Category: Features
50 years ago in Salford: Monks Hall Museum makes Patricroft steam train history with 1.5 million mile nameplate
The Grade II-listed Monks Hall Museum on Wellington Road in Eccles is still standing, though, only barely. This story from July 1965 tells of a donation to the famed...
Unseen Salford Treasures: Memorial Plaque to WW1 Patricroft soldier Albert Johnson
Now on show at Salford Museum and Art Gallery is a five-inch bronze memorial plaque to a local soldier killed in action in the First World War. In 1914 Private Albert...
Reefer Madness: 50 years ago in Salford
While researching stories from Salford’s colourful past we came across this little item from July 1965 warning of the perils of ‘beat clubs’, and worse...
100 years ago in Salford: Drunken army man lashes out over bath-rage at Regent Road pool
In July 1915 a 22-year-old man celebrating joining the British Army was arrested in a drunken stupor after starting a fight over a bath. Readers may remember the old...
50 years ago in Salford: 150-strong mob see police assaulted in Cross Lane beat club riot
Cross Lane in Salford was not always the characterless thoroughfare you see today. In 1965 the whole street was alive with music, 18 pubs, shops, cinema halls and...
Made in Salford: Punch and Judy figures recall historic Derbyshire glassworks
Two particular objects now on show at Salford Museum and Art Gallery shine a light on a forgotten corner of Salford’s industrial history: a pair of pressed glass...
Salford shark ‘was sailor’s prank on Charlie Camilleri over card game’, reader claims
A story about a mystery shark found in an alleyway in Salford has become the most-read feature in SalfordOnline.com’s history. Now one reader claims not only seen...
100 years ago in Salford: ‘Rough’ Trafford Road pub hits headlines again as woman refuses to leave
Trafford Road in Salford was a hugely vibrant place in the early part of the century due to its proximity to Salford Docks, which attracted ships and cargo from all over...
Unseen Salford Treasures: Silk postcards to lovers from war frontline
A highly desirable collectors item is on show at the Salford Museum and Art Gallery: a silk postcard dating back to the First World War. These would have been bought by...
50 years ago in Salford: Double heartbreak at St Lawrence’s as vandals rampage through school
Demolition is underway at St Lawrence’s RC School on Weaste Lane in Salford but this story from 7 July 1965 tells of a double blow the school would suffer that...
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