Tag: appeal, eccles, hit and run, Lee Houghton, Patricroft
10 years on: Help solve mystery of our Lee’s death, plead Salford family
The family of a teenager killed in a suspected hit-and-run in Eccles are appealing for help solving the mystery of his death 10 years on. Lee Houghton tragically died on...
City West to deliver Edison Road regeneration
City West Housing Trust has secured planning permission to transform a derelict site in Salford into a modern apartment complex. Land on the site of the former Patricoft...
100 years ago in Salford: Men fined for horse-drawn cruelty
Animal cruelty is sadly not a thing of the past. This court case from August 1915 shows how inhumane some people can be when working with animals. Police Constable...
50 years ago in Salford: Boy, 10, rolls unexploded anti-aircraft shell into Eccles police station
Police stations across the country must have seen some strange objects handed over their counters but officers at Green Lane in Eccles in August 1965 got the shock of...
Plans greenlit for 36 flats on former Patricroft Conservative Club in Eccles
36 flats will be built in a new apartment block on the site of the former Patricroft Conservative Club in Eccles, Salford, after plans were passed yesterday by Salford...
100 years ago in Salford: Man dupes grieving soldier’s wife in ‘extraordinary husband’ court case
It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood film, but rest assured, this incredible tale from 100 years ago in Salford is real. A man from Eccles by the name of George Parkin...
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...
Goodbye Miss Magee: Lewis Street Primary School teacher to retire after 28 years
A much-loved teacher at a primary school in Patricroft, Eccles is to retire after 28 years in the job. Morag Magee joined Lewis Street Primary School in 1987 as a newly...
Unseen Salford Treasures: Memorial Plaque to WW1 Patricroft soldier Albert Johnson
Now on show at Salford Museum and Art Gallery is a five-inch bronze memorial plaque to a local soldier killed in action in the First World War. In 1914 Private Albert...
‘Worst ever’ cannabis farm found in Eccles
A cannabis farm dubbed the ‘worst ever’ by local police has been busted in a business premises in Patricroft, Eccles. Around 30 plants in varying states of...
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