Enter your search terms
Salfordonline
Web
Submit search form

Video: Historic Monks Hall Museum By Tony Flynn Video by Tom Rodgers with thanks to Salford Museum and Art Gallery Following on from our feature last week looking at the sad present-day situation with the Monks Hall Museum on Wellington Road in Eccles, we investigate the fine past of this historic building.The naming of Monks Hall could go back as far as the 1200's. It is known as a Tudor residence with modern additions, which would make Monks Hall almost as old as Ordsall Hall if not quite as grand a residence. Fro... ( Click for More Information ) Video: Monks Hall Museum rotting before... By Tony Flynn and Tom Rodgers Several of our readers have contacted us about the future of the Grade II listed Monks Hall on We... Readers Pics: What a Tweet! Birds... Pictures by Jane McNulty, Paul Sherlock, Maurice Cullen and Malcolm Smith Readers have been inundating us with their pictures o... Video: Christ Church, Patricroft By Tom Rodgers and Tony Flynn Continuing on with our series of the history of local churches, we turn our attention to Christ C... Video: Painter brings 1830s Salford to... By Tony Flynn Video by Tom Rodgers A semi-retired painter and decorator from Salford has added to his series of historical pai... Video: John Henry Poynting: The Monton... By Tom Rodgers and Tony Flynn On the side of Monton Unitarian Church in Monton Green is a blue plaque dedicated to one John Hen... Video: St Peter's Church, Swinton -... By Tony Flynn Video by Tom Rodgers Following on in our series of videos on local churches we continue by taking a tour around ... Readers Pics: BRIGHT All throughout the day today SalfordOnline readers have been posting their pictures on Facebook and Twitter on the theme BRIGHT. Video: Eccles' only unsolved murder -... By Tony Flynn and Tom Rodgers SalfordOnline.com have been researching a curious case: the only unsolved murder in the history o... Readers Pics: Rainbows over Salford By Tom Rodgers Two readers got in touch this morning with fabulous pictures of full rainbows over Salford. Video: Dr Kroch and the Lankro... By Tony Flynn In this our final look at the life and legacy of Dr Kroch, we hear from people who worked under and alongside the... Memories of Salford manufacturer Erksine Heap By Tony Flynn In November 2012 SalfordOnline.com put out a call for memories of a vital manuufacturer in Salford's industrial h... 1960s pictures unearth Eccles Scouts memories By Tony Flynn SalfordOnline.com reader Dennis McQuillan contacted us today to show us several photographs of his days in the 3r... Video: Stephen Campbell, Salford artist By Tony Flynn Video by Jessica McDade Today SalfordOnline.com met Salford artist Stephen Campbell in the Vintage Cafe on Churc... Video: Hazel Blears on A Taste... By Tom Rodgers With Salford's most famous play - A Taste of Honey - returning to the stage, we spoke to Hazel Blears MP about h... Video: Mystery of Salford's most famous... by Tony Flynn Video by Joe McCarty You may recall a story that we ran in August 2011 about a football match that was played at... Emmeline Pankhurst - My inspiration for... By Tom Rodgers For International Women's Day 2013, we asked women at the top of their profession who had inspired them to reach... Video: Dr Kroch and the Lankro... By Tony Flynn Video by Tom Rodgers Salfordonline.com will be releasing a series of videos over the next few weeks telling the ... Video: 'Cakehole' project to call on... By Tony Flynn Ann Taverner fom the Friends of Eccles Railway Station, or FRECCLES as they are better known, called into Salford... Recollections of Lankro Chemicals, Eccles 1966-1978 Regular reader and contributor Peter Kilvert has responded to our call for photographs or memories of Lankro Chemicals in Eccles. Tribute to Dr Kroch, founder of... By Tony Flynn In the next few weeks, SalfordOnline.com will be doing a video series on the life of Dr Heinz Kroch the man who f... Video: Salford Talking Newspaper for the... By Tony Flynn This week SalfordOnline.com paid a visit to the offices of the Salford Talking Newspapers For The Blind, to take ... Video: Busby Babe Albert Scanlon's final... By Tony Flynn As part of SalfordOnline.com's tributes to Busby Babes 55 years on, we are re-running our video covering Albert S... Readers Pics: Snowy Salford Pictures by Lilian Knott, Pete Kilvert, Lee Craven, @philmanu and @cadisbikes The snow is coming down hard in Salford as temper... Can you help save a piece... SalfordOnline.com are putting out an impassioned plea for help in restoring some priceless cine footage of Eccles and local distri... Video: New footage unearthed of Whit... By Tony Flynn Video edited by Tom Rodgers In this fascinating cine footage taken by local man John Martin in 1949, we get a r... Readers Pics: Snow hits Salford Pictures by Thomas Taylor, Alan Hargreaves, Fiza Ikram, Iain Lindley and Paul Messenger Video: Historic Irlam choir search for... By Tom Rodgers and Roger Lightup Video by Tom Rodgers The Irlam Male Voice Choir has been a staple of local life since 1946. Video: Rare and unseen 1949 Eccles... By Tony Flynn Video edited by Tom Rodgers As promised, SalfordOnline are delighted to share with our readers this extremely r... Stunning 1949 Eccles home cinefilm to... By Tony Flynn Here at SalfordOnline.com you may know that we are very keen on local history, old photographs, and the odd trip ... Snow joke: Readers Pics of Snowy... It wasn't quite the six inch deluge we were expecting but a smattering of snow has fallen in Salford today. Readers Pics: Snowy Salford Salford and Manchester were last night hit with a light dusting of snow - the first since the winter of 2011/12. Readers Pics: Snowy Salford Salford and Manchester were last night hit with a light dusting of snow - the first since the winter of 2011/12. Another world first: teetotal in Salford By Tony Flynn As Salfordians, we all know our fair city is responsible for many world firsts: street lighting, public libraries... Readers Pics: Misty Salford The mist has descended on Salford. Video: 180 years of unique history... By Tom Rodgers As the Salford Magistrates Court is finally being sold off we thought we'd re-run our series featuring unprecede... Readers Pics: Frosty Salford Overnight frost left a light dusting on the trees and gardens in Salford this morning, making for a beautiful way to wake up. Video: A Porpoise in life: Salford's... By Tony Flynn Local authors David Holroyd and his sister Tracy called into SalfordOnline.com's offices to tell us about their n... Video: Fab cabaret history with The... By Tony Flynn Here we continue our conversation with Joe Pullen's daughter as she gives us more insight into his life, other cl... Fab cabaret history with The Talk... As we continue to look at the man who created Eccles nightclub The Talk of the North we talk to local man Peter Whalley who for ma... Video: Fab cabaret history with The... By Tony Flynn Last week SalfordOnline.com visited the home of Joe Pullen's daughter, Stephanie, who gave us an amazing insight ... Call for help on Salford's industrial... SalfordOnline.com was given an interesting curio that is a reminder of Salford's once proud industrial heritage, in the shape of a... Video: Fab cabaret history with The... By Tony Flynn In this episode of the history of the Talk of the North nightclub, owner Roy Mozley regales us with more stories ... Video: Fab cabaret history with The... By Tony Flynn Video by Tom Rodgers On Friday 10th November 1973 a fire nearly spelled the end for Eccles' Talk of the North, t... Video: Fab cabaret history with The... By Tony Flynn Video by Tom Rodgers Following on with our history of the Talk of the North nightclub, Eccles, we invited one-ti... Video: Fab cabaret history with The... by Tony Flynn Video by Tom Rodgers In this our second part of the history of The Talk of the North, we speak to local man Phil... Video Exclusive: John Cooper Clarke talks... By Tony Flynn In this second video interview with John Cooper Clarke, we get to hear more stories from the great man including ... Video Exclusive: John Cooper Clarke talks... By Tony Flynn Filmed on the Liverpool leg of John Cooper Clarke's current UK tour, the original punk poet takes time out to tal... Video: Part Two: Local author meets... By Tony Flynn. Edited by Alasdair Ricard Video: Part One: Local author meets... By Tony Flynn. Edited by Alasdair Ricard As we previously reported here on SalfordOnline.com, local man, Yo Mullen has written... Displaying Features Items 1 - 50 of 50

Click the following link for full details of our Content and Comment Policy.

About Us - Contact Us - Faq's     Advertising: Advertise - Payments