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Month: September 2022

Posted on September 30, 2022August 12, 2022

Salford Slum

Click on the sound file below to hear a clip from an interview that Micheal Goodger did with a resident who lived in Salford prior …

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Posted on September 23, 2022August 12, 2022

Disappearing Act

Between 1950 and 1952 several newspaper articles in The Manchester Guardian appeared that described the condition of houses in Salford. Among them is "Tremendous" Cost …

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Posted on September 16, 2022August 12, 2022

Rags and Bones

Michael Goodger, Rag and Bone Man, Salford, 1967. NW Film Archives This image is described as "Rag and Bone Man." He seems to have been …

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Posted on September 9, 2022September 13, 2022

Love on the Dole

‘They call this part “Hanky Park”’.  This was how the Salford-born writer Walter Greenwood opened his breakthrough novel Love on the Dole, published for the …

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Posted on September 2, 2022September 3, 2022

Podcast: Friedrich Engels. The Condition of the Working Class in England, 1845

Today, we are posting a 'podcast' that is a reading from the book "The Condition of the Working Class in England" by Friedrich Engels. The …

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