Compete the series

Add the chronicle 1980s materials

Propose more years to the collection

Add more

Add the Chronicle 1970s

Please cover more later issues

Add more dates

1980s date for me

The Chronicle please 70s-90s

Oldham Chronicle i require for the years 1978-1994

Are we any further in the future of having copies of the Oldham Chronicle? which my family would be most interested to see.

Oldham Chronicle 1970s-90s

please can we have Oldham on here? why is nothing for Oldham on?

These great political rivals offer fantastic detailed coverage of the Cotton Metropolis from the 1850s. Please go ahead and digitise them.

Local correspondents sent some Oldham stories to the Manchester papers up till the 1850s, but the meteoric expansion of the town thereafter naturally spawned its own local papers - the population increased by over 52% between 1851 & 1861 alone, and between 1851 and 1891 more than tripled from 77K to nearly 233K. I find it hard to understand why this important place has so far been neglected.

The BL has an excellent run of The Oldham Chronicle from 1854 already on microform - surely for such an important boom town this would be an obvious one to give us, and less complex than those needing scanning from scratch?

There are several Oldham request threads here - I am adding my votes to this one as the largest (though another has been saying for a long time it is 'under review')

Local correspondents sent some stories to the Manchester papers up till the 1850s, but the meteoric expansion of Oldham thereafter naturally spawned its own local papers - the population increased by over 52% between 1851 & 1861 alone, and between 1851 and 1891 more than tripled from 77K to nearly 233K. I find it hard to understand why this important place has so far been neglected.

The BL has an excellent run of The Oldham Chronicle from 1854 already on microform - surely for such an important boom town this would be an obvious (and less complex) one to give us?

still nothing on Oldham? It's hard to understand why. An industrial giant with many an interesting story to tell I'm sure

Oldham was an important cotton spinning town attracting workers to its mills from all over the country. The Oldham Standard and the Oldham Chronicle both started in the 1850s publishing 6 days a week. The "Chron" is still with us. A wealth of information only available to those willing to trawl through the films.

Oldham is now a much larger town than in the 1800s! It had the highest number of spindles (cotton spinning) in the mid 1800s, with engineering and railways a close second in people employed-it simply must not be ignored any longer.

This is an excellent idea.My major reason for subscribing was to research Oldham in WW1 but I've had little luck & have to make many trips to the British Library.Please help out all of us who are researching topics connected with this major town.Oldham Evening Chronicle,Oldham Chronicle,Oldham Standard....anything!