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11. Official opening of town's premier park
Heywood Advertiser, Monday 10 March 2003A SPECIAL Saturday edition of the Heywood Advertiser appeared on 2 August 1879 to commemorate the opening of Queen's Park on that same day
12. Heywood a borough at last
Heywood Advertiser, Monday 10 March 2003HEYWOOD'S history may go back many centuries, but the town of Heywood, as a borough or district, is only just over 120 years old.
13. George and Mary drop in for tea and a chat
Heywood Advertiser, Monday 10 March 2003HEYWOOD received its first visit from a King and Queen on 12 July 1913, and the town came to a virtual standstill as a result.
14. Heywood and its Stone Age legacy
Heywood Advertiser, Monday 10 March 2003THERE are signs that human activity was taking place in Heywood around 10,000 years ago.
15. Rochdale here we come ...
Heywood Advertiser, Monday 10 March 20031ST APRIL 1974 ... a momentous day in the town's history, the day when Heywood ceased to be in control of its own destiny.
16. Medieval Heywood
Heywood Advertiser, Monday 10 March 2003THERE can be no doubt that Heywood came under the control of the next invaders of Britain - the Normans - as they conquered the whole country.
17. The 'other' Peter Heywood and the Bounty mutiny incident
Heywood Advertiser, Monday 10 March 2003ONE son of Heywood found himself facing an ignominious death when he was - wrongfully, it transpired, implicated in one of the most notorious episodes in British history - the Mutiny on the Bounty.
18. Town’s heroes in the Crimea
Heywood Advertiser, Monday 10 March 2003MANY Heywood men with Heywood connections fought in the Crimean War of the 1850s
19. Full steam ahead
Heywood Advertiser, Monday 10 March 2003THE Manchester and Leeds Railway Company opened its line through Castleton on 4 July 1839 and it was completed to Leeds on 1 March 1841.
20. Gunpowder, treason … and Peter Heywood
Heywood Advertiser, Monday 10 March 2003A HEYWOOD man was the key to preventing the destruction of the entire English Parliament in 1605 - and he's the reason we celebrate Bonfire Night every November.