It’s a crying shame because when this Town Hall was built, Oldham was renowned nationwide for the thrift and work ethic of it’s population. They survived the cotton famine of 1861-65 better than just about every other cotton town in the district because the workers grafted and saved and because the town’s entrepeneurs turned the town into the world’s leading centre in cotton-waste dealing.
To contemplate demolition of this historic building is like London contemplating razing the Tower of London to the ground, or New York city bulldozing Federal Hall...
Not really, these towns are not going to stay in a Victorian time warp as much as some people think they should. A private developer needs to step in if its commercially viable, if not its not for Oldham taxpayers to pay for some obsolete building as if the town was a living museum.