Category: Features
100 years ago: Fighting with the police in Ordsall
Salford always had a bit of a name for its local characters and their alcohol-fuelled antics. This story from the Salford City Reporter of March 1916 shows the problems...
100 years ago in Eccles: Davis Street ‘gang’, 11 and 13, flogged for stealing
Juvenile offenders are not a new phenomenon by any stretch of the imagination. But this court case from the Eccles and Patricroft Journal of March 1916 shows the...
100 years ago: Brawl erupts on Patricroft Bridge as mums go toe-to-toe
There was an old music hall song called ‘Two Lovely Black Eyes’ that made popular entertainer Charles Coborn famous in the early 1900s. It was a comic but...
100 years ago in Salford: Docker jailed in 80lb cheese heist
Leaving a trail of ‘de brie’ in his wake, a Salford man was jailed 100 years ago this week for an audacious and frankly ridiculous theft. It was March 1916,...
Pages from the Past: WW1 and WW2 photos saved from Salford skip
SalfordOnline.com is dipping back into its vast archives to shine a light on feature stories you might have missed. Many of our thousands of new readers may not have...
Watch: Teen lifesaver reunited 50 years on with boy he saved in Eccles
SalfordOnline.com have reunited two men whose lives came together in an extraordinary fashion 50 years ago. David Jordan, now 64, saved Dave Greene’s life back in...
100 years ago in Walkden: Illegal gambling den lands 30 teens and pensioners in court
Crammed into Strangeways Magistrates Court in Manchester back in February 1916 were some 30 sheepish-looking men and youths facing charges of illegal gambling. They...
50 years ago in Eccles: Unhappy birthday for calamity-prone family
First birthday parties are usually a source of happy memories, but 50 years ago today a catalogue of disasters hit the Tunnicliffe family as they gathered to celebrate...
100 years ago in Irlam: 3,000 watch UK’s first football superstar Billy Meredith kick off charity match
A man so famous in his time that he can legitimately be called Britain’s first football superstar was in Irlam 100 years ago this week to help raise money for...
50 years ago in Salford: Harrowing war sketches on show at Monks Hall Museum
Carrying on with our stories from the pages of the Eccles and Patricroft Journal, we came across this rather sad story of an exhibition that was held at the now empty...
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