by Daniela Atzori and Laura Janicka If you haven’t had the opportunity to see our Shirley Baker exhibiton in the Working Class Movement Library, please come along. Here is a short reivew written by two Master of Architecture Students at the University of Salford. If you cannot visit the exhibition during the week, the Working […]
by Paul Dyson Photographs by Stanley Horrocks Higher Broughton has really been our family home. My sister and I lived there for most of our pre-adult lives and we both returned hundreds of times up to 2019 to visit our parents there. Our mother spent over seventy years there as a resident. However, the one […]
Invitation to a one-day workshop at the University of SalfordDate: Friday 24 March 2023, 9:30am – 5pmVenue: Maxwell Building, Room 413bFree event To book a place follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-making-of-modern-salford-1950-1975-ideas-and-reality-tickets-538793384517 This is the second workshop as part of the research project The Modern Backdrop: Memories of Salford. In this workshop we will be investigating how the ideas, […]
This is guest post from Dr Jonny Smith, researcher and teaching assistant at the University of Manchester. Jonny’s research is primarily interested in British cinema with a particular focus on architecture, regionality and placemaking. In April 2022 he completed his PhD at the University of Manchester examining the representation and utilisation of Brutalist architecture in […]