Category: Features
100 years ago: The course of true love in Salford moves in mysterious ways
Marriage is they say a beautiful thing, but reading this story from the pages of the Salford City Reporter from June 1916, I’m beginning to have my doubts if this...
50 years ago: Eccles band Big Chuckles aim to crack the charts
SalfordOnline.com has looked at the careers of many local bands over the years and here we tell the story from June 1966 of a beat group from Eccles with lofty ambitions...
Salford Somme stories: Help write, draw and record heroes for 1 July
Salford residents are being urged to draw, write, photograph and honour the men who died in the Battle of the Somme. The public can help create memory squares for the...
100 years ago in Salford: Saucy stash of ‘obscene’ postcards must be destroyed
We live in age when semi-clad women are a sadly a regular fixture on advertising hoardings or plastered across our TV screens, but 100 years ago Salford people lived in...
100 years ago: Canadian chancer jailed for ‘posing as Royal Navy Captain to pull women’
The pages of the Salford City Reporter of June 1916 told this amusing tale: a Canadian sailor charged with illegally wearing a Royal Navy uniform with the hope that...
50 years ago in Eccles: ‘Son of Jaws’ lands boy in hospital
I should imagine we have all heard fisherman’s stories about the size of the one that got away, however one young Eccles lad lived to tell the tale of the one that...
100 years ago in Salford: Mum’s worst nightmare as baby snatched at Cross Lane market
Every parent’s worst fear hit the front pages of the Salford papers 100 years ago this week with the case of a 21-day-old infant carried off at a busy local...
50 years ago: Firefighters hospitalised in Eccles factory explosion
One Eccles fire crew fighting a blaze at a factory in Patricroft were lucky to escape with their lives after a huge explosion 50 years ago. PC Burgess was on patrol on...
Revealed: Miracle survival of three Eccles men day after Battle of Jutland
Tuesday 31 May marked the centenary of the bloodiest naval battle of the First World War – The Battle of Jutland. Salford sailors saw heavy casualties as the...
100 years ago: Salford remembers WW1 naval catastrophe at The Battle of Jutland
Today marks the centenary of the largest and most decisive naval battle of the First World War: The Battle of Jutland. Commanded by Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, the...
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