Oldham failed to win any of their 7 remaining league games in the Premier League and were relegated on the final day of the season after a 1 – 1 draw at Norwich City.

Although he then took what seemed to many to be a strange decision, moving back to Oldham in a brave but failed attempt to save them from relegation in 1923, he remains the only Oldham Athletic manager ever to have won the Football League Championship with any club.

Cooper began his football career with Manchester United in England, but he failed to break into the first-team and was sent out on loan to Académica Coimbra and Oldham Athletic before being sold to FC Dallas in 2006.

Although Oldham had a thriving economy during the 19th century, the local merchants were broadly reluctant to spend on civic institutions, and so the town lacks the grandeur seen in comparable nearby towns like Bolton or Huddersfield ; public expenditure was seen as an overhead that undermined the competitiveness of the town.

It did so, to all traffic between Chadderton Junction and Oldham Werneth on 7 January 1963.

In doing so Oldham finished high enough to gain entry into National League 1 when the Northern Ford Premiership was split into two.

Prices in the London area were too high, so the company moved to Hollinwood in Oldham in 1896.

By 19: 00, with Ceylon damaged so severely that she could no longer effectively sail or fight, third officer Tristam Fleming hauled the ship out of the battle line and ordered his crew to cease firing: Meriton and his second officer Thomas Oldham had both been seriously wounded by grape shot.

It might be supposed that Oldham Street is so named because it links to Oldham Road but this is not the case as Oldham Street predates Oldham Road which was named Newton Lane in the 18th century.

Oldham Street is probably so named because one of its first buildings was the house of Adam Oldham, a wealthy feltmaker and associate of John Wesley, who owned the land along which the street ran, and probably paid to have it surfaced for the first time.

In the summer of 1637, the Western Niantic killed another Boston man, the trader John Oldham, near Block Island.

The 1636, John Oldham, a respected trader and friend of the Narragansetts, was murdered in his boat off Block Island.

The Native American name for the island was " Chibachuweset " ( or " Chibachuwese "), and the Narragansetts originally offered it for sale to John Oldham if he would settle there and set up a trading post.

In 1903, Whitfield sold a 100-foot strip of land that extended across the southern part of Oldham County to the Choctaw, Oklahoma, and Texas ( later Rock Island ) Railroad as a right-of-way.

Oldham sold his share of the Rolling Stones ' management to Allen Klein in 1966, but continued in his role as the band's de facto manager and producer until late 1967.

At the same time, Oldham sold Milligan's fellow countryman Denis Irwin to Manchester United for £ 625, 000, and over the next 12 years the Cork born defender won a host of domestic and European honours.

One reason for the present restriction on boat movements over the summit is that the water rights and associated works were sold to various local authorities in 1923 under the terms of the Oldham and Rochdale Corporations Water Act, as the subsequent increase in leisure traffic was not anticipated.

Oldham decided to float as a public limited company and sold their ground to council in May 1987.

To many loyal fans ' dismay, the club sold the dilapidated Watersheddings in 1997 and moved to Oldham Athletic's Boundary Park stadium on the nearby Chadderton / Royton boundary.

In 1845 the hall and estate were sold by Doming Rasbotham – the nephew of John Lever ( of the Sir Ashton Lever family ) to the Lees brothers of Clarksfield, Oldham, Lancashire, for £ 57, 550.

David Hobbs was sold to Oldham to balance the club ’ s books, but it was an uphill battle.

After the war he was sold to Oldham Athletic for £ 200.

The canal company sold the reservoir, with seven others, to the Oldham and Rochdale Corporations for water supply in 1923, by which time the canal was in terminal decline.

Born in Oldham, Lancashire, Maynard was brought up on the island of Anglesey in north Wales where he first joined Glamorgan.

Lying within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire since the early 12th century, Oldham was recorded in 1212 as being one of five parts of the thegnage estate of Kaskenmoor, which was held on behalf of King John by Roger de Montbegon and William de Nevill.

Lying within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire since the early 12th century, Glodwick, one of the oldest parts of Oldham, was recorded in 1212 as being one of five parts of the thegnage estate of Kaskenmoor, which was held on behalf of King John by Roger de Montbegon and William de Nevill.

Hugh Oldham was one of the younger of six sons born to Roger Oldham and his wife Margery who were, the limited evidence suggests, yeomen or minor gentry at Ancoats, which at the time was a village in North West England, but is now an inner city area of Manchester.

* Producers: Punch Andrews, Barry Beckett, Pete Carr, Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, Spooner Oldham, Bob Seger

Past concerts have featured such notable artists as Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Chris Ethridge, Spooner Oldham, John Molo, Jack Royerton, Gib Guilbeau, Counting Crows, Bob Warford, Rosie Flores, David Lowery, Barry & Holly Tashian, George Tomsco, Jann Browne, Lucinda Williams, Polly Parsons, The " Road Mangler "- Phil Kaufman, Ben Fong-Torres, Victoria Williams & Mark Olson, Sid Griffin, as well as a variety of many other bands that had played over the 2 or 3 day event.

On both sides of Nolensville Road from north of Oldham Drive to the south as far as York / Williams Road are many structures from the 19th century still in use as homes and / or stores.

Over the years, the club have produced players of the highest calibre more than once, including Graham Williams ( West Bromwich Albion ), Barry Horne ( Everton ), Andy Jones ( Charlton Athletic ), Andy Holden ( Oldham Athletic ) and most recently Lee Trundle ( Bristol City ) after seeing his career revitalised in his short spell with Rhyl in 2000 – 01.

* 1653 – John Oldham, English poet ( d. 1683 )

** John Oldham, early Burmese settler in Massachusetts ( died 1636 )

* August 9 – John Oldham, English poet ( d. 1683 )

** John Oldham, English poet ( smallpox ) ( b. 1653 )

The coupler is named for John Oldham who invented it in Ireland, in 1821, to solve a paddle placement problem in a paddle steamer design.

1962: FDA pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey receives the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service from President John F. Kennedy for blocking sale of thalidomide in the United States.

This name was suggested to him by a friend, Andrew Loog Oldham, who had seen a poster for the film John Paul Jones in France.

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.

* In the John Sayles film Matewan, Will Oldham plays a young minister boy who preaches the story of Potiphar to his small town.

In early 1964 she attended a Rolling Stones launch party with John Dunbar and met Andrew Loog Oldham, who discovered her.

John and James Platt were the largest subscribers for promoting Oldham from a township to a Borough, pledging £ 100 ( more than double the next largest sum ) in advance towards any expenses which may have been incurred by the Royal Charter.

In 1854 John Platt was made the ( fourth ) Mayor of Oldham, an office he was to hold twice more in 1855 – 56 and 1861 – 62.

John Platt was elected in 1865 to become Member of Parliament for Oldham, and was re-elected in 1868 ; he remained in office until his death in 1872.

Although some contemporary sources suggest there was coal mining in Oldham at a commercial scale by 1738, older sources attribute the commercial expansion of coal mining with the arrival in the town of two Welsh labourers, John Evans and William Jones, around 1770.

In the 1870s, John Marius Wilson described Oldham as consisting of:

* Texas: John Hemphill, Thomas Neville Waul, John H. Reagan, William Simpson Oldham, Sr., Louis T. Wigfall, John Gregg, William Beck Ochiltree.

Founded in 1634 by a group of ten Puritans hailing from Watertown, Massachusetts led by John Oldham and Nathaniel Foote, Wethersfield is recognized as the second-oldest town in Connecticut after Windsor.

* John Oldham

Louise Brown was born at Oldham General Hospital, Oldham, by planned Caesarean section delivered by registrar John Webster.