Rochdale in General Reviews

When people think of Rochdale, it usually includes comments about cobbled streets, shut down mills and unemployment following recent reports. But having lived in Rochdale for all of my 23 years of my life I feel I am in a better position than london journalist to paint a picture of my northern town. They are right that unemployment is higher ...  Read the complete review

When I tell people I'm from Rochdale, I either get told I must be rough or I must live in the hills on a cobbled street...! Well, I'm not either! I'm from Smithy Bridge, so on the outskirts of Rochdale - near to Littleborough and Hollingworth Lake. My parents have lived in the same house for 25 years and I was brought up there - in a ...  Read the complete review

So what's so special about Rochdale? I hear you cry. Well apart from being the town of my birth, its is also the birth town of Dame Gracie Fields, former MP Sir Cyril Smith, Lisa Stansfield and Anna Friel. Rochdale is also the birthplace of the Co-Operation Movement in 1844, and the museum can be visited on Toad Line just outside the ...  Read the complete review

Hi, I lived in Littleborough which is a little village five minutes outside Rochdale for 15 years before I moved to university and as no-one else has wrote about Rochdale I thought I would, so here goes: Rochdale is pretty much like any town, an average size with the usual facilities- library,town hall,swimming pool,cinema,bowling alley etc. ...  Read the complete review