| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship 10:41 - Jul 29 with 6865 views | samueloneils |
So pleased to see some involvement from south of Rochdale.
As you can tell from my forum name, it relates to the building on the main road through Castleton where Queensway branches off, and where my father worked for 50 years. More recently called TPT, close to Tweedale & Smalleys and also the All in One Garden Cenre which used the watering can symbol to sponsor our shirts.
Also Heywood where my aunt lived who donated to me my Dale shares.
Happy days. |  | | |  |
| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 16:17 - Jul 29 with 6643 views | DaleiLama |
My dad was also at Tweedales. I used to play out a lot as a kid where Castleton Timber are based now too. Happy Days indeed. |  |
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| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 16:20 - Jul 29 with 6637 views | EllDale |
I remember what a bombshell it was when Tweedales closed. I think it was around 1962. | | | |
| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 17:32 - Jul 29 with 6536 views | samueloneils |
And Castleton baths with the most heavily chlorinated water I`ve ever met. Eyes used to sting for half an hour after. | | | |
| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 18:27 - Jul 29 with 6446 views | robtheb |
| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 16:17 - Jul 29 by DaleiLama |
My dad was also at Tweedales. I used to play out a lot as a kid where Castleton Timber are based now too. Happy Days indeed. |
My dad worked there also. Use to watch Tweedales football team play on the pitch opposite the works. Local bobby Tommy Hingham in goal. | | | |
| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 18:36 - Jul 29 with 6423 views | DaleiLama |
| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 18:27 - Jul 29 by robtheb |
My dad worked there also. Use to watch Tweedales football team play on the pitch opposite the works. Local bobby Tommy Hingham in goal. |
Was that what became the Cash and Carry? We lived a stones throw from the Manchester road entrance. Dad got fixed up in another engineering company, but that site became a Woolies w/h I think it was? | |
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| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 18:48 - Jul 29 with 6384 views | EllDale |
Yes, the Tweedales and Smalley site was sold to Woolworths for their Northern Distribution Centre.
Much of the existing buildings were devoured in one of the most spectacular fires Rochdale has ever seen.
That was roundabout 1984 from memory.
It was all rebuilt but I’m not sure what the site is used for now. | | | |
| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 19:49 - Jul 29 with 6306 views | robtheb |
| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 18:36 - Jul 29 by DaleiLama |
Was that what became the Cash and Carry? We lived a stones throw from the Manchester road entrance. Dad got fixed up in another engineering company, but that site became a Woolies w/h I think it was? |
Yes the pitches were taken over as a Cash and Carry. They had 3 pitches from memory and the club house is were Castleton Timber is now. Behind the club house was Tweedales bowling green. | | | |
| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 20:31 - Jul 29 with 6201 views | pioneer |
I am another with genes from a T&S worker. Dad made redundant in 1962. They had been taken over by Platts and they moved all the work to Oldham.
Still have a vague memory of my dad coming home with his pint pot (always a bad sign) and my mother being very upset. | | | |
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| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 21:22 - Jul 29 with 6125 views | SuddenLad |
| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 18:27 - Jul 29 by robtheb |
My dad worked there also. Use to watch Tweedales football team play on the pitch opposite the works. Local bobby Tommy Hingham in goal. |
Tom Ingham passed away in October 2018. He was 82. Smashing bloke and a good local bobby. |  |
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| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 22:49 - Jul 29 with 6051 views | joecooke |
And another,my nan and her sister worked at Tweedales .Football pitch at the top of a hill brings back memories.If we wanted a full game as a kid,it was either up there or on Brimrod Primarys pitch. |  |
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| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 08:56 - Jul 30 with 5849 views | DaleiLama |
| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 19:49 - Jul 29 by robtheb |
Yes the pitches were taken over as a Cash and Carry. They had 3 pitches from memory and the club house is were Castleton Timber is now. Behind the club house was Tweedales bowling green. |
Cheers. I was only 2 when Tweedales closed and don't remember the footy pitches. There was a bowling green behind the Farewell Inn car park - would that be the same one? Seem to remember as kids we had to climb in there when we were playing out. Many a game of football, cricket, and a pen knife could be used to make guns and bows and arrows for cowboys and indians, army etc. From tree branches. No mobiles back then and we didn't even have a house phone or indoor bathroom at first. Happy innocent days. | |
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| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 10:03 - Jul 30 with 5761 views | sweetcorn |
They're good lads Chris and Ian, always willing to put their money in to sponsor stuff in this town.
They sponsored my Sunday league teams kit last season and we won the league, hopefully a repeat for dale would be nice. |  |
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| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 12:44 - Jul 30 with 5559 views | EllDale |
My grandad always used to say that it was ironic that the Lancashire textile industry shot itself in the foot by selling machinery to it’s best overseas customers so that in time they could produce their own fabric.
Tweedales and Platts were in the forefront of this.
Castleton was a hotbed of industry back in the day.
As well as Tweedales there were companies like Bridges and Whipp and Bourne.
I won’t include the Dunlop which was the largest cotton mill in the country at one time as technically I suppose it’s in Sudden but I worked at Arrow Mill in the early 1980’s when it had three shifts and a full order book under American ownership. | | | |
| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 18:05 - Jul 30 with 5430 views | robtheb |
| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 08:56 - Jul 30 by DaleiLama |
Cheers. I was only 2 when Tweedales closed and don't remember the footy pitches. There was a bowling green behind the Farewell Inn car park - would that be the same one? Seem to remember as kids we had to climb in there when we were playing out. Many a game of football, cricket, and a pen knife could be used to make guns and bows and arrows for cowboys and indians, army etc. From tree branches. No mobiles back then and we didn't even have a house phone or indoor bathroom at first. Happy innocent days. |
The bowling green that was behind The Farewell Inn was not the same as Tweedales bowling green. I to use to play on there once it was closed for bowling (never remember it being used) Tweedales green was round about the area now taken by Castleton Timber. Happy innocent days indeed. | | | |
| Castleton Timber and Heywood Plastics stand sponsorship on 20:31 - Jul 30 with 5254 views | EllDale |
I think that that’s the entrance by the railway rather than the one on Royle Barn Road.
Last time I was down there a lot of that building was still there having been unaffected by the fire in 1984.
It was only used by Woolworths as an overflow section once the main building had been rebuilt.
Tweedales had their own sidings with direct access to the mainline and some of line was undercover.
One other thing I remembered today was that the building which is now the Royal Toby was formerly the house of one of the Tweedales. I think it was called The Rhyddings when it was first built. | | | |
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