Contents:
- Editor's welcome
- Feeling good in the summer sun
- Rochdale's pancake legacy 30 years on
- Calderbrook Alpacas – The delightful world of fluffy misfits
- Rochdale “hero” completes gruelling 232- mile ultra-marathon for Jolly Josh charity
- Ogden family takes majority control of Rochdale AFC after £2m investment
- The timeless magic of Rochdale’s M6 Theatre
- Toffee or chocolate dipped apples
- Grey & Gorgeous
- Rochdale Infirmary opens ‘Oasis Garden’
- Inside Rochdale's oldest mosque
- Sue Devaney announced as new patron of Springhill Hospice
- Remarkable 2000-year-old Roman coins found in Littleborough field will stay in the borough
- Stiffen your resolve to do more exercise
- Rochdale Shopmobility manager retires after two decades
- Contractor appointed for Touchstones transformation »
- Korean sticky mushrooms with kimchi greens
- High Level’s holistic approach to addiction recovery
- All eyes on Rochdale at Tatton
- Post Office Horizon Scandal
- What's on this autumn
Autumn 2024Contractor appointed for Touchstones transformation
The redevelopment of Touchstones, the borough’s major arts and heritage venue is progressing following the appointment of construction company H.H. Smith and Sons Ltd as the main contractor. The Manchester-based firm also worked on the restoration of Rochdale Town Hall.
H.H. Smith and Sons started started work in July, which will see the building transformed into a creative and cultural hub with new flexible performance and creative studio spaces, meeting rooms and improved galleries.
The work also includes a new dining space combining the theme of food with the borough’s collections. ‘The Dining Room’ will see three artists commissioned to work with 20 community curators to produce a new museum and dining space for when it re-opens in 2025.
Vital works to improve the building’s accessibility and sustainability will also take place.