Category: History
100 years ago in Salford: 12 seamen caught enjoying famous ‘Barbary Coast’
To tell the tale of court cases making the headlines 100 years ago we return to the pages of the Salford City Reporter, this time when 61-year-old Annie Green was in the...
50 years ago: Closure of Eccles and Patricroft Hospital
The Eccles and Patricroft Journal for December 1965 told the story of how the Borough was to lose the Accident and Emergency Units at Eccles and Patricroft Hospital on...
Pictures: Salford Christmas Blitz remembered 75 years on
It’s 75 years since the two nights of terror that saw Salford bombed by German forces: what has become known as the Salford Christmas Blitz. 197 people were killed...
Solved: Mystery of ‘new archeological dig’ on Whit Lane in Salford
A new archeological dig is ongoing down on Whit Lane in Salford. We were alerted by one of our readers to the works, but none of the authorities seemed to know what was...
50 years ago in Salford: Brave Broughton Post Office staff shot as they face down armed robbers
Robberies on Post Offices and security vans are not a new phenomenon as this story from December 1965 shows. But one elderly couple who ran the Lower Broughton sub-post...
100 years ago in Salford: Ladies of the night ‘on active service’ while soldier husbands fight WW1
While the Great War was raging across Europe the people back home in Blighty went around their daily business as usual, but scandal was to hit Salford in December 1915...
Enterprise to extend Black Lion Hotel in Salford to add 25 more
The Black Lion Hotel on Chapel Street is set for a rear extension refurb which will see the pub add space for 25 more punters downstairs. The red brick, flat roofed...
Salford’s great women: 44,000 vote to save feminism from A-Level Politics
A Department of Education plan to drop the study of feminism from the A-Level Politics syllabus was seen tens of thousands oppose it in a public petition. The idea,...
100 years ago in Salford: Eccles Pals won’t be home for Christmas as fatalities pile up
As the First World War dragged on despite the cheery belief back in Blighty that it would be over by Christmas 1914, the second festive season rolled around and the grim...
50 years ago in Salford: Building site thief nabs everything – including the kitchen sink
I think it’s safe to say that most people at one time or another have found something and taken it home quite innocently with a slight doubt as to where it came...
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