Category: Features
50 years ago in Salford: Christmas fairytale for Eccles girl as Graham Nash opens school fair (plus exclusive archive video)
Tony Flynn Fri 4th December, 3:06 PM
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
Tony Flynn Tue 1st December, 4:42 PM
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
Tony Flynn Mon 30th November, 3:42 PM
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
Tony Flynn Wed 25th November, 1:08 PM
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
Tony Flynn Tue 24th November, 2:04 PM
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
Tony Flynn Mon 23rd November, 4:05 PM
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
Tony Flynn Fri 20th November, 3:06 PM
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...
100 years ago in Salford: Wealthy philanthropist and Ordsall cotton mill owner’s son killed by sniper
Tony Flynn Thu 19th November, 4:44 PM
As the casualties from Salford began to mount in the carnage of the First World War, the Salford City Reporter of November 1915 reported the death of Frank Howarth,...
100 years ago in Salford: AWOL soldiers handed hard labour for daring escape
Tony Flynn Wed 18th November, 12:25 PM
100 years ago this week two soldiers from Pendlebury were reprimanded for escaping the horrors of the First World War by assaulting police officers and hiding in a...
50 years ago in Salford: Death in factory collapse as 65mph gales wreak havoc
Tony Flynn Thu 12th November, 4:00 PM
50 years ago this month gales reaching up to 65 mph ripped through Salford causing the death of one man and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. Manchester...