exist in 1947? the buildings including Buckley Hall. Buckley Farm and Ball Barn Farm were later acquired by the Prison Service and operated as a senior detention centre for young men aged 18 to 21. Additional workshops and farm buildings were added in this period. The Hall and associated buildings remained intact until the site of the Hall and orphanage was redeveloped as a senior prison in the late 1980s /early 1990s. Member of staff 1968 -1979 References Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale Houses in Greater Manchester