Social History

Bus stops, double yellow lines, traffic signs and station walls are all the canvases for some remarkable performance art that links Manchester music lyrics with positive mental health vibes...

Local author, Alice Searle, uncovers executions, suicides and ghosts on Kersal Moor...

From cock fighting to football, and from archery to horse racing, Kersal Moor has been at the epicentre of sport in Salford throughout the ages. Here, author Alice Searle, tells the tales...

A small piece of moorland that has a huge and rich history, from Chartist demonstrations, to horse racing, Spanking Roger and more...

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’...

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...

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

Soviet era maps from 1975 show how Russian tanks were set to invade Manchester via Bury New Road...