Mayors of Rochdale [leisure trust, arts heritage, sports centres, fitness health, rochdale, link4life, entertainment, Rochdale Boroughwide Cultural Trust, museum, middleton arena, gallery, touchstones, local studies, central, bowlee, springhill, marland, heywood, littleborough,]

Sir James Duckworth, Mayor of Rochdale (1910-11)

George Leach Ashworth. Mayor of Rochdale, 1870-71

Jacob Bright, 1st Mayor of Rochdale (1856)

Miles Ashworth, Mayor of Rochdale, 1897-8-9.

William Baron, Mayor of Rochdale (1880-82)

William Cunliffe, Mayor of Rochdale (1911-13)

Sir Cyril Smith - Mayor of Rochdale (1966)

Jacob Bright	1856-57
Robert T Heape	1857-58
Andrew Stewart	1858-59
T Ashworth	1859-60
J H Moore	1860-61
J T Pagan	1861-62
G L Ashworth	1862-63
Samuel Stott	1863-64
John Tatham	1864-65
Samuel Stott	1865-66
John Robinson	1866-67
Charles Whitaker	1867-68
George Mansell	1868-69
T B Willans	1869-70
G L Ashworth	1870-71
W T Shawcross	1871-73
Charles Whitaker	1873-74
Samuel Tweedale	1874-75
J S Littlewood	1875-76
Robert T Heape	1876-77
James Tweedale	1877-78
W J Petrie	1878-79
Thomas Schofield	1879-80
William Baron	1880-82
John Harley / William Baron	1882-83
Thomas Schofield	1883-84
J S Hudson	1884-85
J R Heape	1885-87
J E Petrie	1887-89
W T Heape	1889-91
E Taylor	1891
James Duckworth	1891-93
James Cheetham	1893-94
W Hardman	1894-95
John Turner	1895-97
Miles Ashworth	1897-99
William Cunliffe	1899-1900
Ormerod Topper	1900-01
Sir Samuel Turner	1901-03
Henry Fishwick	1903-05
Sir James E Jones	1905-07
Charles Heap	1907-08
Wilson Dunning	1908-10
Sir James Duckworth	1910-11
William Cunliffe	1911-13
C Redfern	1913-15
Robert Turner	1915-17
James Blomley	1917-18
William Davidson	1918-20
Harry Clark	1920-21
Samuel Diggle	1921-22
Thomas Butterworth	1922-23
John Rodley	1923-24
Edward Thomas	1923-24
Harry Wycherley	1925-26
Charles Henry Bryning	1926-27
Alfred Clarke	1927-28
Charles Edward Dearden	1928-29
John Thomas Dawson	1929-30
Charles Robert Thomas	1930-31
William Crossley	1931-32
James Wilkinson Dutton	1932-33
Thomas Evelyn Kershaw	1933-34
Ashworth Ashworth	1934-35
Godfrey Joberns Parker	1935-36
Charlie Crowder	1936-37
James / Mary Duckworth	1937-38
Lyon Watson Taylor	1938-39
Herbert Clarke	1939-40
Ellis Herbert Sydney Scarr	1940-41
James Sydney Hardman	1941-42
Ernest Thornton	1942-43
Thomas Fairhurst	1943-44
Albert Barlow	1944-45
Walter Rhodes	1945-46
Norman Richards Woolfenden	1946-47
Frederick William Greenwood	1947-49
Harold Chorlton	1949-50
Abraham Taylor	1950-51
William Crossley	1951-52
Hugh Paterson Shanks	1952-53
Alfred George Bossier	1953-54
Arthur Tweedale	1954-55
Dennis Clegg	1955-56
Percival Barker	1956-57
Thomas Rose	1957-58
William Thomas Quinn	1958-59
John Mills	1959-60
Ralph Williams	1960-61
Norman Ledson	1961-62
Alice Chorlton	1962-63
Bernard Bowden	1963-64
Florence Alcroft	1964-65
George Stanley Crabtree	1965-66
Cyril Smith	1966-67
Henry Howarth	1967-68
Edward Victor Holt	1968-69
Harry Riddle Halstead	1969-70
John Francis Fox	1970-71
Joseph Francis Grant	1971-72
Hugh McLeod	1972-73
Ronald Gorton/Thomas Chadwick	1973-74
Alfred Albert Kaufman	1974-75
John Carroll	1975-76
John Leslie Albiston	1976-77
John Connell	1977-78
William Watkin Jenkins	1978-79
Harold Stanley	1979-80
Ronald Lewis	1980-81
Derrick Walker	1981-82
Robert Stott	1982-83
Albert Edwin Sanderson	1983-84
Joseph Norman Angus	1984-85
Leslie Worsley	1985-86
Norman Fowden Smith	1986-87
James Allan Whitehead	1987-88
Ronald Taylor	1988-89
James Edward Littler	1989-90
John Denis Gorman	1990-91
Brian Ashworth	1991-92
Anthony Heaford	1992-93
Arnold Bagnall	1993-94
John Edmund Beasley	1994-95
Rodney Hargreaves Stott	1995-96
Susan Emmott	1996-97
Jane Gartside	1997-98
Harry Hardiker	1998-99
David Murphy	1999-2000
Brian Leather	2000-01
Irene Elizabeth Davidson	2001-02
Lily Carter Murphy	2002-03
Sultan Ali	2003-04
Angela Coric	2004-05
Ashley Dearnley	2005-06
Jean Hornby	2006-07
Peter Evans	2007-08
Robin Parker	2008-09

**The photograph of Sir Cyril Smith is courtesy of the Observer Group of Newspapers.