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Thursday 28 March 2013
Troubled Times
Anti-Popery riots known as Murphy riots took place in Rochdale around this time in 1868.
The Public Hall and St. Johns R.C. church were attacked with much damage being done. 30 Hussars were billeted in the town in an effort to keep order.
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