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Month: December 2022

Posted on December 23, 2022January 3, 2023

Shelagh Delaney and Cedric Price: Are you with me?

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 …

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Posted on December 16, 2022December 20, 2022

Exhibition announcement – Capturing the Modern Backdrop: Shirley Baker photographing Salford

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 …

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Posted on December 9, 2022December 9, 2022

The Rise and Fall of Salford’s Super Cinema

An colour illustration of the Ambassador
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 …

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Posted on December 2, 2022December 1, 2022

Phoebe Street shops

Michael Goodger, Window Cleaner Phoebe Street, Salford, 1967. NW Film Archives This street scene shows us not only another occupation in Salford but also several …

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