Shopping parade, Milkstone Road, Rochdale, Lancashire
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Shopping parade, Milkstone Road, Rochdale, Lancashire
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton Taken: 15 Apr 1955
It's 1955, and a plume of smoke rises from a locomotive on Rochdale station as an office worker makes his way home across waste ground on the corner of Ashfield Road and Milkstone Road. Also visible on the extreme left is the Brown Cow public house.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.608055
Longitude
-2.155632
