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dressings and was completed in 1909. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of seven bays, four on the left for the
Carnegie Library and three on the right for the town hall, facing onto Oldham Road. The town hall featured, in the central bay, a rounded headed doorway with an archivolt
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Rochdale Canal. The building was used to house a library and a lifelong learning centre while, by 2023, it also housed the council's support and housing team, and some charities.
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window on the first floor surmounted by a chequered pattern. The outer bays were fenestrated by bay windows on the ground floor and by mullioned and transomed windows on the first floor.
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