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Until 1807, Greenacres had been open moorland, but the area was urbanised with cotton mills and densely packed redbrick terraced houses as part of Oldham's rapid industrialisation in the 19th century. [1] The main road from Oldham to Huddersfield passes through the locality, which also facilitated this urbanisation.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) This list of mills in Oldham, lists textile factories that have existed in the town of Oldham, within Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. From the Industrial Revolution until the 20th century, Oldham was a major centre of ...
The Oldham Evening Chronicle was a daily newspaper published each weekday evening. It served the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. There were also four sister editions, called the Oldham Extra, Saddleworth Extra, Tameside Extra and Dale Times, which were published on the first Thursday of each month. The paper was ...
The BBC News channel is a British free-to-air [1] public broadcast television news channel owned and operated by the BBC.The channel is based at and broadcasts from Broadcasting House in the West End of London from which it is anchored during British daytime, with overnight broadcasts anchored from Washington, D.C. and Singapore. [2]
Oldham was anciently a township in the large ecclesiastical parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham. Prior to the 19th century the government of the town was divided between the parish vestry and the county magistrates of Lancashire. In 1826 the Oldham Police Act (7 Geo. IV, cap. 117) established a board of improvement commissioners. All landowners ...
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The Oldham Advertiser is a weekly newspaper which serves the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Established in 1982, it is owned by Reach plc , as part of MEN Media which contains a collection of newspapers across North West England including the Manchester Evening News .