Samuel Dunster, built what is now the old Vicarage, in 1726 - currently it houses the Rochdale Business Bureau, although at great cost it temporarily held the Museum, which was moved at even greater cost to the Touchstones Centre, which was th Libarray which was moved at great cost and inconvenience to the Wheatsheaf Centre where it is impossible to find.
William Hay was appointed Vicar in 1819 after he, as the Salford Hundred's principal Magistrate had sent in the Cavalry to quell what he saw as a riot in Manchester. It was afterwards called the Peterloo Massacre. This so called riot was a meeting about the lack of jobs for men. Machines had meant a reduction in the work-force and yet large numbers of men had returned from the war with Napoleon.
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