A scan – so a little grainy – of the Market place in the small Lancashire borough of Heywood, c1955. Probably taken on a Sunday this junction was where the Rochdale – Bury road (A58) met that coming up from Middleton. The high street has the usual small shops, including Read More →
The small mill town of Heywood, part of the larger Metropolitan Borough of Roachdale since 1974, sits almost halfway between Rochdale and Bury. Like all boroughs of the day it too had to have an official borough handbook and this is the cover of the small, c1955 edition of the Read More →
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