Oldham Time Trek Trail

Iron railings

When the turnpike road we know as Yorkshire Street was created about 1795, there was a large rock outcrop here that needed quarrying away, leaving the drop. 

There have been a few sets of iron railings over the years, but there were cast in 1870 as a small plaque at the High Street end confirms.

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Cast iron railings on a high street in Oldham