Eccles Pike this name relates to the town on the other side of Manchester famous for its currant cakes. The Eccles Pike Fell Race is reputedly one of the oldest fell races in the country, dating back to the beginning of the century. It is renowned for being short, tough and demanding. At the top of the hill is a commemorative plaque known as a topograph, showing a 360° relief of the surrounding landscape. Eccles Pike Eccles Pike is an isolated hill three miles to the west of Chapel en le Frith in the Derbyshire Peak District. It consists of gritstone, pink
Tom Eccles Tom Eccles Tom Eccles (5 October 1893 – 3 February 1962) was a British trade unionist. Eccles was born in Blackburn in 1893. In 1912, he joined the National Union of General Workers in 1912, a union in which his father, Fleming Eccles, was prominent. Eccles fought in World War I, but was seriously injured and spent a lengthy period as a prisoner of war. On repatriation to the UK, he again became active in the union, which later became part of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers (NUGMW), serving as a district organiser, then as the Lancashire