Tag: Salford
The Tamworth Estate tower blocks lie within the borough of Trafford, even though they share the east side of Chorlton Road (B5218) with Manchester’s Hulme, M15. Their ‘brutalist’…
Definition of suffrage 1 [mass noun] the right to vote in political elections - Oxford Dictionaries Online Emmeline Pankhurst is considered to be one of the most important…
Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887 - 1976) Andrew Warhola Jr. (1928 - 1987) I haven’t visited the galleries at The Lowry before, so I viewed the Warhol & The…
Danny the Dancer is an unsung hero of the Manchester club scene; he’s been an inspiration on club dance-floors for decades, although he doesn’t go clubbing much these…
Concerning: ‘Perry Boys The Casual Gangs of Manchester and Salford’ by Ian Hough (2007) In the late 70s and early 80s, the Perry youth sub-culture co-existed with New…
I don’t like this song very much, but I think it made a big impact on people my age in the late 70s, in spite of being completely…
It was the day after the damp squib Festival of the Tenth Summer concert at GMEX… what a contrast! We ordered a cab because we weren’t sure how…