Gloria gets own space in new science centre

Gloria Oates.

OLDHAM’S £10million Regional Science Centre is to honour the woman who was instrumental in its creation.

The exhibition space at the Oldham Sixth Form College centre will be dedicated in memory of former chairman of governors Gloria Oates, who died in August, 2010, aged 71.

This will take place on Wednesday, October 19, during the formal opening of the King Street facility.

Mrs Oates rose from a nurse to become chief executive of Oldham NHS Trust which ran the Royal Oldham Hospital from 1994 until 2002.

She had several other major health roles which where were honoured with an OBE and was also influential in education.

The mother-of-five was chairman of governors at Oldham Sixth Form College for many years and pro-chancellor at the University of Central Lancashire from 1992 to 2002

She was also a Deputy Lieutenant and a High Sheriff of Lancashire.