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Salford ( / ˈsɒlfərd / SOL-fərd) is a cathedral city in Greater Manchester, England. [2] [3] The city is situated in a meander on the western bank of the River Irwell which forms its boundary with Manchester and its city centre. Landmarks in the city include the old town hall, cathedral and St Philips Church.
salford .gov .uk. Salford ( / ˈsɒlfərd / SOL-fərd ), [5] also known as the City of Salford, is a metropolitan borough with city status in Greater Manchester, England. The borough is named after its main settlement, Salford, but covers a larger area which includes the towns of Eccles, Swinton, Walkden and Pendlebury. [6]
Apr 13, 2016 · They are from a vast collection of 70,000 images of the city spanning 150 years in a Salford Local History Library archive. Digital Salford has been made possible thanks to a £70,000 Heritage ...
The City of Salford lies at the heart of the Metropolis known as Greater Manchester in an area where cotton was once king and its mill workers were portrayed for posterity by acclaimed 20th-century artist L.S.Lowry. At the time Lowry (1887-1976)painted his famous pictures, it was little thought that places such as Salford would, in less than a ...
Salford, city and metropolitan borough in the west-central part of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, historic county of Lancashire, northwestern England. It lies immediately west of the city of Manchester. Flemish weavers first settled in Salford about 1360, and it became an important.
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Ordsall Hall. / 53.469444; -2.2775. Ordsall Hall is a large former manor house in the historic parish of Ordsall, Lancashire, now part of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It dates back more than 750 years, although the oldest surviving parts of the present hall were built in the 15th century.
In the 1840s Friedrich Engels was living and working in Manchester. Between 1844 and 1845 he wrote his book, "The Condition of the Working Class in England" and in the section of "The Great Towns" he had this to say about Salford, "If we cross the Irwell to Salford, we find, on a peninsula formed by the river, a town of 80,000 inhabitants, which, properly speaking, is one large working man's ...
