[Closed] What's Middleton like?

The only thing its got going for it is that it isn't Heywood

I thought Hopwood was meant to be OK? And bits of Bamford are technically Heywood...

Bits of it are nice, Rhodes

Anyone know what Palla Bikes are like? Drive past it on my way to Crumpsall but have never been in.

Isn't Middleton the place with the massive bakery that makes all the McDonalds buns or is that Heywood?

Goldenwest at Pilsworth

[s]Goldenwest [/S] GUENTHER at Pilsworth

Still don't get why people live in Manchester when you can live a 30 minute train journey from Victoria and surrounded by hills and moors. Todmorden for me. Not expensive. Ride from the door. Same goes for Littleborough.

Bregante - As I'm now back living in Heywood, I still think it's a lynching offence 🙂

Clover.... ssssssssshhhhhhhh. We don't want the likes of this riffraff moving out to the nice scenic bits, with the great riding from your door 😉

Is it Middleton that smells of vinegar from the Sarsons factory? Or is that technically Chadderton? It used to make me fancy a chip barm whenever I rode past it anyway.

I have the pleasure riding past the Sarsons factory on my commute. Hated it at first, but now have a strange liking for the smell of cooking malt. It's at Mills Hill, which is between Chadderton and Middleton. It's the last station before victoria so people there often don't manage to get on the train as it's too full and always look massively pissed off about it. Or maybe that's because they live in Mills Hill?

it also has a massive foam factory (Vita), not that its very exciting.

Been in that Sarsons factory years ago when I used to work in the Pest control industry, certain parts you would think you were in a Cider brewery.

Hated it at first, but now have a strange liking for the smell of cooking malt.

Mills Hill's not bad and Chaddy Park down the road is very pleasant.

Lots of nice pubs out that way too.

As above, Boar's Head is a great pub, as is the Ringers just up the hill opposite.
Used to drink in Midd all the time in the 80's and early 90's, all the really dodgy pubs have gone now along with a couple of little gems.

The Brunswick was often both at the same time.
Great jukebox though.
🙂

Still don't get why people live in Manchester when you can live a 30 minute train journey from Victoria and surrounded by hills and moors. Todmorden for me. Not expensive. Ride from the door. Same goes for Littleborough.

Some people prefer cities to small towns.

Childcare and my wife's commute is the reason why we don't live up t' valley. However, if we had moved I would now live within 50m of Chez Binners.

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Trouble with many Lancashire towns and villages Tod etc, as beautiful as the surrounding areas are, is they spend some winters submerged so you have to be really careful where you buy. Unless you like 10,000 pa insurance premiums if you can get insurance at all!

We're on the nice side of Rochdale, and on a hill which gets round the flooding problem.

Unlike our electricity sub-station which is on the river Roch and flooded last Christmas...