Purring – Sport of The People explores the lost histories of clog fighting. The artist Anna FC Smith writes for Northern Soul about the genesis of the show (currently at The Whitaker in Rossendale) and what visitors can expect. ...
Read MoreBelieve it or not but naked clog fighting was a mysterious and illegal sport that existed in Northern mining communities for hundreds of years. Now Gallery Oldham is staging an exhibition examining the myths of the brutal...
Read MoreThe game was startling in its simplicity but my 12-year-old son stared at the screen as if bringing an Airbus in to land. You might think that kids raised in a world of HD interactive entertainment would spurn the cruder...
Read MoreWho had more cotton spindles turning than the combined cotton industries of France and Germany in 1913? Oldham, that’s who! This staggering statistic is one of the first things you encounter when you enter the Spindleopolis –...
Read MoreThere can’t be many people who know that the world’s foremost stained glass artist is from Oldham. Like fellow Oldhamer, the composer William Walton, Brian Clarke has made a considerable mark on the world through his art, as his...
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