The Roundhouse

Today, emanating from the Wheatsheaf pub, which occupies part of this striking building, I could hear an extremely slow and slightly out of tune version of this saccharine song.

The building's history, according to the Littleborough Civic Trust is as follows:

"This was built by the son of a local publican who built up his business partly on his ability to play cricket with the local gentry and their extended families. With the ever-growing number of mills in Littleborough came many salesmen offering goods and services, so there was the need for accommodation of a reasonable standard. Apparently, with much ribald opposition from those who ‘knew it would fail’ and who disliked the building intensely, it was not only finished but flourished throughout the second half of the Industrial Revolution."