Tag: Cadishead, death, Irlam, Irlam Steel Works, Partington Iron and Steel
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...
100 years ago: Tragic death of Eccles boy, 16, in routine Manchester Ship Canal journey
In April 1916 the Manchester Ship Canal was a very busy passenger route and workers were ferried daily across the canal from Eccles to Trafford Park. This practice...
50 years ago in Eccles: Mystery of body found in lab at Lankro Chemicals
SalfordOnline.com came across this rather interesting mystery from the pages of the long-defunct Eccles and Patricroft Journal from April 1966; a body found in the...
The Pusher: Channel 4 documentary on ‘Manchester serial killer’ claim screens tonight
Channel 4 is to screen a documentary tonight investigating rumours of a serial killer dubbed ‘The Pusher’ operating on Manchester’s waterways. The...
The Pusher: Channel 4 documentary to investigate Manchester canal ‘serial killer’ claim
Channel 4 has commissioned a new documentary to investigate the idea a serial killer dubbed ‘The Pusher’ could be operating on Manchester’s waterways....
Man, 35, dies after plunge from M60 Barton Bridge
A man has been found after falling to his death from the M60 Barton High Level Bridge in Peel Green, Salford. Police were called at around 7.10am on Wednesday 15 July to...
Search for son of Frederick Robinson after Bolton death
Police are appealing for help in tracing the family of a man who died in Bolton. 70-year-old Frederick Robinson died at his home on Wednesday 8 July. There are no...
Appeal to find family of James Slater, 45, who died in Pendleton
The Police Coroner’s office has issued an appeal to trace the family of a man who died in Pendleton, Salford this week. The body of 45-year-old James Slater, of...
‘Low-life’ thief Sean Earle faces jail after stealing gran’s handbag moments after death plunge
A 27-year-old man from Eccles who stole a woman’s bag moments after she fell to her death is facing jail. Sean Earle, 27, Trevelyan Street, pleaded guilty to theft...
Appeal to find family of Steven Hodgkinson, 57, who died at Little Hulton hospice
The Police Coroner’s Office has issued an appeal to find the family of a man who passed away at St Ann’s Hospice in Little Hulton. 57-year-old Steven...
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