Tony Flynn
SalfordOnline.com's Local History Editor and Senior Reporter.
Revealed: Insanity, scurvy and frogs were killers in mystery of forgotten Eccles graveyard
By Tony Flynn Fresh information has come to light in the case of a mysterious overgrown cemetery in Eccles. On Thursday 4 June, SalfordOnline.com ran a story about the...
Historic Grade-II listed Queen’s Arms pub in Patricroft wins protected asset status
A pub that was renamed in honour of Queen Victoria’s royal visit to Salford in 1851 has been granted special protected status as an Asset of Community Value. The...
50 years ago in Eccles: Dockers flee for their lives as 3,000-tonne tanker catches fire
In June 1965 the people of Eccles witnessed one of the most epic disasters the town had ever seen. A Mexican tanker carrying 3,000 tonnes of powdered sulphur ignited on...
Thousands of awesome Lego bricks for Wood Street Mission
Following its hugely successful Easter Bring-A-Brick campaign which called on young Lego lovers to donate a brick from their own collection, Legoland Discovery Centre...
£81k available for grassroots groups in Salford and Manchester
Skipton Building Society’s award winning, community funding scheme, Grassroots Giving, has now officially launched its 2015 campaign. Grassroots Giving gives small...
50 years ago: Eccles priest scores five goals against Real Madrid
By Tony Flynn Thumbing through the Eccles Journal from June 1965 we came across an incredible story which is astonishing even to this day. The article recalled the death...
Mystery of Eccles’s 700 child refugees – 75 years on
By Tony Flynn We were intrigued by a newspaper article from June 1965 which tells the strange story of Noel Tostevin, who came to Eccles in 1940 as a child refugee from...
100 years ago in Salford: Family heartbroken by tragic death of 15-year-old mine worker Herbert Jones
By Tony Flynn In a story succinctly capturing the way that life and death never really changes, we came across this tragic piece on a teenager killed in a mining...
100 years ago: Speed demon biker rapped for police horse stunt ride
By Tony Flynn Road rage was something quite different at the birth of the motoring age in Salford, 100 years ago this week, illustrated by this humourous story of a...
Wade hits a ton for Swinton Moorside to crush Daisy Hill
By Peter Flatley Swinton Moorside returned to winning ways on Saturday with a convincing win against Daisy Hill despite having three senior players missing. The...
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