Category: Features
50 years ago: Pep pill peril – Swinging Sixties sees 16-year-old girl on ‘Black Bomber’ drug charge
The big news in Salford in April 1965 was a moral panic: horrified adults watched as a teenager went up in court for trying to score 60 amphetamine pills known as...
25 years ago: ‘Walking through hell’ at Strangeways Prison Riot
25 years ago this week tensions at Strangeways prison boiled over and exploded into the longest prison riot in British penal history. The images and scenes from this...
Revealed: Priceless Salford treasures uncovered in cellars below museum
In a rare and unprecendented move, SalfordOnline.com has been invited to look inside underground storage vaults at Salford Museum and Art Gallery holding around 100,000...
Salford treasures: Pilkington’s Peace Vase
Continuing with our new series looking at fascinating historical objects in the collections of Salford Museum and Art Gallery, we take a look at a Pilkington’s...
Watch: New Bailey Prison dig draws to a close
SalfordOnline.com visited the site of the former New Bailey Prison off Irwell Street to look at the excavations taking place. Site Supervisor Rachael Reader from the...
Unseen Salford treasures
In this first of our proposed articles on objects chosen by the staff at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford we take a look at a Bartmann or Bellarmine jug. These...
Watch: 1966 football history rewritten with unseen Eccles Rediffusion Cup Final film
1966 was a great year for English football. England won the World Cup at Wembley for the first – and only – time, Manchester United legend Eric Cantona was...
100 years ago in Salford: Belgian refugees flood into city
It may seem strange, but in November 1914 Salford was awash with refugees from Belgium, a story that still to this day goes almost unreported. Germany had invaded their...
50 years ago in Eccles: Death of Manchester United player Thomas Albert Parker
Continuing with our series of stories that were making the papers 50 years ago this week, we take a look at an Eccles man Thomas Albert Parker who achieved fame by...
Eccles blasts into space…almost
This story from 1967 concerns the Borough Of Eccles plans to celebrate the 75th anniversary of when it was granted a Charter in 1892 that elevated the former town to a...
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