The Stuff We Can't Fit In Somewhere Else in Oldham, Greater Manchester*

The things which can't be categorised

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• Oldham council build it demolish it. Its the council tax payers who can pay so its no worry.
• The best way to describe Oldham to somebody who has never been, is Liberty City from GTA, with the 'everybody hates you' cheat on, haha! Needless to say, dont go alone, and unless you've got a car stay out of Glodwick, Derker, and Sholver, they're pretty dangerous places and theres nothing of interest.
• Really Really easy to escape the city and get into the countryside on the moors! its great up there
• Whatever happened to good old ENGLISH Oldham??!!..Place is full of uncontrollable >>>vermin<<< now.
• Avis car hire, fantastic service, excellent prices, a must for anyone needing a car.
• Doltroxi Web Design Studio - need a webpage?? - www.doltroxi.co.uk
• Young Mums, they're everywhere. Single too, whether this means the young women of Oldham keep getting knocked up after 2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps, I dont know, but I bet a lot dont remember who their childs father is, slappers?
• bollocks
• Don't ever come to Oldham. EVER. Or Shaw. You will most probably catch typhoid, and go back home in a bag. Or many of them, if you've an attitude problem. -RM
• If you get the bus often enough you'll meet some of the funniest people in the world. There's some right nutters knocking about, especially on the 409 because they all seem to live on that route. Watch out for the woman that sits and drinks Special Brew telling anyone who'll listen about her baby that got taken into care. Yes, Oldham really is that classy.
• Sir Winston Churchill once claimed that his father's mistress was from Oldham. He said of her that "She was a friendly Northern woman of poor breeding" and that she was "grateful to my father for taking her from the mills" It is not known exactly how close these two became.
• Oldham is home of the Tubular Bandage, also at one point there were more cotton spinning machines in Oldham than in the rest of the world put together.
• Oldham was also once famous for its hats. In fact, the distinctive hat of one "Indiana Jones" comes from Oldham!
• Colour: Grey
• People from Oldham are known as "yonners". This dates back centuries, when some poncey Southener came, for some reason, to inspect the town. He'd ask "where's Oldham, my good man?", and the locals would point to a smudge in the distance, and say "yonner". When he finally arrived, the confused chap asked his friend what on Earth these people were saying, and why Yonner wasn't on any map. It was explained to him the locals were saying "yonder", but the poor fellows delicate ear just couldn't comprehend.
• Oldham is a great place to come FROM; the people are great, it's one of the few places around where people will strike up a conversation in a public convenience, but it's run-down, scruffy and rough as hell. On a bad day it looks like Beirut without the sunshine. The really best thing used to be the Bath Hotel on Union Street until they 'did it up'; now it's just another carpets on the floor, walls, tables & ceilings dump.

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Last updated: 2011-06-28