Please join us at the Salford Museum and Art Gallery on Saturday, 19th November 12noon, 1pm and 2pm. We are showcasing a video installation. New Perceptions of Familiar Places is a public engagement event. It showcases a video and sound installation of walks in Salford and several other cities around the world. The installation will […]
Eve Blezard. An Estate of Mind: Resident memories of a community through time Jonny Smith. “We Cannot Cling to the Old Dreams Anymore”: Exploring Post-War Change in Salford in 1960s Film & Television Join us onFriday, 4th November 2022, 3pm – 5pmAt the University of Salford, Peel Park Campus, Lady Hale Building, Room: G06/G07 An Estate of […]
Walter Greenwood was not the only writer whose work has almost immortalized the link between Salford and the image of the ‘slum’. Robert Roberts, born two years after Greenwood in 1905, wrote one the most influential historical accounts of working-class life in early 20th century Salford in The Classic Slum: Salford life in the First […]
These two kids seem slightly too old for this type of swing but they are having fun nevertheless. I wonder how the boy managed to climb into the swing and congratulate the person putting up the swing on two very sturdy looking hooks. The girl looks very nicely dressed – perhaps the photo was taken […]
An important part of our research project is to collect memories and private photographs of the transition of Salford between 1950 and 1975. One of our colleagues at the University of Salford – Diane Lingard – grew up in Salford. She shared photos from her family album. The one above shows her older brother, grandmother […]
In this guest post, Marion Hewitt, former Head of the North West Film Archive, discusses the background to The Changing Face of Salford, a film trilogy created in the 1970s by John Michael Goodger, a former lecturer at the University of Salford. The films recorded the living conditions in the slums of Ordsall, Salford, which […]