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 […]
‘They call this part “Hanky Park”’. This was how the Salford-born writer Walter Greenwood opened his breakthrough novel Love on the Dole, published for the first time in 1933 . Although the novel is a work of fiction, Hanky Park was a real life area of Salford, roughly where the shopping precinct is situated today. […]
This is a guest post from Professor Chris Hopkins, Emeritus Professor of English from Sheffield Hallam University where he was Head of the Humanities Research Centre from 2003 until 2020. Chris works mainly on British writing between 1900 and 1950, with particular interests in working-class writing, women’s writing, Welsh writing in English, writing of World […]
Browsing through the University of Salford’s archives the other day I came across a booklet for an ‘Ellor Street & Dock Ward Trail’. It was put together by the Community Services arm of the University’s Students Union, and was first devised in 1973, although this version dates from three years later. It seems to have […]
This photo is from the University of Salford’s Photographic Archive. It is one of a number of photos we have depicting the redevelopment of the Ellor Street and Unwin Street area in the 1960s. The perspective is really interesting in this photo. The church – probably built in the 19th century – is almost sandwiched […]