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50 years ago in Salford: Harrowing war sketches on show at Monks Hall Museum

Carrying on with our stories from the pages of the Eccles and Patricroft Journal, we came across this rather sad story of an exhibition that was held at the now empty...

50 years ago in Salford: Local shipbuilder’s Titanic memories

Did you know that Eccles has its own link to the tragic story of the Titanic? The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank on her maiden voyage from...

50 years ago in Salford: Monks Hall Museum makes Patricroft steam train history with 1.5 million mile nameplate

The Grade II-listed Monks Hall Museum on Wellington Road in Eccles is still standing, though, only barely. This story from July 1965 tells of a donation to the famed...