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Stalybridge is a town of about 26,000 inhabitants, situated in Tameside, Greater Manchester.
It is about nine miles from the centre of Manchester and about eight miles from Crowden, Derbyshire, which lies on route of the Pennine Way. We have very easy access to the countryside of the Peak District, Cheshire and Yorkshire, as well as the facilities of large towns such as Manchester.
Armentières Square in the centre of Stalybridge was named as such in 1981.
In 2005, Stalybridge District Assembly installed on the square a cast-iron beam bearing the arms of Stalybridge, the Armentières logo with the town's arms, and the 50th anniversary logo of the twinning link. The beam came from Longlands Mill, a former textile mill - an appropriate memento, recalling our history as two former textile towns.
The former Stalybridge Market Hall, dating from the Victorian era, now serves as the Civic Hall and houses the administrative offices of Stalybridge District Assembly, with space available for hire for community activities.
In front of the Civic Hall, a statue of Jack Judge was installed, also in 2005. Jack Judge was the music-hall entertainer and composer of the marching song It's a Long Way to Tipperary, which he wrote in Stalybridge in 1912. The song can be considered the 'twin' of Mademoiselle from Armentières, whose English words were written in Armentières during World War I.
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