Photo Gallery [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,]

A list of current galleries is displayed below.

Aqua Jets

An exciting new water-based activity is available at Middleton Leisure Centre during special weekly sessions for children's parties, holiday play sessions and group hire. The Aqua Jet can pull you along under the water or on the surface, turn on a 10p and travel up to speeds of 2mph. Activity sessions may include time trials, obstacle courses and will be fully supervised by a member of staff. [View Gallery]

Art Gallery Permanent Collection

Here are some images of works from the Permanant Collection of the Art Gallery. The Art Gallery has a collection of around 1500 works of art, comprising paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, some sculpture and applied art, by local, national and a few international artists. It ranges from 16th and 17th century northern European painting and a substantial collection of Victorian genre, narrative and landscape painting, to 20th century wor... [View Gallery]

Back to Sport

A Middleton netball group set up only in February have taken first place in a regional competition. Part of the Link4Life Back to Sport campaign, the ladies netball team meet at Bowlee Park Sports Centre. [View Gallery]

Big Games and 2012 Open Weekend

The Big Games took place at Springhill Sports Centre on Saturday, 24 July 2010. A number of sports were organised as part of the national 2012 Open Weekend. [View Gallery]

Bowlee Park Sports Centre - Fitness Suite

The Fitness Suite at Windermere Road, Langley, Middleton has been fully refurbished with state of the art LifeFitness equipment and now offers a range of cardio-vascular and resistant equipment and free weights. Click on the thumbnails to view the gallery. [View Gallery]

Community Curates: Middleton: Hollin

Community Curators: Middleton is a two-year arts and heritage project funded by Link4Life, The Heritage Lottery Fund and Renaissance North West. The project will enable six Middleton community organisations to curate and display an exhibition of their choosing from the Borough’s arts and heritage collections in a purpose-built museum display case installed within the new Middleton Arena. The first group to curate a display using objects fr... [View Gallery]

Continental Collecting

The first exhibition of the new Touchstones Rochdale programme opened on Saturday 13 September. 'Continental Collecting' explores a selection of pre-20th Century continental European oil paintings from the Gallery's permanent collection and features some of the oldest paintings in the collection. On display is the 'The Cruxifixion' by Giovanni di Paolo. This dates from around 1423-26 and was recently featured in the Sunday Te... [View Gallery]

Feel Good Festival

The first Feel Good Festival took place on Friday 25 & Saturday 26 July 2008 on the Butts in Rochdale Town Centre. The event was organised by Rochdale Town Centre Management and Link4Life and sponsored by the Co-operative Food and the Co-operative Pharmacy. Celebrity Chef and ‘Ready Steady Cook’ Star, Lesley Waters demonstrated her skills, along with BBC Fusion Chef Aazam Ahmad and local chef Darren Marshall from the Beluga Resta... [View Gallery]

Flying the Flag for 2012

To coincide with the end of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the handing over of the Olympic flag and flame to London, towns and cities up and down Britain flew the flag to celebrate and look forward to 2012. Taking part in Rochdale was Simon Jackson MBE, former 3 times Judo Paralympic champion who hopes to compete as part of the GB Cycling team, recipient of a Link4Life Talented Athlete Award. We were also pleased to welcome Pat and ... [View Gallery]

HOLWAC Family Funday July 2009

The sun stayed shining for a family fun day on Sunday at Hollingworth Lake to celebrate a £300,000 extension of the Water Activity Centre. Hundreds of families enjoyed the ‘come and try it’ day with a variety of water sports on the lake as the Mayor and Mayoress of Rochdale, Councillor Keith Swift and Ms Sue Etchells declared the new centre officially open. [View Gallery]

Heywood Sports Village Tour 26 March 2010

Trustees of Link4Life were invited to take a tour of the new Heywood Sports Village to see how work is progressing. All major building work is now completed and floors and finishes are now underway. Trustees were able to see the main entrance with glazed atrium, the pool hall with tanks in place, the sports hall, and the light and airy fitness centre and dance studio with windows overlooking the new grass pitches. Even the lift is installed. ... [View Gallery]

Heywood Sports, Culture & Leisure Village

This project will include a new swimming pool, enhanced fitness facilities and new space for community participation in sport and the arts as well as improvement to outdoor grassed pitches. View visuals of the project here. Find out more about the Heywood Sports, Culture & Leisure Village or view our photo gallery on Flicker.... [View Gallery]

Heywood Youth Forum

Heywood Youth Forum take a tour of the Heywood Sports Village. [View Gallery]

History, Mystery & Myth at Touchstones Rochdale

History, Mystery and Myth is now open at Touchstones Rochdale. The Mayor and Mayoress of Rochdale and special guests formally open the exhibition which runs until September 2010. [View Gallery]

Hollingworth Lake Water Activity Centre extension

Work began in February on the new extension at Hollingworth Lake Water Activity Centre. This £270,000 project has been funded through the Rochdale Borough Council capital programme with support from the Pennines Township strategic fund. This supports the Township’s commitment to promote the Pennines countryside as a major asset in the regeneration of the area and to increase access to active leisure. [View Gallery]

Keri-Anne Payne Civic Reception September 2008

A selection of images from the Civic Reception held in the Town Hall. [View Gallery]

Lesley Halliwell: Time And Time Again

In this new exhibition at Touchstones Rochdale, Lesley Halliwell resurrects the 1970s children’s favourite, the Spirograph, creating ragged, dizzy, psychedelic and beautifully pointless pen drawings. Halliwell transforms the ready-made format of the Spirograph and everyday biro pens into large-scale colourful works which gently hover between a playfulness that we all recognise and a sophistication that comes from her focused and obsessive a... [View Gallery]

Link4Life takes Basketball to the Community

Cardinal Langley Basketball Club (CLBC) played a Sports4All (SFA) select XI in a friendly fixture on Sunday 9 August 2009 at Springhill Sports Centre. The aim was to promote community cohesion through the sport of Basketball to those living within the Black Minority Ethnic (BME) communities. Dean Sorah of both Link 4 Life and CLBC commented, "I was aware of the work SFA undertakes at grassroots level. It was the ideal organisation for me to appr... [View Gallery]

Littleborough Sports Centre Contours Gym

The brand new Contours Gym opens on Monday 28 January 2008. Littleborough has become the 4th Gym in the Contours Fitness Brand with the introduction of a 24-station Fitness Suite. Click on the thumbnails to view the gallery.Follow this link for further information. [View Gallery]

Middleton Arena Construction

The construction of the new fantastic Middleton Arena is now in full swing. To view the progress of the development from both outside and inside the construction site, click on the thumbnails to view the gallery. [View Gallery]

Middleton Arena Gallery

View a collection of photographs, some of which are supplied courtesy of David Barbour / BDP. [View Gallery]

Middleton Arena Open Day Launch

It was smiles, fun and sunshine in Middleton as over 3,000 people turned out on Saturday 25 April 2009 for the star studded launch of the new Middleton Arena. Crowds gathered to meet Olympic great Sir Steve Redgrave CBE who was in town alongside a host of sporting heroes to formally launch the £15 million flagship sports and entertainment venue. Click here to view the images.... [View Gallery]

Middleton Arena Opening Day

Images from the Opening of the Arena on Sunday 4 January 2009. The impressive 25 metre six lane pool was officially christened by local Olympic heroine, Keri-Anne Payne pictured here with Link4Life Trustee, and Vice-Chair of Middleton Township, Councillor Terry Linden, Craig McAteer Link4Life Managing Director and Chair of Middleton Township, Councillor Peter Williams. Click on the thumbnails to view the images.... [View Gallery]

National Disability Climbing Competition 2010

The first National Disability Climbing Competition took place on Sunday 25th April at Climb UK, Rochdale. It was the first time the BMC have run a competition specifically for disabled people. The event was intended to test the responses from the disability community and to lay the foundations for competition opportunities in the future. Around 35 competitors took part in a range of different categories. Each climber undertook 3 boulder problems... [View Gallery]

Panto cast celebrate Middleton lights switch on

The cast from Sleeping Beauty took time out from rehearsal to help celebrate the arrival of Christmas with the switching on of the lights in Middleton. A busy town centre enjoyed an afternoon of entertainment on the Revolution Radio stage with free mulled wine and mince pies from Middleton Rotary. 'Prince' Alastair Natkiel joined the show's producer Mark Andrews to lead a fun singalong on the stage. Hi-de-hi star Nikki Kelly - who plays the ... [View Gallery]

Primary Sporthall Athletics Competition

On Wednesday 12 November Link4Life's Sports Development Team hosted a Primary Sportshall Athletics Competition at Springhill High School. With 12 Primary Schools from the borough attending over 120 pupils took part in the indoor athletics events. The evening was a great success with medals and certificates being awarded to all the winners. A special thanks to all the parents and teachers who supported the evening and to the 30 young voluteers fr... [View Gallery]

Rochdale Borough Community Sports Awards

The Rochdale Community Sports Awards 2007 presentation evening was held at Heywood Civic Centre, Church Street, Heywood on Thursday 28 February 2008 at 7pm. Approximately 300 people attended this year's Ceremony, in what was the largest ever Awards evening, with around 80 individuals or clubs having been nominated for the 8 awards. The Awards were presented by The Mayor of Rochdale Councillor Peter Evans. See also the Rochdale ... [View Gallery]

Rochdale Borough Sports Awards 2009/10

Middleton Arena, once again was the host for the Rochdale Borough Sports Awards. This year the award ceremony was bigger and better than ever with 86 nominees, 134 nominations in 8 categories. An audience of nearly 300 gathered to hear who would walk away with the desired prizes for 2009/10. [Read more] Here are selection of photos. [View Gallery]

Rochdale Grand Prix 2009

Olympic medal winner Chris Newton took the field by storm at the Rochdale Grand Prix (on Wednesday 1 July) to make it four wins in a row in what turned out to be an unbeatable performance from the Oldham based elite rider. The Rochdale town centre course brought out the crowds on a warm evening that avoided the threat of rain to see this elite class British Cycling national event. View a selection of photos from the night.... [View Gallery]

Sports Awards 2008

Middleton Arena was the host this year for the Rochdale Borough Community Sports Awards in what is being hailed as the best ever in its nine year history. Over 60 nominees in 10 categories gathered to hear who would walk away this year with the coveted prizes watched by an audience of supporters of nearly 300 seated in the brand new, purpose-built auditorium. A drinks and buffet reception on arrival was followed by the Oscar style ceremony with M... [View Gallery]

Sports Relief Mile 2008

Rochdale Blown Away by Support for Sport ReliefAround 250 local people walked or ran the Sport Relief mile on Sunday 16 March 2008 to support this national fundraising event. Despite earlier weather warnings, the day was clear and dry although high 'March winds' made it a chilly experience at times.Link4Life’s event organiser, Andrew Entwistle said, about the day, 'On behalf of Sport Relief, we would like to thank everyone ... [View Gallery]

Sports Unlimited

Over 32 new sports sessions for young people aged 8-19 years old will be on offer in the borough of Rochdale over the next ten weeks (April-July 2009). Fourteen different sports and activities from football, lacrosse, basketball, angling, cheerleading, handball, circus skills, dance and boccia will be up for grabs. [More] Here are a selection of photos from the Spring programme.... [View Gallery]

Street Online

Street is an exciting new exhibition under the umbrella of contemporary urban street art currently on display at Touchstones Rochdale. Send us images of Street Art that you like and we will add it to Street Online. Email your photograph and details of where it was taken to the Art Gallery with Street Exhibition in the subject line. Terms and conditions on submitting images to Street Online.... [View Gallery]