The Modern Backdrop: Blog Posts

Click on the sound file below to hear a clip from an interview that Micheal Goodger did with a resident who lived in Salford prior …

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Between 1950 and 1952 several newspaper articles in The Manchester Guardian appeared that described the condition of houses in Salford. Among them is "Tremendous" Cost …

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Michael Goodger, Rag and Bone Man, Salford, 1967. NW Film Archives This image is described as "Rag and Bone Man." He seems to have been …

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‘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 …

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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 …

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Michael Goodger, Corner Shop, Salford, 1967 Michael Goodger photographed this corner shop in 1967. It seems to have sold common household items and toys. What …

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REDEVELOPMENT IN SALFORD The Architects' Journal (Archive : 1929-2005); May 12, 1960; 130, 3395; Art & Architecture Archive pg. 722. This architectural model shows a development …

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