Category: History
100 years ago: The distressing fatality of Horace Smith at Irlam Steel Works
The terrible death of a 27-year-old crane driver at Irlam Steel Works was making headlines in Salford 100 years ago this week. The Eccles and Patricroft Reporter of...
Gallery: Flag to fly over Salford for historic Swinton Lions 150th anniversary
Salford City Council headquarters will fly the Swinton Lions flag this week to mark the exact date 150 years ago the club was founded. On Thursday 20 October at 10am in...
100 years ago: The incredible story of Pendlebury hero torpedoed by German submarine
In a very rare newspaper story from 100 years ago we hear the testimony of a local sailor whose crew was attacked by a First World War German U-Boat submarine. By...
Watch this: 85 years on from the Battle of Bexley Square – why should we care?
SalfordOnline.com this week will be looking back to the events that led up to the Battle of Bexley Square in October 1931. The five-part documentary shown below details...
Pictured: Langworthy hosts fab Salford history festival this weekend
Langworthy Cornerstone is the place to be for sports, community and history lovers in Salford this weekend with a two-day event jam-packed full of fun. The festival runs...
100 years ago: Mutiny on ship at Salford Docks is Steward’s tale of woe
We came across this rather unusual court case from the pages of the Salford City Reporter of September 1916 which tells an intriguing maritime tale. It involves a...
50 years ago: Teenage kicks for Eccles schoolboy with ‘purple heart’ pills in bus stop sting
As the so-called ‘Swinging Sixties’ got underway in Salford, youths enjoyed more freedom than ever before. Excitement grew over new music, new clothing, the...
Gallery: Historic images of Salford’s Peel Park as more detail on £2.5m upgrade revealed
Talking flowers, toy diggers and rope swings will give Peel Park a 21st century look when it reopens next summer, say Salford City Council. Now historic images of the...
100 years ago: Bravest Swinton teen, 17, saves CO under fire for Distinguished Conduct Medal
Tales of First World War bravery in the face of the terrible fury of enemy fire never fail to fascinate and this story from the Eccles and Patricroft Journal from...
100 years ago: Salford man leaps to his death after cigarette sparks Trafford factory blaze
This rather sad story comes fom the pages of the Salford City Reporter of September 1916 and tells of the rather unfortunate death of Salford man John Adcock. On...
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