page_title: Failsworth
section_title: Landmarks
hierarchical_section_title: Failsworth / Landmarks
caption_attribution_description: English: I took this photo myself, to appear on the website.
context_page_description: Failsworth, a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, lies 3.7 miles north-east of Manchester city centre and 2.9 miles south-west of Oldham. The orbital M60 motorway skirts it to the east. The population at the 2011 census was 20,680. Historically part of Lancashire, Failsworth until the 19th century was a farming township linked ecclesiastically with Manchester. Locals upped their farming income with domestic hand-loom weaving. The ideal humid climate, availability of labour and coal led to mass manufacturing in textiles, as a Lancashire Mill Town.
  A central landmark is the Failsworth Pole. Daisy Nook is a public country park along the southern boundary with Droylsden.
context_section_description: A Failsworth Pole in Oldham Road was first raied in 1793 as a "political pole", although a local historian suggests there were others before and that maypoles probably stood there for centuries. It now stands on a site from which an earlier one blew down in 1950.
  After a major restoration of the Pole, clock tower and gardens in 2006, a bronze statue of Benjamin Brierley was placed in the gardens.
  At the road junction of the A62 with Ashton Road West stands a cenotaph built in 1923 for over 200 Failsworth men who lost their lives in the First World War. Attendances at the cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday remain high at about 2,000. The annual parade is led by 202 Field Squadron, RE (TA), which is based in Failsworth. In June 2007 the war memorial was rededicated after a £136,000 makeover and opened by Colonel Sir John B. Timmins.
caption: Failsworth Pole
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