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Rochdale Black tower
View from Rochdale Infirmary car park
Image: © R lee
Taken: 29 Apr 2005
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Rochdale Town Centre Redevelopment
A start has begun on yet another attempt to increase Rochdale's share of the sub-regional retail offer. Here the old Electric House on Smith Street is being demolished to make way for new development. The parish church can be seen on the skyline.
Image: © michael ely
Taken: 17 Nov 2006
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The River Roch goes underground, Rochdale, Lancashire
This shows the commencement of the underground section of the river as it flows through Rochdale Town Centre. The cotton waste warehouse of John Baron is prominent on the skyline. The small street to the left, blocked off by a concrete post, is called Weir Street.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 3 Aug 1979
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GMPTE double-decker at Rochdale bus station
Standing between duties and ready for use on Route 440 to Syke, a short two mile run.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 30 Jun 1984
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Rochdale: Smith Street
Looking east along Smith Street towards the new bus station, a tram for Ashton via Oldham and Manchester stands ready to leave, (If going to Ashton, you would get there more quickly, if less comfortably, on the 409 bus!)
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 11 Oct 2015
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Looking west along Smith Street, Rochdale, Lancashire
This is looking from Smith Street back towards the Town Centre. By the late 1960s, Rochdale's blue and cream Corporation buses had been subsumed into a much larger oganisation based on Manchester, and had been repainted into orange and white livery. The route numbers, previously 1-24, had been changed to new ones above 400, so that the bus on the right, which would have been 6 before, had become 457! Meanwhile the single-decker bound for Leeds belonged to a separate company and retained its 28 number.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 30 Jul 1975
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Rochdale transport interchange
Viewed on a wet winter afternoon. Trams and buses interchange here but the railway station is another tram stop further away from the town centre.
Image: © Bill Boaden
Taken: 5 Dec 2015
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Crossing the Tramway at Rochdale Market
The town's market, previously located in the Exchange Shopping Centre, has been re-located on the site of the former council offices, next to the Metrolink and Bus interchange.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 24 Feb 2016
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Rochdale: Central Metrolink station
The Town Centre Metrolink station appears virtually complete, but will not get a service until early 2014. In this picture, the old bus station building with multi-storey car park, and a corner of the 'Black Box' office building, also appear.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 21 Sep 2013
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Metrolink Terminus at Rochdale
A Metrolink tram at the terminus on Smith Street.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 24 Feb 2016
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