This is a guest post from Professor Chris Hopkins, Emeritus Professor of English from Sheffield Hallam University where he was Head of the Humanities Research Centre from 2003 until 2020. Chris works mainly on British writing between 1900 and 1950, with particular interests in working-class writing, women’s writing, Welsh writing in English, writing of World […]
Browsing through the University of Salford’s archives the other day I came across a booklet for an ‘Ellor Street & Dock Ward Trail’. It was put together by the Community Services arm of the University’s Students Union, and was first devised in 1973, although this version dates from three years later. It seems to have […]
Michael Goodger photographed this corner shop in 1967. It seems to have sold common household items and toys. What I find most fascinating are some of the fashionable goods of the late 1960 in comparison to some items, we still find today for sale. There are, for example the colourful beachballs hanging from the entryway […]