Page 51 - Real Rochdale Issue 10 Summer 2021
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Photo: Rochdale Online Photo: Malcolm Journeaux
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.
Photo: Malcolm Journeaux
Photo: Malcolm Journeaux Photo: Malcolm Journeaux