Category: Features
100 years ago in Irlam: ‘Sensational’ twist shocks court in tragic case of 15-year-old girl
Looking back to what was making headlines 100 years ago this week, a murky tale unfolded on the front page of the Eccles and Patricroft Journal called ‘Sensational...
50 years ago: Mystery of ‘Lord Foulmouth’ and brutality at Salford Crescent police station
We came across this beauty from the pages of the Salford City Reporter from August 1966 which features a fascinating character by the name of ‘Lord...
Ex-Salford student becomes Royal Navy bomb disposal diver
A former Salford University student is the latest addition to the Royal Navy’s specialist diver team after passing a gruelling Ministry of Defence training...
100 years ago: PC wins gallantry medal in Manchester Ship Canal rescue attempt on six-year-old Cadishead boy
Tragedy is never far away as we look back 100 years into the pages of the Eccles Journal. Making headlines in early August 1916 was the sad tale of the drowning of a...
100 years ago in Salford: ‘Bucket pincher’ jailed with hard labour
Looking back through news stories from Salford and Eccles 100 years ago, crime and punishment is certainly not more lenient than it is today, despite what the history...
The X-Pat Files: Lower Broughton to San Francisco
SalfordOnline.com has readers from all over the world, and now we’re going to try to meet them all. Our main readership is Salford and Manchester, with other parts...
Tributes paid to ‘beautiful’ Kirby Scoular, 21, after popular student passes away
Friends and family of a severely ill girl who tragically passed away this week are organising a sponsored walk in her memory. Eccles college drama student Kirby Scoular...
100 years ago: Daring raid sees Clegg Street gang, age 10-16, feel full force of the law
Juvenile crime has for the past 100 years been part and parcel of daily life in the UK, as this story from the Eccles and Patricroft Journal nimbly illustrates. Clegg...
100 years ago: Woman with ‘filthiest house in Eccles’ warned to clean it up
Some of our readers may recall back before the 1980s if you moved into a council house – as my family did – part of the tenancy agreement was that you had to...
100 years ago: Sadness of shell-shocked soldier stealing ring for Salford family
An unusual story culled from the pages of the Eccles and Patricroft Journal from July 1916 concerns what at first glance to be the tale of a light-fingered soldier who...
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