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 failed to meet the condition, so in 1637 the Narragansetts sold the island to Roger Williams and John Winthrop with each man retaining a one-half interest.

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.

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.

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.

In 1966 Klein bought Andrew Loog Oldham's share of the Rolling Stones ' management, though Oldham continued in his role as the band's producer until late 1967.

However, the BNP share of the vote has sharply declined since then, with BNP and former BNP candidates coming in third or fourth in Royton North and other Oldham West and Royton Wards.

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.

Oldham changed the spelling of the band name from " the Rollin ' Stones " to " the Rolling Stones " and changed the spelling of Richards last name to Richard because it " looked more pop ".

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.

Oldham presented the Rolling Stones ' use of independent studios to position his artists in the music press as more independent than the Beatles.

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.

In some cases this was not credited at the time-many recordings by acts such as The Rolling Stones, The Small Faces, Donovan, The Kinks and The Who are credited to their various producers of the time, Andrew Loog Oldham.

* April 29 – 19-year-old Andrew Loog Oldham signs a contract with The Rolling Stones, becoming their manager.

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

On-air hosts on the channel include original Rolling Stones manager / producer Andrew Loog Oldham, singer / guitarist Joan Jett, former record executive Kid Leo, punk rock singer Handsome Dick Manitoba, and rock entrepreneur Kim Fowley.

Immediate Records was a British record label, started in 1965 by The Rolling Stones ' manager Andrew Loog Oldham and Tony Calder and concentrating on the London-based blues and R & B scene.

Oldham generated widely-reprinted headlines like " Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?

Oldham produced all Rolling Stones recordings from 1963 until late 1967 despite having no previous experience as a producer.

He also developed other studio talent with his Andrew Oldham Orchestra, in which Rolling Stones as well as London session players ( including Steve Marriott on harmonica ) recorded pop covers and instrumentals.

Oldham co-wrote a ( mostly fictional ) biography of ABBA in the 1990s and three autobiographies: Stoned ( 1998 ), 2Stoned ( 2001 ), and Rolling Stoned ( 2011 ) in which he and other music figures recount his days as a manager, producer, and impresario.

The song Andrew's Blues, sung by Gene Pitney with the Rolling Stones and appearing on the Black Box collection CD1, is a humorous if scathing evocation of Oldham.

The song uses a sample of Andrew Oldham Orchestra's recording of The Rolling Stones ' 1965 song " The Last Time ".

( Moe's last name is believed to be a re-working of the name of the Rolling Stones ' record producer, Andrew Loog Oldham ).

ABKCO successfully sued The Verve over their song " Bitter Sweet Symphony ", which samples an Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra recording of " The Last Time " by The Rolling Stones.

Between the Buttons proved to be the last album produced by Andrew Loog Oldham, with whom The Rolling Stones would have a creative falling-out in mid-1967 during the arduous and meandering recording sessions for Their Satanic Majesties Request.

The UK edition ( in the form producer Andrew Loog Oldham and The Rolling Stones intended it ) was issued on 20 January 1967 ( Mono, LK 4852 ; Stereo, SKL 4852 ) on Decca Records, concurrently with a separate single, " Let's Spend the Night Together " b / w " Ruby Tuesday ".

( Additionally, though the song was authored by The Rolling Stones, the Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra performed the sampled recording, and also filed suit upon the success of the song.

The songs were officially sanctioned, largely at the behest of Rolling Stones ' manager Andrew Oldham and released on Warner Bros. Records.

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

They were almost straight away offered a deal with the newly established Immediate label, formed by ex-Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham.

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 signed recording rights to the Stones to Decca targeting A & R head Dick Rowe, who had earlier declined to sign The Beatles.

; Ferranti Technologies: was bought out by management and continues in Oldham specialising in avionics, defence electronics, and electronic power systems.

He started in football management in the same year at Oldham Athletic during the club's halcyon days, before moving on to Wigan Borough ( 1921 – 23 ), Middlesbrough ( 1923 – 26 ), and then to Manchester United in April 1927, after a break.

He later had short spells with Oldham Athletic and American team Cincinnati Riverhawks before moving into management with non-league sides Ilkeston Town and Gresley Rovers.

At the time of closure the line's sole regular freight service was to the waste management plant next to Dean Lane railway station at the southern end of the Oldham Loop.

In 2010 Butler joined Paul Dickov's new management team at Oldham Athletic where Butler was given the role of Chief Scout.