We also heard from @PeterlooMemorial members Martin Gittins, who sang "The Fields of Peterloo", Paul Fitzgerald, who talked about young people at Peterloo and the need to strengthen democracy, and Peter Castree, who read from Shelley's poem The Masque of Anarchy. #RiseLikeLions #Peterloo #ManchesterHistory #OldhamHistory #Chadderton #Democracy

Mayor of Oldham Zahid Chauhan shows the plaque at Crossley Centre to pupils from Christ Church School. The children performed a poem they had written about the people who marched to Manchester in August 1819 to attend a pro-democracy rally, where they were attacked by troops in what became known as the Peterloo Massacre.
The plaque explains how Chadderton men John Ashton and Thomas Buckley died from wounds suffered at Peterloo.
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