The path as you leave Crompton moor carpark walking up onto the moor has been identified as unsafe (see image), therefore it has been closed off until repairs are able to be made.

L S Lowry masterpiece comes to Oldham – come along and see it

L S Lowry’s masterpiece Going to the Match is going on public display in Gallery Oldham from 2 December 2023 to 24 February 2024.

This hugely important and much-loved work of art had been on public display at The Lowry since it opened in 2000, courtesy of a loan by then owners the Professional Footballers Association.

For more information, click here

Oldham Liberal Democrats back ‘Small Business Saturday’ 2023 after a tough year for local businesses

Oldham Liberal Democrat Councillors are gearing up for Small Business Saturday 2023 – due to take place on Saturday December 2^nd – and are encouraging people to come out in force to support local high streets after another tough year. 

Liberal Democrat Leader and Shaw representative councillor Howard Sykes MBE said, “Saturday December 2^nd is a date for all our diaries.”

“Small Business Saturday is an event held every year to champion the role our smaller local businesses play in our communities.  This year it’s so important to give that support.”

“Runaway inflation and soaring energy costs have made 2023 a really challenging year for business owners and their staff.  But people are proud of our local high streets right across Oldham Borough and I know the people of Oldham will make Small Business Saturday a success this year.”

If you are a small business owner interested in finding out how Small Business Saturday can support you, go to https://smallbusinesssaturdayuk.com/.

Temporarily closing of the Local Studies and Archives

Temporary changes to the Local Studies and Archives Service this winter, as the service prepares to move to its new home in the redeveloped Spindles.

The current base at 84 Union Street will close to the public on 30 November with the service’s new temporary home opening in March 2024 within Oldham Library, prior to its move to Spindles when the new permanent archives centre is created.

Moving to a new site is a huge task and they will have to reduce some of the archive services until this work is done.

Users of all Oldham libraries will still be able to enjoy free access to family history websites, including Ancestry and FindMyPast alongside online census information from 1841 to 1921 on our public computers.

For more information on this service update, please visit our website.

CHAPEL STREET SHAW

TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF DRIVING NOTICE 2023

The Oldham Borough Council hereby gives Notice that no person shall cause any vehicle to proceed in that part of Chapel Street from its junction with Rochdale Road for a distance of 50 metres in a north easterly direction 

The restrictions are required to facilitate electrical works by ENWL and will be in force for 2 days from Tuesday 28^th November 2023 or until the works are completed whichever is the lesser period  

The alternative route for those affected by the restriction is Rochdale Road, St Mary’s Gate and King Albert Street

To the people of the city and county palatine of Lancaster

Greetings!

Know ye that this day, November 27th in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty Two, the 1st year of the reign of His Majesty King Charles III, Duke of Lancaster, is

Lancashire Day

Know ye also, and rejoice, that by virtue of His Majesty’s County Palatine of Lancaster, the citizens of the Hundreds of Lonsdale, North and South of the Sands, Amounderness, Leyland, Blackburn, Salford and West Derby are forever entitled to style themselves Lancastrians.

Throughout the County Palatine, from the Furness Fells to the River Mersey, from the Irish Sea to the Pennines, this day shall ever mark the people’s pleasure in that excellent distinction – true Lancastrians, proud of the Red Rose and loyal to our Sovereign Duke.

GOD BLESS LANCASHIRE
AND GOD SAVE THE KING,
DUKE OF LANCASTER.