“We hope the trail will inspire pupils to make a connection with the fascinating history surrounding them and to understand how these buildings and places relate to the story of Salford.”
The children of one Salford school do not have to go far for a history lesson. It is all around them.
The trail reveals dark times of child labour and tragedy; places which inspired the artist, L S Lowry; Barrow Street, where members of the city's notorious, Scuttler gangs lived; and the scene where unemployed people and police clashed during a march for jobs. Chapel Street was the first in the country to have horse-drawn trams, inspiring Emma Rodgers' sculpture in Bexley Square of a bronze horse.
The Battle of Bexley Square, where police with batons charged unemployed workers outside Salford Town Hall, was one of the main events in the Walter Greenwood novel Love On the Dole. Firstly, it was the first pub in Greater Manchester to get a 24 hour drinking licence. But it has also been purported to be the home of communist thinking in a previous existence.
One Red who definitely did enjoy a drink around Chapel Street was George Best. A pub at the corner of New Bailey Street that was called the Brown Cow - before that the Bull's Head - was a favourite haunt of the Manchester United legend during his 1960s and 70s heyday. It was later renamed Copperheads.
For each building or site, there are further activities to allow pupils to delve further into the events, people or themes uncovered. Pupils and their families are being encouraged to get involved outside of school, including older generations who may have their own memories of Chapel Street to share.
The building was once a factory for spinning cotton into threads to be woven to make cloth. It was built in 1823 by David Bellhouse for industrialist, Nathan Gough. More recently, it was included on the Salford version of the Monopoly board game. The Catholic cathedral was officially opened on August 9, 1848 by Bishop George Brown, who sang the Solemn High Mass, and Bishop Nicholas Wiseman, who gave a 90 minute sermon.
In November 2021 it was announced the Cathedral would close for an £18m restoration. It is scheduled to re-open in December 2024. Canon Peter Green was was born in 1871 and served as the Rector at St Philips Church from 1911 – 1951, serving through two world wars in what was then a tough, deprived, dockyard community. He died in 1961, having turned down the opportunity to be a bishop at a because he loved Salford and the people of this parish so much.
On June 2nd 1941, 14 nurses were killed when the hospital suffered a direct hit during a Nazi night-time bombing raid. Their names and home towns are listed on a plague on the side of the former hospital.
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