The Old Bridge originally built 1510 and repaired in 1602 and 1657 when it was described "in great ruin and decay". Seen here in about 1900 looking over to Buttress Brink, demolished 1960s, with the new 'Hole in the Wall' pub on the right.
Rear of Holme House in the foreground and above it the now demolished mill on Bridge Gate; centre right the Hole-in-the-Wall hotel. Date unknown but prior to the demolition in 1931 of the building on Bridge Gate at its junction with New Road.
The new building is under construction at the same time as the old building is being demolished. The red brick building is the Trades Club on Holme Street.
This photograph was taken in the closing years of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th. The Rochdale Canal running from the bottom to the top right makes a useful guide to the town as it was then. The road over the narrow bridge at theā¦