David Gibson has provided the following comment: I came across this quite by chance. It's amazing to see something from my very long ago past. My Dad - Fred Gibson - was a Butcher in Oldham and used to buy all his Turkeys from…
Around the year 1829 the vicar of St. Mary's in Todmorden, the Reverend Joseph Cowell, proposed that the church should be either rebuilt or enlarged at its present site. Another proposal was that it should be removed to…