Salford

Back in 1997, as Manchester United was preparing to leave The Cliff for the green belt of Carrington, a giant protest badger arrived...

In 2006, Salford Star photographer, Steven Speed, gained access to the abandoned Manchester United offices and facilities at The Cliff. The place had hardly been touched since Alex Ferguson left for Carrington over six years earlier...

Former Manchester United forward, John Aston, icon of both the 1967 League Championship winning side and the 1968 European Cup winning team, speaking in an interview for The Times in 2000 about The Cliff...

Legendary Manchester United 'keeper, Harry Gregg, speaking about the magic of The Cliff in 2000...

Manchester United’s special old training ground, The Cliff, was where everyone from George Best to David Beckham got their football education. But where is it? What’s so special about it? What else is in the area? And Is there paranormal activity at work?

Every day, thousands of people travel up and down Bury New Road on foot...in cars, buses and, if they’re very brave, on bikes. The stretch between the Arena and the M60 Junction in Prestwich is generally considered to be a clogged up, pollution infested but unfortunately necessary schlep in and out of Manchester town centre. The route from Strangeways, along the stretch of warehouses to...

A brief unscientific vox pop amongst friends came up with...“That link road between town and motorway”, followed by various fairly negative adjectives, which, although essentially true, we shall pass on because this is primarily a project with a positive mission. Living there myself, I always assumed it started at Chetham’s School and ended past the motorway at Besses o’ th’ Barn, where Bury New Road...

Welcome to the Bury New Road heritage project which runs until the end of 2022, with community open days, shoot your own heritage events, exhibitions and pop-up happenings. While the website might look quite skinny to start with, the archive will be built up over the course of the project, filled with community memories, portraits, photos and artefacts, as well as discourses on the nature...