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Description: | The working life collections range from industries to crafts and trades within the Borough. The cotton, wool and silk industries and allied textile trades as well represented in addition to printing, clog and shoe making, coopering, carpentry, tin-smiths, plumbing and engineering. Local commerce and general retailing includes material from premises such as Wardleworth Post Office and Duckworths grocers and Halfpenny's clothing shop and public houses and local breweries are also included. | Subjects: | Science & Industry | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Arts and Heritage Centre
The Esplanade
Rochdale Lancashire United Kingdom,
OL16 1AQ | FAX: | 01706 342154 | Telephone: | 01706 864986 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:2175 | Go to resource |
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