A five-year battle over which community should serve as Oldham County's seat of government was put to a vote in 1915.

County's main rivalries are with other clubs such as Burnley, and Stoke City, for historical reasons, as well as other rivalries with local clubs such as Oldham Athletic, Bury, Rochdale and Macclesfield Town.

It remained the only public high school in the county until 1989, when the school district was split into two high school attendance zones to handle the population growth resulting from Oldham County's decades-long transition from a rural area to a bedroom community for Louisville.

Oldham County's school newspaper, the Clarion Colonel, has won numerous gold medals from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, affiliated with Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in New York City, and has placed first in the state of Kentucky in the Four A ( AAAA ) division in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 from the Kentucky High School Journalism Association.

Through the efforts of Hood ( victories against Whitehaven & Doncaster ) and McCormack ( victory against Oldham ), Thunder were guided to being the last non-Super League team competing in the 2009 Challenge Cup.

Raper made 31 appearances for Oldham in that season and scored 11 tries but his efforts didn't prevent Oldham from being relegated from the 1st Division.

Graeme Sharp took over as Oldham's player-manager on the departure of Joe Royle in November 1994, but he was unable to mount a promotion challenge and the pressure continued to build up a year later when Oldham narrowly avoided relegation.

Since the early 1970s and the completion of Interstate 71, which connects Oldham County to Downtown Louisville and shopping in Eastern Jefferson County, Oldham County has increasingly become suburban in nature, a natural extension of Louisville's wealthy East End as it ran out of large tracts of undeveloped land.

The area became a streetcar suburb of Paterson in the years following the Civil War, with the central area known as Haledon, while the area surrounding the large pond along High Mountain Road was called Oldham.

Oldham () is a large town in Greater Manchester, England.

On 20 April 1812, a " large crowd of riotous individuals " compelled local retailers to sell foods at a loss, whilst on the same day Luddites numbering in their thousands, many of whom were from Oldham, attacked a cotton mill in nearby Middleton.

Oldham finished fifth and their promotion dreams were ended in the playoffs, and their fans were furious when Moore decided to end his interest with the club — leaving behind large debts and a weak squad, and after selling the better players at a fraction of their market value at the time.

Dislike for Manchester United is also very common amongst Oldham supporters, partly fuelled by the FA Cup Semi Final meetings in 1990 and 1994, and partly due to the large number of Manchester United supporters living in the Oldham area.

Glodwick is a multi-ethnic residential area in the south of the Oldham, home particularly to a large community of Pakistanis and British Pakistanis.

Saddleworth, which lies east of the large town of Oldham and east-northeast of the city of Manchester, is broadly rural, has a scattered population of 24, 351, making it one of the larger civil parishes in the United Kingdom.

In 1871 Royton was noted as a large village-chapelry, and a sub-district of the Oldham registration district.

It is one of the largest theological libraries in the United Kingdom, holding a large collection of manuscripts, including the papers of Thomas Chalmers, John Baillie, J. H. Oldham and James S. Stewart.

Seddon Atkinson Vehicles Limited, a manufacturer of large goods vehicles based in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, was formed in mid 1970 when Atkinson Vehicles Limited of Preston was acquired by Seddon Diesel Vehicles Limited of Oldham.

Andrew Loog Oldham, the former producer and manager of The Rolling Stones, commented on how Led Zeppelin had a major influence on the record business, and the way rock concerts were managed and presented to huge audiences.

Until a permanent courthouse was built, county business was conducted in Vega's Oldham Hotel.

The boost in income provided by the German executions allowed Pierrepoint to leave the grocery business, and he and Anne took over a pub on Manchester Road, Hollinwood, between Oldham and Failsworth, named Help the Poor Struggler.

Oldham, still a teenager, rapidly acquired a seasoned business partner ( Eric Easton ) and took over management of the Stones who had been informally represented by Giorgio Gomelsky.

Oldham had previously been business partners with Peter Meaden, first manager of The Who, but they had fallen out.

His bookselling business in Oldham Street was successful and continued for many years.

Peter was business partner to Andrew Oldham, who was for a while the Rolling Stones manager.

They relocated the business to larger premises on Lostock Street, near Oldham Road in Collyhurst, and the combined talents of the three men meant further expansion, both in Manchester and in other cities.

The original Poetry Slams started at ' The Night and Day Cafe ' on Oldham Street in Manchester's City Centre, then moved to the ' Frog and Bucket ' on the same road.

Consequently a partnership of necessity between Oldham and veteran booking agent Eric Easton was formed when Oldham's mother signed on behalf of her son.

Oldham and Easton negotiated with Decca Records-which had regretted and were embarrassed by passing on the Beatles-an advantageous recording / production contract for the Rolling Stones, in which they got three times the typical royalty rate for a new act, full artistic control of recordings, and ownership of the recording masters.

The Decca deal also let Oldham use non-Decca recording studios, with Regent Sound Studios, a mono facility decorated by egg boxes on the ceiling for sound treatment, becoming the preferred facility.

Oldham promoted the Rolling Stones as the nasty opposites of the Beatles by having the band pose unsmiling on the cover of the first UK album.

** Police find a girl's body on Saddleworth Moor near Oldham in Lancashire.

He released his first solo recording as John Paul Jones, " Baja " ( written by Lee Hazlewood and produced by Oldham ) / " A Foggy Day in Vietnam ", as a single on Pye Records in April 1964.

Their patronage underpinned the careers of a number of young Lancashire men, including William Smyth, Hugh Oldham, and Christopher Urswick, who went on to become pillars of the Tudor church and state.

Twenty-six year old Winston Churchill, famous for his escape from a Boer prisoner of war camp and his journalism for the Morning Post, successfully stood as a Conservative candidate in Oldham, where Chamberlain spoke on his behalf.

The major slave-owning areas in the state were the Bluegrass region, Henderson and Oldham counties on the Ohio River, and the western Kentucky counties of Trigg, Christian, Todd, and Warren.

Oldham County was established on December 15, 1823 from parts of Henry, Jefferson, and Shelby Counties.

These 130-year-old buildings remain intact, but they are scheduled to be demolished for a road expansion: " While some have said the 1 Stop and the shuttered Sahuarita Bar on the north side of Sahuarita Road were long-time fixtures that might deserve historic recognition, the longest-serving council member, Charles Oldham, and the council member who lives closest, Marty Moreno, both said the convenience store should make way for badly needed road improvements.

These 130-year-old buildings remain intact, but they are scheduled to be demolished for a road expansion: " While some have said the 1 Stop and the shuttered Sahuarita Bar on the north side of Sahuarita Road were long-time fixtures that might deserve historic recognition, the longest-serving council member, Charles Oldham, and the council member who lives closest, Marty Moreno, both said the convenience store should make way for badly needed road improvements.

Adrian is a city on historic route 66 in Oldham County, Texas, United States.

Gazebo on Oldham County courthouse lawn

Richard Dixon Oldham FRS ( 31 July 1858 – 15 July 1936 ) was a British geologist who made the first clear identification of the separate arrivals of P-waves, S-waves and surface waves on seismograms and the first clear evidence that the Earth has a central core.

Born on 31 July 1858 to Thomas Oldham, a Fellow of the Royal Society and geologist, Oldham was educated at Rugby School and the Royal School of Mines.

In 1943 he played Billy Oldham on Joe and Ethel Turp, based on Damon Runyon stories.