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 to the demolishing of terraced houses. Around 1967 Goodger visited several residents, interviewed, filmed and photographed them and their living conditions for his film The Changing Face of Salford. I […]
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 Of Repairs To Slum Property” published on December 4, 1952. It describes a peculiar, yet apparently common practice that was a result of the then long-standing plans to undertake slum […]
This image is described as “Rag and Bone Man.” He seems to have been someone who collected items from households around Salford. Together with the Knocker-upper, a photo of which we showed in another post, this is another occupation in Salford at that time. The photo was taken in 1967 and the brown and orange […]
‘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 first time in 1933 . Although the novel is a work of fiction, Hanky Park was a real life area of Salford, roughly where the shopping precinct is situated today. […]
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 text below is the transcript of the introduction and wrap-up of the blog. The reading is from the chapter “The Great Cities.” I hope you enjoy the reading the text. […]