Tony Flynn
SalfordOnline.com's Local History Editor and Senior Reporter.
Join in the fun at first ever Islington Festival
A brand new festival for the people of Salford will take place later this weekend The first ever Islington Festival promises to be fun for all the family, with an...
Unseen Salford Treasures: Silk postcards to lovers from war frontline
A highly desirable collectors item is on show at the Salford Museum and Art Gallery: a silk postcard dating back to the First World War. These would have been bought by...
Knock Knock! Anti-austerity play lands in Salford
As Chancellor George Osborne announces Budget plans to cut child tax credits and cap benefits to families, hard-hitting anti-austerity play Knock Knock arrives at the...
50 years ago in Salford: Double heartbreak at St Lawrence’s as vandals rampage through school
Demolition is underway at St Lawrence’s RC School on Weaste Lane in Salford but this story from 7 July 1965 tells of a double blow the school would suffer that...
Missing woman Kirsty Blaney believed to have friends in Salford
Police have put out an appeal to find a missing 31-year-old Kirsty Blaney. Kirsty is currently missing from Brighouse in West Yorkshire. Police say: “She was a...
What is this? Mysterious posters appear in Eccles
Picture by Wilz Wilson A series of mysterious posters bearing the phrase ‘What is this?’ have appeared in Eccles town centre. Consisting only of a large...
100 years ago in Salford: Boys age 8-12 face the birch for throwing stones at Seedley train station
In a story which has unusual resonance to anti-social behaviour still going on in Salford, we investigate a court case from 100 years ago today. A young miscreant by the...
Police hunt three after man brutally attacked in Manchester
A man suffered two fractured eye sockets after he was attacked in Manchester city centre. The 25-year-old man was assaulted by three men outside the Blackdog Ballroom on...
100 years ago in Salford: Swinton women’s violent quarrel ends in jail
Violence in the home is sadly nothing new, but as this court case from July 1915 shows, so-called ‘ladies’ from Swinton were not averse to knocking lumps out...
Give your head a wobble: Ordsall to host world’s first jelly wanging contest
Salford is a city of world-firsts, from the Vegetarian Society to public libraries and street lighting, but this weekend will see a first of an entirely different kind....
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