Page 50 - Real Rochdale Issue 10 Summer 2021
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                                           MEMORY LANE                                                                              A proposal to open up the river in the town centre was approved in late 2014,
                                                                                                                                     and work was completed in June 2016. Mayor and Mayoress, Ray and Elaine
            For over a century the River Roch was hidden, running through a culvert in                                               Dutton cut the ribbon to mark the official re-opening with the help of one of

                                           the heart of the town centre.                                                                         Rochdale’s oldest residents, 101-year-old Alice Nicholson.







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