Rhodes has a church called All Saints[3] on Manchester Old Road,[4] a primary school called Little Heaton Church of England Primary School on Boardman Lane[5] and a hotel called the Comfort Inn Manchester North on Manchester Old Road.[6] Rhodes formerly had a Primitive Methodist church on Chapel Street.[7]
History
Rhodes was a chapelry in Middleton parish.[8] From the late 1700s it became the site of a bleaching and calico printing works established by Daniel Burton (1744-1812) in conjunction with his cotton mill nearby in the centre of Middleton.[9] The works passed into the hands of Salis Schwabe (1800-1853) in December 1832, who built up what according to the ODNB was "the largest calico-printing complex in Britain, covering an area of 31 acres, famously boasting the tallest factory chimney in the industrial north (some said in Europe), and employing a labour force of more than 750."[10][11][12] The chimney, nicknamed the "Colossus of Rhodes",[13] was ultimately demolished brick by brick between 1979 and 1982, and the land around it redeveloped for housing.[14]
