Category: History
100 years ago in Salford: Widower heavily fined for battering babysitter
Violence on our streets is an issue that still destroys lives and communities, as this story from the Eccles and Patricroft Journal of 100 years ago so vividly...
SalfordOnline.com reaches Spain to find 1965 Eccles music mogul
The speed that SalfordOnline.com’s stories spread around the globe can be frightening at times, but just 12 hours after posting a history story on a famed Eccles...
50 years ago in Eccles: Can’t stop the Beat as Salford’s own Abbey Road studio opens
Over the past five years SalfordOnline.com has been recording the young musicians of the Beat generation who came up through Salford and Eccles bent on world domination....
Patricroft’s dumbest ever criminal? 1915 MetroVicks thefts revealed
A man who stole his workmate’s bicycle, painted it green and then rode it back to work has been hailed one of Patricroft’s dumbest ever criminals. Sound...
100 years ago in Salford: Swinton soldier’s heartbreaking letters on football and life in the trenches
One young Swinton soldier’s letters made the papers 100 years ago, including an extraordinary account of a football match in a battle zone. Young soldiers who...
100 years ago in Salford: Bare-footed youth birched after Willows rugby theft
A young Salford boy was sentenced to a harsh beating at the hands of the authorities 100 years ago this week after being caught stealing from the city’s former...
Eccles Crown Theatre: New plans to knock down historic Salford building for 95 flats, shop and ‘community space’
Developers Foregate Limited have lodged new plans with Salford City Council to demolish the entire of the derelict former Crown theatre on Church Street in Eccles. In...
50 years ago in Salford: Teenage kicks see boy, 17, in court for 4,000-pill theft
In October 1965 in Salford the teenage beat boom was in full swing and part of the scene were amphetamine-style narcotics known as ‘pep pills’. But one young...
100 years ago in Salford: AWOL soldiers caught hiding in Pendlebury coal shelter
An unusual court case, the first of its kind in the district, was heard in September 1915 when a collier named William Taylor appeared charged with unlawfully concealing...
100 years ago in Eccles: Errand boy, 13, killed in Patricroft bridge tragedy
A rather sad case from the pages of the Eccles Journal of September 1915 tells the tragic story of errand boy James Shepherd, who lost his life on Patricroft Bridge. The...
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