Rochdale: View along Station Road
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Rochdale: View along Station Road
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton Taken: 18 Mar 2011
Looking north east from Milkstone Road. The yard to the right, where motor cars are now parked, was a railway yard serving two sidings off the Down loop line. The shorter siding was for fish traffic, which arrived very early each morning: one porter had the specific task of looking after this; The longer siding was for livestock traffic, which did not see much use after about 1952, but in the 1940s there was the sad sight of fine young Irish horses being unloaded there, before being roped together and walked down via Milkstone Road and Church Stile to the abattoir in Brickcroft near the town centre. The trade in horsemeat in Rochdale was in Britain second only to that at Acton, in West London.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.609854
Longitude
-2.154732