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Category: Features

Salford treasures: Pilkington’s Peace Vase

Continuing with our new series looking at fascinating historical objects in the collections of Salford Museum and Art Gallery, we take a look at a Pilkington’s...

Watch: New Bailey Prison dig draws to a close

SalfordOnline.com visited the site of the former New Bailey Prison off Irwell Street to look at the excavations taking place. Site Supervisor Rachael Reader from the...

Unseen Salford treasures

In this first of our proposed articles on objects chosen by the staff at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford we take a look at a Bartmann or Bellarmine jug. These...

Watch: 1966 football history rewritten with unseen Eccles Rediffusion Cup Final film

1966 was a great year for English football. England won the World Cup at Wembley for the first - and only - time, Manchester United legend Eric Cantona was...

100 years ago in Salford: Belgian refugees flood into city

It may seem strange, but in November 1914 Salford was awash with refugees from Belgium, a story that still to this day goes almost unreported. Germany had invaded their...

50 years ago in Eccles: Death of Manchester United player Thomas Albert Parker

Continuing with our series of stories that were making the papers 50 years ago this week, we take a look at an Eccles man Thomas Albert Parker who achieved fame by...

Eccles blasts into space…almost

This story from 1967 concerns the Borough Of Eccles plans to celebrate the 75th anniversary of when it was granted a Charter in 1892 that elevated the former town to a...

WW1 history revealed: Zeppelin tragedy kills soldiers on British soil

Earlier this month we reported exclusively on a First World War postcard find in the loft of a house in Prestwich. These incredible social documents, now extremeley...