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  Rochdale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
With a population of 95,796 it is the largest settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in Greater Manchester.
Rochdale the largest settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, having previously been an independant local government district in the administrative county of Lancashire.
Rochdale College in Toronto, Canada, a now-closed co-operative housing and alternative education experiment, was named in honour of the town of Rochdale as a tribute to its historic importance for the Co-operative Movement.
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 Rochdale - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Rochdale is a town in Greater Manchester in north-west England with a population of 94,000.
Rochdale is twinned with the towns of Bielefeld in Germany, Tourcoing in France and Sahiwal in Pakistan.
Rochdale College, in Toronto, Canada, a co-operative housing and alternative education experiment, was named in honour of the town of Rochdale England, as a tribute to its historic importance for the co-operative movement.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Rochdale   (521 words)

  
 Rochdale College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rochdale took its name from Rochdale, a town in north-west England, where the world's first cooperative society was established in the 1800s.
Rochdale College was established as an alternative to what were considered traditional paternalistic and non-democratic governing bodies within university education.
Rochdale students were involved with various cultural institutions in Toronto such as Coach House Press, Theatre Passe Muraille, The Toronto Free Dance Theatre, and House of Anansi Press.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rochdale_College   (1030 words)

  
 Rochdale College - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Rochdale was the largest co-op residence in North America, and the second co-op student residence opened in Canada.
Rochdale took its name from Rochdale, England, where the world's first attempt at cooperative housing took place in the 1800s.
Rochdale students where involved with various cultural institutions in Toronto such as Coach House Press, Theatre Passe Muraille, The Toronto Free Dance Theatre, and House of Anansi Press.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Rochdale_College   (1062 words)

  
 Rochdale College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The college’s modern architecture was uniquely designed for communal living, divided into independently operated communal units of about a dozen bedrooms, each with its own collective washroom, kitchen and dining room.
By 1971, Rochdale’s reputation in the press was as "North America's largest drug distribution warehouse" and it had become a haven for American draft dodgers.
Rochdale’s educational focus gradually deteriorated as the drug business increased because of non-student and non-resident crowds that were always hanging around.
grupos.xasa.us /wiki/en/wikipedia/r/ro/rochdale_college.html   (908 words)

  
 Sharpe: Rochdale College
Rochdale College it was, an untested, bold idea on Bloor Street at the edge of the University of Toronto campus, a ten-minute walk from the Ontario Legislature.
Rochdale College, a twin tower of raw concrete and straight lines in its second year of operation in 1970, the largest co-operative student residence in North America, the largest of the more than 300 free universities in North America, and soon to be known across the country as the largest drug supermarket in North America.
Toronto's Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbol of the flower-child Sixties, a financial and social controversy.
oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~sharpe/rochdale.htm   (346 words)

  
 Calumet College - York University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
To the Dean of Atkinson College, whgere Calumet was assigned lodgings, it was an irritant.
The fact that the Rochdale Co-op and the founding of Calumet College were contemporaneous is interesting in the light of the similarity of their governments.
The college space was less than a quarter of that occupied by an average college; it was enough for a skeletal college without a residence or dining room, with no facilities for Fellows, and at its best, three classrooms.
www.calumet.yorku.ca /about/history.asp   (6003 words)

  
 Rochdale College: Organized anarchy - Hippie Society: The Youth Rebellion - CBC Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Rochdale College is the University of Toronto's first co-op residence, Canada's first free university and, before long, the country's most notorious den of iniquity.
Rochdale opens in the spring of 1968 as an experiment in co-operative living and student-centred education.
Rochdale is a hotbed of free thought and radical idealism.
archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-69-580-3204/life_society/hippies/clip11   (685 words)

  
 Rochdale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Rochdale is a town in Greater Manchester in north-west England.
It is the main town in the metropolitan borough of Rochdale, and gets its name from its position on the River Roch at the edge of the Pennines.
Rochdale College, in Toronto, Canada, a co-operative housing and alternative education experiment, was named in honour of the town of Rochdale.
www.centipedia.com /articles/Rochdale   (295 words)

  
 Rochdale College Museum
For starters here are contemporary descriptions of Rochdale, a small album of pictures from Rochdale's prime of life, and a good-natured if facitious view of a weekly Rochdale class schedule (dating, it must be admitted, from somewhat after the fact).
Meanwhile ancedotal evidence seeped into the sociology literature; Rochdale merits a footnote (the hallmark of scholarly eminence) in Kenneth Westhues' "Hippiedom 1970: some tentative hypotheses", where it is claimed that political "radicals" found Rochdale unwelcoming because the Rochdaleistas would not take them seriously.
Rochdale was one of the places north of the border where we found that sanctuary.
homepages.nyu.edu /~spores01/rochdale.html   (2023 words)

  
 The following is extracted from the CBC archives
Rochdale College is the University of Toronto's first co-op residence, Canada's first free university, and before long, the country's most notorious den of inequity.
Rochdale opens in the spring of 1968, as an experiment in cooperative living and student-centred education.
Rochdale is a hot bed of free thought and radical idealism.
www.rochdalefarm.ca /cbcarchives.htm   (646 words)

  
 Balderstone - new development in Rochdale, UNITED KINGDOM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Rochdale is a town in Greater Manchester in north-west England with a population of 06, 8 and covers an area of 58.08 km².
The Metropolitan borough of Rochdale is a metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester in North West England.
The industrial wealth of Rochdale, and its growing importance as an industrial and political entity, resulted in the town being grant Municipal Borough status in 856, upon which the council immediately sought to build a fine new Town Hall (pictured top left) as a matter of civic pride.
www.buyproperty4less.com /uk-property-details/index.asp?did=22   (986 words)

  
 National Co-operative Archive
The Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society was not the first co-operative society, but the Pioneers put together the ideas and practices that led to the Co-operative Principles.
George Jacob Holyoake's history of the Rochdale Pioneers "Self-Help by the People" was published in 1858 and aimed to describe the difficulties faced by the Rochdale Pioneers and the way in which they were overcome.
The Rochdale Pioneers Museum was opened in April 1931 at 31 Toad Lane, Rochdale in the building where the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society opened their first store on 21st December 1844.
archive.co-op.ac.uk /pioneers.htm   (424 words)

  
 Aisle Say (Toronto): THE ROCHDALE PROJECT
Now the collectively created The Rochdale Project (directed by Simon Heath) has again revisited the seen of the crime and attempted to re-create the tribal-love-rock free-for-all of a day that was as much about movements as it was about individuals.
What this group has done is take a mature look at a period that had a lot of egoism and immaturity about it and attempted to give it structure, form and content by making a play that involves complicated characters and conflicting emotions within a story that is framed by an important historical period.
Melissa Good is the young woman who is mysteriously dropped off by a taxi cab at the College one night and only reveals her tragic secret at the end of the play.
www.aislesay.com /ONT-ROCHDALE.html   (706 words)

  
 Rochdale (disambiguation) - Wikimedia Commons
Rochdale F.C. Rochdale was a make of car [1].
Rochdale, Toronto or Rochdale College was a centre of the 1960s-70s youth counter culture in Toronto, Canada.
It was an eighteen-storey building, originally a college dormitory associated with the University of Toronto.
commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Rochdale_(disambiguation)   (153 words)

  
 Rochdale
The population of the Rochdale Township is 94,425 (1991 census) while the Borough of Rochdale has a population of some 207,100 (1994).
Rochdale is built on the River Roch 10 miles North East of Manchester and used to be an important cotton-spinning town.
Rochdale is well known as the birthplace of the Cooperative movement over 150 years ago.
www.users.zetnet.co.uk /gsivills/gsroc.html   (303 words)

  
 LE REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: Rochdale Deja Vu
Rochdale was part of Canada's unique counter culture history, which includes the fact that LSD was used here first before Leary and others used it in the United State.
Rochdale was a unique libertarian experiment of its time in Canadian history.
Ironically, perhaps not, the main Rochdale building, at Bloor and Huron Streets, has been renamed after a senator, whose name drugs has wiped from my memory, and is a mostly-seniors residence.
plawiuk.blogspot.com /2006/11/rochdale-deja-vu.html   (815 words)

  
 Rochdale Principles - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Rochdale Principles - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Rochdale, borough, metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, northern England, on the Roch River.
Code (law), in jurisprudence, a systematic compilation of law in written form, issued by rulers in former times, and promulgated by legislative...
encarta.msn.com /Rochdale_Principles.html   (125 words)

  
 NOW Magazine - The Arts in Toronto, MARCH 2 - 8, 2006
Rochdale students spent hours haggling about self-governance in the belief that they could improve on the status quo, though not really knowing how.
Younger actors might not catch the thematic connection between the demise of Rochdale College and the challenges posed today by funding cuts and audience apathy to the cultural institutions it inspired.
The college, decrepit and neglected, closed and was sold in 1973.
www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2006-03-02/stage_theatrepreview2.php   (665 words)

  
 About Michael Revers
This combination of artistic ability and technical expertise ensures that reproductions of his work are of the highest standard of execution and presentation, and no doubt explains why his landscapes will attract the discerning buyer, and why some collectors seek after his closed issue watercolour limited editions.
Michael was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, in 1947 and trained in art and design at Rochdale College of Art.
He has worked as a graphic designer in industry and in private practice and also lectured on the subject at Salford Technical College and in Rochdale.
www.michaelrevers.com /indexABOUTMJR.htm   (296 words)

  
 Rochdale Club Profile
In a taste of things to come the club finished bottom of the league in their inaugural season and a couple of years later, in 1924, Rochdale were actually expelled for a brief period after a misunderstanding concerning payments to players, before eventually being reinstated in time for the following season.
Rochdale did reach the Division Three play-offs in 2001-02 and had high hopes of building on that improvement under Paul Simpson.
Rochdale may not have pulled up many trees on the pitch over the years, but off the pitch they have a reputation for giving away fans a warm and friendly welcome.
www.ciderspace.co.uk /ASP/opposition/rochdale.asp   (1993 words)

  
 Hopwood Hall Further Education College in Rochdale and Middleton in Greater Manchester | Locations | How to find us ...
Hopwood Hall Further Education College in Rochdale and Middleton in Greater Manchester
The Rochdale campus is 3 miles from junction 20 of the M62.
The Rochdale rail station is situated in the town centre (about 10 minutes walk from campus), and has frequent connections to Leeds, Bradford and Manchester.
www.hopwood.ac.uk /default.php?/locations   (150 words)

  
 Rochdale News & Features
Paul has met with the 18-year-old student to hear his protests about "the lack of decent colleges in Rochdale." Two years ago the former Oulder Hill Student hit the headlines when he received some of the highest GCSE Grades in the country.
Sajid said: "I would have liked to have took my A levels at a college in Rochdale but because of a lack of decent colleges in Rochdale I feel I had no choice but to go to a college outside the borough.
He is typical of the type of student that we need to keep in Rochdale; he is the perfect example of why we need to end the brain drain from Rochdale.
www.rochdaleonline.co.uk /News/news.asp?ID=2086   (562 words)

  
 Rochdale Observer - Were you put in the picture?
The expansion of the college was certainly needed to meet the ever-growing demands for further education.
In September 1963 Rochdale College, the College of Art and the Further Education Centre all had more full-time students on their books than ever before.
College principal Mr T H Bott said: "All our full-time classes are full and it reflects a genuine desire to take education on a full-time basis."
www.rochdaleobserver.co.uk /news/s/44/44653_were_you_put_in_the_picture.html   (691 words)

  
 Compass Vol. 14 #1, Bennett Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Rochdale College, financed by a Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation mortgage, ten floors of conventional co-op housing for conventional U of T and Ryerson students, topped by six floors of radical experiment in alternative education for us unconventional types.
The two-block-by-three-block slice of countercultural street life known as "the Yorkville scene" knew a good thing when it saw one and began to move the couple of blocks west to the warmth and nonhierarchical verticality of the grey high-rise.
In 1995, I peek into the management office of these "Senator David A. Croll Apartments"--the office where, in the later stages of Rochdale's history, the enforcers of "Rochdale Security" used dogs to control outsiders' access to an exotic, promising and forbidden interior.
gvanv.com /compass/arch/v1401/bennett.html   (277 words)

  
 rochdale_music - UK Plus
Rochdale Music Shops, for great range of musical instruments sales and repairs in Rochdale, try looking here.
College of Music and the Rochdale Music Service, the festival was to...
The first stop for Rochdale what's on, local Rochdale dating, events, entertainment and cinema, plus jobs, Rochdale property and new and used motors.
ukplus.co.uk /Rochdale/Rochdale_Music   (327 words)

  
 Hopwood Hall Further Education College in Rochdale and Middleton in Greater Manchester
Hopwood Hall Further Education College in Rochdale and Middleton in Greater Manchester
Hopwood Hall College is a UK government-funded, further education college.
The college is situated in the borough of Rochdale, in greater Manchester, easily accessible by public transport and car and, for overseas students, from Manchester International Airport.
www.hopwood.ac.uk   (305 words)

  
 Amphetamine alarm   Rochdalers warn of the
A delegation from Rochdale College lectured the federal drug commission yesterday on the dangers of amphetamine, the speed that kills.
Seven Rochdale spokesmen appeared before the federal Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, partly to urge the legalization of marijuana, but they also recommended a clampdown on speed pushers.
He and the present Rochdale council attempt to evict anyone found in possession of speed.
beatles.ncf.ca /ledain_amphetamine_alarm.html   (377 words)

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