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 →
Goodness – if ever a town probably needed this it is my old home town. This rather odd little booklet was obviously from the text designed to attract business ot the borough and is indeed over stamped as being issued by "Williams Deacons’ Bank, Rochdale". Difficult to date but c1930, Read More →
From the 1958 official guide to the borough, one of Accrington’s more famous local companies, the Accrington Brick & Tile Co Ltd. – and the equally famous Nori bricks. These bricks, noted for their durability and quite striking ‘orange – red’ colours, are still one of the dominant features of Read More →
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