This week we are featuring a guest blog from Professor Peter Walker, an architect and academic at the University of Salford. Tucked away inside Selina Todd’s brilliant Tastes of Honey: The making of Shelagh Delaney and a cultural revolution[1] is a reference to the long relationship she enjoyed with Cedric Price, to whom she was […]
Get your 2023 diaries and calendars at the ready! From 20th January to 21st April 2023 we will be running a small exhibition of the work of the Salford-born social documentary photographer, Shirley Baker at the Working Class Movement Library in Salford. The exhibition will focus on the way in which the change to the […]
Eddy Rhead of the Modernist Society has written our guest post for this week. Eddy writes about cinemas in Salford and specifically The Ambassador. For some it might bring back memories, for others it casts a light on a golden age of cinema architecture. Feel free to share your comments. At the height of their […]
This street scene shows us not only another occupation in Salford but also several shops. The window cleaner appeared to have been – as the knocker-upper – a middle-aged gentleman. Perhaps he was retired and supplemented his pension or this was outside his working hours. The window he is cleaning seemed to have been a […]