Category: Features
100 years ago in Salford: Broughton girl gang attack white feather ‘cowards’
As the First World War entered its second year patriotism was still running high among those left at home, despite the terrible casualties and the ever-growing number of...
Charlie Cannon and Jimmy Whiz-Bang: Eccles soldier’s Manchester United banter in the trenches
SalfordOnline.com came across this amusing story from the Eccles and Patricroft Journal from October 1915 which tells the story of an Eccles soldier who gave the Germans...
100 years ago in Salford: 70-year-old woman jailed after 18 year crime spree
In October 1915 an elderly pensioner was jailed in one of the most unusual cases to ever come before Salford magistrates. 70-year-old Annie West, a former dressmaker,...
Watch: Eccles man who lost everything in devastating brain injury crash up for award
A 44-year-old man who fought to rebuilt his life after an horrific car crash 10 years ago is in the running for a national award. Steven Lomas, who was born in...
100 years ago in Salford: Three burned in epic Cadishead oil refinery fire ‘seen for miles’
Described as “the most serious fire in 50 years”, the New Mana Cadishead oil refinery fire still lives long in local memory. Three men, including the refinery...
100 years ago in Eccles: Boy Scout antics see thousands back fun and games
100 years ago in October Boy Scouts paraded through Eccles in front of a crowd of thousands, showcasing the work of the newly-formed organisation. Meeting at Half Edge...
100 years ago in Salford: Widower heavily fined for battering babysitter
Violence on our streets is an issue that still destroys lives and communities, as this story from the Eccles and Patricroft Journal of 100 years ago so vividly...
SalfordOnline.com reaches Spain to find 1965 Eccles music mogul
The speed that SalfordOnline.com’s stories spread around the globe can be frightening at times, but just 12 hours after posting a history story on a famed Eccles...
50 years ago in Eccles: Can’t stop the Beat as Salford’s own Abbey Road studio opens
Over the past five years SalfordOnline.com has been recording the young musicians of the Beat generation who came up through Salford and Eccles bent on world domination....
100 years ago in Salford: Swinton soldier’s heartbreaking letters on football and life in the trenches
One young Swinton soldier’s letters made the papers 100 years ago, including an extraordinary account of a football match in a battle zone. Young soldiers who...
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