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Posted on March 24, 2023March 23, 2023

‘They were anxious to get on and get redevelopment going’

This week we are posting extracts from an interview between Professor Miles Glendinning and another architect involved in the design and building of the Ellor …

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Posted on March 17, 2023March 20, 2023

‘We tried to help them make Salford as good as it could be’

Extracts from an interview with the architect-planner Percy Johnson Marshall In this blog piece, we publish extracts from an interview between Professor Miles Glendinning and …

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Posted on January 13, 2023February 24, 2023

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

A reminder that from 20th January to 21st April 2023 we will be running a small exhibition of the work of the Salford-born social documentary …

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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, 2022February 24, 2023

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 November 11, 2022November 15, 2022

‘A Woman’s Place…’

Sarah Hardacre, a practicing artist with strong connections to Salford has written our guest post for this week. She has kindly allowed us to feature …

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Posted on November 4, 2022November 7, 2022

Pubs, Brewers and the 1960s Slum Clearance in Salford

This week we have another guest post by Dr Deborah Woodman from the University of Salford. One of the cornerstones of northern working-class life was …

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Posted on October 21, 2022October 14, 2022

The Classic Slum?

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 …

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Posted on October 7, 2022September 22, 2022

The Changing Face of Salford: Michael Goodger’s film trilogy

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 …

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