Rochdale
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 37 ′ N , 2 ° 9 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | SD893130 | ||
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| Residents | 95,796 (as of 2001) | ||
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| Post town | ROCHDALE | ||
| ZIP code section | OL11, OL12, OL16 | ||
| prefix | 01706 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | North West England | ||
| Website: http://www.rochdale.gov.uk/ | |||
Rochdale [ ˈrɒtʃdeɪl ] is a city in Metropolitan County Greater Manchester in north-west England and the administrative seat of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale . It has 97,433 inhabitants (2001).
geography
The city on the River Roch derives its name from the river that flows along the Pennines .
history
Rochdale is listed as Recedham in the Domesday Book of 1086. St. Chad's Church dates from 1194, but there was a church in the village before that. Archaeological finds around Rochdale indicate that the Romans already settled here. 1251 Rochdale received the status of a market place. Sheep farming developed around Rochdale, and wool was processed in the village itself and later exported to Europe and America.
At the end of the 18th century, machine processing of wool and cotton found its way into Rochdale . The opening of the Rochdale Canal from Manchester to Yorkshire in 1804 and the connection to the railway network in 1841 accelerated industrialization , which gave the city a strong increase in population: 1801 approx. 14,000, 1821 approx. 23,000, 1841 approx. 68,000.
Under the influence of Robert Owen , the founder of the cooperative system , the Rochdale weavers founded the Rochdale Friendly Co-operative Society in 1832 and opened a cooperative shop a year later. This was closed two years later, but reopened in 1844 with 28 members. In 1848 the cooperative had 140 members, in 1860 there were already 3,500. Because of its history, Rochdale is still known today as the Birthplace of Co-operation ("birthplace of the cooperative system").
In 2012 there was a trial against the Rochdale Sex Trafficking Gang with twelve men. This gang of Britons of Pakistani origin and one perpetrator from Afghanistan had molested at least 47 white underage girls. On May 8, 2012, prison sentences ranging from 4 to 19 years were imposed. Trial observers suspected racist motives among the Pakistanis because they explicitly abused white girls.
One of the victims published the book Girl A: The truth about the Rochdale sex ring by the victim who stopped them under the code name Girl A in October 2013, about years of sexual abuse. In December 2013, an investigation report into the collective rape in and around Rochdale appeared, which speaks of a failure of all social and official contact points for the girls. Doctors, hospitals, social workers, teachers and the police did not respond to reports of the abuse from the girls.
Culture and sights
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- St. Chad's Church
- Victorian style town hall
- Rochdale Pioneers Museum , which presents the history of the cooperative system and the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers
- Ellenroad Engine House, there is one of the largest still working steam engines in the world. This starts every first Sunday of the month and can then be viewed between 12:00 and 16:00.
literature
The novel GRM begins in Rochedale . Brainfuck from Sibylle Berg .
Sports
In the city of the football club is Rochdale AFC home that long as a synonym for Football League Two was the first time in 2010 in the Football League One rose. The club plays its home games at the Spotland Stadium .
Town twinning
Rochdale has partnerships with Lviv in Ukraine, Bielefeld in Germany, Sahiwal in Pakistan and Tourcoing in France.
Daughters and sons of the city
- John Bright (1811-1889), politician
- Gilbert Walker (1868–1958), physicist and meteorologist
- John Ellis (1874-1932), executioner
- Gracie Fields (1898–1979), singer
- Barb Jungr (born 1954), singer
- Earl Barrett (born 1967), football player
- Rob Brown (* 1970 or 1971), musician
- Sean Booth (born 1972), musician
- Anna Friel (* 1976), actress
- Stuart Bithell (* 1986), regatta sailor
- Jake Cody (born 1988), poker player
- Donald Love (* 1994), football player
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guardian on the Rochdale Sex Grooming Gangs Police Report , December 20, 2013
- ↑ Girl A: The truth about the Rochdale sex ring by the victim who stopped them . Ebury, London 2013, ISBN 978-0-09-195134-4
- ↑ The Telegraph on the verdict in the Rochdale Sex Gang trial, The Telegraph, May 8, 2012
- ↑ Rochdale child grooming ring: Council and police had 127 warnings to stop the abuse . The Mirror September 27, 2012
- ↑ GRM - Sibylle Berg - Kiepenheuer & Witsch. Retrieved July 9, 2019 .
- ^ Website Rochdale - Things to know about Rochdale, No. 17 , accessed January 23, 2018