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Oldham

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Oldham, city (1991 pop. 107,095) and metropolitan district, NW England, located in the Manchester metropolitan area. The city's industries include papermaking, tanning, food processing, and mail-order distribution. Oldham's town hall, art gallery, museum, and Alexandra Park are noteworthy. There is also a 17th-century grammar school and the College of Further Education. Winston Churchill Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874–1965, British statesman, soldier, and author; son of Lord Randolph Churchill. Early Career


Educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, he became (1894) an officer in the 4th hussars.
..... Click the link for more information.  was the member of Parliament for Oldham, and the composer William Walton Walton, Sir William Turner, 1902–83, English composer, b. Oldham. Walton studied at Oxford. One of his earliest works was a piano quartet (1918–19).
..... Click the link for more information.  was born there.
Oldham
1. a town in NW England, in Oldham unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop.: 103 544 (2001)
2. a unitary authority in NW England, in Greater Manchester. Pop.: 218 100 (2003 est.). Area: 141 sq. km (54 sq. miles)
Oldham 

a city in England, in the Greater Manchester metropolitan complex. Population, 105,700 (1971). Industries include the cotton industry, textile-machine building, electrical engineering, and the clothing industry. Oldham has an art gallery of 19th- and 20th-century English art.
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He died at the Royal Oldham Hospital in the early hours of Saturday, leaving behind a wife and two young daughters, aged one and four years old.
Two men arrested after father shot on door-step by Independent Television News Limited (ITN)
He later died at the Royal Oldham Hospital, leaving behind a wife and two young daughters, aged one and four years old.
Doorstep shooting: two held by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
Amelia and Alyssa were born healthy but seven hours later their mother's health deteriorated, an inquest at Oldham heard.
TWINS'MUMTRAGEDY by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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