Tony Flynn
SalfordOnline.com's Local History Editor and Senior Reporter.
Plan ahead for temporary road changes along Eccles Metrolink line
Drivers travelling through the Ordsall, Langworthy and Weaste areas of Salford are advised to plan ahead and allow extra time for their journeys due to upcoming...
Construction Award triumph for Salford firm
Manchester & Cheshire Construction has been crowned SME of the Year at the North West Regional Construction Awards 2016. The accolade was presented to managing...
MP congratulates Salford Task Force on national award for fight against malnutrition
Barbara Keeley, MP for Worsley and Eccles South, has congratulated the Salford Malnutrition Task Force for winning national recognition in the 2016 Excellence in Public...
Playing out: Love on the Dole returns to the streets of Salford
A new production of Walter Greenwood’s classic Salford-set novel, Love on the Dole, has literally taken to the streets of Salford this week. Salford Community...
Investigation launched after baby is found abandoned in Wigan hospital toilets
Police have launched an investigation after a baby was found abandoned in hospital toilets. Shortly after 12am on Wednesday 6 July 2016 police were called to the Royal...
Solved: Mystery of treacherous Captain Webster as SS Clan MacDuff lost at sea
While looking through the now-derelict graveyard at the rear of the old Barton Wesleyan Chapel on Barton Road, I was intrigued to see an ornamental gravestone dedicated...
Transformation of St Peter’s Square Metrolink stop branches out
A greener future is on the way for St Peter’s Square as work started to plant more than 20 semi-mature trees as part of the Metrolink stop transformation. Half a dozen...
Barbara Keeley MP says the Care Act is not working well for carers
Barbara Keeley, MP for Worsley and Eccles South, has urged the Conservative Government to do more to ensure that carers get the support they need from public bodies. She...
50 years ago in Salford: Stella Maris ‘Seaman’s Mission’ opens to Modernist delight
It may be difficult to believe, but in a spot near where Chinese investors are building 2,000 new homes at Salford’s Middlewood Locks, there once stood...
100 years ago: Somme first day forgotten as telegrams break Salford family hearts
The country has just finished nationwide commemorations of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, with tributes, events and quiet contemplation on Friday 1 July 2016....
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