by Ros Sansom (née Dillon) The conveniences of modern-day living have transformed our lives and streamlined the mundane aspects of our daily living; particularly our bathing and laundry routines. It is hard to believe how much things have changed, especially when I compare it to how it used to be when I was a young […]
Many parts of Salford were profoundly transformed between the 1950s and mid-1970s, and changes continue today. This post is an ‘essay of images’ that locates some buildings along Silk Street on the changing maps. All images were found on the Digital Salford online databank of images. The blue numbers on the maps refer to the […]
Among the houses built immediately after the Second World War were a number of temporary ones that utilised novel construction techniques and materials. In an earlier post, we located some sites on which Salford City Council built between 1944 and 1949. This post takes a closer look at the temporary houses built around Weaste Lane, […]
Among the 1940s housing schemes in Salford that were initiated or continued to being built after the Second World War was the ‘Duchy Estate.’ It is located between Duchy Road and Summerville Road. The estate would later become the home of Shelagh Delaney who lived at 77 Duchy Road during the 1950s. As with the […]
Between September 1944 and June 1949 – when John Lancelot Burn set in motion the first slum clearance programme after the Second World War – Salford undertook its first post-war housing scheme. The 1950s to 1970s slum clearance programme consisted in the first instance of the demolition of houses so that new houses could be […]
Growing Up in Sixties Salford by Brian M Clarke This final excerpt from Brian Clarke's Haunted Memories is set in 1970. It details his work as casual tiler on Fridays made possible due to new estates being built around Salford. Haunted Memories tells about a childhood and youth spent in Salford. Its streets, businesses, schools, […]
Growing Up in Sixties Salford by Brian M Clarke Part II of Brian Clarke’s unpublished book Haunted Memories is about his recollections on the rapid changes unfolding in Salford during the 1960s. While Part 1 was describing the excitement, concern and wonder of a young boy about moving house – who wouldn’t have like a […]
A while ago, we had posted the image below. It is in our Walter Greenwood collection and shows the knocker-upper at work at Moss Side, Manchester. I am returning to this earlier blog, because during a guided tour of Lark Hill Place – the exhibit at the Salford Museum and Art Gallery – our guide […]
On the 25th and 26th of May we run a conference on ‘slum’ clearance and redevelopment schemes and ways in which members of the working class were represented in visual culture between c1950 and 1975. We had speakers presenting their research from across Europe. In five sessions, synergies became apparent on how media supported perceptions […]
This week we feature a guest post from Eddy Rhead of the Modernist Society written as a response to a news clip on Hanky Park which recently featured on the BBC Archive twitter account. Recently a news clip from 1969 appeared on the wonderful BBC Archive site which looked at the last days of the […]