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Community news

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Heywood In Bloom

Gardening Tips for March 31

Hollin & Hopwood Woods

Walk, Middleton – Hopwood

Hall Walk 32-33

From the Archives – The Dearnley

or Birch Hill Workhouse by Gary

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Welcome to our

March issue

It’s great to finally be able to start

promoting upcoming events in the

local area.

A much anticipated event that will be happening

this year is the Feel Good Festival which will be

taking place on Saturday 13th August. Find all

the details about it on pages 4 and 5.

Local historian, Gary Heywood-Everett is back

and has written an interesting article on the

Dearnley or Birch Hill Workhouse which you

can find on pages 34 and 35. We also have a

couple of articles to keep you busy outdoors as

your Local In Bloom team have sent more tips

to keep your garden looking great and a local

walking group have provided an article on a

walk they did near Hopwood Hall.

Until next month…

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Stage change for Rochdale

Feel Good Festival

Ongoing refurbishment of Rochdale Town Hall and major improvement works

around the town hall square will mean a change for this summer’s Rochdale Feel

Good Festival. The main stage will move 400 metres, to Hopwood Hall College.

Indoor stages in town centre venues will remain the same, with only the main stage relocating

for 2022 while major work on The Esplanade and town hall square is completed.

Capacity for the main stage area will be reduced to around 5,000 at the St Mary’s Gate

site said councillor Sue Smith, cabinet member for communities and co-operation at

Rochdale Borough Council: “After a forced two year break due to the pandemic we

wanted to make sure the festival returns this year but obviously with all the town hall

work underway we’ve had to find a new home for the main stage before it returns to

what will be a fabulous brand new events space. Hopwood Hall College have been

a supporter of this event for a number of years and I would like to thank them for

accommodating us and look forward to working with them. The site is very close to the

town centre and within a short walk of our other festival venues.”

While entry to indoor stages in venues will be free, entry to the main stage, headlined

by The Fratellis is ticketed, with £7 tickets on sale, so festival goers are being advised

to book early added Sue: “Rochdale Feel Good Festival attracts visitors from across

Greater Manchester, the north of England and beyond, so after a long wait its welcome

return is going to be popular, but with our reduced capacity we are urging fans not

to leave buying tickets until the last minute as the main stage area won’t be able to

welcome as many of you as usual.”

Julia Heap, the college’s principal and CEO said: “We’re delighted to be supporting this

summer’s Rochdale Feel Good Festival. Our Rochdale campus has extensive parking

facilities which will make a great events space for the festival that’s accessible for all.

We’re really looking forward to welcoming what looks to be a brilliant line-up of acts that

everyone can enjoy.”

On Saturday 13 August headliners The Fratellis will be joined by northern soul band

The Northern Soultrain, Manchester singer/songwriter Abbie Ozard, rock band HAiG,

multi-talented musician Aziz Ibrahim, alternative dance band ENTT, indie/folk duo

Firewoodisland, DJ Dave Sweetmore and a local battle of the bands winner, a full

programme of entertainment across indoor venues to be announced plus quality

food and drink.

Tickets (£7) for the main stage are available at

www.rochdalefeelgoodfestival.co.uk and you can book in person

at Touchstones Rochdale, Heywood Civic Centre and Middleton Arena.

The festival is funded by the council together with ticket sales and sponsorship from local

businesses. If you would like to get involved with the festival, email events@rochdale.gov.uk

For festival updates on Facebook, go to www.facebook.com/feelgoodfestival

or connect with @FeelGoodFest on Twitter.

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Saturday 13 August

The Northern Soultrain

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Firewoodisland• Dave Sweetmore (DJ)

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Hollin & Hopwood Woods Walk, Middleton

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From The Archives

THE DEARNLEY OR BIRCH HILL WORKHOUSE

As early as 1598 the government

decreed that parishes throughout

England had to oversee their own

poor and provide parish houses

for those who could not support

themselves and their families

through work.

Poor relief in the years following, further

reinforced the responsibility of the parish

through its townships for the poor by

providing shelter and employment.

However, this national arrangement

became too expensive, costing £2 million

pounds to the Exchequer in 1784 but

£7 million pounds by 1832. Something

had to change and the New Poor Law

of 1834 shifted onus and responsibility

by recommending that those unable to

survive through employment should go to

the workhouse and do menial work there,

the place being administered by local

workhouse unions. Although shelter, basic

food and employment would be found in

the workhouse, they became unpopular as

conditions in them was far from pleasant.

However, by 1850 most towns in Britain

had workhouses.

Rochdale was no exception, its Poor Law

Union forming in 1837 in the face of much

delaying opposition from local ratepayers

led by Alderman Thomas Livsey who called

for a boycott of the election of workhouse

Guardians on the grounds that workhouses

were becoming ‘prisons for the poor’

and where inmates were divided by age

Delaying tactics worked only temporarily

however, so the protesters decided to put

up their own candidates for Guardians who,

once elected would refuse to attend crucial

Board meetings. The fight continued as

people in the town were fiercely opposed to

the Poor Law Amendment Act, Rochdale’s

first MP, John Fenton, losing his seat after

he voted in favour of the law. However,

after many legal threats and further delays

the Poor Law Union Act was implemented

in the town and workhouses for some

time afterwards catered (through periods

of boom and bust in the textile industries)

for many hundreds of people so that by

the mid-19th century under the Poor Law,

Rochdale had workhouses in Spotland

on Primrose Street (100 places), Marland

off Marland Old Road (50, later 300)

Hollingworth on Syke Lane (58),

Calf Hey near Wardle Fold (30) and at

Wardleworth (24).

Over the years and due to gradual

overcrowding and very poor conditions

in the workhouses, the local Poor Law

Guardians looked to find an alternative

to the Spotland, Hollingworth and

Wardleworth workhouses. The one at

Spotland in particular was in such a parlous

state structurally that part of it collapsed

possibly due to coal mine subsidence under

its foundations. Even though it was patched

up temporarily it stayed open for a number

of years during the late 1860’s, ‘lunatics

and imbeciles’ according to Spotland

Township minutes, ‘being kept in that

part of the building which had given way.’

and gender.

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Furthermore, the Spotland workhouse had

been recently inspected and found wanting

in a number of other ways, being primarily

criticised for :

• Two men sharing a bed at the workhouse

(a common criticism)

• The lack of proper workhouse dress

being provided, inmates wearing their

own clothes, allowing smoking in both

the men’s and the women’s sections

(another common complaint)

• Inadequate judgement as to the

prevalence of infectious disease

• The use of the cellar as a mortuary

• The administering of medicines by

illiterate pauper inmates.

So, in 1871, in the face of overcrowding in

the workhouses of the town, the Rochdale

Poor Law Union proposed the building of

a giant workhouse and to that end bought

24 acres of land on the slopes of Birch Hill

and Starring Hill for £2500. The Dearnley

or Birch Hill workhouse at the end of

Union Road, complete with tower and clock

face that can be seen from miles around

was designed by George Woodhouse and

Edward Potts to accommodate 632 of the

poor although, at its capacity, it held 847

alongside 29 ‘officers’.

Following its use as a workhouse, the

Birch Hill buildings were used as a military

hospital in the Great War with tents erected

in the grounds and from 1930 the site

was passed to Rochdale County Borough

with the Poor Law Institution being run

by the Public Assistance Committee and

the Hospital being run by the Health

Committee. In 1948 Birch Hill became

an important part of the National Health

Service’s provision for the town until its

closure in 2013. Whilst most recently

buildings on the site form part of Birch

Hill Clock Tower apartments, one wonders

whether those living there are aware of the

suffering and succour that has taken place

on that hill.

Served by a tramway on Halifax Road

it eventually opened its doors to the

poor in December of 1877, the full cost

of the building being £85,000. The

opening ceremony was led by the Mayor

of Rochdale, Alderman T Schofield,

preceded by a tour of the workhouse for

the seventy guests, speeches by dignitaries

and a performance by the Orpheus Glee

Club. By the turn of the 20th century the

building was extended to incorporate a

172-bed infirmary and a central healthcare

administration block.


If you have any comments about Birch

Hill as a workhouse, I’d be delighted to

hear from you and add them to a growing

Rochdale archive on the subject.

Please contact Gary Heywood-Everett

at garyheywoodeverett@yahoo.co.uk

or leave your comments by text or by

recorded message at 07562 752774.

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