Salford

Una Baines was a founder member of The Fall, backed Nico on keyboards and worked as a student nurse at Prestwich Hospital in the 1970s when it was ‘a legalised concentration camp’...

Ed Blaney, The Fall Tour Manager, Manager, Collaborator and Friend of Mark E Smith recalls their relationship...

On Kersal Moor there is a plaque commemorating the great democracy rallies...

In 1838, thousands of people met on Kersal Moor, to support the Chartists and their demand for the vote. It was the launch pad for democracy in the UK...

Mary Monson, who defended striking miners and Strangeways Prison rioters, and who supported many community causes, including the Salford Unemployed Centre and Mary Burns Community Group, has sadly passed away...

The first four banners have gone up along Bury New Road, promoting the Bury New Road Heritage Project...

Fairy Lane, off Bury New Road, did actually have fairies on it, according to legend...

Interview with James Young author of the brilliant on the road biog, Songs They Never Play on the Radio

Who is she, why was she on Bury New Road, and what did she change?

The famous album by The Smiths partly inspired the 2018 comedy film by Chris Green, starring Michelle Keegan...