Category: History
Soldier’s 1915 anthem for doomed Salford youth at Gallipoli
One of the few men to survive the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War wrote to the Eccles and Patricroft Journal in December 1915 describing the unimaginable...
50 years ago in Salford: Speed camera rant of ‘an angry humanoid’
We are constantly reminded of the so-called Big Brother society we live in as predicted by George Orwell in his classic novel 1984, and 50 years ago one angry motorist...
50 years ago in Salford: Christmas fairytale for Eccles girl as Graham Nash opens school fair (plus exclusive archive video)
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...
End of an XL era as Barrys clothing store in Eccles shuts down for good
Eccles is set to lose yet another part of its rich heritage with the news that Barrys store on the corner of Liverpool Road and Bright Road is to close its doors for the...
100 years ago in Salford: 20-strong Chinese gambling ring busted
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
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
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
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
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...
The Manchester Martyrs: Unique sculpture on show in Salford to mark anniversary of infamous Irishmen’s death
A new sculpture to mark the anniversary of the deaths of the infamous Manchester Martyrs has gone on show at the Working Class Movement Library in Salford. The foot-high...
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