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Rochdale / Royaume-Uni

Rochdale est une ville du nord-ouest de l'Angleterre, au Royaume-Uni, d'une population de 95 796 habitants. Située le long de la rivière Roch, elle est la principale agglomération du district métropolitain de Rochdale, dans le Grand Manchester. Faisant partie historiquement du Lancashire, Rochdale s'imposa au XIXe siècle comme un centre majeur de tissage : au cœur du processus qui donna naissance à la Révolution industrielle, elle fut une des premières villes industrialisées au monde. Son premier maire fut Jacob Bright . C'est dans ce contexte d'industrialisation que furent créés à Rochdale, en 1844, les Équitables Pionniers, une des premières coopératives de consommation destinée à donner à ses membres un moyen de sortir de leur misère.

Touchstones Rochdale

Rochdale / Royaume-Uni

Touchstones Rochdale is an art gallery, museum, local studies centre, visitor information centre and café forming part of the Central Library, Museum and Art Gallery in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It is a Grade II listed building.The first part of the stone building was opened as a library in 1884 with the museum and gallery being added in 1903 and extended in 1913. It became an art and heritage centre in 2003. It houses collections ralating to local history and related topics, with changing exhbitions over time.

Rochdale Town Hall

Rochdale / Royaume-Uni

Rochdale Town Hall is a Victorian-era municipal building in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It is "widely recognised as being one of the finest municipal buildings in the country", and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. The Town Hall functions as the ceremonial headquarters of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council and houses local government departments, including the borough's civil registration office. Built in the Gothic Revival style at a cost of £160,000 , it was inaugurated for the governance of the Municipal Borough of Rochdale on 27 September 1871. The architect, William Henry Crossland, was the winner of a competition held in 1864 to design a new Town Hall. It had a 240-foot clock tower topped by a wooden spire with a gilded statue of Saint George and the Dragon, both of which were destroyed by fire on 10 April 1883, leaving the building without a spire for four years. A new 190-foot stone clock tower and spire in the style of Manchester Town Hall was designed by Alfred Waterhouse, and erected in 1887. Art critic Nikolaus Pevsner described the building as possessing a "rare picturesque beauty". Its stained glass windows are credited as "the finest modern examples of their kind". The building came to the attention of Adolf Hitler, who was said to have admired it so much that he wished to ship the building, brick-by-brick, to Nazi Germany had the United Kingdom been defeated in the Second World War.