County Borough of Oldham (Lancashire) : official handbook : 1962/63
The front cover of the 1962/3 edition of the Official Handbook issued by the County Borough of Oldham, Lancashire. As is often the case this book, detailing the services of the Corporation for both citizens and businesses, choses to use the Borough Coat of Arms (or heraldic achievement/armorial device) to illustrate the front cover.
The coat of arms was granted to the Borough in 1894 and the motto reads as 'dare to be wise'. I well recall this, owls and all, on the side of the Corporation's buses that past the family home on Oldham Road in Rochdale on the joint bus routes operated between the two towns before the creation of SELNEC in 1969. Oldham itself was recreated as a Metropolitan Borough council in 1974.
County Borough of Oldham (Lancashire) : official handbook : 1962/63
The front cover of the 1962/3 edition of the Official Handbook issued by the County Borough of Oldham, Lancashire. As is often the case this book, detailing the services of the Corporation for both citizens and businesses, choses to use the Borough Coat of Arms (or heraldic achievement/armorial device) to illustrate the front cover.
The coat of arms was granted to the Borough in 1894 and the motto reads as 'dare to be wise'. I well recall this, owls and all, on the side of the Corporation's buses that past the family home on Oldham Road in Rochdale on the joint bus routes operated between the two towns before the creation of SELNEC in 1969. Oldham itself was recreated as a Metropolitan Borough council in 1974.