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100 years ago: Young Eccles housebreakers birched
We possibly think that the youth of today are a lot worse than when we were younger and you may be right, however this court case from 100 years ago this month at Eccles...
Revealed: 110-year-old plans to turn Chimney Pot Park into grand Salford marina
Councillors planning Salford’s Chimney Pot Park wanted to open the city’s first urban boating lake in Langworthy, SalfordOnline.com can reveal. The six-acre...
100 years ago in Salford: Piano players rapped for Black Horse pub calamity
The derelict Black Horse Hotel on the Crescent, Salford is a sad sight to see, with plants growing out of the brickwork, paint flaking and the windows boarded over. But...
100 years ago in Salford: Men fined for horse-drawn cruelty
Animal cruelty is sadly not a thing of the past. This court case from August 1915 shows how inhumane some people can be when working with animals. Police Constable...
50 years ago in Salford: Local shipbuilder’s Titanic memories
Did you know that Eccles has its own link to the tragic story of the Titanic? The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank on her maiden voyage from...
50 years ago in Salford: Boy, 10, rolls unexploded anti-aircraft shell into Eccles police station
Police stations across the country must have seen some strange objects handed over their counters but officers at Green Lane in Eccles in August 1965 got the shock of...
100 years ago in Salford: Outrage in court as Swinton child hospitalised in school thrashing
Corporal punishment was outlawed in the UK in 1987, with generations of schoolchildren having to face beatings from teachers in loco parentis. One court case from 100...
100 years ago in Salford: August thunderstorms in Swinton see cow killed in lightning strike
A torrential thunderstorm in Swinton in August 1915 caused damage and distress to residents in Swinton and Clifton, and even caused the fatality of a farm animal. On the...
100 years ago in Salford: Man dupes grieving soldier’s wife in ‘extraordinary husband’ court case
It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood film, but rest assured, this incredible tale from 100 years ago in Salford is real. A man from Eccles by the name of George Parkin...
Hiroshima bombing 70 years on: Watch eyewitness account of Jimmy Rushby, Salford Royal Navy seaman
On 6 August 1945, at 8.15am, the nuclear bomb ‘Little Boy’ was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima killing instantly an estimated 80,000 people. By the...
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