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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: | Scotts Industrial Estate
Fishwick Street
Rochdale,
OL16 5NA | FAX: | 01706 750809 | Telephone: | 01706 641085 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:2191 | Go to resource |
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