle, schoolmaster (62), Feb. 26, 1877.
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Obituary — continued.
Dania, John, machinist, town councillor (72), Sep. 26, 1875..
Davenport, James, Globe works (73), March 8, 1876.
Davenport, J. B., publisher (65), Jan. 29, 1886.
Dawson, Daniel, Yorkshire Street, draper (50), Dec. 8. 1880.
Dawson, Thomas, Wellington Terrace, gentleman (66), Dec. 24, 1887.
Dearden James, Lord of the Manor (64), Jan. 2, 1862.
Dearden, John, licensed victualler, town councillor (51), July 23, 1873.
Dearden, J. fferand, The Elms, coroner for 35 years (68), Jan. 2, 1870.
Dodds, Ralph, builder (62), Nov. 22, 1898.
Douglas, Malcolm, sometime editor of the Rochdale Pilot, Oct. 27, 1876.
Dowling, Rev. John, St. John's R. C. Church (65), Dec. 18, 1871.
Duckworth, Thomas, Drake Street, card manufacturer (60), Jan. 29, 1886.
Ducker, Rev. J., M.A., for 34 years vicar of Wardle (74), at Southport,
Dec. 7, 1896.
Dunlop, Walter, surgeon, December 14, 1859.
Eastwood, C, well-known in sporting circles (65), suddenly, Aug. 16, 1898.
Ellidge, Ephraim, solicitor (36), Nov. 29, 1891.
Empsall, John, member of the Rochdale Rifle Club (38), Jan. 2, 1871.
Entwisle, John, M.P. for the borough, 1835-37 (52), April 5, 1837.
Entwisle, John Smith, J. P., D.L., High Sheriff in 1849, June 20, 1868.
Evans, Edward, broker, a well-known Radical (75), July 1, 1897.
Farrow, C, cheese factor, J. P., July 22, 1891.
ffarrington, Rev. W. J., vicar of St. James's, Wardleworth, Jan. 31, 1863.
Faulkner, J., veterinary surgeon (67), Nov. 25, 1896.
Fenton, James, Bamford Hall, J.P. (64), Dec. 8, 1857.
Fenton, John, Crimble, first M.P. for the borough (72), July 25, 1863. *
Fielden, T., M.P. for Middleton division (Lanes.) (43), Oct. 5, 1897. *
Fielding, Joshua, Church Stile House (72), Jan. 8, 1889.
Fielding, Wm., Grove Inn, a well-known flautist, April 11, 1890.
Fisher, James, tea dealer (65), Dec. 9, 1893.
Fish, Rev. J., M. A., vicar of Ash worth (55), Nov. 26, 1883.
Fishwick, H. H., Brown Hill, town commissioner (72), Sep. 30, 1872.
Fletcher, James, Calliards, flannel manufacturer (63), Nov. 3, 1885.
Fletcher, John, iron merchant (60), Aug. 28, 1885.
Fraser, James, D.D., second bishop of Manchester, Oct. 22, 1885.
G
Gaitskill, Rev. I., M. A., for 51 years curate and vicar of Whitworth (80),
Feb. 5, 1877.
Gartside, John, Molesworth Street, waste dealer (64), April 12, 1894.
Gott, Henry, coal merchant (51), June 17, 1893.
Gott, Jeffrey, master of St. James's schools (28), Dec. 5, 1872.
Goodhew, Thomas, drysalter (42), Dec. 26, 1898.
Grandidge, James, timber merchant, for 36 years a member of the Board
of Guardians (76), Oct. 29, 1886.
Grandidge, William, timber merchant (54), June 6, 1893.
Greenhalgh, Robert, Robin Hood Hotel (42), March 19, 1883.
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H
Hadfield, J. , chemist, member of the Board of Guardians (63), Dec. 17, 1892.
Halliwell, R. Ogden, furniture broker, served in the Crimean war (55),
May 25, 1891.
Halstead, Isaac, ironfounder (34), April 5, 1874.
Halstead, James, ironfounder (44), Nov. 23, 1876.
Hamilton, J., valuer to the Union Assessment Committee (86), April 3, 1891.
Hamilton, James, ironmonger, Broom Hill (52), at Reading, June 8, 1880.
Handley, John, woolstapler (58), Feb. 14, 1887.
Handley, J., grocer, ex-town councillor (71), at Southport, Feb. 21, 1899.
Haresceugh, Joseph, Sanitary Works, manager (71), April 6, 1883.
Harley, John, during his mayoralty (66), June 13, 1883.
Hartley, James, solicitor, steward of the manor ; ex-town councillor (60),
June 22, 1881.
Hartley, Stephen, Littleborough, finisher (54), Oct. 7, 1892.
Hartshome, Kev. C. K., M. A., vicar of Norden, Dec. 18, 1867.
Hastings, Wm., flannel manufacturer (77), Sep. 14, 1875.
Hastings, Willie, well-known all-round athlete (26), suddenly, July 22, 1892.
Hayle, Thomas, M.D., Drake Street (78), Sept. 17, 1886.
Healey, Robt., The Hurstead, J. P., commissioner of income tax, trustee of
Moss school, trustee of Rochdale and Halifax turnpike trust (64),
May 27, 1874.
Healey, Thomas, Howarth Cross, J. P., commissioner of income tax, trustee
of Rochdale and Halifax turnpike trust (70), March 10, 1894.
Heap, James, Newhey, J. P. (64), April 7, 1892.
Heap, Joseph, solicitor, clerk to the borough justices (64), May 29, 1891.
Heap, Joshua, Dunster, J. P. (50), in London, Nov. 29, 1886.
Heap, Samuel, Caldershaw (66), Oct. 6, 1873.
Heap, Thomas, Cliffe House, Milnrow, J.P. (79), June 4, 1872.
Heap, Wm. Edmund, Bentmeadows, surveyor, Nov. 25, 1887.
Heape, Robert, Grove Place (83), Feb. 1, 1867.
Heape, Robert Taylor, J. P., D.L., twice mayor (75), Nov. 18, 1888.
Heaton, W., Dunsterville, solicitor, clerk to justices, (72), March 23, 1869.
Hill, Abraham, Shawforth, member of the Board of Guardians for many
years (69), Sep. 27, 1889.
Hill, Edward, for 23 years sheriff's officer (63), June 30, 1884.
Hill, John, Lord Street, woolstapler, town councillor (77), Feb. 6, 1896.
Hill, W. B., a well-known draper (retired) (78), at Southport, Jan. 10, 1892.
Holden, James, High Birch (66), April 23, 1896.
Holgate, John, solicitor, clerk to the Board of Guardians since 1858 (74),
May 19, 1886.
Holland, John (47), solicitor, Aug. 30, 1882.
Holroyd, Chas., Air Hill, woollen manufacturer, Jan. 18, 1881.
Holt, James, a well-known football player, in South Africa, Jan. 5, 1895.
Holt, James, Yorkshire Street, J.P. (72), Dec. 26, 1874.
Holt, John, Richard Street, shoemaker, ardent Conservative (74), Sep.
2, 1895.
Holt, Ormerod, vocalist (45), Jan. 14, 1872.
Holt, Robert, Drake Street, tobacconist (66), April 15, 1895.
Holt, Thomas, Milnrow Road, roper, for many years an overseer of the
poor (66), April 13. 1885.
Holt, Thomas, Molesworth Street, machinist (64), Oct. 26, 1892.
Holt, William, Milurow Road, roper, Churchman and Conservative (58),
Dec. 9, 1896.
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Horbury, Benjamin, ex-president of the Pioneers' Society (65), March 16, 1889.
Horsfall, James, a noted botanist and flint collector, Oct. 1898.
Howarth, David, engineer, (70), Oct. 28, 1888.
fiowarth, James, auctioneer, formerly Conservative agent (44), May 27, 1885.
Hoyle, James, Larkfield, J.P. (57), Feb. 8, 1872.
fioyle, John Thomas, a local vocalist (41), Sep. 30, 1896.
Hoyle, John, Crossfield, corn miller (65), July 25, 1877.
Hoyle, John, The Elms, late of Wardleworth House, town councillor
1872-88 (75), Feb. 13, 1898.
Howe, John, auctioneer, a sturdy Radical (54), Jan. 24, 1885.
Howell, James, veterinary surgeon (77), Aug. 10, 1891.
Hudson, T. B., Henry Street, railway contractor (65), Jan. 3, 1892.
Hulme, George, well-known by the soubriquet " Brids apiece" (78), March
31, 1890.
Hunt, Richard, solicitor, 1852.
Hurst, Charles, Ph.D., assistant lecturer at Owens College, biologist, May
10, 1898.
Hurst, Richard, Spring Hill, Buersill, borough and county justice, ex-member
of the School Board (83), Aug. 16, 1897.
Hurst, Robert, wine and spirit merchant (79), Nov. 23, 1898.
Hurst, William, Hamer Hall, cotton spinner (63), Aug. 5, 1893.
Hutchinson, R. Hopwood, Norden, J.P., D.L. (68), Feb. 28, 1893.
I
Jnchbald, Rev. J. W., M.A. formerly vicar of St. Mary's, The Baum, (64),
April 12, 1861.
jlngham, James, veterinary surgeon (34), May 28, 1894.
Ireland, Josh., Woolpack Hotel, New Market, town councillor (69), Jan.
10, 1888.
J
Jackson, John, Trafalgar Street, cotton manufacturer, for many years a
member of the Board of Guardians (72), Sep. 3, 1893.
Jackson, Robert, solicitor, registrar of the county court, clerk to the county
justices (74), April 23, 1891.
Jennings, Joseph, woollen manufacturer (26), July 14, 1875.
Jewison, R., Wolstenholme Hall, tallow chandler, J.P. (62), May 12, 1880.
Jones, C. M., Roebuck Hotel (65), Jan. 11, 1888.
Jones, Ellis, draper (69), Sep. 22, 1876.
Jones, Rev. Robt., for 24 years registrar of the Cemetery (85); at Leaming-
ton Spa, March, 1894.
Jones, William, Milnrow, for many years member of Local Board, spinning
company director, Jan. 16, 1898.
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Kay, Edward Greenwood, Whitworth, J.P. (82), April 28, 1888.
Kay, Richard, Harefield Hall, J.P. (51), July 20, 1888.
Kelsall, Henry, The Butts, J.P. (76), Dec. 22, 1869.
Kelsall, Joseph, Deeplish, Nov. 27, 1864.
Kemp, Geo. Tawke, Beech wood, J.P. (67), atDabod, Nubia, Mar. 20. 1877.
Kershaw, Charles, corn dealer, ex-town councillor (63), at Southport, Oct.
3, 1896.
Kershaw, Rev. J,, for 52 years pastor of Hope-st. Chapel (77), Jan. 11, 1870.
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Kershaw, John, registrar of births, &c., Wardleworth (70), May 1, 1890.
Kershaw, Thomas, Spotland Road, grocer (61), March 16, 1894.
King, James, Sandfield, cotton spinner (64), Oct. 20, 1878.
Kirtley, J. H., wine merchant (55), Sep. 30, 1869.
Knight, Dr. S. R., well-known writer on mathematics (40), Jan. 27, 1894.
Ladyman, Thomas, Summeroastle, builder, Feb. 7, 1871.
Lahee, M. R. , Union Street, Lancashire authoress (64), June 14, 1895.
Law, Edward, for 21 years relieving officer for Castleton township (63),
June, 1890.
Law, Isaac, Facit, quarrymaster, Feb. 28, 1887.
Law, Joseph, Littledale Street, waste dealer (53), Oct. 14, 1883.
Lawton, Geo., brewer (73), June 6, 1895.
Lawton, James, surgeon (63), Aug. 4, 1877.
Lawton, Josef W., printer, well-known in musical circles (68), Feb. 17, 1894.
Lawton, Robt., machine broker (73) Oct. 31, 1886.
Lawton, Robt., letterpress printer, one of the early printers and proprietors
of the Rochdale Observer (54), Nov. 23, 1877.
Leach, Edmund, Summercastle, machinist, J.P. (72), Sep. 1st, 1872.
Leach, John, Harridge, flannel manufacturer, well-known county cricketer
(46), Feb. 1, 1893.
Leach, John, formerly of Castleton Hall, machinist, J. P., a former leader
of the Conservative party ; ex-town councillor (48), at Colombo,
March 15, 1882.
Leach, John, cotton spinner, town councillor ; member of the School Board,
(58), Jan. 25, 1897.
Leach, James, Birchen House, spring maker (62), Nov. 23, 1898.
Leach, Stephen, formerly of Bueroill, flannel manufacturer ; ex-town coun-
cillor (60), at Davenham, July, 1885.
Leach, Thomas (Leach & Sons, Summercastle), machinist (38), Feb. 7, 1875
Lee, J. W., Littleborough, oil and tallow merchant, (39), at Paris, Feb.
22 1895.
Leech, Edwd.,The Greave (53), July 30, 1873.
Lett, James, tinplate worker ; active Conservative (63), May 15, 1891.
Lewis, Rev. E. C., pastor at St. Stephen's Church, 1839-76 (70), at Slough„
Dec. 23, 1886.
Littlewood, Thornton, Townhead, J.P., Oct. 10, 1865.
Littlewood, William, for 40 years principal of Townhead academy (59),.
July, 1857.
Livsey, Thomas, alderman, a Rochdale worthy (48), Jan. 25, 1864.
Lloyd, John (Lloyd & Whitehead), draper (49), Nov. 1, 1897.
Lofthouse, John, surgeon ; town councillor, member of School Board (40),.
July 25, 1886.
Lord, Ellis, chemist, town councillor (55), Feb. 1, 1886.
Lord, Henry, bailiff of the county court (70), Sep. 19, 1873.
Lord, Samuel, Marland, a well-known innkeeper (77), Sep. 29, 1889.
Lord, Simeon, Castleton, butcher (65), Jan. 22, 1890.
Lord, T. E., land steward of the manor (41), Aug. 25, 1894.
Lord, William, flannel manufacturer, ex-town councillor, at Southport,.
Dec. 29, 1892.
Lumb, Levi, Brotherod (77), June 24, 1888.
Lnmb, William, Brotherod Hall, cotton spinner (53), Oct. 10, 1896.
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Mc.Intvre, Wm., a well-known cricketer, for several seasons engaged at
Sparth, Sep. 10, 1892.
McKill, Wra., tailor (61), Aug. 9, 1895.
Mc. Naught, Wm., Crawford Street, engineer (76), Feb., 1888.
Mc. Naught, Wm., Crawford Street (52), Sep. 18, 1893.
Mansell, Geo., mayor 1868-9 (78), at Southport, Dec. 27, 1891.
March, Owen, solicitor (67), January 12, 1899.
Mason, John, machinist (43), Sep. 27, 1855.
Mason, Thomas, Trafalgar Hotel, president of the Rochdale Cricket Club,
April 8, 1890.
Martin, Christopher, Clock Face Hotel, freemason, April 4, 1890.
Mather, John, shoemaker, a former member of the rifle volunteers (73),
Feb. 4, 1892.
Matley, Levi, for many years with John Pilling, Limited, Norwich Street
mills, Churchman, Conservative (62), May 6, 1895.
Matthew, Henry, woollen manufacturer, Baptist, active Liberal (58), Dec.
12, 1897.
Matthews, John, ex -postmaster (63), suddenly, March, 1885.
Mattley, Robt., woolstapler, a former town councillor, lieut. 24th L.R.V.
(40), July 7th, 1874.
Mellor, J. W., solicitor (69), Oct. 12, 1895.
Mellor, Edmund, Coptrod, land steward (77), Nov. 19, 1895.
Mellor, Zachary, solicitor, town clerk since 1856 (76), Sep. 13, 1897.
Miles, Geo., for many years treasurer of Newbold Friendly Society (59), at
Preston, May 16, 1896.
Milne, John, Bankside House, woolstapler, alderman (72), July 24, 1892.
Milne, Joseph, Dean House, Buersill (56), April 17, 1898.
Milne, Robert, Mitchell Street, retired spring maker (76), Feb. 4, 1899.
Milnes, Edward, pawnbroker, member of the Board of Guardians (55), Dec
25, 1890.
Mills, George, formerly of the Bricklayers' Arms, Cheetham Street (69),
at Whitefield, Dec. 12, 1895.
Mills, Robert, for many years with Messrs. Kelsall & Kemp (67), suddenly,
Nov. 29, 1892.
Mills, Rev. T. S., M. A., vicar of Littleborough, J.P., D.L. (75), Oct. 1, 1864.
Minnitt, Rev. R., M.A., vicar of Healey since 1850 (79), Feb. 27, 1884.
Mitchell, J. T. W., chairman of the Co-operative Wholesale Society (67),
March 16, 1895.
Molesworth, John, solicitor, county coroner (68), Dec. 21, 1886.
Molesworth, Rev. J. E. N., D.D., for 38 years vicar of Rochdale (87), April
21, 1877.
Molesworth, Rev. W., M. A., LL.D., vicar of Scotland (74), Dec. 19, 1890.
Molineux, Rev. J., supernumerary U.M.F.C. minister (82), Nov. 13, 1873
Moore, Geo., a popular local cricketer (49), Aug. 1888.
Moore, J. H. Castleton Grange, mayor 1860-1 (54), Nov. 8, 1870.
Moore, J. E., Castleton Grange, Dec. 27, 1886.
Morgan, Chas., leather currier, town councillor (50) Jan. 19, 1891.
Moriarty, Dean Michael, St. Patrick's R.C. Church (68), at Nice, Feb. 16,
1897.
Morris, John Walter, surgeon (55), Feb. 12, 1893.
Myers, Rev. M. T. , superintendent minister of Baillie Street Circuit (67)>
April 2, 1895.
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Nansen, Emil, wine merchant, formerly teacher of languages at the Roch-
dale Grammar School (67), Jan. 12, 1897.
Needham, Mick, an eccentric character, May 23, 1892.
Newall, Henry, Littleborough, J.P. (71), Sep. 26, 1886.
Nield, Jonathan, Messrs. J. & J. Fenton & Sons, bankers (62), Aug. 4, 1887*
Norris, Rev. C. E., M.A., vicar of Falinge (62), Aug. 28, 1896.
Norris, E. W., Yorkshire Street, butcher (70), Jan. 2, 1889.
Nuttall, Squire, sometime president of the Provident Co-operative Society,
Dec. 24, 1897.
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Oddie, Wilkinson, Messrs. Abm. Brierley & Sons (53), Jan. 23, 1892.
Ogden, John, Kilnerdeyne (89), Nov. 30, 1888.
Ogden, John, Wardleworth Cottage, woolstapler (52), July 17, 1878.
Ogden, R. T., Drake Street, surgeon (42), March 24, 1872.
Ogden, T., Messrs. Israel Ogden & Sons, cotton spinner (39), Dec. 17, 1885.
O^eill, Edward, canon of Salford, 23 years' priest at St. John's Ann Street
(66), Oct. 15, 1895.
Ormerod, Oliver, leather merchant, Lancashire author (68), Nov. 1, 1879.
Ormerod, Wm., leather merchant; a former member of the School Board
(64), Feb. 1, 1882.
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Pagan, J. T., Mayor 1861-2 (59), at Guildford, Nov. 23, 1885.
Parker, John, builder, alderman; for 16 years' a member of the Board of
Guardians (81), August 16, 1897.
Parker, Rev. J. W., M.A., first vicar of St. Alban's Church (50), August
13, 1874.
Parkinson, Rev. H. W., pastor of Milton Congregational Church (49),
August 20, 1874.
Parr, Rev. J. R., M.A., first vicar of Balderstone (69), June 3, 1888.
Petrie, James, engineer, J.P. (78), at Southport, June 21, 1892.
Petrie, John, South Street, engineer, a prominent Liberal (92), Feb. 23, 1883.
Petrie, J. E., mayor, 1887-9, J. P., a former member of the School Board
(54), at Torquay, July 19, 1897.
Philippi, F. T., Belfield Hall (82), March 5, 1890.
Pickles, T. B. , Foxholes Lane, schoolmaster, staunch Churchman and Con-
servative (53), March 6, 1879.
Pilling, James, Stone Hill, cotton spinner (48), Dec. 13, 1871.
Pilling, John, Deeplish Hall, cotton spinner (64), April 28, 1891.
Pitts, C. A., for 39 years master at the National School, Redcross Street
(63), Dec. 28, 1877.
Pogson, T., Bridgewater Navigation Co. (52), May 19, 1884.
PoHitt, John, hairdresser, a prominent member of Baillie Street U.M.F.C.
(85), March 13, 1898.
Porritt, Samuel, Bamford, woollen manufacturer, a former town councillor
(68), April 13, 1884.
Postlethwaite, John, brush maker, a leading Spiritualist (66), April 19, 1889,
Potter, T. B., Midhurst, M.P. for the borough 1865-95 (80), Nov. 6, 1898.
Potts, John, for 35 years a corporation official, and an active member of
the early Pioneers (57), Jan. 13, 1895.
Preston, Chas., machinist, an ex-town councillor (57), Jan. 7, 1886.
Priestley, George, an old co-operator and an active secularist (67), March
23, 1895.
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Radcliffe, Henry, displayed conspicuous bravery at the great fire at Duncan
Street mills in 1854 (70), March 5 f 1881.
Radcliffe, Joshua, Balderstone Hall, J. P., vice-chairman of the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway Company (79), March 3, 1891.
Radcliffe, Joshua Walmsley, J. P., D.L. (52), Nov. 9, 1895.
Radcliffe, Walter, formerly of Holly Lea, Buersill (50), at sea, Feb. 13, 1897.
Raines, Canon F. R., M.A., F.S.A., 46 years vicar of Milnrow (73), Oct.
17, 1878.
Ramsay, Sir A., Bart., M.P. for the borough 1857-9 (61), March 3, 1875.
Rathbone, Rev. D., for 37- years vicar of Ash worth (84), Feb. 9, 1871.
Rawstron, Ralph, North View, Whitworth (74), Dec. 10, 1895.
Renshaw, Chas., coach builder, one of the founders of the Rochdale Good
Samaritan society (70), May 31, 1883.
Rhodes, Ebenezer, borough auditor (68), Dec. 11, 1885.
Roberts, William, solicitor, poor-law auditor (67), Feb. 18, 1879.
Roberts, William, proprietor of the Wellington Hotel (53), Mar. 18, 1884.
Robinson, P. H., Mount Falinge, engineer (31), March 8, 1883.
Robinson, J. Salkeld, Woodfield, engineer, J. P. (43), July 14, 1892.
Robinson, John, Mount Falinge, engineer, J. P., mayor, 1866-7 (54), Dec.
22, 1877.
Robinson, John, Ashworth House, flannel manufacturer, alderman (64),
Feb. 1, 1895.
Rogers, James T., firebrick manufacturer (53), Dec. 11, 1882.
Roscow, Joseph, Hill House, coal proprietor, Jan. 12, 1869.
Roth well, J. U. , secretary of the workmen's committee of the Infirmary
(40), Dec. 14, 1886.
Rothwell, James Hamilton, Drake Street, chemist (43), Sep. 9, 1874.
Rothwell, Edmund, tramways manager (39), Feb. 6, 1898.
Rothwell, Win., Freehold (98), Jan. 26, 1889.
Royds, A. H., Brownhill, J. P., D.L., a former alderman (78), Jan. 17, 1890.
Royds, Clement, Falinge, J. P. (68), Sep. 6, 1854.
Royds, E. A. N., Brownhill, J. P., barrister-at-law (47), Aug. 22, 1892.
Royds, E. E. M., banker, J. P., ex-town councillor (43), at Petersfield,
Jan. 16, 1892.
Royds, James, Mount Falinge, D.L. (83), Feb. 2, 1842.
Royds, Wm. E., Greenhill (53), Jan. 10, 1871.
Russell, R. S., canal wharf (60), Jan. 20, 1891.
Saxon, Samuel, St. Alban's Street, brush maker (59), Feb. 25, 1882.
Schofield, G. W., formerly of Buckley Hall, J. P. (34), May 4, 1884.
Schofield, James, Greenroyd, captain in the volunteers (38), Oct. 5, 1883.
Schofield, James, Heybrook (77), Jan. 2, 1860.
Schofield, Joseph, South Dene, a well-known member of the Rochdale Hunt
(36), Feb. 26, 1876.
Schofield, Joseph, Stubley Hall (56), Sep. 11, 1864.
Schofield, Robert, Harefield, woollen manufacturer, J. P., a former town
councillor and member of the School Board (71), Nov. 28, 1898.
Schofield, Robert, Heybrook, Sep. 10, 1863.
Schofield, Thomas, J. P., twice mayor, member of the Board of Guardians
(80), March 5, 1897.
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Schofield, William W., Buckley Hall, woollen manufacturer, J. P., un-
successfully contested the borough against Mr. Potter 1868 (55),
Dec. 7, 1873.
Schofield, Wright, Lowerplace, auditor (45), Nov. 26, 1895.
Scholes, William, tea dealer, supporter of athletic institutions (63), Aug.
19, 1889.
Scholes, John, Littleborough, author (53), Oct. 20, 1863.
Scott, H. H., Rochdale Observer (32), Dec. 24, 1892.
Scotson, John, plumber, town councillor (61), June 19, 1896
Scott, W. A. , proprietor of the Rochdale Observer , a former town coun-
cillor (78), Feb. 19, 1889.
Sellers, J. H., solicitor, August 23, 1867.
Sellers, W. B., surgeon (66), Dec. 28, 1886.
Sharpe, Rev. R. N., M.A., 38 years vicar of St. Mary's, The Baum (70),
suddenly, April 6, 1895.
Shaw, J. A., editor of the Rochdale Times (51), Dec. 30, 1879.
Shaw, William, alias Mai toot, an eccentric local character, 1873.
Shaw, William, South Cottage, woollen manufacturer, J. P., chairman of
the School Board (75), Jan. 24, 1897.
Shawcross, W. T., Foxholes, J. P., twice mayor (59), at Blackpool, Sep.
26, 1884.
Sharrocks, James, Newbold, for 22 years a member of the Town Council
(76), Sep. 15, 1895.
Shepherd, Abraham, Russell Street, Churchman and Conservative (57),
March 14, 1892.
Shepherd, John, Sparthfield ; corn miller (63), July 15, 1891.
Shepherd, Thomas, Sparthfield (64), May 21, 1891.
Shepherd, William, Clover Bank, auctioneer (72), Jan. 22, 1891.
Sidebottom, Samuel, Castleton House, a former member of Castleton Local
Board (61), May 18, 1896.
Simpson, William, Bury Road, alderman (75), April 4, 1890.
Sladen, James, Beach Hotel, Hollingworth Lake, August 31, 1876.
Smethurst, Robt., formerly of the Golden Fleece Hotel, Oldham Road (78),
Sep. 25, 1894.
Smith, Enoch, The Walk, draper (74), Feb. 3, 1893.
Smith, James, The Willows, Moorhouse (66), May 28, 1898.
Smithies, James, one of the "28" (50), May 27, 1869.
Smithson, Wm., of the borough surveyor's office (44), Dec. 4, 1893.
Snowdon, Wm., cabinet maker (65), August 24, 1888.
South worth, Thos., an old Rochdale draper, retired (88), May 24, 1894.
Spencer, Robert, Sussex Street (46), Feb. 6, 1896.
Spencer, Thos., a former registrar of births, &c, for Castleton Township
(80), August 22, 1893.
Staley, Henry, Roche Place (76), March 26, 1859.
Staley, H., accountant, an enthusiastic church worker (34), May 12, 1884.
Standring, Sam, secularist lecturer (42), Sep. 27, 1895.
Stanwell, Wm., The Elms, surgeon (50), Nov. 13, 1884.
Starkie, John, Roche House (46), June 16, 1873.
Stevens, Allan, manager Williams Deacon, &c. bank (57), at Blackpool,
July 14, 1897.
Stewart, A., mayor in 1859-60 (72), Sep. 21, 1870.
Stott, F. L., cotton spinner (72), Nov. 25, 1891.
Stott, John, woolstapler ; remains interred in the New Burial Ground,
Drake Street (56); Dec. 5, 1896.
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Stott, Richard, Wolatenholme Hall, solicitor (72), May 31, 1876.
Stott, Robt., Mean wood, builder and cotton spinner (60), May 1, 1894.
Stott, Saml., of Messrs. Royds' bank, J.P. for Lane. (72), June 22, 1892.
Stott, Samuel, J.P., mayor in 1863-4 (75), at Higher Broughton, Feb. 19,
1895.
■Stott, S., Spotland Road, director of Mitchel Hey and other companies (73),
Aug. 18, 1897.
Stott, William, Elmfield, solicitor (58), Feb. 3, 1890.
Stuttard, Matthew, warp sizer, chairman of Whitworth Local Board (50),
June 3, 1890.
Sutcliffe, Thomas, Molesworth Street, brewer (77), personalty sworn under
£174,833 7s. 3d.; Nov. 2, 1890.
.Swift, James, William Street, waste dealer (72), Oct. 21, 1877.
Sykes, J. T., fishmonger (42), July 8, 1890.
Tatham, John, machinist, J. P., mayor, 1864-5 (71), Jan. 10, 1889.
Taylor, Edmund, Drake Street, watchmaker, Feb. 21, 1879.
'Taylor, Edward, Willow Bank, first honorary freeman of the borough (82),
Nov. 18, 1895.
Taylor, Charles Marshall, one of the founders of the Hornets Football Club
(42), Oct. 31, 1891.
Taylor, James, formerly manager of Trows Print Works Sep. 30, 1890.
Taylor, James, Dewhirat, a well-known judge of dogs (50), Dec. 5, 1896.
Taylor, James Eastwood, last of the " Whitworth Doctors " (53), April 8,
1876.
Taylor, John, Henry Street, solicitor (C5), Feb. 3, 1873.
Taylor, Joseph, Mona Hotel (52), July 6, 1882.
'Taylor, Joseph, Golden Fleece Hotel, a noted judge and breeder of dogs
(43), Sep. 2, 1896.
Taylor, Norris, an old corporation official (74), April 17, 1889.
Taylor, Samuel, Ashfield (76), Feb. 28, 1868.
Thornber^ J. R., Liberal registration agent (41), Oct. 2, 1888.
Tomlinson, James, machiuist, town councillor (56), Aug. 29, 1881.
Townend, Rev. Joseph, U.M.F.C. minister (82), Nov. 22, 1888.
Trevor-Roper, R. H., solicitor (54), March 9, 1889.
Tunnicliffe, John, Wardleworth Brow, dyer, Sep. 21, 1865.
Turner, Herod, surgeon (70), May 12, 1896.
Turner, John, printer (65), March 23, 1888.
Turner, Thomas, Clothhall, well-known in sporting circles (64), Dec. 6, 1892.
'Tweedale, Abraham, Passmonds, cotton spinner (78), May 7, 1898.
Tweedale, Frederick, Spotland Road, surveyor to the Chadderton Local
Board (38), Sep. 1, 1893.
Tweedale, James, dogger, one of the " 28" (67), June, 1886.
Tweedale, James, Roche Mills, corn miller, mayor 1877-8 (77), Sep. 13, 1885.
'Tweedale, John, formerly of Beightons, J. P., ex- town councillor, at Mal-
vern, May 30, 1895.
Tweedale, Robt. , Broadley Vale, secretary of the Whitworth and Rochdale
Agricultural Society (65), Dec. 11, 1873.
Tweedale, Samuel, Passmonds, J. P., mayor 1874-5 (79), Oct. 10, 1893.
Tweedale, Samuel (Messrs. J. Bright & Bros.) (73), Oct. 1, 1881.
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Uttley, James, corn dealer (54), July 20, 1888.
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Walker, James, Spring Mount, Bury Road, Woolstapler (58), Sep. 21, 1882.
Walker, Wm., Fairlight Villas, cotton spinner (51), April 5, 1881.
Watson, Thos., Horse Carrs, silk manufacturer, M.P. for Ilkeston Division
of Derbyshire (65), March 7, 1887.
Waugh, Edwin, Lancashire author and poet (73), April 30, 1890.
Waugh, Thos. , artist, for many years conductor of the Pioneers' art classes
(65), Dec. 1, 1890.
Webster, Geo., Mackinnon Street, an active Radical (51), Oct. 15, 1891.
Whipp, Thos,, Yorkshire Street, jeweller (72), May 6, 1877.
Whitehead, Rev. C. H., M. A., vicar of Norden (65), July 4, 1898.
Whitehead, Henry, solicitor (85), June 5, 1878.
Whitehead, John, Milnrow, waste dealer (66), Oct. 19, 1895.
Whitehead, Mark H., solicitor (65), Sep. 28, 1887.
Whitehead, Peter, prominently connected with the Provident Co-operative
Society (71), Dec. 15, 1895.
Whitham, A., Yorkshire Street, Photographer (61), Feb. 18, 1891.
Whittaker, Geo., formerly of Brooklands, Bury Road, ex-town councillor
(59), Sep. 22, 1889.
Whittaker, John James, architect (58), Jan. 1, 1891.
Whitworth, Chas., Drake Street, decorator (50), Sep. 8, 1887.
Whitworth, Edward, The Grange, Whitworth (62), Dec. 16, 1880.
Whitworth, Henry, first secretary of the Manchester Ship Canal (69), Jan.
2, 1894.
Whitworth, Robert, Smallbridge, town councillor (62), April 27, 1892.
Widdup, John, for 34 years at the Rochdale Observer office (55), Oct. 14, 1892.
Wild, Samuel, Buersill, cotton spinner (73), Jan. 10, 1886.
Willans, T. B., flannel manufacturer, mayor 1869-70 (60), at Upper Nor-
wood, August 19, 1897.
Williams, Rev. R. G., Providence Chapel (61), Jan. 14, 1884.
Williamson, Joseph, Yorkshire Street, watchmaker (52), Oct. 2, 1872.
Wilson, John, Drake Street, retired grocer (62), Dec. 14, 1887.
Wrigley, James, retired schoolmaster (80), Nov. 6, 1897.
Wrigley, Edmund, Drake Street, music seller (58), April 29, 1883.
Wrigley, Edmund, founder of Messrs. E. Wrigley & Sons Ltd., printers;
for nearly 20 years postmaster (65), April 20, 1875.
Wrigley, Robt. N., Grove Place, printer (47), August 5, 1881.
Wrigley, W. A., prominent member of Hornets Football Club, Dec, 1888.
Wood, Joseph, The Butts, banker (86), Dec. 25, 1877.
Woodcock, Edward, accountant (51), Aug. 3, 1888.
Worth, Thomas, washer cloth manufacturer (46), Sep. 15, 1870.
Wynn, Jesse, for many years assistant overseer (68), May 28, 1898.
Yarwood, Henry, Hollingworth Lake (45), April 21, 1876.
Yates, Richard, flannel merchant (61), at Southport, June 3, 1894.
Yates, William, senr., Castle ton, cotton spinner (85), Jan. 14, 1898.
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Accidents, 127
Acts of Parliament, 12, 18, 22, 41, 58, 85, 125
Arlamson, Daniel, 82
^Eolian Choir, 99
Agricultural Societies :— Rochdale, 22, 28,
55, 70, 112, 115, 122. Norden, 111.
Whitworth, 125. Wardle, 93.
Aitken, Rev. J. B., 70, 98
"Alabama" Cruiser, 34
Aldermen, 140
Aldridge, Rev. E. H., 158
Aldridge, Rev. S. R., 89, 95
Amateur Orchestral Society, 59
Amateur Prize Band, 95
Ambulance Association, 91, 108
Amen Corner, 5, 49
American War, 32, 35
Anacreontic Society, 9
Angelo, Madame, 72
Anglers, 21, 93
Anti- Vaccination Demonstration, 77
Arthur, Rev. W. M., 65
Arundel's School, 37
Ashmead Bartlett, Sir E., 79
Ashworth Chapel, 3, 15, 114
Ashworth, G. L., 57, 60, 72, 139, 140, 143,
157, 158
Ashworth, James, 59, 142
Ashworth John, 20, 27, 68, 84
Ashworth, Miles, 140, 143
Ashworth Moor, 151
Asquith, H. H., 98, 122
Athletic Club, 41, 110, 111
Auditors, Elective, 53, 62, 71, 113, 117, 120,
123. Salary, 157
Australian Cricket XL, 72
B
Bagslate Races, 13, 18, 21
Balfour, A. J., 119
Baldwin, Anthony, 76, 96, 107
Ball, T. B., 79
Band of Hope, 54
Bandstand in Park, 109
Banks :— Fenton's, 73, 74, 107. Joint Stock,
58, 81, 116. L. & Y., 65, 118. Royds'
78. Union, 73
Baptist Churches Conference, 60
Baptism in the Roche, 7
Barnes, G. N., 115, 139
Barnish, Edwin/54, 100
Barnum <fc Bailey's Show, 125
Baron, Win., 43, 55, 140, 144
Barracks, 10, 14, 19
Barraclough, Amos, 141, 144
Barrett, Colour Sergt., 91
Barry, Leonard, 124
Bath, Rev. Robert, 4, 5
Baths, Corporation, 44, 100, 109, 148, 157
Bazaars, 68, 123
Belfield Colliery Co., 58, 68
Belmont, E., 34
Belle Vue Band Contest, 95
Bench, Borough, 58
Bennett, Rev. Josiah, 77
Bensted, Rev. T. J., 97
Berry, Rev. W. B., 116
Betting Raid, 85, 98, 114
Bicentenary Commemoration, 33
Blackstone Edge, 6, 151
Blind Society, 119
Bluepits re-named Castleton, 65
Blue Ribbon Army, 79
Board of Guardians, 146
Board Schools, 58, 60, 104
Brimrod, 85
Clarke's Lane, 116
Cronkeyshaw, 75
Derby Street, 80
Halifax Road, 73
Higher Grade, 87, 108
Tweedale Street, 118
Union Street, 114
Vavasour Street, 91
Booth, G. J., 145
Booth, James, 31, 140, 144, 150
Booth, Rev. T. M., 79
Boothman, Seth, 115
Borough Brass Band, 86
Bonlaye, Canon, 117, 121
Bowling Green Scheme, Public, 120
Boulder in Park, 108
Bradbury, W. W., 83, 142
Bradford, Rev. W. J., 95
Brearley, Robert, Centenarian, 93, 98
Brett, Sir W. B., 36, 37, 38, 139
Brickfield Store, 20, 111
Bridges :— Dane Street, 76. John Street,
35,37. Manchester Road, 12. Walk,
12, 91. Wellington, 83. Yorkshire-st.,
25, 46
Bridge Inn Sick & Burial Soc, 19, 95, 119
Brierley, Abraham, senr., 22
Brierley, Abraham, 107, 110
Brierley, Rev. E., 35, 69
Brierley, C. E., 104
Brierley, Hy., 70, 95, 110, 124, 126, 141, 145
Brierley, James, 41, 152
Brierley, Jenny, 96, 99
Brierley, John Pilling, 124, 152
Brierley, Joseph, 55, 143, 145, 152
Brierley's Mill, Manchester Road, 16
Bright, Jacob, 25, 38, 43, 46, 65, 66, 90, 96,
99, 106, 139
Bright,, J. A., 50, 88, 95, 97, 103, 106, 115,
144, 145
Bright, John, 10, 17, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 31,
35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 46, 53, 54, 57,
67, 68, 70, 74, 75, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83, 85,
89, 90. 95, 97, 99, 101, 105, 117, 152
Bright, W. L., 89, 91, 100, 115, 139
Bright Statue, 104
Brimrod Day Schools, 85
Accidents, 127 ; Crime, 134 ; Fires, 132 ; Guardians' Elections, 146 ;
Municipal Elections, 141; Obituary, 158; Parliamentary Elec-
tions, 138; School Board Elections, 145; Storms, 130.
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British Schools, 15, 49, 58
" British Workman Public House," 54
Brooke, G. V., Actor, 22
Brookman, P. W., 101
Brotherod Colliery, 74
Brown Wardle Hill, 151
Buck. Charles, 108
Buckley Hall Orphanage, 95
Buckley Wood Reservoir, 16
Buersill Local Board, 52, 58
Buersill Sports, 38
Building Societies, 20, 21, 28, 44, 75
Bull Bait, 12
Burchell, Rev. W. F., 30
Burgess Hall, 34
Burial inside St. Chad's Church, 27
Burial Ground, Drake Street, 10, 23
Burns Club, 105
Burritt, Elihu, 18, 19
Butterworth, Henry, Capt., 29
Butter worth, Henry, Jeweller, 55
Butterworth, James, 159
Butterworth, John, 159
Butterworth, Joseph, 25, 38
Butts, The, 106
Byron Club. 79, 98
Byron, Lord, 4, 10, 12
Byron, Sir John, 4
Caledonian Society, 13, 67
Callender, J. H., 25
Cambrian Glee Club, 71
Canal, Rochdale, 8, 9, 14, 92, 110, 113, 157
Carl Rosa Opera Company, 69, 84
Carlyle, Thomas, 19
Carter, Rev. T., 61, 100
Castle, Saxon, 1
Castleton Bowling Club, 45, 48
Castleton Cotton Spinning Co., 30, 110
Castleton Cricket Club, 51, 63, 67, 70, 85, 88
Castleton Hall, 6, 98
Castleton Local Board, 65
Castleton new Railway Station, 68
Castleton Sewage Works, 120
Catholic Club, 78
Cattle Fair, 1, 4, 66, 70
Cemetery, 23
Census, 147
Centenarians, 34, 93, 96, 98, 99
Centenary, Sunday Schools, 77
Central Hall, 97
Chad wick, J. M. L., 90, 99, 113, 117, 120
Chadwick, Sir Andrew, 76
Chamber of Commerce, 40, 94, 96, 98
Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Joseph, 70.
Charities :— Kenion's, 8, 108. Gartside's,
5,157
Charity Organisation Society, 75
Chartists, 16
Cheetham, Charles, 25
Cheetham, Jas , 43, 96, 99, 116, 122, 140, 143
Cheetham, Thomas, 142, 149
Chicago Fire Fund, 55
Chipp, Rev. H., 121
Choral Society, 9, 72
Christy's Minstrels, 35
Chrysanthemun Society, 105
Churches and Chapels, 154
Church Army, 102
Church Institute, 19,64
Church Rate, 17
Churchyard, St. Chad's, 97
Circus, Adams', 66
Circus of Varieties, 84, 156
Civil War, 4
Clarke, Sir £., 96
Clegg Hall, 4, 11
Clegg, John, 160
Clegg, J. Trafford, 100, 108, 111, 151, 160
Clegg, Samuel, 34, 125
Cloth Hall, 8
Clough, Robert, 63, 111, 115, 144, 160
Cobbett, William, 14
Cobden, Richard, 28, 31, 33, 35, 37, 38, 40,
41, 43, 139, 160
Cock Fight, 13
Coffee Houses, 69, 108
Cold Day, 107
Collier John, " Tim Bobbin," 5, 8, 106
Collinge, T. A., 73
Collingwood, Edwin, 60
Collingwood, Thomas, 77
Commercial Travellers' Assoc, 112, 123
Commissioners' Rooms, 16
Companies, Public, 153
Comte de Paris. 38
Connaught, Duke of, 67
Conservative Clubs:— Crossfleld Cottage,
86. East Ward, 60, 82, 121. Egerton,
80. Facit, 90. Healey, 77. Lord-st.,
107. Milnrow, 79. Norden, 114. Sud-
den, 83. Smithy Bridge, 77. The
Walk, 64. Wardle, 92. Wardleworth,
77.
Conservative Sick & Burial Soc., 16, 104
Conservative Stores, 46, 47, 72
Cook, Canon, 16, 54, 69, 74, 79
Cooper, Rev. Walter, 60
Co-operation :— Congress, 106. Corn Mill,
21, 23, 86. The " 28," 149. Wholesale
Society, 35. [See Pioneers' Society].
Coroners, 9, 15, 50, 91, 112
Cottle, Rev. J. J. H., 86
Cotton Famine, 32
Cotton Spinning Companies, 153
Arkwright, 85, 87, 91. Blackpits, 62.
Broadley Wood, 62. Crawford, 80, 83,
86, 89, 99. Eagle, 100. Eclipse, 126.
Ellenroad, 105. Era, 121, 125. Gar-
field, 83. Haugh, 80. Mitchel Hey,
22, 40. Moss, 101. Newhey, 86. Roch.
dale, 85, 88, 105. 116. Standard, 97.
Victoria, 125.
Cotton Strike, 108
County Council Elections, 147
County Court, 19
County Police Court, 121
Court of Requests, 16
Coventry Street Schools. 113
Cowm Reservoir, 75
Crawford, W. Sharman, 16, 19, 23, 31
Cragg, James, Fireman, 88, 89
Accidents, 127 ; Crime, 134 ; Fires, 132 ; Guardians' Elections, 146 ;
Municipal Elections, 141 ; Obituary, 158 ; Parliamentary Elec-
tions, 138 ; School Board Elections, 145 ; Storms, 130.
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Craven, George, 114
Cricket Clubs :— Castleton, 51, 68, 67, 70,
86, 88. Rochdale, 12, 41, 44, 69, 72,
112,157. Union, 55, 86
Crime, 134
Cronkeyshaw Common, 68
Cronkeyshaw Recreation Ground, 109
Cross, James, 97
Cross, Lord, 80, 113
Crosbie, Rev. H.. 73
Crossley, B. C., 102
Crowther, P. G., 114, 121, 145
Cryer, James, 106
Cunliffe, William, 141
Curtis, J. J., 37
Cusack, Rev. T., 121
Davies, Rev. A. D., 98, 106, 115
Davies, Rev. D. O., 82
Davies, G. T.,77, 119
Davies, Rev. H., 85
Davitt, Michael, 111
Day of Humiliation, 4, 22, 26
Dearden, James, 12
Dearden, J. G., 30, 41
Dearden, T. fferand, 15, 50
Dearnley Burial Ground, 80
Dearnley Pit, 90 .
Dearnley Workhouse, 71
De Traftord, Lady, 100
Defoe, Daniel, 6
Derby, Lord, 73, 98, 119
Dickenson, Rev. E. C, 94
Dimock, Rev. A., 107
Diocesan Boys' Home, 104
Dispensary, 14, 56
Disraeli at Pomona, 57
Divers in Hollingworth Lake, 118
Dow. Gen. Neal, 42, 60
Dowling, Rev. John, 16, 56, 161
Downe«, Rev. R. P., 52, 60
Ducker, Rev. John, 27, 106, 161
Duckworth, James, 59, 108, 109, 111, 114,
120, 121, 125, 138, 140, 141, 142, 147
Drake Street, 10
Drake Street Burial Ground, 10, 23
Dramatic Society, 23, 56, 124
Drinking Fountain, 23, 51, 91
Drought, 45
Drysdale, Rev. A. H., 43, 48, 83
Duke of Connaught, 67
Dunning, Wilson, 121, 142
E
Earthquake Shock, 16, 17, 35, 37, 47, 97, 120
Edenfleld Road, 8, 81
Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 106, 123
Edmonds, Rev. H., 107
Egerton, A. F., 85, 43, 46, 56, 138
Elections :— County Council, 147. Guar-
dians, 146. Municipal, 141. Parlia-
mentary, 138, 139. School Board, 145
Election Petition, 26
Elizabethan House, 105
Elliott, Rev. T. R., 65
Entwislo, John, 9, 12, 15, 20, 139
Entwisle, J. B. N., 95, 96
Esplanade, The, 46
Evans, Rev. Jonathan, 122, 123
Exchange of Pulpits, 78
Exhumation at Castleton, 92
Explosions, 127
Facts often asked about, 156
Fairs, 1, 4, 66, 70
Farmers' Association, 106
Fenian Scare, 43
Fentons' Bank, 78, 74, 107, 157
Fen ton, Lieut. -Col. James, 45, 48, 51, 54,
60, 63, 70, 74
Fenton, John, 14, 15, 67, 139
Fenton, William, 38, 66, 74
-Fielden, E. B., 125
Fielden, Thomas, 91, 115. 138, 161
Fieldhouse School, 14, 105, 110
Fildes, Jonathan, 17
Fires, 132
Fire Brigade Dog, 89
Fire Brigades' Demonstration, 88
Fire Station, 108
Fish caught in Roche, 14
Fishwick, Henry, 29, 32, 55, 96, 115, 120
122, 143, 145
Flannelette, 91, 113
Fletcher, Rev. T., 65, 75
Flodden Field, 3
Flying Horse Inn, 14, 22
Ford, S. S., 142
Football Clubs :— Hornets, 54, 72, 75, 78.
St. Clements, 122
Football Charity Cup, 90, 92
Football Match by Electric Light, 73
Fox, Rev. J. H., 60, 78
Fox. W. J., 17
Foxholes, 8, 96
Free Public Lib., 58, 86, 87, 88, 90, 109, 148.
Freemasonry, 8, 29, 72, 109, 111
Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 17
First Excursion to London, 27
First Market Holidays, 64, 66
Friends' Meeting House, 10
Fulton's Buildings, 71
Gaitskill, Rev. I., 12, 16, 64, 161
Gamble, R. W., 64, 139
Gamel the Thane, 1
Gank School, 84
Garside, Mally, 36
Garrett, Rev. Charles, 30
Gartside Charity, 5, 157
Gas Works, 12, 18, 21, 32, 112, 148
George Howarth Lane, 62
Gibson Row Institute, 65
Gifts to Town Council, 150
Gilbert, Rev. E. W., 43, 77
Gilchrist Trust Lectures, 76, 79
Glebe Lands, 1, 8, 67, 157
Accidents, 127 ; Chimb, 134 ; Fires, 132 ; Guardians' Elections, 146 ;
Municipal Elections, 141 ; Obituary, 158 ; Parliamentary Elec-
tions, 138 ; School Board Elections, 145 ; Storms, 130.
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Oolf, 94, 97, 110
Good Samaritan Society, 14, 80
Goose Lane House, 66
Goss, Rev. W., 78
Gott, Jeffrey, 61
Gough, J. B., 22, 73
Grace, W. G„ 67. 72
Grammar School, 3, 5, 19, 37, 84, 92, 157
Gray, Mrs., 72
Grey, R. R., 32, 111
Green, Henry, 90
Greenwood, Abraham, 35, 145, 149
Guardians' Elections, 146
Guilmant, Alex., 84, 89. 94
Gymnasium, Sparrow Hill, 122
Hall6\ Sir Charles, 78, 112
Hamer Pasture Reservoir, 21
Hanson, George, 54
Hardman, W., 122, 140, 143
Hardy, T. J., 144
Harley, J., 83, 140, 143
Harriers, 5
Hartley, James, 31, 39, 53, 55, 142, 162
Hartley, J. R., 40, 103, 109, 141
Hartley's Library, 7, 67
Healey Dell, 97
Healey, George, 39, 149
Healey Hall Brass Band, 86
Healey, Robert, 162
Healey, Robert, 92, 107
Healey, Thomas, 162
Healey Viaduct, 157
Heap, James, 52, 68, 152
Heap, Joseph, 47, 55, 78
Heap, Joshua, 142, 162
Heap, W. T., 108, 140, 143
iHeape, Benjamin, 96
Heape, J. R., 96..140, 144, 145
Heape, Richard, 119
Heape, R. T., 26, 27, 41, 86, 104, 139, 140,
144, 162
Heaton, Rev. D., 119
Heaton, William, 15, 162
Height above Sea Level, 151
Henry, J., M.D., 75, 122, 125
Heywood 'Bus, 93
Heywood Park, 74
Heywood, Thomas, 98, 121
Heyworth, Richard, 24, 69
Hewson, Thomas, 53, 79
Hikeley, Pomfret, 66
High School, 70
High Sheriffs, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 20, 39, 95,
97, 110
Hill, Edward, 30, 162
Hodge, Rev. C. F. D., 78
Hodgson, J. H., 112, 115
Hodgson, W J., M.D., 59
Holden, James, 84, 118, 152
Holden Trustees, 122, 126
Holgate, John, 27, 80, 162
Holland Street Schools, 22
Hollowell. Rev. .1. H., 99, 120
Hollingworth Lake, 9, 90, 118, 157
Hollingworth Rowing Club, 57
Hollingworth Workhouse, 63
Holman, Rev. W. R., 92, 106
Honorary Freeman, 109
Hopwood, C. H. f 188
Hooley Bridge Mills, 13
Horse Carrs Mill, 38, 134
Horse Fair, 66
Hospital Saturday, 78
Hot Day, 67, 125
Howard, A. Mc, 120
Howitt, William, 11
Ho worth, Sir H. H., 64, 106, 107, 108, 115
Hudson's Coach, 79
Hulme, George, 163
Hunt, Henry, 14
Hunter. Samuel, 54, 65
Hurst, Richard, 145, 163
Hutchinson, R, A. L., 147
Hutchinson, R. H., 42, 73, 163
Hutton, Crompton, 59, 98
Hyde Park Gardens, 31
I Improvement Acts, 12, 18, 22, 41, 58, 85, 125
Indian Famine Funds, 31, 62, 120
Infirmary, 47, 56, 82, 114, 117, 121, 122.
I Galas, 152
Irish Church Demonstration, 48
Jackson, Alfred, 44
Jackson, Rev. B. W., 120
Jackson, Robert, 43, 78, 103, 145
Jacobite Club, 5
Jefferson, A., 117
Jeffreye's Music Hall, 39, 81
Jenkins, Rev. J. F., 64, 65
Jones, Ernest, 18, 31, 36, 45
Jones, Judge, 98
Jones, Robert, 14, 34, 93, 163
Johnson, Peter, 141
" Joyful News " Home, 98
Jubilee, Queen's, 93
Jubilee Monstre Pie, 93
K
Kearney, Countess, 126
Kelsall, Henry, 15, 53, 163
Kemp, George, 109, 115, 147
Kemp, George Tawke, 32, 44, 69, 145, 163
Kempthorne, Rev. J. A., 115
Kenion's Charity, 8, 108
Kerr, W. J.. M.D., 117.118
Kershaw, Rev. John, 42, 163
Kitson, Mary, 87
Knight, Dr. S. R., 69, 164
Knowl Hill, 151
Kossuth, Louis, 25
Labour Bureau, 107
Ladies' Charity, 11
Accidents, 127 ; Crime, 134 ; Fires, 132 ; Guardians' Elections, 146 ;
Municipal Elections, 141 ; Obituary, 158; Parliamentary Elec-
tions, 138 ; School Board Elections, 145 ; Storms, 130.
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Lambert, Daniel, 10
Lancashire, J. II., 8S, 145
Lascy, John de, 1
Law, A., 88
Law, W., 59, 101, 105, 114
Lawson, Sir Wilfred, 73, 84, 100
Leach's Castle Works, 79
Leach, James, Solicitor, 98, 122
Leach, James, Musician, 9
. Leach, John, Castleton Hall, 52, 141
Leach, John, Cotton Spinner, 142, 145
Leach, R. A., 90, 123
Lee, Peter, 143, 145
Lees, Sir B., 84, 85, 90, 94, 139
Lewis, Rev. E. C, 15, 39, 42, 68, 92
Lewis, Rev. Robert, 67, 87
Liberal Clubs : — Black water Street, 63.
Castleton, 114. Drake-st.,116. Julia-st.,
85, 86. Milkstone-rd., 109. Mills-stf,
76. Norden, 117. North Ward, 90.
Smallbridge Reform, 87. Spotland,
Lark Hill, 119. Sudden, 62. Wardle-
worth, 81
Liberal Unionist Association, 94
Lifeboat, 41, 42, 74, 92, 125
Limited Liability Companies, 153
Literary and Scientific Society, 73
Literary and Philosophical Society, 14
Littleborough :— Gas Shares, 88. News-
paper, 88. Parish Church, 2. 7, 8, 101.
School Board, 111. U.M.F.C. Choir,
124
Little wood, J. S., 55, 100, 140, 142, 145
Livsey, Tom, 24, 31, 35, 36, 39, 40, 62, 164
Lobley, Rev. J. A.. 42, 60
Lodging House, Municipal, 109, 118
Lofthouse, John, 47, 143, 145, 164
Londonderry, Lord, 104
Lovett, Rev. Robert, 68, 81
Lowther, Right Hon. James, 85
Lyceum, 32
M
Mc.Cusker and Nuttall, 109
McKenna, J., Murderer, 135
McQueen, Superintendent W., 121
Maclure, Dean, 69, 73, 79, 82, 100, 101, 109
4i Manchester Examiner," 18, 96
Manchester Jubilee Exhibition, 93
Manchester Ship Canal, 82, 111
Manor House, 5
Mansell, George, 46, 104, 139, 165
March, H. C, 117
Mark, Dr., 25
Market, 1, 8, 12, 67, 63, 87, 93, 97
Market Cross, 8
Marland Mere, 2
Marland Hospital, 37, 73, 94
Marlborough, Duke of, 126
Martin, John, Painter, 13
Masonic Hall, 100
Matthew, James, 93
Matthews, John, 29, 59, 165
Mattley, Robert, 52, 141, 165
Mattley, R. D., 112
Maybrick, Florence, petition, 98
Mayors of Rochdale, 139
Mayor's Chain, 56
Mayor's Lamps, 29
Mellor, Zachary, 25, 95, 165
Merchants and Tradesmen's Association,
34. Trips, 148.
Miall, Edward, 21, 25, 139
Mills, A. L., 90, 106, 116, 145
Milne, Professor John, 95, 116
Milne, Joseph, 33
Milnrow Gas Company, 47
Milnrow Local Board, 52
Mitchel Hey Mills, 22, 40
Mitchell, J. T. W., 63, 108, 142, 152, 165
Moffatt, John, 39
Molesworth, A., 108, 142, 144
Molesworth, Canon, 18, 51, 79, 82, 97, 98,
152, 165
Molesworth, F. N., 89, 91
Molesworth, Sir Guildford, 102
Molesworth, John, 50, 141, 165
Molesworth, Rev. J. E. N., 16, 17, 18, 19,
69, 165
Moore, J. J., 76
Moore Street School, 14, 18
Morley, Right Hon. John, 81, 100, 104
Morgan, Rev. D., 72, 84
Moriarty, Dean, 120, 145
Moss School, 7, 84, 104
Motor Car, 120
Municipal Lodging House, 109, 113
Murders, 134
Murpby Riots, 44, 135
Myers, Rev. M. T., 103, 165
N
National Schools: — Redcross-st., 11, 17,
121. St. Clement's, 49
Newbold Friendly Society, 16, 94, 104, 112,
123, 125
Newbold Gardens, 32
Nield, Jonathan, 74, 145, 166
Night Soil system, 48
Norden Local Board, 73
Norden Railway Scheme, 113, 114
Norris, Rev. C. E.. 77, 119, 160
Norwich Street Mills, 43
Nuttall J., and Mc.Cusker, 109
O
Oastler, Richard, 20
O'Connell Centenary, 65
O'Connor, Feargus. 13, 15, 18
O'Keefe, Father, 66
O'Neill, Canon, 56, 70, 103, 117, 145, 166
Obituary, 158
Ogden, Charles, 66
Ogden, James, 103, 118, 142
Oldham, John, 24, 65
Oldham Joint Stock Bank, 81, 116
Ornithological Society, 93
Owenites, 15
Accidents, 127 ; Crime, 134 ; Fires, 132 ; Guardians' Elections, 146 ;
Municipal Elections, 141 ; Obituary, 158 ; Parliamentary Elec-
tions, 138 ; School Board Elections, 145 ; Storms, 130.
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Packer Street, 4, 37
Pakington, Sir. J., 56
Pagan, J. T., 89, 139
Paper Manufacturing Company, 64
Parish Church Schools, 113
Park, 63, 156, Gymnasium, 68. Shelters,
125. Slopes, 51, 103, 117, 118. Rent,
111.
Parker, Dr., 109
Parker, John, 140, 144, 169
Parkinson, Rev. H. W., 21, 63, 145, 166
Parliamentary Debating Society, 79
Parliamentary Elections :— Borough, 139.
County, 138
Parr. Rev. J. R., 39
Pattison, Rev. T. H., 67
Penny Bank. 30, 71
Penny Readings, 42
People's Hall, 34
Peterloo, 11
Peters, Rev. C. H., 117
Petrie, George, 96, 117
Petrie, James, 152
Petrie, John, 82
Petrie, John E., 140, 141, 145, 166
Petrie, W. J., 140, 141, 142
Pews, Sale of, 58, 108
Philharmonic Society, 44
Phillips, Rev. J. B., 119
Photographic Society, 101
Pickles, Rev. A., 76
Pinck, Dr., 77
Pioneers' Society, 18, 20, 21, 25. Bakery,
100. Central Stores, 43. Newsroom, 51.
Jubilee, 112. Presidents, 149. Science
Classes, 61, 111
Pitt Club, 10
Plague, Great, 5
Piatt, S. S., 79
Plow, Rev. A. J , 32
Plug Drawing, 17
Police:- Band, 81. Court 22, 121. Force,
26, 148. Offices, Union Street, 57.
Poor Children's Aid Committee, 71
Poor Law Union, 15
Population, 5, 9, 147
Post Office, 11, 15, 29, 30, 31, 36, 40, 42, 51,
63, 65, 69, 77, 83, 94, 100, 103, 109, 119, 120
Potter, T. B., 38, 39, 40, 41, 76, 89, 90, 91,
100. 113, 126, 139, 166
Power-Loom Weaving, 11
Preston Guild. 81
P. M. Chapel, Drake Street, 14, 34, 39
Primrose League. 91, 124, 126
Prince Consort's Funeral, 31
Prince of Wales, Thanksgiving, 56
Protestant Hall, 48. 50
Providence Chapel, 10, 11, 102, 114
Provident Store, 51
P. S. A., 104
Public Hall, Baillie Street, 79, 156
Public Hall, Castleton, 75
Public Houses, 10, 35, 41, 58, 148. Amen
Corner, 49. Albert Hotel, 45. Boat
Inn, 16. Bishop Blaize, 69.
Public Houses (continued). Bowling
Green Inn, Milnrow-rd., 35. Central
Hotel, 77. Coach and Horses, Lord-st ,
10. Duke of York, Livsey-st., 116.
Fleece, 119. Freemasons' Arms, 119.
George Inn, Lord-st., 49. Golden Ball,
77. Grey Mare, 49. Freehold Tavern,
Drake-sL. 116. Hare and Hounds,
Clegg Hall, 49. Hark up to Glory, 79.
Harp, 124. Joiners' Arms, River-st.,
116. Live and Let Live, 50. L. & Y.,
Hollingworth Lake, 66. Moss Tavern,.
116. Old Pack Horse, Church Stile,
97. Rope and Anchor, Packer-st., 37.
Queen's Hotel, Milkstone-rd., 35, 61.
Trafalgar Hotel, 68. Theatre Hotel,.
126. Three Tuns Inn, Fleece-st., 103.
Watchman's Home, Water-st., 116,
Weavers' Arms, Cheetham-st., 49, 52.
Weavers' Arms, Stoneyfleld, 125. Wel-
lington Hotel, 10, 101, 125, 126. Wet
Rake, 66. Woolpack, Drake-st., 119.
Published Wills, 152.
Purcell, F. W., 83, 119.
Radcliffe, A. T.. 114, 147
Radcliffft, Henry, 132
Radcliffe, Herbert, 104, 107, 145, 146
Radcliffe, Joshua, 52, 65, 152
Radcliffe, J. W., 110, 152
Races :— Bagslate. 13, 18, 21. Rochdale
Hunt, 84, 87, 90, 95, 121
Ragged School, 20
Raikes, Robert, 8
Railways :— Opening 13, 16. Accidents, 127.
Bacup Branch, 32, 38, 52, 80, 157. Nor-
den Scheme, 113, 114. Oldham Branch,
35. New Station, 97, 157. Victoria,.
Manchester, 85
Railway Works' Coffee House, 80
Raines, Canon, 20, 67, 72, 74
Ramsay, Sir A., 25, 30, 43, 56
Rattray, H. D., 142, 145
Reclus, Elie, 41
Record Reign Celebration, 122
Red Rose League, 91
Redcross Street Schools, 11, 17, 121
Redfern, Charles, 143, 145
Reeves, Sims, 89
Reform Club, Drake Street, 118
Regent Street Assembly Rooms, 67
Reid, Thomas, 100
Reservoirs, 7
Cowm, 46, 75, 157
Brown House, 23
Buckley Wood, 16
Hamer Pasture, 21
Spring Mill, 80, 92, 157
Richard Street Mills, 87, 93
Richards, Rev. J. R., 44
Riots, 10, 13, 134
Ripon, Lord, 96, 101, 125
Roberts, George. 64
Roberts, J., Billiard Player, 56, 59, 66
Roberts, William, 15, 27, 167
Accidents, 127; Crime, 134; Fires, 132; Guardians' Elections, 146;.
Municipal Elections, 141 ; Obituary, 158 ; Parliamentary Elec-
tions, 138 ; School Board Elections, 145 ; Storms, 130.
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Robertson, William, 64, 79, 98, 106, 122
Robin Hood's Bed, 151
Robinson, A. M., 142
Robinson, John. 139, 167
Robinson, J. Salkeld, 142, 167
Roby, John, 12, 16, 21, 66
Rochdale Bridge, 46
Rochdale Cricket Club, 12, 24, 70, 72
Rochdale Exchange, 85
Rochdale Magazine Club, 114
" Rochdale Observer," 23, 91
" Rochdale Pilot," 19, 26, 56
Rochdale Spinning Co., 85, 88, 105, 116
" Rochdale Times," 56, 91
Rooley Moor, 151
Rosebery, Lord, 64, 118
Rothwell, Edmund, 90
Roth well, J. U., 145, 167
Rough Hill, 151
Rouse, John, 89, 97
Rowan, Rev. R. S., 23, 34, 101
Royds, A. H., 15, 27, 39, 154, 167
Royds, E. E. M., 143, 167
Royds, Clement, 20, 139, 167
Royds, C. M., 41, 92, 97, 101, 102, 107, 110,
114, 115, 119, 121, 139, 145, 147, 151
Royle Bowling Club, 126
Rushworth, Joseph, 52, 80, 108, 124, 143,
144, 145, 146
Russell, Sir Charles, 105
Russell, Henry, Entertainer, 25
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St. Alban's Institute, 58, 63, 157
St. Anne's Lifeboat Disaster, 91
Sale of Pews, 58, 108
Salts, Rev. A., 58
Salvation Army, 80, 106
Santley, Charles, 113
Sanderson, James, •' Treacle," 34, 67
Savings' Bank, 11, 20, 32
Saul, Rev. T. B., 69
Scobie, Rev. R. A., 98
Schofleld, Capt. J., 41
Scbofield, Robert, 46, 141, 145
Schofleld, T., 57, 59, 104, 112, 140, 143, 146
Schofleld, W. W., 28, 37, 38, 49, 61, 189,
143, 145
Scholfleld, J. H., 51
School Board, 52, 59, 97, 148. Elections, 145
School of Art. 98, 101
Schuler, J. G..83
Schwabe, G. Salis, 89, 138
Scott, W. A., 24, 168
Seeker son. Sergt. Major, 58
Secular Hall, 48, 85
Sellers, R. B., 82
Sellers, W. B„ 39, 168
"8equah,"100
Sewage Farm, 101
Sharp, Hezekiah, 94, 122, 141, 143, 146
Sharpe, Rev. R. N., 26, 168
Sharrocks. James, 16, 48, 49, 112, 141, 168
Shaw, William, 107, 145, 168
Shaw, W. W., 141, 145
Shawcross, W. T., 82, 139, 140, 143, 145, 168
Shilleto, Rev. J. H. R., 78
Shop Assistants' Union, 105
Shopkeepers' Union, 117
Shuttle Gathering, 10, 13
Siamese Twins, 48
Silk MM, Sudden, 114. 117
Silver Cradle, 39, 52
Skating Rink, 67, 69, 70, 117
Smallpox Epidemic, 79
Smith, Joseph, 75
Smith, Prof. Goldwin, 42
Smithy Bridge Railway Station, 45
Snashall, Rev. G., 28, 41
Socialist Club, 114
Soup Kitchen, 82
South Parade, 25
Sparrow Hill School, 17
Sparth Toll House, 61
Spedding, Rev. T. P., 91
Spencer, Countess, 123
Spencer, Lord, 102, 123
Spurgeon, Rev. C. H., 63
Standring, John, 39, 74
Standring, Robert, 92, 143, 145
Stanley, Lord, 122
Starr-Bowkett Building Society, 75
Statistical View, 148
Stevens, Allan, 168
Stevens, Samuel, 48, 80
Strike, Cotton, 106
Stocks in Churchyard, 12, 103
Storms, 130
Stott, Robert, 101, 102, 145
Stuart, Prof. J.. 77
Subscription Library, 89
Summercastle Barracks, 10
Summit Tunnel, 16, 157.— See Addenda.
Sunday Concerts, 24
Sutcliffe, Thomas, 92, 152, 169
Syke Artificial Lakes. 108
Sylvester, Capt., 34, 78
Tait, Archbishop, 11
Talmage, Dr., 75
Tandle Hill, 151
Tatham, John, 39, 55, 106, 139, 169
Tatham, William, 104, 140, 141
Taylor, E. Bamford, 143, 146
Taylor, Edwd., 48, 87, 10*, 109, 140, 143, 169
Taylor, James, 143, 146
Taylor, John, 87
Teachers' Association, 71, 114
Technical School, 108
Tees, Rev. W., 84, 97
Telegraphs, 33, 35, 50, 88
Telephone, 78. 122
Temperance Hall, 33, 40
Theatre, 8, 39, 43, 83, 113. Fire, 134
Threlkeld, Rev. T., 7
Thornber, J. R., 64, 96, 169
Thumb, Gen. Tom, 28, 54
Tichborne Claimant, 68, 87
Tim Bobbin, 5, 8
Tim Bobbin Memorial, 106
Tindall, Supt. James, 98
Accidents, 127 ; Crime, 134 ; Fires, 132 ; Guardians' Elections, 146 ;
Municipal Elections, 141 ; Obituary, 158 ; Parliamentary Elec-
^ tions, 138 ; School Board Elections, 145 ; Storms, 130.
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ock, 94,
55. Fire,
156
Tomlinson, James, 52, 141, 169
Tomlinson, William, 86
Toole, J. L., 119
Topper, O., 143
Town Councillors, 141
Town Hall, 12, 86, 40.
88. Spire, 88,98.
Town Meadows Chapel, 7, 14, 15
Town Mill Brow School, 84
Town Mission, 30
Tramways, 81, 88, 84, 85, 87, 93, 94, 96, 123,
124,156
Treasure Trove, 40
Tuesday Half -holiday, 76
Turner, John, 108, 119, 140, 148
Turner, Samuel, 114, 118, 122, 148, 156
Turnpike Roads, 7, 8, 9, 61, 65, 75, 77, 81
Tweedale, Samuel, 140, 143, 169
Tweedales & Smalley, 104
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Union Cricket Club, 55, 86
Union Manufacturing Co., 94, 116, 117
Union Offices, 117
Union Street Day School, 81, 114
U.M.F.C. Formation, 26. Assembly, 84,
60, 83, 111
Vaccination, 77. 126
Vaughan, Cardinal, 100, 105
Veitch, Rev. R., 86, 109
Vicars of Rochdale, 137
Vicarage Estate Act, 41
Victoria Glee Club, 92
Victoria Station, Manchester, 85
Voluntary Aid Society, 111
Volunteer Corps, 8, 9, 29, 50. First En-
campment, 54
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Wadsworth, Henry, 124, 146
Walker, Joseph, 148
Walker, Robert, 110, 122
Walton Anglers' Society, 21
Wardle Local Board, 63
Wareham, Rev. T. W., 125
Water Street Chapel, 92
Waterloo Veterans, 24, 33, 38, 40, 112
Waterworks, 7, 40, 41, 148. Annuities, 94.
Extension, 123, 125. Famine, 45
Watson, T., 34, 78, 81, 83, 89, 91, 92, 94, 143,
152, 157, 170
Waugh, Edwin. 11, 100, 116, 170
Weatherill, Miles, Murderer, 44
Webb, Capt., 69, 79
Wellfleld Workmen's Club, 69
Wellington Hotel, 10, 101, 125, 126
Wesley, John. 6, 7, 8
Wesley, Charles, 6
Wesley Schools, Castlemere, 121
Wheeler, O. H., 53
Whitaker, Charles, 124, 139, 140, 144
Whiteholme Reservoir, 9, 157
Whitworth Cemetery, 73
Whitworth Doctors, 9, 11
Whitworth, Henry, 66
Whitworth Local Board, 63
Whitworth, Rev. W. J., 122
Whitworth Vale Gas Company, 28
Wilkinson, Joseph, 80, 108
Willans, T. B., 52, 139, 140, 144, 170
Willett, Rev. R. B., 125
Williams, Rev. R. G., 57, 170
Wills, Published, 152
Wilson, Dr. J. M, 65
Wilson, Yen. Archdeacon, 100, 101, 123
Winterborn, Rev. B. T., 60
Wiseman, Rev. A. W., 72, 87
Withington, Rev. J. S., 79
Wolfenden, J. H., Actor, 13, 150
Woolfenden. Thomas, 141, 146
Women's Liberal Association, 93
Woollen Trade, 2, 3, 12
Workmen's Club, Brickcrof t, 64, 65, 73, 81
Worth, J. T., 47, 103, 115, 121, 146
Wren, J. T., 64
Wright, Rev. F. P., 70, 84
Wrigley, Edmund, Printer, 16, 170
Wrigley, J., Schoolmaster, 61, 102, 107, 170
Wrigley, John, Stationmaster, 115
WyHe, J. H., 113
Ye Three Cups, 78
Yeomanry Cavalry, 18, 21, 74, 108, 112, 118
Y.M.C.A., 23, 96, 107
Yorkshire Street, 4
Zachary Chapel, 12
Accidents, 127 ; Crime, 134 ; Fires, 132 ; Guardians' Elections, 146 ;
Municipal Elections, 141 ; Obituary, 158 ; Parliamentary Elec-
tions, 138 ; School Board Elections, 145 ; Storms, 130.
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