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Collections Manager Our second Local History Day, held last November, was another great success Peter Ogilvie thanks to all the societies, museums and others who came to ‘show off their 0161 778 0825 wares’. The Mayor of Salford paid us a visit and spent a long time chatting to the people manning all the stalls. Music was provided by local folk-duo Hanky Park, Learning Officer and children were kept busy by enthusiastic staff from our Library Service, so a Jo Clarke good time was had by all. 0161 778 0820 Be sure to make a note in your diary for this year’s event - Sunday 21st Exhibitions Officer November 2004. Look out for more details nearer the time. Meg Ashworth 0161 778 0819

Outreach Officer Ann Monaghan 0161 736 1594 Editorial

Research Officer Our pages on the Ken Craven 0161 736 1594 www.salford.gov.uk website are continually being improved. The Librarian, good news is that you can now Local History Library access the archive of back issues Tim Ashworth of Link and, at the time of writing, 0161 778 0814 we are working with our web team Librarian, Working Class to re-instate our popular Bulletin Movement Library Board/Forum. It is also hoped the Alain Kahan famous Ordsall Hall Museum ‘ghost- 0161 736 3601 cam’ will be back in operation in time Salford Museum for Halloween. The city’s web site is & Art Gallery now one of the best local council web Folk-duo, Hanky Park, performing in Lark Hill Place. 0161 736 2649 sites in the UK - that’s according to the results of the sixth annual survey, Ordsall Hall Museum published in February by the Society Adding a LINK to 0161 872 0251 of IT Management, the professional association for local government IT our chain Useful contacts Websites staff. Our web site is also ranked by If you would like to send in an article or www.salford.gov.uk/museums the survey as one of the top eight contribute to LifeTimes Link then send it -now an amalgamation of metropolitan council web sites. to: three individual websites The Editor The New Opportunities Funded LifeTimes Link, 51 Crescent, www.salford.gov.uk/whatson website, a joint project between Salford, M5 4WX -find out about concerts, Salford and Trafford councils, was walks, talks and other Email: [email protected] events in Salford officially launched in April and Tel/Fax: 0161 736 1594 contains images, facts and figures, www.wcml.org.uk and lots more about Trafford Park, The deadline for Issue No16 (Nov 2004 - sign up to the mailing list the Manchester Ship Canal, and the to April 2005) is 27th August 2004. We or have a look through the must add that we cannot accept any material they have. This site has Bridgewater Canal. Have a look for recently been updated and was yourself at www.canalarchive.org.uk responsibility for the loss or damage to re-launched in May 2004. contributor’s material - so if you want us to copy original photographs, please www.canalarchive.org.uk Cover photo: Langworthy Child Welfare Centre 9th phone us first. We cannot guarantee November 1951, with Mrs and Alderman -all about Trafford Park, publication of your material and reserve the Bridgewater Canal and V A Darley, Dr M Sproul, Senior Medical Officer for the right to edit any contributions we Manchester Ship Canal Maternity and Child Welfare. (Salford Local History Library) do use. 2 Contents Salford lads in the news

As one Salford lad bows out, three others Editorial 2 ‘bow in’. Contributions 2 Useful contacts 2 Ordsall-born Alistair Cooke died at the end of March, just a few weeks Salford Lads In after announcing he would no longer The News 3 be broadcasting on Radio 4. He joined the BBC as a film critic in 1934, and Poem 3 presented ‘Letter from America’ from 1946 onwards. A Cadishead Childhood 4-5 About his decision to retire, Cooke said: ‘Throughout 58 years I have had much Book Reviews 6 enjoyment in doing these talks and hope that some of it has passed over to the Made in Salford - listeners, to all of whom I now say thank Christopher Eccleston on a visit to his old Found All Over 7 you for your loyalty, and goodbye.’ school. (Courtesy of Joseph Eastham High School) Ted’s Barber Shop 8-9 Stepping into the headlines about the same time were Sir Peter Maxwell The Yemenis Davies, Christopher Eccleston and Poetry of Eccles 10 Graham Nash. Links Listings Composer, Sir Peter, who was born in Untitled (Events, Exhibitions 1934, lived in Wyville Drive and attended Talks at 2) 11-14 Moorside Primary School, was appointed Elsie Mullineux brought this poem to our as the new Master of The Queen’s Music attention. It had appeared in a reader’s Northumberland for a 10-year period. This is an honorary letter in the Manchester Evening News Street 15 position traditionally conferred on a in 1960. The reader had had it in his musician of distinction. Since the reign of possession for over fifty years but the author S.M.A.R.T. 16-17 is unknown. The’Owd Dook’s Cut’ refers to King George V, the position has carried the Bridgewater Canal which was extended Kids Competition 16 no fixed duties, although the Master may to Preston Brook in 1771 and to Runcorn in compose pieces for special Royal or State 1776. Poem 17 occasions. When I went down to Castlefield, Pageant of History 18-19 Meanwhile, the BBC announced that Oh Castlefield was sunny. Little Hulton lad Christopher Eccleston, But everything the sun revealed You Write 20 - who shot to fame in the film ‘Let Him Cried loudly: Muck an’ Money. (plus more of your Have It’ as Derek Bentley - will be the The coal, the cranes, the bricks, the letters throughout ninth Dr Who when the cult sci-fi series drums, Link) returns to television screens in 2005. The timber and the barges. The new 13-part series will be filmed in They only spoke of ledger sums, Those Were The Cardiff later this year. Of dividends and margins. Days My Friend 21 And then I spied six little craft; Best known as a singer/songwriter, ‘What boats are these?’ said I. Mystery Pix 22 Ordsall’s Graham Nash (The Hollies A man who swished a bucket laughed and Crosby, Stills and Nash) returned to And told of ventures high: Local History England to launch an exhibition and book Of how they sailed the ‘Owd Dook’s Roundup 23 of his photographs. His work has rarely Cut’ been seen anywhere in public before As captain, crew or cook. Venue Map & (and never in the UK) but The Richard ‘And sometimes into port we’ve put Opening Details 24 Goodall Gallery persuaded him to hold At far off Preston Brook.’ an exclusive exhibition, ‘Eye To Eye’ in I came away from Castlefield, Manchester - just across the river from And up to Deansgate strolling. his hometown. The Manchester exhibition I vow I felt the pavement yield, was a precursor to a new book, also To heavy seas a-rolling. entitled ‘Eye To Eye’, which features a selection of Graham’s photography.

So what news of Salford lasses? Nothing has come to our attention this year yet, but keep your eyes peeled! 3 A Cadishead childhood - 1930s by Ann Arnold

It is a beautiful May afternoon as I lines and the old Cadishead Station. write this and I should be doing some The lines went to Altrincham and gardening instead of sitting indoors and Southport etc. Mrs Birchall sold milk watching the old house across the road from her cool, old fashioned kitchen being demolished. They have been at and also tomatoes grown in her own it for three days now, with hardly any greenhouses. They tasted like tomatoes breaks and I haven’t seen any of them in those days! If you wanted milk you took eat at all! a jug to the back door and bought some fresh from the cow. We used to play in the I had a little terrier The house across New Moss Road in barn, clambering over the bales of hay called Paddy who Cadishead was built in 1858, of red and messing about, as children do, and was well known brick and with a red tiled roof. The front how we survived I shall never know. door was on the right hand side of the in the district for house and didn’t face the road, so it was At the corner of Poplar Grove and Moss ‘wandering from the probably built before New Moss Road Side Road lived Mrs Brown. We must have straight and narrow’. was the official road to Cadishead Moss. driven her mad because we congregated In those days the It must have been one of the first houses on her little garden wall, pushing each to be built after the reclamation of Chat other into her privet hedge and generally baker used to call at Moss. We also have Trafalgar House making a nuisance of ourselves. The the house and if you nearby and one or two other old houses fireplace in the Browns’ house was on were out he would which have been altered and modernised. the gable end and so on cold days and leave your bread or Then there is my own house at the end evenings we would lean against this wall cakes or scones on of a block of five terraced houses known to keep warm. It was like central heating originally (shown on a plaque) as Railway on the outside. the doorstep. Our Terrace due to the fact that the Liverpool Paddy had some to Manchester railway runs under the Do you know where the Dinky Path is? very good snacks bridge a little further along New Moss Well, if you walk from the New Moss Road and my poor mum Road. end and along Moss Side Road and cross over the junction of Allotment Road and had to pay up. I have recently seen the deeds to a Prospect Road, right opposite the school property on Cadishead Moss containing are the 1930s houses and a bit further One Sunday the a diagram showing the New Moss Road along you come to a little entrance just Salvation Army Band with Moss Side Road running off it, which before the farm house. This is the Dinky came to play in our brings me to the gist of this story - the Path and it is a Right of Way. I’m afraid it area around Moss Side Road was my is a bit of a mess these days and has been road and when it childhood playground. From the age of tidied up with new railings by St Mary’s came the time for four I lived in Poplar Grove (built in 1912) Church so all the enchantment has gone. prayers they put the and the playing field of the then Senior collection bag on the School was where I played happily and The two old farmhouses (which were safely with my little friends every evening, probably all one house originally) face big drum and like a weekends and school holidays. St Mary’s Church (like the Birchalls did), flash, Paddy had it so it is the old back of the properties between his teeth Did you know that there was a Private that face Moss Side Road. This road and was off with his Tennis Club in Moss Side Road? The was constructed long after the old farm ill-gotten gains with entrance to it was opposite Kenmore was built. Someone told me they could Grove, and did you know there was a remember seeing cornfields where the all the band chasing grocers shop (Mr Stocks) on the corner? Junior School now stands. after him! Next door was a shop which sold camping equipment, Guide and Scout uniforms and I had a little terrier called Paddy who was swimming gear, etc. A gentleman called well known in the district for ‘wandering Mr Sandy owned this shop and we swore from the straight and narrow’. In those he slept under the counter! days the baker used to call at the house and if you were out he would leave your Directly opposite Poplar Grove was bread or cakes or scones on the doorstep. a lovely old farmhouse owned by Mr Our Paddy had some very good snacks Birchall who kept cows in the field where and my poor mum had to pay up. One The Meadows bungalow complex now Sunday the Salvation Army Band came stands and in the field where the private to play in our road and when it came the bungalows along New Moss Road are time for prayers they put the collection now - those which back on to the railway bag on the big drum and like a flash,

4 A Cadishead childhood - 1930s by Ann Arnold

Paddy had it between his teeth and was off with his ill-gotten gains with all the band chasing after him!

There were two cinemas in Irlam, The Palace (later called The Savoy) at the top of Irlam Brow where the Catholic Club car park is now, and The Rialto (previously The Globe), which is now a Billiard Hall opposite Kings Road. They each showed one feature film on Mon, Tue and Wed and a second one on Thu, Fri and Sat (as we called the days), so you could see four different films a week if you had the necessary entrance fee. You would also see the News, a B film and a comedy, plus the Pearl and Dean adverts, and buy an We went to Sunday School every Sunday, Above, St Mary’s Church ice cream from the lady who stood at the rain or shine. We donned our best clothes, Cadishead (Courtesy of front of the stage with her tray round her got our collection money from our Irlam Library Heritage neck. The ice cream cost 4d (old pence, Mums, and made sure we didn’t forget Unit) about 2p). They cost about £1 nowadays! the little stamp book which recorded our And of course, if you went to the Rialto you attendance by having a religious “stamp” had to pop into Mr Bulloughs shop next gummed to the appropriate page. If your You write ... door to buy some sweets or chocolate, so attendance was good, you got a prize at that you wouldn’t starve to death before Christmas. Being Church of England, I the end of the film, when we all stood to attended Sunday School at St Mary’s Day More Ordsall Neighbours attention to the strains of the National School and it was there that I was taught On several occasions Anthem. the prayers I still say every night at the I have noticed that a age of 72. We had the usual walking correspondent of yours is My last two years of education were days, Christmas parties, sports days etc. one Alan Bailey. spent at Stretford Commercial College I’m not sure where we had the sports When I was young (yes, I for Girls (which was in the same building - possibly in the field of Heyes Hall down have a very good memory), as Stretford Technical College for Boys) Heyes Road, long since demolished. I lived in Hulton Street, and it was here that I learned shorthand Whatever the occasion, if a crowd of Ordsall, where my next- and typing, book-keeping, etc as well as children were gathered together there door neighbour bore that the usual lessons and also how to use a would be meat paste sandwiches to eat! name. I understand that he telephone, because we didn’t all have a went to live in Gloucester, phone in those days. and I have not seen him since the late 1950s. In the I learned to dance at St Mary’s Youth Club event that he may be one (the school is now some sort of factory). I hope you will recognise a few of these and the same, may I have We danced the quickstep, waltz, foxtrot little tales and if you are from our area his e-address, should he and barndance to Mr Kreibeck’s portable maybe you could put pen to paper (or be on the internet? I have gramophone, or someone would play use the computer!) and let our Society no objection to him being the piano, and once you had learned, hear your memories. If you aren’t a given my e-address. the world was your oyster. You then member of the Local History Society, I must also thank you for progressed to dances at Cadishead or perhaps you would like to come to one your publication, which I Irlam Conservative Clubs and the room of our meetings in Irlam Library on the find both interesting and over Higher Irlam Co-op and sometimes third Wednesday of the month at 7.30pm evocative. the Plaza in ‘town’ (as we called (no charge). We would love to see you Manchester) or even Sale Locarno and and I’m sure you will enjoy our speakers, Alan Whittall - Hampshire Belle Vue. I liked the slow foxtrot when who are interesting and informative as the lights were turned off and we danced (Ed: We were able to put the two well as making us laugh! to the light of the silver ball which twirled Alans in touch and I’m sure they round on the ceiling, casting shadows and had a lot to catch up on after 50 The author is the Publicity Officer for years!) turning the boys shirts to purple. We were Irlam, Cadishead and District Local all so innocent compared with the youth History Society. Visit their website at of today, but we were so happy and didn’t http://www.icdlhs.colsal.org.uk/ have any of today’s problems.

5 The pub opened on the corner of Book Reviews Westerham Avenue in August 1978 and it closed in 1993.

Among names considered for Joseph Holt’s new pub on the corner of Ashley Street were, the Chimney Pot Tavern, the Land o’ Nod, and the Alistair Cooke. The brewery settled for the Ashley Brook and it was opened in December 1990.

The one drawback with these excellent publications is that the indexes for them only appear in Volume Three. Having said that, the comprehensive lists of 19 pages are arranged in three sections - by Street Name, Pub Name, and Licensee or Occupant’s Name - the latter very useful as often a pub was referred to by the name of the landlord rather than its official title.

The Changing Face of Salford by Cliff Hayes Published by Memories ISBN 1 899181 25 3, priced £9.95

With chapters such as The Streets of Salford, Transportation, and People and Places, this is sure to appeal to a wide The First Place - a Salford audience. Mainly a ‘picture book’, with History of Kersal by Pubs over 250 photographs illustrating Salford Mary T Connor by Neil ‘then and now’ many from the collection Published by the author, Richardson in Salford Local History Library that have not appeared in print before. the book is available from Published by Salford Museum and Art the author Gallery, priced £4.75 2003, priced £5.75 each This 60 page A5 book gives the reader a potted Neil has history of the area from revised and the 12th century right updated the up to the present day, long out-of- with over 30 illustrations print books to help tell the story. In and produced three new books each over her introduction, Mary 70 pages with as many photographs. tells us: ‘Over the years Worsley in 1807 - From the Kersal has survived Volume One covers the Old Town the ravages of war, including Chapel Street, Greengate Sketches of John Claude Nattes industry and poverty, and Adelphi; Volume Two looks at by John Aldred yet has still managed to Islington, Ordsall, Oldfield Road, Regent Published by Salford Heritage Service, retain its intense natural Road and Broughton; the final volume priced £3.00 beauty.’ And if you includes Cross Lane, Broad Street, thought Environmental Hanky Park, the Height, Charlestown In his introduction, John tells us: Health Inspectors were and Brindleheath. Each book contains ‘This is the story of a unique view of something new, you may location maps and potted histories of the Worsley created in 1807 by a relatively be surprised to learn: ‘In many hostelries around the city. unknown artist… His drawings provide 1867 Salford appointed us with what is the equivalent of a its first river inspector The names of pubs are usually modern detailed photographic study of whose job it was to patrol interesting and Neil tells us about some the Bridgewater Canal and its associated the rivers and streams recent ones on Liverpool Street: The buildings, long before photography was noting pollution’. name of Greenall Whitley’s new pub on invented’. Top left, Agecroft Rowing Liverpool Street, the Brass Tally, was Club Regatta 1950 from selected from a shortlist which included This 32 page book contains 11 of Nattes The First Place by Lala’s Laughing Fox, Mark Addy, Ensign drawings (the originals are in Salford Mary T Connor Ewart and November Handicap. Archives) accompanied by John Aldred’s notes, maps, and photographs. 6 Made in Salford - found all over!

Standing by Ontario Basin on Salford The number of slow Quays are two cranes made by Stother speeds is three, being and Pitt of Bath, while displayed in the related to the number of Museum of Bath at Work in Somerset direct speeds. ( www.bath-at-work.org.uk ) is a piece of machinery made in the Ordsall The worktable is of cast Lane factory of Smith and Coventry. iron, and can be moved in The company, founded in 1857, was three planes: described as ‘manufacturers of labour 1. Vertical manually saving machine tools’. The curator at through a worm and bevel Bath, Stuart Burroughs, supplied the gear and guided in a photograph, and for the technically vertical slide; minded, Don Browning wrote the 2. Traverse (fore & aft) following information. manually through a nut & screw; Smith & Coventry Milling Machine 3. Longitudinal (sideways) manually or by power. J B Bowler was a general engineer and Manual operation is by a mineral water manufacturer in Bath for hand wheel on one side about 100 years from c1850 until c1970. He of the table whilst power The Smith and Coventry Milling Machine rarely bought anything new, always second- operation is taken off (Courtesy of Bath At Work Museum) hand. His trade was not in production, but the final drive shaft via a he dealt with repair and maintenance, so separate three-speed belt his machinery was only used on an ad-hoc drive at the rear of the Readers of Link over the past couple basis. machine. of years have been finding Ellison’s Turnstiles all over the country. This milling machine, manufactured by It would appear that Smith & Coventry of Manchester [sic], dates power operation was Geoff Howard of Salford Photographic from the 1880s, but was not installed by a later addition, as a Society found one still in use at the J B Bowler’s until c1920. It is a general- separate casting has been entrance to the Go-Karts in Southport. purpose horizontal milling machine made bolted onto the body to One recent discovery was, however, predominantly of cast iron, with some steel carry the secondary drive, components. The principal dimensions are slightly nearer to home. Last year the belts and shafting. The - Height 62 ins. [1464 mm], Table length secondary drive shaft BBC ran a series called Restoration and 42 ins, [966 mm]. Power is supplied from is telescopic and works the winner was the Victoria Baths in overhead line shafting, via fixed and loose through two knuckle Manchester. Mark Watson provided us pulleys, to the final drive through a three- joints thereby allowing with a photograph of the baths showing speed cone pulley. for varying lengths not only an Ellisons Turnstile from Irlams depending on the position o’ th’ Height, but also Pilkingtons Tiles Usually this final drive is direct onto the of the table. from Clifton. main cutter shaft, but when a casting or other heavy work is being machined the The cutting operations Salford turnstile and tiles in the Victoria Baths drive is directed through a back gear for the generate friction and (Courtesy of Mark Watson) necessary slow speed operation. heat. To lubricate the cutters and to remove much of the heat, cutting fluid is dripped from a cast iron tank with a capacity of about 6 pints [31⁄2 litres]. This is part of the design of the machine. The amount of fluid used is controlled manually and is collected in a tray incorporated under the table.

There is a large purpose built cabinet for a selection of cutters of various shapes and sizes. It would appear that most of them have never been used.

7 Ted’s barber shop by R J Beech

When my Dad left the army in 1946, he One man in particular would come late took over the lease on a barber’s shop, every fortnight, he worked late in Trafford number 610 Bolton Road, Pendlebury, Park and grudgingly Dad always opened on the front of the market facing the the door and let him in; I think it was Newmarket public house. My Dad and I because he was a regular customer! On repainted the inside of the shop and we Saturdays we worked from 8.30 am until bought a pole, which we painted with 4.00pm. the traditional red and white stripes. It was fixed on two brackets in the doorway My job was lather boy. I was 13 and in my and when it was put out in the morning final year at school and as a lather boy it protruded over the pavement for I would prepare a customer for a shave all to see. We were very proud of our by first seating him in a chair. I then I put handiwork; customers used to tell us that the towel around his neck and proceeded the reason for red and white was that it to lather his chin with soapy water. represented blood and bandages. My Dad, who at this time was cutting someone’s hair on the other chair, would My Dad took over the business from a move across and shave the customer, Communist called Jimmy Crawshaw which only took a couple of minutes, with who was retiring. Business was normally his cut-throat razor. I would wipe the quiet during the day, but evenings and customer’s neck and then he was done, Saturdays were busy times. I used to go sometimes I would get a tip. In those days there straight from school on Fridays the price of a haircut was 1/3d (6p) and a when Dad kept open until 8.00pm, but shave 6d (3p). even at that time there would still be people wanting to have a haircut We had some rum characters who came after we had shut the door. into the shop, not always for haircuts; some came to pass the time or to pick winners out of the many racing papers Dad used to have everyday. I remember three in particular: the Handicap Book, the Sporting Chronicle and the Daily Despatch.

Dad died in the early eighties. I don’t know where he is now but I hope he’s having a pint or two, a smoke, and perhaps a cross double bet on some horses or other. I still miss him today.

Bolton Road Pendlebury 1978, with the Windmill Hotel on the corner of Station Road. (Salford Local History Library)

8 Ted’s barber shop You write ...

Dad had a bet most days, his favourite Jimmy Locke has his business today. Ordsall Neighbours being a cross double bet. I can’t think now We used to have steak pudding, chips, where he put the bets on. peas - they were very enjoyable. The cafe With reference to the was always busy with passing trade and letter submitted by Albert One character was a man named Owd workers from Sackville and Swallow Hallows in your last issue, Griff who came in regularly for a shave. across the road. Other times Dad would I can certainly remember My Dad had nicknamed him Desperate send me for pies to Hollinshead’s in his family well. I was born Dan because he had a big chin and tough Station Road near to Lees Street. We in Hartington Street on the whiskers. Dad had to shave him twice to used to think they made the best pies in 20th September 1936 and do it properly, the area. Our other choice for pies was lived there with my parents Glover’s where Sykes’ is now, Fred & Flo and my brother Another customer we used to know as Jack. My neighbours were Harry had been disowned by his family, While helping out at the barber’s one day Mr & Mrs Stringer and who we knew to be very well off as they the boss from Jones’ foundry, behind the their daughter Doreen on had a shop on Chorley Road. One or two Norco Pickle works, came in for a haircut the one side and Mr & Mrs of the regulars, including Dad, used to and he offered me a job as an apprentice Delaney on the other with tease Harry, who wasn’t too bright. moulder. I had just left school at 14, so I their son Joe and daughter took the job. Shelagh who went on to There used to be tramp who came twice achieve fame with her play A a year for a haircut and shave. He slept When still at school I had to go straight Taste of Honey, later made behind some advertising hoardings where to Dad’s shop on Friday to help out as into a film. Both of these his old business of funeral director used normal. If I didn’t turn up he would want neighbours were replaced to be. The site is now Crandon Court old to know why and I had to have a good by Mr & Mrs Bailey and their people’s accommodation. Whenever he’d excuse. Sometimes he’d threaten me two children and Mr & Mrs been in the shop I had to go round with with his belt or a pan or anything that was Ernie Chapman and their the air freshener. handy. He never actually hit me but the daughter Janet. Incidentally message got home. Mr & Mrs Sykes had another Before they had baths at Wheatsheaf son Harold and a daughter Colliery the miners used to go home in All the time I worked with my Dad, about Jean. all their dirt. We used to get one or two 15 months, I never received a penny. All I can recall the Shaw calling in our shop for haircuts. They I got was a few tips. One Christmas I family and their shop on used to wear long coats with big pockets, dressed a dried milk tin with crepe paper West Park Street and which were always filled with lumps of and a sticker saying ‘All the best from the other shops facing coal. The miners deserved all they could the lather boy’. I got quite a lot of money them, including Mr & Mrs get away with. that Christmas. Makinson’s Greengrocers, Harry & Bertha Wiseman’s There were five shops together next to When we lived on the Valley Estate in Grocers and, of course, who ours. Next to us across the ginnel was Grasmere Road my Dad and I used to could forget Doris Watson’s John Haselton’s greengrocers shop. It get the number 6 bus to our shop. The Pie Shop farther down West was called Cragg’s hut because it used bus was a single-decker then and it Park Street. to belong to old Mrs Cragg who lived in used to go from Eccles to Whitefield via The Boro Cinema at South Manchester and when she died the Pendlebury and Prestwich. Other times the bottom of our street shop was left to John Haselton who ran it we would walk up Eccles Road up by comes to mind and with it with his wife Nellie. John was a big mate the post office and up Pendlebury Road. Jack Peake the fireman/ of my Dad’s and often they would nip over Sometimes on our way home Dad would attendant who used to the road to the Newmarket for a couple stop at the White Swan or the Park Inn for pack us in tightly at every of pints of Holt’s. Attached to our shop on a couple of pints. Mam would ask where performance we kids the other side was a dental technician’s, he was and when I told her she would attended. The ‘King Billy’, and the other two shops were a sweet start shouting. He used to get some Sun Inn, and Park Hotel, shop and a fishmonger. Next to Cragg’s earache when he came home! But me were local hostelries hut going towards Bolton was a row of and my two sisters got used to this. My popular at the time. twenty terraced houses called, I don’t Mam and Dad moved to Borough Avenue My schools were Nashville know why, Twenty Row! They were in 1959 and kept the business going until Street, St Clements and demolished in the early sixties to make 1961, when he sold it to Ted Smalley. My Salford Tech. I eventually way for council maisonettes, Dad then took a job at Kendal Milne’s left Hartington Street in store in Manchester where he worked for 1961 when I got married In the back of our shop was a small eight years giving children haircuts. and moved to Droylsden. My room where we had a brew or ate our parents left in 1966 when sandwiches. The room was fitted with a Dad died in the early eighties. I don’t our old house became small window so we could see anyone know where he is now but I hope he’s part of the Ordsall Slum coming into the shop. Sometimes we having a pint or two, a smoke, and Clearance programme. would eat out at Mrs Mullen’s cafe that perhaps a cross double bet on some used to be in the row of shops where horses or other. I still miss him today. Fred Carter, Verwood, Dorset (via email) 9 The Yemenis of Eccles by Mohammad Siddique Seddon

Lascar sailors at an English Port c1908 (Courtesy councils or education authorities, to of the Museum in Docklands, PLA Collection) receiving visiting government officials from the Yemen. As the community grew, the need for a functioning mosque A small number of single-male Yemeni became a priority. The community sailors settled in the community with collectively purchased 5 Liverpool Road, one of them establishing ‘Abdul’s Eccles, for £13,500 in March 1980. Café’, famous for serving both Arabic Originally the vendors, the Christian The historical links and English food. By the early 1950s Scientists, opposed the private acquisition between Britain and the three Yemenis, Abdo Hizam, Hassan of the building but when reassurances Yemen date back to the Muhammad and Muhammad Kasseum, were given that it was to be used as a early nineteenth century had arrived in Eccles. Originally coming religious centre they lowered their asking when the port of Mocha to Salford as sailors, as they settled price from £30,000 to £13,500. Further, on the south-western tip and married local girls, they took up when the community could not raise the of the Arabian peninsular employment in nearby factories like capital needed to purchase the building became an import coaling Gardner’s Engines, Pilkington’s Tiles, outright, the Christian Scientists secured station and coffee exporting Irlam Steel Works and Regent Tyres. a deposit of £1,350 and then facilitated centre for British vessels an interest free loan for the outstanding and merchants. By 1838, As the British shipping industry declined, balance enabling the completion of sale. after failing to secure Yemenis moved away from their the port from Ottoman traditional dockland communities into In the late 1970s and early 1980s the Turk and Yemeni tribal the industrial heartlands of Birmingham, number of Yemenis living in Eccles could incursions, the British were Sheffield and Manchester. In Eccles, be counted in the thousands; today the instead able to establish a the Yemeni community soon grew into community has dwindled, numbering less protectorate at the port of hundreds and later thousands as the than a thousand. Economic recession Aden, roughly one hundred government encouraged migration of has meant that job prospects are limited kilometres along the colonial subjects to assist in Britain’s and many Yemenis left the town to seek southern coast from Mocha. post-war economic boom. Until the employment in the Arabian Gulf. For As a result of an Anglo- 1970s the Yemeni community in Eccles the present community, established Turkish agreement in 1901 consisted largely of single males living over fifty years ago and now in its fourth the Yemen was effectively in ‘bachelor houses’ and eating and generation, the future mirrors that of all split into two countries, socialising in one of the five Arab cafes post-industrial inner-city communities the north becoming an dotted around the town. Single men where housing, education and Ottoman province and the were eventually joined by their wives employment prospects and opportunities south a British protectorate. and children from the Yemen and the can only be created by massive financial It was from the British community soon established a small aid. This requires far-sighted planning controlled port of Aden zawiyyah, or prayer room, within the and economic investment from local, that many Yemenis, from home of the late and respected Hassan central and even European governments. both the north and south, Al-Haideri. In 1972 a branch of the Whilst the Yemeni community in Eccles is along with Somalis and Yemeni Welfare Society was established the ‘newest’ of the Yemeni communities some South Asians made providing important cultural and in the UK, British Yemenis represent the their way to Britain as educational programmes for the Yemeni oldest continuous Muslim community in Lascars, or merchant families. The society also represented Britain born out of Britain’s colonial past. sailors, on British ships. the community at a local, national and The Yemeni community in Britain has a Largely employed as boiler international level and representations rich history and a resilient and flourishing men, their work was long ranged from liasing with the local culture that dates back to the 1880s. and arduous. By the end of the nineteenth century transient communities The author is a Research Fellow at the Islamic Foundation, of Yemeni sailors were Leicester and is currently present in Cardiff, South undertaking his Doctoral Shields, Liverpool, London research at the University of and Hull. When the Lancaster on the Muslims in Manchester Ship Canal Manchester and specifically on opened in 1894, Salford the Yemeni Muslim Community soon saw the development in Eccles. He has published a of a growing multiracial and number of works relating to Islam in Britain. multicultural community within the docklands known Members of the Yemeni community locally as the ‘Barbary inside the Eccles mosque, early Coast’ 1980s. (Courtesy of Mr Imtiaz Hussain) 10 The Yemenis of Eccles Exhibitions Milestones - This is Your Life continued on page 14 Salford Museum and Art Gallery: LifeTimes Gallery

Each and every lifetime has its milestones and in this exhibition we are looking at three major events that measure the cycle of our lives: birth, marriage and death.

These rites of passage remain a constant feature of life but over time, changing attitudes, fashion and the impact of technology mean our experiences are very different from those of our Victorian forbearers.

Our families are smaller. Women no longer expect to spend a third of their lives in childbearing and today most babies are born in hospital rather than at home. There is no longer the same social and economic pressure to marry. Many couples choose not to marry at all and, if they do, favour the Register Office or other location for the ceremony.

Perhaps the greatest change is in our attitude to death. Today we find it something of a taboo subject. For the Victorians it was an element of daily life, surrounded with elaborate custom and ritual; a fitting subject for art, literature and even the family photograph album.

Photographs, objects and the stories of Salfordians past and present help us to explore the fascinating history of birth, marriage and death in Salford.

May 2004-April 2005

Pilkington’s Tile & great-nephew of the first Managing Pottery Company Director at Pilkington’s, William Burton. New Pottery, New Glazes exhibition Since then the Society has held 5 major by Angela and Barry Corbett exhibitions – 3 in Salford, which has its Salford Museum and Art Gallery. own excellent collection of wares.

Most Salford people know Pilkington’s Pottery production at Pilkington’s tiles – indeed at one point nearly 900 really took off in 1904 when they held Salfordians worked there and it was a wonderful exhibition in London at common for several generations of the Gallery of Henry Graves & Co. For one family to have been employed over a further 30 years pottery production several “lifetimes”. at Pilkington’s, while not on the scale of tiles, constantly brought them to the Our interest in Pilkington’s began when world’s attention. a friend of ours showed us a little blue pot. We soon realised that collecting This exhibition at Salford Museum Pilkington’s – when some vases fetch attempts to capture the impact of the thousands of pounds – was not an 1904 exhibition, as well as its importance option, but seeing public collections was. and visual extravagance. The exhibition organiser has done a splendid job in So we began to systematically visit bringing together pots from the original every public collection and now have a exhibition and from this period. For those photographic record of over 7,000 pots. who want to learn more about Swinton’s unique place in ceramic art, this is an In 1997 Pilkington’s Lancastrian Pottery exhibition you must see. Society was formed and we joined at once. It is chaired by Lawrence Burton, 22nd May to 8th August 2004 LinkListings a taste of forthcoming Heritage events 11 Salford Museum & Tudor Family Fun Days Events! Art Gallery Sundays, 6 June – Peel Park, Crescent, with the Cavendish Salford M5 4WU Minstrels; 4 July – join us for Tel: 0161 736 2649 WALKS Fax: 0161 745 9490 Children’s Art Day! A series of Heritage Walks that offer a Email: salford.museum@ 1 August, 5 September, 3 October healthy and enjoyable way to discover salford.gov.uk Mingle with Tudor characters and try your more about the city and its past. Open: Mon-Fri 10.00am- hand at traditional crafts and games on For more information contact 4.45pm and the first Sunday of every month Ann Monaghan (see p2). Sat-Sun 1.00-5.00pm Ordsall Hall Museum, 1pm - 4pm Free Walks are £2 for adults, children free. Free parking, disabled Stout shoes recommended. access, gift shop. LifeTimes Family Fun Days Café open weekdays only. Sundays 27 June, 25 July – The Cliff Conservation Area Explore Special Art Day, this fascinating area of Higher Broughton Salford Local 29 August, 26 September, 31 October and discover more about Broughton History Library An afternoon full of family activities and Zoo, a famous astronomer and a natural at Salford Museum workshops on the last Sunday of every disaster! Meet Carl Barry outside the & Art Gallery: month. Activities vary, phone for more playing field opposite Yew Street on Lower Open: Tues, Thurs and details Broughton Road. Fri 10.00am-5.00pm and Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Sunday 27 June 2pm Weds 10.00am-8.00pm 1pm - 4pm Free Closed weekends and Monks, Mineral Lines and Over Mondays the Motorway Discover the surprising Talks at 2 history of parts of Monton and Eccles. Ordsall Hall A regular programme of free afternoon Meet Christina Whitefoot at the car park, talks in association with the Friends of Monton Road. Museum Salford Museums Association. Please Thursday 29 July 7pm Ordsall Lane, Salford contact the gallery for details of the full M5 3AN programme, some highlights include: Halls of Worsley A circular walk Tel: 0161 872 0251 featuring Kempnough Hall, Worsley Fax: 0161 872 4951 Could Volunteering Change your Old Hall and the sites of Brick Hall and Email: Worsley New Hall. Meet Ann Monaghan [email protected] Life? at Worsley Court House, Barton Road, Open: Mon-Fri 10.00am- Salford Museum and Art Gallery Worsley Sunday 8 August 2pm 4.00pm and Sunday Staff from Salford Volunteer Bureau 1.00-4.00pm explain how to get involved in Down by the Riverside Follow the Closed Saturday volunteering in Salford. Irwell to Manchester and discover more Free parking, gift shop, Wednesday 2 June, and 7 July 2pm Free about the floods, factories and film limited disabled access locations associated with the Dark River. George Coulouris 1903-1989 Meet Tony Frankland at Salford Museum Working Class Salford Museum and Art Gallery and Art Gallery Sunday 22 August 1.30pm Movement Library Former BBC producer Brian Dean talks about the life and career of this Salford- Worsley and the Bridgewater Canal 51 Crescent, Salford born actor Discover more about the birthplace of the M5 4WX Wednesday 9 June, and Wednesday transport revolution on this walk around Tel: 0161 736 3601 8 September, 2pm Free the village centre and the canal. Meet Fax: 0161 737 4115 David George at Worsley Village Library Email: Sunday 5 September 2pm [email protected] Beasts of the Nile Open: by Salford Museum and Art Galley Sixty Acres of History Join us for a appointment only Angela Thomas, Keeper of Egyptology walk around Worsley New Hall, discover Tues-Fri 10.00am-5.00pm at Bolton Museum, offers her specialist the secrets of the Victorian kitchen (late night Weds 7.00pm) knowledge on some remarkable artefacts gardens and the terraces where Queen Wednesday 22 September, 2pm Free Victoria once walked. Meet Wayne Broadbent at Worsley Hall Garden Centre. A Salford Lad FREE as part of the Heritage Open Days Salford Museum and Art Gallery programme, Sunday 12 September 2pm Artist Chris Sims reflects on his life as a young man in Salford during and after Broken Bank to Salford Spa Our the war route follows the Crescent, Chapel Street Wednesday 29 September, 2pm Free to Bank Street, the site of Salford Spa. Discover the fascinating story of Salford’s There will be lots of events and activities spring water supply and health spa. in October during the half term holiday Finishes at The Pumphouse. Meet Tony and for the Big Draw 2004, please Frankland at Salford Museum and Art contact the gallery for more details. Gallery, Sunday 26 September 1.30pm

12 WORKSHOPS

The Art of Volunteering Animal Pottery Workshop Corridor Workshop for 10-16 year olds for all ages Don’t miss A fun-filled interactive arts workshop. Make your own clay animal, for us to this amazing Part of Volunteers week include in the Meadow exhibition, or for performance of Wednesday 2 June, 2.30pm - 4pm Free you to collect in September visual and audio works Salford Museum and Art Gallery. Thursday 12 August, celebrating Chapel Street. Please book in advance 1.30-3.30pm Free, Conceived and performed Ordsall Hall Museum. by pupils from the Fabulous Fabrics Workshop for Please book in advance Cathedral School of St Peter & St John, with the 10 -16 year olds Salford Artist’s Collective Create something exciting and unusual Start Art! Workshop for 5-10 Saturday 21 August, 2pm with textile artist Louise Day year olds Free, Salford Museum Saturday 5 June, 2-4pm Free Improve your art skills with artist Michelle and Art Gallery Salford Museum and Art Gallery. Leigh in this fun-filled workshop Please book in advance Monday 23 August, 1.30-3.30pm Free, Ordsall Hall Museum, Please book in Radclyffes Textile Workshop for adults advance. Under 7s must be accompanied in Dispute Medieval Join textile artist Louise Day for this by an adult courtroom hands-on workshop inspired by the Ann drama with the usual Sutton Retrospective Art Master Class Workshop for festivities, cookery and Saturday 19 June, 2-4pm Free 10-16 year olds crafts. Join the Yorkshire Salford Museum and Art Gallery. Develop your art skills and master new Yeomen as they portray Please book in advance techniques, with artist Michelle Leigh. the Radclyffe household Thursday 26 August, 1.30-3.30pm Free, in the 15th century Ordsall Hall Museum. Memorial Workshop Drop in Saturday 12 & Sunday Please book in advance workshop for adults 13 June, 1-4pm Free, The Milestones exhibition looks at Ordsall Hall Museum life, including loss; contribute to the Family Backpacks! Memorial Book or create a Keepsake Box Pick up a bag full of activities from Music for a Summer with artist Denise Green to remember reception. A small deposit is required During August Free, Salford Museum and Evening loved ones. Bring photos, letters, pressed The Heritage Singers Art Gallery flowers, poems and notes (materials also bring outstanding music provided). to your ears within the Thursday 15 July, 12-4.30pm Free, Archery Drop in event magical surroundings of Salford Museum and Art Gallery for all ages the Hall Learn archery skills in the Friday 18 June, Memorial Workshop Drop in grounds of the Hall 7pm -9.30pm, £7 ticket, workshop for all ages Monday 2 August, and Friday 20th August Ordsall Hall Museum The Milestones exhibition looks at life, 1-4pm Free, Ordsall Hall Museum (tickets can be collected including loss; contribute to a Memorial from either venue from Book or create a bookmark with artist Tudor Portraits May) Denise Green to remember loved ones. Dress up as a Tudor family Decorate with your photos, and have your portrait taken! pressed flowers, poems In conjunction with Escape (materials also provided) Photography Thursday 22 July, 12-4.30pm Thursday 5 August, 2-4pm Free, Ordsall Free, Salford Museum and Art Gallery Hall Museum. Please book in advance

Storytelling Trails Workshop for Victorian Portraits kids up to 10 year olds Dress up as a Victorian family All children must be accompanied by an and have your portrait taken! adult. In conjunction with Escape Wander and wind your way through the Photography park with storyteller Fiona Collins Wednesday 11 August, 2-4pm Free, Tuesdays 10 August and 17 August, Salford Museum and Art Gallery. 10.30am-12.30pm OR 1.30-3.30pm Please book in advance Free, Salford Museum and Art Gallery. Please book in advance

13 Exhibitions Programme

At Salford Museum and Art Gallery IN THE COMMUNITY GALLERY Salford And Beyond Open: Mon-Fri 10.00am-4.45pm, by Chris Sims Sat-Sun 1.00-5.00pm Price: free Changing Lives Salford Volunteer Bureau celebrate the I was born in Salford in the Ann Sutton: A Retrospective amazing work that goes on in the city, late 1930s. My early years An internationally renowned weaver with images by the City Klickers Artists. during the war were spent whose bold and colourful works have 29 May to 18 July living off Broughton Road, made her an influential figure in the opposite Pendleton Church, field of textiles. St Ambrose RC School in a typical two up two down 29 May to 18 July Year 11 students get the chance to terraced house with outside showcase their work. toilet. We then moved to New Pottery, New Glazes 24 July to 12 September Irlams o’ th’ Height and whilst A centenary exhibition of Pilkington’s there, still a child, I found I Lancastrian pottery, recreating the had the ability to draw and Salford and Beyond cannot recall wanting to be magic of the 1904 showcase with its Salford artist Chris Sims captures the anything other than an artist. ‘bewildering carnival of colours’. spirit of his hometown and further afield. 22 May to 8 August 18 September to 14 November At 16, whilst at Salford Grammar School, my hopes Swinton and District At Ordsall Hall Museum were dashed when, for lack Open: Mon-Fri 10.00am-4.00pm, Sun Photographic Society of funds, I was unable to go to 1.00-4.00pm Price: free Members of the Society present their art college and so worked as annual show of new work. a photo-engraver and photo- 22 May to 4 July Tudor Times lithographer for many years, Find out about life in Tudor Times with including being involved in Engaging Refugees and Asylum this interactive exhibition. running two businesses. Seekers 30 May to 18 July A celebration of the project that has In 1999 I was unwell and taken place at Salford Museum and START Art decided to return to painting. Art Gallery over the last 12 months, An exciting and interactive family art Most of the images on view including artworks from some of the experience. This beginner’s guided to art in my forthcoming exhibition participants. appreciation is based on treasures from reflect the places I knew 17 July to 6 February Salford’s collection. as a lad in Salford where I 1 August to 29 August spent the first 25 years of The Magic of Masks and my life. In 1969 I returned to Zarah Hussain Salford to photograph streets

Puppets This North West artist uses ancient South and buildings soon to be This family exhibition captures the Asian techniques and pigments to create demolished. magic and mystery of this oldest of intricate artworks. theatrical activities. 12 September to 14 November My influences range from 31 July to 5 September Mr Lowry through to the French Impressionists. Corridor Audio and visual works created by the I now live in Rossendale, but Salford Artists Collective with local once a Salfordian always school children, inspired by the Chapel a Salfordian. I do hope the Street regeneration corridor. works on display bring back 21 August to 17 October memories and give some pleasure. Chris’s exhibition Beasts of the Nile runs from Saturday 18 A fascinating insight into ancient September to Sunday 14 Egyptian animal life through a range of November 2004 in the artefacts including mummies, bronzes, LifeTimes Community textiles and pottery. Chris at work in his Rossendale studio Gallery. 18 September to 14 November

See page 23 for Local History LinkListings Round Up - a full listing of heritage a taste of forthcoming Heritage events talks in Salford 14 Northumberland Street by Stanley Horrocks

If you were ever to hold a competition to decide which street in Salford could claim to be of the greatest interest to local history, my own choice would be Northumberland Street where we have lived for nearly fifty years and which lies between Bury New Road and Leicester Road in Higher Broughton.

This is part of the Clowes Estate and so many street names of this district have direct links with the land-owning Clowes family, but I regret I have not been able to discover the origin of the name allocated so long ago to Northumberland Number 17 has had a fascinating history. Engraving of the Grand Street, although it is shown as such on the It was selected by Sir Oswald Mosley as Menagerie at Broughton Zoo maps of 160 years ago. his headquarters for the Manchester unit of the British Union of Fascists, the The Broughton Zoological Gardens were ‘Blackshirts’, and he officially opened Schools in Whitworth opened in May 1838 at the Bury New Road the premises in April 1934. The house Street, the Minshull end of the street and the local historian was later demolished and the site is now Street Court and the Louis M Hayes recalled as a boy watching occupied by one of the most orthodox Great Northern Goods a bear climbing up and down a high pole Jewish Synagogues in the city. Station, which is now set in the bear pit. The Zoo was a financial an interesting feature of failure and closed in 1842 when some of The house next door to the BUF HQ was Deansgate. the animals were transferred to the Belle once the home of Sir Leslie Lever, a one- Vue Zoo in Manchester. time Lord Mayor of Manchester who was Mr Neill, who was twice later created a Life Peer, taking the name Mayor of Manchester, A building which still remains intact is the Lord Lever of Ardwick. died at Midfield in 1899 at Higher Broughton Conservative Club which the age of 82. His funeral in the 1860s was the Higher Broughton Further up the street, a handsome procession to St. Paul’s Bowling Club Ltd. Before becoming building, Coldstream House, was the Churchyard, Kersal, was the Conservative Club, it served as the home of John Donaldson, a notable led by one thousand of Broughton Copper Works Social Club. member of the old Manchester Shudehill his workmen! Fish Market for many years. Many of the older houses have been Today, There was a resident of the street called demolished, but one front gatepost still Northumberland bears the number 13. This marks the Thomas Baddeley, a prolific photographer home of Sir John Harwood (1832-1906), who recorded various changes in the Street still pulsates a former Mayor of Manchester. In 1894 passing scene during the early twentieth with life, and it he was the Chairman of the Manchester century. He bequeathed hundreds of would be interesting Waterworks Committee, which was his photographs and other work to the to know if any instrumental in bringing clean water Manchester Central Library where they from Thirlmere in the Lake District all can still be viewed on their computer of your readers the way to Manchester. In the same year screens. could suggest a the water fountain in Albert Square was comparative street erected to commemorate this remarkable Another elegant house, Midfield, was in Salford which at one time the Salford Civil Defence achievement. Sir John Harwood might also claim died at number 13 and was buried at headquarters and was demolished to Manchester’s Southern Cemetery. become Midfield Court sheltered housing such a wealth complex. Midfield was originally the of historical During the nineteenth century, two of the home of Mr Robert Neill who created a memories. houses since demolished, Laurel Bank business that, in its day, was one of the and Brentwood, were occupied at times as largest building firms in the country. day and boarding schools. Amongst the many important contracts undertaken by Neill were the Manchester Town Hall, the Municipal Technical 15 S.M.A.R.T.

SMART - Salford Museums Are Really Terrific - is the junior museum club for the Heritage Service. It’s open to anyone under 15 and you can get involved in arts activities and to have a say in what goes on at the museums.

SMART members have created their own web site, been museum assistants and curators for a day and also act as reporters for their quarterly newsletter SCOOP!

If you’re under 15 and want to be in SMART contact Jo Clarke at Salford Museum and Art Gallery on 0161 736 2649 or email [email protected].

You can also take a look at the SMART website at www.smart.salford.gov.uk and start getting SMART!

Competition - can you find..? How good are you at spotting things?

Salford Museum and Art Gallery is a huge building with lots of displays. A prize is in store for the person who finds the Museum’s Golden Harp (it’s somewhere in the building) and draws the picture we like best.

To enter you must draw the object in the box above and write which gallery/ section of Salford Museum and Art Gallery you found it in. Simply fill in your details below and hand it in to a Museum Assistant. I will contact you if you are our winner - happy hunting and good luck!

Tania

To enter, you can either cut out this page, photocopy it or pick up a copy The winner of the last ‘Can you find…’ of this page from the Museum and Art Gallery. The closing date for competition was Olivia Garvey aged 12 entries is 30 November 2004. from Monton and as you can see she has drawn a stunning picture of the Tulip Vase, which I discovered the GOLDEN HARP in ...... she found in the Victorian Gallery. Name: ...... Age: ...... There were some other great Address: ...... entries, so thanks to ...... Phone number: ...... everyone who found and drew Signed by Museum Assistant: ...... the vase. Today’s date: / / Time: ...... am/pm 16 More Mysteries Albert Hallows You write ... G’day and congrats on another Re : Albert Hallows of Hartington Street. smashing newsletter. More mystery I did not know him, but knew a girl who photos please. Perhaps when the lived in the same street - Miss Linda Allen Finding Film Bulletin Board is back up and running on and a mate I knew, George Bebbington. your website you could post a pic on there We were all born around 1946. Does Re the letter from John for discussion. Just a thought. anybody remember them? Greenhalgh, Mansfield Woodhouse in Issue Alan Cutts, Sydney, Australia (via email) Harry Livesey, 14 page 3. He should [Ed: The website is going through many changes Salford (via email) try North West Film at present, so we’ll keep this in mind] Archives at web site www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk or email n.w.filmarchive@m mu.ac.uk or phone 0161 George Coulouris we all wished we were older so we could 247 3097. Although, if it stay late. And now I wish I was younger to was a BBC programme [Ed: Your letters form an important and interesting enjoy it all over again. he could also contact part of this magazine, so when we were handed a The fire and police station at the back of letter from 43 years ago, written to actor George them, at Broadcasting Coulouris, we thought it worthy of printing here. A your place. The antics we used to get up House, London, W1A small display on the life and work of George can to make the firemen’s lives unbearable. I 1AA- phone 0171 765 be seen in the LifeTimes Gallery until the end of wonder do you ever think of these things, 3839. September 2004. See also Talks @ 2] or have you been too busy with life? I think you have to be getting old to remember Roy Bullock, Salford Dear George, clearly. Just the same, they are pleasant memories. I have seen you quite a lot I expect you are wondering who the devil on TV and if I hadn’t known your name I you know at the above address. would have said it was your father I was Poetry Let me take you back 50 years - The watching. King’s Restaurant, Trafford Road, So much for that George. I estimate Salford on a winter’s night. Sammy and your age to be around 60 [Ed: actually 57] The Point Of Eveline Knight, Harold Tucker, Tommy that is if my memory serves me right. No Return Larney, Tom and Alice Porter, the two Now I suppose you are wondering who by A W Jones, Eavens brothers (Frank burnt to death), has written this? Well, Len Nicoll and Kent (ex-Pendleton) Anne and Edith Rogers. The two Nicoll still going strong. A lot of water has gone brothers, Tommy Sweatman, Polly, down the Canal since we last saw one I tried to flaunt a rule of time Freda and Mary (the Jewish family). Do another. I am writing this to wish you And paid a heavy mental fine Competition - can you find..? you remember? All of them invited to a well, and if you ever want a cuppa, well For years I yearned to party by your lady mother. A huge trifle call and see us. wander back in the middle of a big table about two foot Along that distant high, sparkling with silver balls and by Frank L Nicoll, youthful track the time we had finished we were fit to Little Hulton, Walkden. 4th May 1961 The friends and places bust. Happy memories George. And how that I knew Before I wore the airforce blue The times we had the fun Just for fun - we made Stored in my mind like milestones priceless jade So just last week I wordsearch! wandered down The Milestones exhibition The once loved streets of shows objects that are linked my hometown to important times in our The places in my dreams lives, especially births, deaths of yore and marriages. Had disappeared to be no more Can you find these objects in Outwardly I talked the wordsearch? Now can you and sighed find them all in the exhibition? But deep inside my poor What is your favourite object heart cried and why? I really tried but failed to learn Time marches on - BONNET CRIB RATTLE WEDDING PHOTO there’s no return HIGH CHAIR LOCKET SUIT MOURNING DRESS FUNERAL CARD VEIL TABLECLOTH CHRISTENING GOWN August 1990 BABY BOOTS BOTTLE COFFIN WEDDING DRESS 17 throughout the city. Spectator bleachers were built in Buile Hill Park at the low Pageant of history end of a huge, sloping, grassed area, by J W O’Connor immediately facing the large one-time mansion, which until recent times was a I suppose I am old Yet, to me, one special event of the year museum. Here, in the open air, with the enough now to 1930 is stronger in my memory than field of well-mown grass as the arena, consider events that anything I ate yesterday. I often recall one a series of short historical plays were occurred when I was particular July week of that year. It was staged on each of six evenings, Monday to the occasion of my hometown’s 700th but ten years of age Saturday, for the enjoyment (and, it was anniversary celebrations. hoped, for the edification) of the entire to have passed into populace. history. Of course, In 1230, Sir Ranulph de Blundeville, even yesterday’s Earl of Chester and Lord of the Manor There was a total of eight episodes, lunch is history, but of Salford, granted the town a Charter, preceded by a prologue in which the Spirit my grandchildren and creating Salford a free borough. We of Salford and the Spirit of Memory were great-grandchildren had reason for pride, for the rival town both personified, along with Father Time. think of seventy years of Mameceaster (now Manchester, and Following that came the first episode, ago as ancient history! contiguous with Salford), did not receive commemorating the surrender (c AD 71) its similar charter until more than half a of our Ancient British ancestors to the century later - 1301 in fact. Among other great Agricola of Rome. Together with benefits of the Charter, each citizen, or the rest of my family, I ‘acted’ (if I may so burgess, was given ‘the right of common dignify my effort on that occasion) in this free pasture in the wood, plain and episode, dressed in sandals and saffron pastures belonging to the town and was coloured robe, and with my skin coated free of... the traditional payment made with red raddle, (the northern version of for pasturing swine in the wood.’ (Quoted woad, I suppose). Even my three-year old from Evelyn V. Vigeon, in ‘Salford’s sister was similarly attired and painted! Heritage, Salford...a City and its Past’, Ed. Tom Bergin, Dorothy N Pearce, Stanley This early section of the pageant is Shaw. Pub City of Salford 1974). extremely vivid to my memory, not simply because it was one of the two Many special activities were scheduled episodes in which I participated, but also during 1930, but they came to a peak because of a certain line of dialogue in during the first week of that July. A great the play. Hoping to avert the threat of the pageant had been planned and literally approaching Roman legions, the Druids hundreds of citizens, from babes in called for a sacrifice, and a young woman arms to the most senior, were involved stepped forward from the crowd crying: as voluntary actors in the re-enactment ‘Take me, I am ready. See! My breast is Julius Agricola rescues a boy of various aspects of our city’s history. bared for the knife!’ To the increasingly from being sacrificed. (Salford had been raised to the status of curious mind of a boy of ten, this was (Salford Local History Library) city in 1926.) Several weeks of rehearsal really daring and titillating. Boys of that were staged in a number of public halls age just didn’t use the word “breast” in public in those days.

18 The whole of Salford’s history was encompassed in the seven episodes You write ... which followed. Scenes included the people’s rejection of Wodin worship for Christianity, the conferring of the Charter Salford Pageant 1930 was the dispensary with all its (of course), a supposed visit to the town coloured bottles. When our turn of Guy Fawkes, and the genuine historical I have been given Issue 14 of came we entered Dr Dowling’s room visit of Bonnie Prince Charles in 1745. It your magazine and I found it most to find this large grey-haired man was all very exciting. I was able to watch interesting. with a smiling face, he gave me a it all from the screened-off players’ area, I have lived in Salford all my life, brief examination and said he would until my next on-stage appearance in mainly in the Langworthy area in prescribe a bottle of medicine that Episode Eight. From early Britain, we its better days and for some time would cure the problem. He told my had progressed to the 1800s and the now I have been thinking about mother, ‘You look worse than your industrial revolution. Once again, this an event which took place around daughter. Don’t worry, she will soon time in ragged, short trousers and torn 1930/31. It was a pageant in Buile be well.’ We came back out of the shirt, I was a little street urchin, my face Hill Park and I think the theme waiting room and the lady dispenser smeared with dirt, rather than raddled. was Merry England. It was a huge made up the bottle there and then. There was a villain in this episode, Black event with hundreds taking part. I took the medicine and never Douglas, another real character from the There was also a competition suffered from the problem again. past, the cruel owner of Cripple Mills. held amongst the schools for the Of course we had to go back two production of a poster to advertise or three times and each time this The high point of the performance, at this, which I believe was won by wonderful old (as he seemed to least for all we scruffy little boys and Ena Costello. me) man checked me over and girls, occurred on the last night of the I cannot recall what the pronounced me fit and well, and I celebrations. During the play, we had celebration was but I am sure was! to pretend we were buying Chelsea there must be some older folks I don’t know what my mother paid Buns from a street hawker. Each of like myself who can recall this. Is for me to see Dr Dowling, although I the previous evenings our ‘buns’, it possible you could look into this do remember her saying how cheap disappointingly enough, had been only and perhaps do an item about it it was. On our visits she had spoken little blocks of wood, which we pretended in your next issue? I would dearly with patients in the waiting room to eat. For this last performance, love to ‘read all about it’! and they had told her that he never however, some kind citizen had made it turned anyone away and if they possible for us to ‘buy’ real buns! Dorothy M Jackson, Pendlebury couldn’t pay he would see them for free. Some years later we heard that [Ed: Bill O’Connor, from Canada, has sent In some strange way, possible only with us his recollections of this event his son had taken over the practice. a kind of dramatic licence, the Spirit of - see opposite page] Since that time redevelopment has Salford made her appearance once again taken place and Dr Dowling’s rooms at the tail end of this episode, which Doctor Dowling are now long gone, but his memory a flourish of trumpets marvellously will say with me forever. converted into the Grand Finale. The Does anyone remember Dr entire cast paraded its way back into the Dowling who had rooms near Margaret Koppens, Astley Bridge, arena, the principle actors leading the Pendleton Church in the 1940s? Bolton way, and taking centre stage. Agricola, As a child of six or seven I was King Alfred, Sir Ranulph de Blundeville, unable to play with my friends John of Gaunt, and ancestors of still as any exertion caused me to Where’s Walkden Jenny? remembered and well-known Salford pass blood when going to the families - all were there. toilet. I was taken into Bolton In our last issue we featured a Royal Infirmary (now demolished) letter and photo from Miss S Lee of The whole spectacular week left an several times and sent home Basingstoke looking for a girl last enduring memory with at least one pronounced fit. But I still wasn’t heard of back in 1946. We had three erstwhile youngster and, I’m sure, with well. Someone told my mother phone calls, from Doreen Young, many others who were then young, up- about Dr Dowling and what a good Jean Davis, and Jean Jackson, who and-coming citizens. Although I now live specialist he was; he was known were able to throw some light on in Canada, I have a great affection for as the ‘poor man’s specialist’ to the subject. the Lancashire town in which I was born many. Jenny (some knew her as Jane) and raised to manhood, and a sense of We went on the bus from Bolton Statter from Chesnut Avenue went pride that my fellow Salfordians include and mother asked to be told when to Farnworth Grammar School. such men of yester-year as John Byrom, we were at Pendleton Church, She married, becoming Mrs (author of the carol, Christians Awake), where we alighted and went to Miles Lewis (not sure of spelling) Dr James Joule the physicist, and also a large house running at right and emigrated to Australia. It is the recent, much respected Alistair angles from the main road, and up believed her Aunt Alice and cousin Cooke. Many thousands of miles now some steps. All around were the Martin still live locally. There are separate me, physically, from Salford, signs of devastation caused by the several Slatters listed in the local but there will always be that spiritual bombs from WWII. telephone directory. link, (how else can I describe it?), which Once inside we entered a small causes the heart to give a little leap when waiting room with benches round Editor LifeTimes Link the old place is mentioned in the news! each side; at one side of the room ... more of your letters overleaf 19 You write ... now? Mr Winstanley was the person who taught us how to kick with both feet by making us wear a boot on our non- Wilfred McCabe MM, MBE kicking foot and a plimsoll on the other! Later, in my career as a teacher sports Born and bred a I will be 90 years old in July and was in master, I too made good use of this Salfordian in 1923, the Air Force. Armistice memories are method with the teams I coached. The my earliest memories coming round again, so I thought I would teacher I remember most at Frederick start at three years Road was Miss Moore, for she had the root out the citation, which my wife’s old, living in misfortune of taking our class from our youngest brother received from the King Bridlington Avenue off at the war’s end. I believe his medals are joining the school to our leaving in July Tootal Road, Pendleton in the Bury Barracks. 1939. I remember my younger brother, now In September of that year I joined the with my parents, as an dead, telling me that after fighting their Salford Grammar School in Leaf Square, only child. way up to Kohima his regiment met up where I remained until eighteen years of with the Lancashire Fusiliers and he age. From there I went to Carmarthen One year later we moved met my wife’s brother, Warrant Officer College in South Wales for two years, to 2 Bishop Street, which McCabe, who took him into the Mess and later into the Education Corps for my cornered with Ellor for a drink. Wilfred, who lived in Higher National Service. I retired from teaching Street, facing Castle Broughton at the outbreak of war, was, in 1987. Street and Snapes Brow. like me, only five foot four inches tall, So I have much to thank Frederick Road This was a simple which made him conspicuous on any Boys’ School for, for leading me into my home with a small photographs with tall officers. Education sphere and for my sporting kitchen and living room, The Military Medal Citation reads: On ability. two bedrooms and a the 15th May 1940 when his company backyard opening to a were holding the front line at BASSE Roy Whitehead, Stretford common entry, typical WAVRE on the River Dyle this NCO of the working class personally distributed a hot meal to every Supposed Mobile Weighbridge accommodation of the man in his company. In order to do this he time. My Dad, Joseph, had to cross between the forward posts I would like to suggest that the supposed was a welder at Salford over very exposed ground, which was mobile weighbridge [Mystery Pics Issue Tramways Depot on under heavy machine gun and mortar 12] is in fact part of a datum point for a Frederick Road. Mum, fire. His coolness, cheerfulness and car economy, or reliability, run or other Emily, (nee Snape) was a courage in getting hot food to forward road trial. It has already been established milliner at Mr Edwards’ posts under very difficult conditions that the man in the white overalls is House Workshop in undoubtedly helped to maintain the a representative of a company with Higher Broughton. morale of the men at a high standard. automotive connections. His conduct and example under fire Examination of the picture shows that Though life was a was most praiseworthy and a valuable had the supposed ‘workman’s shelter’ struggle, as indeed it was example to all ranks of his company. have included the usual coke brazier, for many, we always had the resulting explosion would have been the means to maintain Fred Hinson, Bury, November 2003 heard over most of Salford. Look at the a reasonable standard space between the car and shelter and of living. There was a Frederick Road School absolutely plain is a clear glass standard feeling of togetherness measure used to deliver an exact amount within a closely knit I was interested to read in Issue 14 of fuel, usually petrol. This, together with community of families the letter from Albert Jones regarding the very temporary shelter, suggests a living close to the bread- Frederick Road Council School. My elder roadside base for officials and mechanics line. The streets were brother, Stan, and I spent our younger running trials and using what is clearly an always a hive of activity, days as pupils of what we knew as upmarket car. with people making their Frederick Road Boys’ School. Our family Whilst your correspondent in Issue 14 is way about on foot, in lived in the park lodge, opposite the tram in no doubt correct about the standard of horse-drawn carriages depot and our parents knew the Rev care lavished on Council employees, I feel and motor driven Tallboy and his family well. this is not one such use. By the way, no vehicles. The bicycle The photograph that you published one has mentioned what must be one of was very popular, being interested me too because of the notice Salford’s first Belisha Beacon crossings in an economical way of board held by a pupil. I have a photograph the background. getting to and from the of the school football team with myself, workplace. as Captain, holding that same notice Glen Atkinson, Worsley board, stating Frederick Road 1938- Most houses had a cold 39 Juniors. I can remember the two Send your letters in to: water supply only, which The Editor, LifeTimes Link, 51 Crescent, teachers on the photo, Mr Williams, meant that the sole Salford, M5 4WX. the Headteacher, and Mr Winstanley, means of having a hot Email: [email protected]. bath was a kettle full of the games master. Four other team Tel/Fax: 0161 736 1594. members were Jack Griffiths, Hugh boiling water on a coal Sinclair, Stan Edwards, and somebody fire, a tin bath on the Due to space limitations we reserve the right to rug and a bar of carbolic called Lowe. I wonder where they are edit any letters that we do include. 20 soap, or if the weekly Those Were The Days, My Friend by Charles Nicholls wage would stretch, Lux toilet soap. At teatime I used to walk down Duchy I sometimes think back on the street Road to meet Dad cycling home from the games and activities; bowl and hoop down Tram Depot and have a ride back home Snapes Brow – how it missed the traffic sat on the carrier over his bike rear wheel on Ellor Street I’ll never know; the kites - a great thrill. I remember with fondness that Dad made me from coloured tissue playmates Pat Greenwood (sadly killed paper, cane, and flour and water. Great as a fighter pilot in WWII), Tony Wagstaff, fun, especially when they got stuck on Leslie Brown and Eddie Aston. a lamppost spire and our kind window- cleaner came to the rescue. Top and whip, Serving our small community was hopscotch, stilts, cigarette-cards, skipping Maybury’s corner shop, a well stocked ropes and marbles (we called them ‘allies’) grocer’s. Otherwise it meant a traipse were all firm favourites. up Bank Lane to the Height Village, comprising every kind of shop you could Minden Street, off Duchy Road. Dad started work early at 7 am and so we imagine, from Tinker’s Chemist to Stott’s Is that the Garden of Eden in the had a knocker-up, a chap who tapped on background? the fruiter and Kidd’s fish and chip shop, (Salford Local History Library) the bedroom window at 6 am with a set of not forgetting the ‘cobbles’, a fascinating thin wire spokes attached to the end of a stretch of shopping. At ten years old, I frequented long pole. the Height Library and was In 1931 we moved to 10 Shirley Avenue on an avid reader of Richmal At five years old I started at Halton Bank the newly built estate opposite the top of Crompton’s ‘William’ stories Council School on Bolton Road, next to the Agecroft Brew on Bolton Road. They were with the daring exploits of Woolpack Inn at the fork of Bolton Road called ‘sunshine houses’ with a through the ‘gang of four’, William, and Eccles Old Road. The Infants Section living room at ground level, pleasant Douglas, Ginger and Henry. had its own entrance on Seedley Road. gardens backing onto a farm field full of In contrast, I enjoyed reading However, after five years of freedom, cows, a paradise away from our earlier comics; ‘Funny Wonder’, the prospect of daily confinement in a times; though sadly short-lived due to ‘Film Fun’, ‘The Joker’, classroom did not appeal and my Gran Dad’s prolonged illness causing us to ‘Comic Cuts’ and ‘Bobby had to literally drag me there. Finally I fall too far behind with our mortgage. Bear’s Annual’. These were succumbed when coaxed with a lunch Laughable when considering the house superseded by the ‘Bloods’ packet of Jacobs biscuits and a rosy apple. purchase price was £350. So in 1932 we a weekly group of boys’ Our headmistress was Miss Waterhouse returned to rental housing at 12 Saxby magazines and comprising who lived in a nice bungalow facing the Street at the Height, facing number 9 Western serials and thriller school on Bolton Road. Her nephew, where my Granny Nicholls (nee Prudence tales, all of which captured George Waterhouse, was a classmate up Proctor) lived with daughter Aunty Gerty my boyhood imagination. to leaving the school in 1934 when I won and where next door but one to us at a fellowship to De La Salle College on No 8 lived Uncle Walter and Aunty Doris The Height and nearby areas Weaste Lane facing Buile Hill Park. Bumby (nee Nicholls). In addition, a few were and still are blessed minutes away at No 22 Peacocks Avenue with public parkland. I However, continuing from Ellor Street, on the Claremont Estate lived Uncle relished them all as a boy at six years old we moved to 2 Minden George (Dad’s brother) and Aunty Doris - Buile Hill, Light Oaks and Street off Duchy Road, Irlams o’ th’ Height. (nee Goonan) with daughter Joyce, three Oakwood. Many was the Compared with Ellor Street, Duchy Road years my senior. Also nearby was Dad’s time I was chased from the was the Garden of Eden, stretching from eldest sister Violet (Aunty Vi) who lived on top branches of crab apple Aston’s Farm at the bottom end of Bank Bolton Road facing Langworthy Road. So and conker trees through Lane to the entrance to Brindle Heath, a we were a close knit family, constantly in Oakwood by the park- fascinating community of Victorian houses, touch with knocks at the door at all times. keeper. narrow streets and light industries. Duchy Road was open-spaced with Bolton Road Sunday was truly a day of Playing fields, grazing land for livestock rest following six days of of Alton’s Farm and the unforgettable heavy manual work for Dorney’s Hill, a sand based outcrop where many, though we were often I often sat and scanned the basin below, disturbed from having a lie alive with railway shunting lines and in by a cornet player walking clanking locomotive wagons. slowly down Saxby Street at 7 am!

Bishop Street, My seven years as a pupil off Ellor Street at De La Salle, from 1934 as it looked in to 1941 was a colourful, 1961 enjoyable period and I would (Salford Local History like to continue reminiscing Library) at a later date, if I may. 21 MysteryPoems Pix

Salford Local History Library has over 50,000 photos in their collection and unfortunately we can’t identify some of the donations. Drop us a line or pop into the Local History Library if you can help. Open Tuesday-Friday 10am -5pm with a late night opening on Wednesday until 8pm.

This issues pix ...

1. A school or nursery - possibly in the Eccles area. 1 2. Not even sure if this church is in the Salford area!

3. Demolition of houses in Salford - we think!

All three photos in the last issue (see foot of page) seem to have been identified - but let us know if you have any other suggestions. Mrs Sandra Fiddler from Tyldesley thought the top photo in Issue 14 (bottom left below) was the nursery on Fitzwarren Street, a couple of blocks down from Moores Bakery.

The centre photo of the bar c1972 (bottom centre below) was thought by Mrs Chris Whitefoot to be the Cumberland Club at the top of Langworthy Road, but an email from John Edge of Salford 6 says: ‘The photo is, I believe, the Barbarella which later became the Swinging Sporran and is now known by yet another name. The barmaid is Mrs Sally Sweeney and the customer leaning on 2 the bar is Jack Lowther, unfortunately the couple in the photograph are not known.’

Salford Housing OfficerPaul Wilson emailed us just a few days after the magazine went out last November: ‘This issue’s Ordsall Mystery Pic Number Three. Taken in the late 70s, the houses, pictured from the rear, are numbers 27-33 Buckfield. The brick building in the background is The Sabre pub, and the tower block in the distance is Sunnyside Court. The houses were extensively refurbished in the early 90s and are now 15-25 Buckfield Avenue, the pub has gone and sadly so has Sunnyside. To complete the story the Buckfield site was, prior to the original Ordsall clearance, the area defined by West Park Street to the North, Taylorson Street to the East, Hulton Street to the South and Cavendish Street to the West. The picket-fenced gardens in the photo are situated roughly where Clement Street 3 once stood.’ (bottom right below)

22 Local History Round Up

Boothstown & District Eccles & District History Society Swinton and Pendlebury Local Local History Group From September 2004 meet at History Society Meet at Boothstown Community Centre Alexandra House, 395 Liverpool Road, Meet at Pendlebury Methodist Church, Contact: Ann Monaghan on Peel Green Bolton Road, Pendlebury 0161 736 1594 Contact: Mr Andrew Cross on Contact: John Cook on 0161 736 6191 e-mail: [email protected] 0161 788 7263 website: www.edhc.colsal.org.uk Monday 7 June Wednesday 15 September AGM plus slide show Yorkshire Coiners - Cliff Stockton Wednesdays from September - May Wednesday 20 October Monday 21 June The History of Medicine From 7.30pm, visitors welcome, £1.00 Reminiscence Session - Tony Ridings per lecture. Wednesday 17 November All events start 10.15am, visitors Farewell to Lord Derby Irlam, Cadishead and District Local welcome, £1.00 per event. - Lizzie Jones History Society Meet at Irlam Library Contact: Mr JH Heap on 0161 775 7826 Walkden Local History Group All talks start 7.45pm, visitors welcome, website: www.icdlhs.colsal.org.uk £1.00 per lecture. Meet at Walkden Congregational Church, Bolton Road Wednesday 16 June Contact: Ann Monaghan on Broughton District A Merchant Navy Wife 0161 736 1594 Local History Society - Mrs A Nichol e-mail: [email protected] Meet at Broughton Library Wednesday 21 July Contact: Mrs P Dimond on 0161 798 6382 A Visit to Norton Priory Wednesday 15 September Worsley Methodist Church AGM plus guest speaker Meet at Worsley Methodist Church, Monday 14 June Barton Road, Worsley Members Evening Contact: Paul Hassall on July - August All talks start 7.30pm, visitors welcome, 0161 790 5164 £1.00 per lecture. NO MEETINGS Friday 18 June Monday 13 September Salford Local History Society Salford’s Listed Buildings Meet at Salford Museum and Art Gallery James Nasmyth - John Aldred - Joe Martin Contact: Roy Bullock on 0161 736 7306 Monday 11 October From 7.30pm, visitors welcome, £3.00. The History of Chocolate Wednesday 30 June - Michael Clarke The History of Chocolate Monday 8 November - Michael Clarke Ordsall Hall Wednesday 28 July Heritage Open Days - with Les Willis as Yorkshire Coiners - Cliff Stockton Wednesday 25 August This nationwide event Sir John Radclyffe takes place from Friday Monday 13 December The Pauper’s Palace - Swinton Industrial Schools 10 September to Monday AGM and Social Evening 13 September at various - John Cook venues. Details will be Wednesday 29 September All talks start 7.30pm, visitors welcome, available nearer the time What the Papers Said £1.00 per lecture. from Christine Haydon, - Glen Atkinson Strategic Support Officer, Wednesday 27 October 0161 778 0337 Secret Lancashire and Cheshire email: christine.haydon Eccles Heritage @salford.gov.uk Meet at Eccles Library - Mr P Robinson Contact: Miss Ann Humpage on Wednesday 24 November 0161 789 2820 Give My Regards to Broad Street - Ann Monaghan Thursday 3 June Secret Britain - Yorkshire All talks start 7.30pm, visitors welcome, - Peter Robinson £1.00 per lecture.

Talk starts 2.00pm, visitors welcome, £1.00 per lecture.

This calendar of Local History/Heritage activities is based on information supplied by the individual organisations and is believed to be correct at the time of going to press. It may be advisable to confirm details in advance of attending an event as due to improvement work on Local Authority owned buildings, some venues may change. 23 Salford Museum & Art Gallery

Peel Park, Crescent, Salford M5 4WU A580 East Lancs Road Tel: 0161 736 2649 • Fax: 0161 745 9490 Email: [email protected] Open: Mon-Fri 10.00am-4.45pm and Sat-Sun 1.00-5.00pm River A567 Eccles Old Road Free parking, disabled access, gift shop. Irwell

Café open weekdays only. A6 Salford Crescent Station Salford Local History Library M602 at Salford Museum & Art Gallery: Salford Museum Open: Tues, Thurs and Fri 10.00am-5.00pm & Art Gallery and Weds 10.00am-8.00pm A57 Closed weekends and Mondays Working Class Movement To Manchester > Library

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