Tony Flynn
SalfordOnline.com's Local History Editor and Senior Reporter.
Volunteers needed for Salford study to help people to walk without pain
Most of us take walking for granted, but for some people even a trip to the shops is too painful to consider. 40 volunteers are needed in Salford for a new study to help...
50 years ago in Salford: Building site thief nabs everything – including the kitchen sink
I think it’s safe to say that most people at one time or another have found something and taken it home quite innocently with a slight doubt as to where it came...
Upper crust: Billionaire bookie Fred Done doubles up for St Ann’s
Bookie Fred Done faced the wrath of a football club’s queen of pies Barbara Gaskill for charity – and now he wants to turn the tables and give her a job! Fred donned...
Monton Voices Choir to premiere two new carols this Saturday
Monton Voices Choir fresh from their success at the switching on of the Monton Christmas Lights and a performance last Sunday when they participated in a carol concert...
Soldier’s 1915 anthem for doomed Salford youth at Gallipoli
One of the few men to survive the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War wrote to the Eccles and Patricroft Journal in December 1915 describing the unimaginable...
50 years ago in Salford: Speed camera rant of ‘an angry humanoid’
We are constantly reminded of the so-called Big Brother society we live in as predicted by George Orwell in his classic novel 1984, and 50 years ago one angry motorist...
Salford City Academy students rally around for Lewis
Salford City Academy students have been fundraising for Manchester Children’s Hospital, where fellow student Lewis Pierce is currently recovering from illness. 12-year...
Award for volunteers as Digital Salford goes live
As some of you may be aware, Digital Salford is an ongoing project to digitise Salford’s historic photo archive. Funded by an £69,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery...
Win a limited edition Shelagh Delaney honey pot
Salix Homes have joined forces with Kersal Vale Beekeepers to produce commemorative honey pots to mark the second annual Shelagh Delaney Day celebrations, which took...
50 years ago in Salford: Christmas fairytale for Eccles girl as Graham Nash opens school fair (plus exclusive archive video)
With the festive season upon us we thought it was time to bring you a story of an Eccles Christmas fair with a difference. In December 1965 Eccles Grammar School fair...
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