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True Worth
Never Fails'
Failsworth is generally seen as
the town linking
Oldham
to
Manchester
yet it was countryside until comparatively recent times and the boom of the
Industrial Revolution.
Little more than 300 years ago its
population was over 1,000, today it's about 21,000. Farming was the main
industry of the area with villagers supplementing their meagre incomes by
hand-loom weaving until the advent of cotton and the Industrial Revolution.
Failsworth boosts a
Country Park, Daisy Nook.
With this and other landmarks its no wonder people rarely leave the town!
People of the area still maintain
a strong community spirit and their pride in Failsworth is fierce.
A major
landmark of the area is Failsworth
Pole on
Oldham Road. The first 'political pole'
was erected in 1793 although a local historian suggests there were others before
and that Maypoles probably stood on the site for centuries. The pole that now stands on the
site replaced the last one, blown down in 1923.
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