Category: Features
100 years ago: The distressing fatality of Horace Smith at Irlam Steel Works
The terrible death of a 27-year-old crane driver at Irlam Steel Works was making headlines in Salford 100 years ago this week. The Eccles and Patricroft Reporter of...
100 years ago: The incredible story of Pendlebury hero torpedoed by German submarine
In a very rare newspaper story from 100 years ago we hear the testimony of a local sailor whose crew was attacked by a First World War German U-Boat submarine. By...
Watch this: 85 years on from the Battle of Bexley Square – why should we care?
SalfordOnline.com this week will be looking back to the events that led up to the Battle of Bexley Square in October 1931. The five-part documentary shown below details...
Picture of the Day: Eccles bathed in beautiful sunset
Reader Zoe Norris sent in these pictures of a stunning sunset in Eccles. Zoe, whose pictures of Ellesmere Park won her Highly Commended status in...
100 years ago: Mutiny on ship at Salford Docks is Steward’s tale of woe
We came across this rather unusual court case from the pages of the Salford City Reporter of September 1916 which tells an intriguing maritime tale. It involves a...
50 years ago: Teenage kicks for Eccles schoolboy with ‘purple heart’ pills in bus stop sting
As the so-called ‘Swinging Sixties’ got underway in Salford, youths enjoyed more freedom than ever before. Excitement grew over new music, new clothing, the...
The Colour of Magic: Watch fireworks epic win big for Salford
A local firm have smashed expectations by coming away with a top industry award for a stunning fireworks extravaganza. Salford-born Jason Graham and his team at Atom...
100 years ago: Bravest Swinton teen, 17, saves CO under fire for Distinguished Conduct Medal
Tales of First World War bravery in the face of the terrible fury of enemy fire never fail to fascinate and this story from the Eccles and Patricroft Journal from...
100 years ago: Salford man leaps to his death after cigarette sparks Trafford factory blaze
This rather sad story comes fom the pages of the Salford City Reporter of September 1916 and tells of the rather unfortunate death of Salford man John Adcock. On...
100 years ago: Slagger killed and another close to death in horrific accident at Irlam Steel Works
This story from the pages of the Eccles and Patricroft Journal of September 1916 tells of a horrendous incident at Irlam Steel Works – then known as the Partington...
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