Tag: broughton, Salford, WW1
100 years ago in Salford: Broughton girl gang attack white feather ‘cowards’
As the First World War entered its second year patriotism was still running high among those left at home, despite the terrible casualties and the ever-growing number of...
Charlie Cannon and Jimmy Whiz-Bang: Eccles soldier’s Manchester United banter in the trenches
SalfordOnline.com came across this amusing story from the Eccles and Patricroft Journal from October 1915 which tells the story of an Eccles soldier who gave the Germans...
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: Patricroft soldier wins Russian military honour for bravery
The Eccles Journal for September 1915 told an incredible story of a Patricroft soldier’s heroism under fire: such was his bravery that the Czar of Russia awarded...
100 years ago in Salford: Man dupes grieving soldier’s wife in ‘extraordinary husband’ court case
It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood film, but rest assured, this incredible tale from 100 years ago in Salford is real. A man from Eccles by the name of George Parkin...
£500 WW1 Salford history project grants available now
Local groups and organisations are being invited to bid for grants of up to £500 for history projects in Salford relating to the First World War. Salfordian soldiers...
Unseen Salford Treasures: Memorial Plaque to WW1 Patricroft soldier Albert Johnson
Now on show at Salford Museum and Art Gallery is a five-inch bronze memorial plaque to a local soldier killed in action in the First World War. In 1914 Private Albert...
Unseen Salford Treasures: Silk postcards to lovers from war frontline
A highly desirable collectors item is on show at the Salford Museum and Art Gallery: a silk postcard dating back to the First World War. These would have been bought by...
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...
WW1 history revealed: Zeppelin tragedy kills soldiers on British soil
Earlier this month we reported exclusively on a First World War postcard find in the loft of a house in Prestwich. These incredible social documents, now extremeley...
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