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To: Stolly

No, not just because of the Churchill was there, but because this was the Town Hall when Oldham was the THE centre of the world’s cotton spinning industry and the most important cotton district in the world. Oldham is not quite the town it used to be, but destroying this is to destroy a symbol of Oldham’s former greatness....


20 posted on 09/12/2008 4:43:18 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

So lets save a mill. If a private investor wanted to buy this building the council has a duty to take them seriously, it doesn’t seem as if they have been overwhelmed by offers.


21 posted on 09/14/2008 2:06:42 PM PDT by Stolly
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