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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...
100 years ago in Eccles: Illegal gambling habit puts teens as young as 14 in court
Believe it or not, 100 years ago in Eccles, the perils of gambling were rife for young children. We are all used to seeing amusement arcades on our high streets with...
Eccles pub history book now worth 500 TIMES original price
A book written by SalfordOnline.com’s Local History Editor which went on sale in June 1982 is now selling for over 500 times its cover price. Copies of Tony...
Poet Mike Duff pens Eccles verse for SalfordOnline.com history
Celebrated poet and author Mike Duff has written a special poem for the relaunch of SalfordOnline.com’s history features section. Mike, dubbed a ‘local...
Revealed: 110-year-old plans to turn Chimney Pot Park into grand Salford marina
Councillors planning Salford’s Chimney Pot Park wanted to open the city’s first urban boating lake in Langworthy, SalfordOnline.com can reveal. The six-acre...
New Friends of Victoria Park Swinton wanted
Have you got an interest in helping to co-ordinate events in Victoria Park, Swinton? The voluntary committee which looks after the future of this historic Salford park...
Could these be the oldest ever images of Salford? Stunning 1830s photography ‘find’ sparks debate
A series of images which could predate the oldest-known photographs of Salford by a staggering 25 years have been unearthed. The ‘stereographs’ – an...
Salford’s rich history on tour at Eccles library
An incredible collection of Salford history photos from 1870 onwards are making their way around the city’s libraries as part of a £69,000 Heritage Lottery Fund...
50 years ago in Salford: 150-strong mob see police assaulted in Cross Lane beat club riot
Cross Lane in Salford was not always the characterless thoroughfare you see today. In 1965 the whole street was alive with music, 18 pubs, shops, cinema halls and...
100 years ago in Salford: Boys age 8-12 face the birch for throwing stones at Seedley train station
In a story which has unusual resonance to anti-social behaviour still going on in Salford, we investigate a court case from 100 years ago today. A young miscreant by the...
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