Shopping parade, Milkstone Road, Rochdale, Lancashire
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The photograph on this page of Shopping parade, Milkstone Road, Rochdale, Lancashire by Dr Neil Clifton as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Dr Neil Clifton Taken: 25 Aug 1964
By the time of this photograph in 1964, this part of Rochdale had become a rather cleaner place, probably because most of the steam locomotives on the nearby railway had been replaced by diesels. The Brown Cow public house is seen here on the extreme left.