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Rigby, from Middleton, Greater Manchester, was born in 1987 and had served in Cyprus, Germany, and Afghanistan before becoming a recruiter and assisting with duties in the Tower of London. [18] [4] [19] [20] He was attacked when he was returning to barracks from working at the Tower. [21]
Middleton became a centre for silk production in the 18th century, which developed into a cotton spinning industry by the mid-19th century and which continued through to the mid-20th century. [5] This transition gave rise to Middleton as a mill town. The town's local newspaper, the Middleton Guardian has a history going back to Victorian times.
He was baptised on 11 April 1788 at St Leonard's Church, Middleton. [2] [3] After his father withdrew him from Manchester Grammar School, Bamford became a weaver and then a warehouseman in Manchester. [4] Exposure to Homer's Iliad and to the poems of John Milton influenced Bamford to begin writing poetry himself. [4]
After Heywood died in 1920, his widow, Harriette, sold the original Parkfield House to Middleton Borough Council for use as its headquarters in 1925. [ 2 ] A garden of remembrance with a colonnade was established on the west side of the original house in the presence of Lieutenant Colonel Roderick Livingstone Lees of the 6th Battalion ...
Manning was a lifelong Manchester City supporter. [26] He was the subject of This Is Your Life on 27 November 1991. [27] For many of his later years, he was a teetotaller and a diabetic. [28] Having been admitted two weeks earlier for a kidney complaint, Manning died in North Manchester General Hospital at 3:10 pm on 18 June 2007. [5] He was 76 ...
Middleton Cemetery and Crematorium is a cemetery in Boarshaw Road, Middleton, Greater Manchester, England. The cemetery was established in 1912 and is owned and maintained by Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council. Facilities on the grounds include a crematorium, chapel, toilets, a memorial garden and a book of remembrance room. [2]
Sir Ralph Assheton, 2nd Baronet (11 February 1651 – 3 May 1716) of Middleton Hall [1] [2] and Whalley Abbey, Lancashire, was an English landowner and politician who represented Liverpool (1677–79) and Lancashire (1694–98) as a Member of Parliament.
The basic layout of the shield was based on the arms of Middleton of Middleton Hall: "Quarterly gules and Or in the first a cross flory argent", while the black spur-rowel came from the arms of the Assheton family. The textile industries of Middleton were depicted by the cotton sprigs and silk worm moth.