Category: Features
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...
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...
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...
100 years ago in Salford: 20-strong Chinese gambling ring busted
Continuing with our series of unusual court cases from Salford’s history over the past 100 years, this story of an illegal Chinese betting syndicate had even the...
50 years ago in Eccles: Gale-force storms batter town
With the torrential rain and gales that have hit the area over the past week it only seems fitting to tell this story of storms that ripped across Eccles 50 years ago...
100 years ago in Salford: Newtown Colliery disaster averted as boy, 15, caught sparking up in pit
A potentially fatal disaster was averted 100 years ago this week after an unthinking teenager worker was hauled in front on magistrates for carrying cigarettes and...
100 years ago: Salford’s 6ft 8in giant ‘supersoldier’ Thomas Frith revealed
SalfordOnline.com were delighted to receive an amazing story about a young man from Salford, Thomas Henry Frith, who not only enlisted twice in the army, both times...
100 years ago: Dogfights in the skies as Swinton Corporal recounts WW1 air battles
The Eccles Journal of November 1915 published a letter from a Swinton despatch rider on the French battlefronts who told of the incredible aerial battles in the skies...
100 years ago in Salford: The Staggering Case of Sgt Dandy, Patricroft lothario
The human capacity for self-delusion is nowhere more evident than in this extraordinary court case from November 1915: in fact the plot reads like a Hollywood movie. The...
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