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 This web site is an
attempt to tell the story of the market town of
Rochdale and the other communities of the Metropolitan
Borough of Rochdale from the earliest times until the
present day.  Rochdale sits at the foothills of
the South Pennines on the River Roch.
  With a population of 95,796 in
2018, it is the largest settlement and administrative
centre of the Rochdale District that has a total
population of 211,699.
 - Acknowlegements -
In preparing this web site, I
consulted a number of books about Rochdale. Let me
recommend a few that I found to be excellent and
which will provide you with far more depth and
scholarship than you will find on this web site.
"Conflict & Cooperation - Rochdale and the Pioneering Spirit 1790 - 1844" by John Cole, Published by George Kelsall, Littleborough, Lancashire, 1944 - ISBN 0 946571 24 4 "Rochdale Revisited - A Town and Its People" - by John Cole, Published by George Kelsall, Littleborough, Lancashire, 1988 - ISBN 0 946571 147 "Rochdale Revisited - A Town and Its People - Volume II" - by John Cole, Published by George Kelsall, Littleborough, Lancashire, 1988 - ISBN 0 946571 14 7 "The Weighver's Seaport - The Story of Hollingworth Lake" - by A. W. Colligan JP, Published by George Kelsall, Littleborough, Lancashire, 1988 - ISBN 0 946571 28 7 "Daily Life in Victorian England" - by Christopher Hibbert, Published by American Heritage Publishing Co, New York, 1975 - ISBN 0 07 028657 4 "A Concise History of England" - by F. E. Halliday - Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, Don Mills, Ontario, 1964 "Our Gracie - The Life of Dame Gracie Fields" - by Joan Moules, Published by Robert Hale, London, 1983 - ISBN 0 7090 1010 9 "The Rochdale Hangman and His
Victims" -by Jack Doughty, Published by Jade
Publishing Limited, 1998 - ISBN 900734 14 **********************************
I can't say enough about the contributions made by Les Cotton and Jeff Mills. You will see their names frequently throughout the site.
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