Category: History
50 years ago: Mystery of ‘Lord Foulmouth’ and brutality at Salford Crescent police station
We came across this beauty from the pages of the Salford City Reporter from August 1966 which features a fascinating character by the name of ‘Lord...
100 years ago: PC wins gallantry medal in Manchester Ship Canal rescue attempt on six-year-old Cadishead boy
Tragedy is never far away as we look back 100 years into the pages of the Eccles Journal. Making headlines in early August 1916 was the sad tale of the drowning of a...
100 years ago in Salford: ‘Bucket pincher’ jailed with hard labour
Looking back through news stories from Salford and Eccles 100 years ago, crime and punishment is certainly not more lenient than it is today, despite what the history...
100 years ago: Daring raid sees Clegg Street gang, age 10-16, feel full force of the law
Juvenile crime has for the past 100 years been part and parcel of daily life in the UK, as this story from the Eccles and Patricroft Journal nimbly illustrates. Clegg...
100 years ago: Woman with ‘filthiest house in Eccles’ warned to clean it up
Some of our readers may recall back before the 1980s if you moved into a council house – as my family did – part of the tenancy agreement was that you had to...
100 years ago: Sadness of shell-shocked soldier stealing ring for Salford family
An unusual story culled from the pages of the Eccles and Patricroft Journal from July 1916 concerns what at first glance to be the tale of a light-fingered soldier who...
100 years ago: Eccles woman’s plea for divorce goes awry as she batters husband in court
Divorce proceedings on the grounds of persistent cruelty are sadly not new, but this tale from the pages of the Eccles Journal from July 1916, tells of a case for...
100 years ago: Disabled war veteran goes on rampage in Patricroft
Once again we turn to the pages of the Eccles and Patricroft Journal for this rather amusing story from July 1916 which appears under the headline, ‘Permanently...
100 years ago: Heartbreak as luck runs out for teen soldiers from Eccles, Monton, Walkden and Swinton
In 2016, national commemorations of the first day of the Battle of the Somme have now been completed. But 100 years ago, local families in Eccles and Swinton were just...
Solved: Mystery of treacherous Captain Webster as SS Clan MacDuff lost at sea
While looking through the now-derelict graveyard at the rear of the old Barton Wesleyan Chapel on Barton Road, I was intrigued to see an ornamental gravestone dedicated...
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