Rochdale Railway Station

MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY – TO BUILDERS – ROCHDALE STATION. Persons desirous of tendering an estimate for the erection of a station house proposed to be built at Rochdale, may inspect the plans and specification at the Architect’s office, Clowes Buildings, Hunts Bank, from nine in the morning to six in the evening until Thursday the 4th instant after which date no tender will be received.

Reference           Manchester Guardian 30 March 1839 page 1 – contracts

 Mr Leigh Hall, architect to the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, is in immediate want of a well-educated youth as an Apprentice. Clowes’s Buildings, Hunts Bank. [Manchester Guardian 9 March 1839 page 2]