Even in the 1960s the number of men who worked there was large enough to support nine public houses in the nearby Ogden Lane.HistoryThe original workshops of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway were in Newton near Hyde in Cheshire but were inconveniently situated, cramped and makeshift. In 1845 the railway asked their locomotive superintendent, Richard Peacock, to find a more s
Even in the 1960s the number of men who worked there was large enough to support nine public houses in the nearby Ogden Lane.HistoryThe original workshops of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway were in Newton near Hyde in Cheshire but were inconveniently situated, cramped and makeshift. In 1845 the railway asked their locomotive superintendent, Richard Peacock, to find a more s
