Tag: eccles, Patricroft, riots, Royal Navy, WW1
100 years ago in Eccles: Mobs riot and ransack town over Lusitania sinking
It is exactly 100 years ago today that the RMS Lusitania was sunk off the coast of Ireland by a German submarine with the loss of 1,198 men, women and children. This act...
Road blocked as bus smashes into Eccles railway bridge
Picture by Mike Burgess Green Lane in Patricroft was blocked this morning after an Arriva bus drove into a low railway bridge. Police were called to the scene at 7am...
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