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 […]
by Chris Hughes Chris Hughes is a graduate of the University of Salford and the University of Manchester, and a freelance political commentator, as the founder of alt-politics https://www.alt-politics.co.uk/. In this article, Chris Hughes reflects on the novel Love on the Dole, and the lives of his grandparents who were married at St Paul the Apostle Paddington in […]
Artist Leslie Holmes has lived in Ordsall for over 30 years recording the changing inner city landscape of Salford and Manchester. He is the project manager at Salford Lads Club and has created projects, with schools and community groups, looking at the past and present. He was lead artist at Ordsall Community Arts from 1996 […]
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 photographer, Shirley Baker at the Working Class Movement Library in Salford. The exhibition will focus on the way in which the change to the built environment of Salford from ‘slum’ […]
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 Todd’s brilliant Tastes of Honey: The making of Shelagh Delaney and a cultural revolution[1] is a reference to the long relationship she enjoyed with Cedric Price, to whom she was […]
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 work of the Salford-born social documentary photographer, Shirley Baker at the Working Class Movement Library in Salford. The exhibition will focus on the way in which the change to the […]
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 some it might bring back memories, for others it casts a light on a golden age of cinema architecture. Feel free to share your comments. At the height of their […]