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Bury Corporation Tramways
Bury Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in Bury, Greater Manchester, England between 1903 and 1949.The Golden Age of Tramways. Published by Taylor and Francis. History Services started on 3 June 1903, on the first line to Fairfield. The tram depot site was located between George Street and Foundry Street. The power station operated by Bury Corporation Electricity Department, was on the opposite side of Rochdale Road, near to Derby Street. Routes were opened as follows: *3 June 1903 Jericho to Moorside *21 May 1904 Moorside to Bury *21 April 1904 Heap Bridge to Bury via Heywood St, Spring St and Frederick St *29 April 1904 Bury to Rochdale Road (Heywood St) via Princess St *20 May 1904 Bury to Limefield *20 July 1904 Bury to Unsworth Unsworth is a village and residential area of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, in Greater Manchester, England. The population of Unsworth Ward, as of the 2011 census is 9,492. The village sits approximately north of the city of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bury, Greater Manchester
Bury ( ) is a market town on the River Irwell in Greater Manchester, England. Metropolitan Borough of Bury is administered from the town, which had an estimated population of 78,723 in 2015. The town is within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire. It emerged in the Industrial Revolution as a mill town manufacturing textiles. The town is known for the open-air Bury Market and black pudding, the traditional local dish. Sir Robert Peel was born in the town. Peel was a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who founded the Metropolitan Police and the Conservative Party. A memorial and monument for Peel, the former stands outside Bury parish church and the latter overlooks the borough on Holcombe Hill. The town is east of Bolton and southwest of Rochdale. It is northwest of Manchester, having a Manchester Metrolink tram terminus. History Toponymy The name ''Bury'' (also earlier known as ''Buri'' and ''Byri'') comes from an Old English word, meaning ''castle'', ''str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bury Power Station
Bury power stations are two generating stations that supplied electricity to the town of Bury, Lancashire and the surrounding area from 1896 to 1970. They were owned and operated by Bury Corporation until the nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry in 1948. The power stations were rebuilt several times to replace older plant and to meet an increasing demand for electricity. History In 1890 Bury Corporation applied for a Provisional Order under the ''Electric Lighting Acts'' to generate and supply electricity to the town. This was granted by the Board of Trade and was confirmed by Parliament through the ''Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 3) Act 1890'' (54 & 55 Vict. c. clxxxviii). The corporation built a power station in Rochdale Road, Bury (53°35'39"N 2°17'19"W), from which the supply of electricity started on 5 November 1896. The demand for electricity increased and a new larger generating station at Chamber Hall, Bury (53°35'51"N 2°17'57"W) w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unsworth
Unsworth is a village and residential area of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, in Greater Manchester, England. The population of Unsworth Ward, as of the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census is 9,492. The village sits approximately north of the city of Manchester and 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the town of Bury, Greater Manchester, Bury, and contains the area of Hollins, and part of Sunnybank. Historically a part of Lancashire, Unsworth has been recorded as far back as the 13th century. Its name is thought to derive from the Old English word “hound,” literally meaning “place of the hounds.” Unsworth's development as a village mostly took place during and after the industrial revolution, when due to its nearby waterways, it became involved in the manufacturing of dye and bleach. The mid-20th century onwards saw major changes in the village. The construction of Sunny Bank Road, and the M66 motorway which both cut through the village significantly shifted its charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitefield, Greater Manchester
Whitefield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It lies on undulating ground above the Irwell Valley, along the south bank of the River Irwell, southeast of Bury, and northwest of Manchester. Prestwich and the M60 motorway lie just to the south. Historically part of Lancashire, Whitefield was on the path of an ancient Roman road leading from ''Mamucium'' (Manchester) in the south to ''Bremetennacum'' ( Ribchester) in the north. Throughout the Middle Ages, Whitefield was a division of the township of Pilkington, itself a part of the parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham and hundred of Salford. Pilkington and Whitefield have historic associations with the Earls of Derby. Farming was the main industry of this rural area, with locals supplementing their incomes by hand-loom woollen weaving in the domestic system. The urbanisation and development of Whitefield largely coincided with the Industrial Revolution. The name Whitefield is thought to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tottington, Greater Manchester
Tottington is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury in Greater Manchester, England, on the edge of the West Pennine Moors. Historically in Lancashire, it was a medieval fee, a type of royal manor, which encompassed several townships from Musbury and Cowpe with Lench in the north to Affetside in the west and Walshaw in the south west, while the township of Tottington itself was a small agricultural settlement surrounded by open farmland and hunting ground where deer and wild boar were found. History There is no mention of Tottington in the Domesday Book and little evidence of a settlement before the Norman conquest.Townships: Tottington A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5. Originally published by Victoria County History, 1911 The earliest extant record of Tottington is from 1212 when it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radcliffe Town Hall
Radcliffe Town Hall is a municipal structure in Spring Lane in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Radcliffe Borough Council, is a locally listed building. History Following significant population growth, largely associated with the textile, bleaching and mining industries, the local board of health, which had been formed in July 1866, established offices at the corner of Spring Lane and Water Street. The area became an Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban district in 1895, and, in the early 20th century, the new council held its meetings in a room at the public baths in Whittaker Street after the baths had been completed in 1899. Finding this arrangement inadequate, civic leaders decided to demolish the old local board offices and to erect a new building on the same site. The new building was designed by W. M. Gillow and R. Holt in the Baroque architecture, Edwardian Baroque style, built in red brick with stone dres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heywood, Greater Manchester
Heywood is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, in the historic county of Lancashire. It had a population of 28,205 at the 2011 Census. The town lies on the south bank of the River Roch, east of Bury, southwest of Rochdale, and north of Manchester. Middleton lies to the south, whilst to the north is the Cheesden Valley, open moorland, and the Pennines. Heywood's nickname is Monkey Town. The Anglo-Saxons cleared the densely wooded area, dividing it into heys or fenced clearings. In the Middle Ages, Heywood formed a chapelry in the township, around Heywood Hall, a manor house owned by a family with that surname. Farming was the main industry of a sparsely populated rural area. The population supplemented their incomes by hand-loom woollen weaving in the domestic system. The factory system in the town can be traced to a spinning mill in the late 18th century. Following the introduction of textile manufacture during the Industrial R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walmersley
Walmersley is a suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. History Historically in Lancashire, the name Walmersley is said to be derived from Old English, and translates as Waldmer's wood, or clearing. Once a rural village in the wilds, in recent decades, it has become a northern suburb of Bury. Old stone cottages remain in the area, but much of the district's housing is of post-war construction. The A56 (Walmersley Road) links Walmersley with Bury to the south and Shuttleworth, Ramsbottom and Edenfield to the north. Before this 'new' road was built the road north from Bury followed the line of Walmersley Old Road. The old 'coach road' went through Baldingstone and Nangreaves and onto Hardern Moor and beyond to Shuttleworth and Edenfield. Junctions led to the then thriving mills in Deeply Vale and Birtle Dene. Deeply Vale has more contemporary fame as the location of the Deeply Vale Festivals. The old road was one of the many roads i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rochdale Corporation Tramways
Rochdale Corporation Tramways operated an electric tramway service in Rochdale between 1902 and 1932. History In 1898, Rochdale Town Council adopted a resolution in favour of acquiring the steam tramways operated by the Manchester, Bury, Rochdale and Oldham Steam Tramways Company, which had operated services in Rochdale since 1 November 1883. The Rochdale Corporation Act of 1900 included proposals for new tramways. Construction started on 15 June 1901, and the first line was inspected on 15 May 1902 and opened one week later.Rochdale Corporation Tramways, H.G. Dibdin, Tramway Review. Vol. 12, No. 93, Spring 1978 Eventually the number of routes expanded, to Bacup, Norden, Castleton, Newhey and Todmorden Todmorden ( ; ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It is north-east of Manchester, south-east of Burnley and west of Halifax, West Yorkshire, Hal .... In 1925 the Corporati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salford Corporation Tramways
Salford () is a city and the largest settlement in the City of Salford metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, Salford had a population of 103,886. It is also the second and only other city in the metropolitan county after neighbouring Manchester. Salford is located in a meander of the River Irwell which forms part of its boundary with Manchester. The former County Borough of Salford, which also included Broughton, Pendleton and Kersal, was granted city status in 1926. In 1974 the wider Metropolitan Borough of the City of Salford was established with responsibility for a significantly larger region. Historically in Lancashire, Salford was the judicial seat of the ancient hundred of Salfordshire. It was granted a charter by Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, in about 1230, making Salford a free borough of greater cultural and commercial importance than its neighbour Manchester.. The Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and early 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tram Transport In Greater Manchester
A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in North America) is a rail vehicle that travels on tramway tracks on public urban streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way. The tramlines or networks operated as public transport are called tramways or simply trams/streetcars. Many recently built tramways use the contemporary term light rail. The vehicles are called streetcars or trolleys (not to be confused with trolleybus) in North America and trams or tramcars elsewhere. The first two terms are often used interchangeably in the United States, with ''trolley'' being the preferred term in the eastern US and ''streetcar'' in the western US. ''Streetcar'' or ''tramway'' are preferred in Canada. In parts of the United States, internally powered buses made to resemble a streetcar are often referred to as "trolleys". To avoid further confusion with trolley buses, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) refers to them as "trolley-replica buses". In the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
