Rochdale Pioneers Museum
The Pioneers sold their original store on Toad Lane in 1867 but later re-purchased it, and opened it as a museum in 1931. The museum resurrected the legal name Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society in 1989, the name having been abandoned by the original co-operative in 1976 on merger with the Oldham Co-operative.
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