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Issue No 32 Winter 2012 £2.00

Harold Riley: an interview with the artist

Filming Hobson’s Choice in Salford

Useful contactsJohn Sculley,Museums and Heritage Services Manager0161 778 0816Peter Turner,Lifetimes Officer0161 778 0809Amy Goodwin,Exhibitions Officer0161 778 0883Peter Ogilvie,Collections Manager0161 778 0825Ceri Horrocks,Heritage Development Officer (Learning)0161 778 0820Amy Whitehead,Learning Officer0161 686 7442Naomi Lewis,Outreach Officer0161 778 0881Liz McNabb,Ordsall Hall Manager0161 686 7446Hazel Fenton,Arts and Community Officer Ordsall Hall0161 686 7444David Potts,Volunteer and Training Manager0161 686 7445Lindsay Berry,Gardener and Outdoor Trainer0161 872 0251Amy Senogles,Merchandising Officer0161 778 0818Kellie Brown,Marketing Officer0161 778 0819Michelle Flye,Memories Matter Project Support Worker0161 778 0838Duncan McCormick,Salford Local History Librarian0161 778 0814Salford Museum & Art Gallery0161 778 0800Ordsall Hall Museum0161 872 0251

Useful websiteswww.salford.gov.uk/museums – for all museum related topics

www.salford.gov.uk/whatson – find out about concerts, walks, talks and other events in Salford

www.wcml.org.uk – website for Working Class Movement Library

www.visitsalford.info – what to do, where to stay and what to see in Salford

EditorialWelcome to Lifetimes Link 32, the magazine that celebrates Salford’s rich heritage. As always, we are grateful to everyone who has taken the time to send in contributions and thank you to all our readers for your continued enthusiasm and support.

Salford Museum and Art GalleryAs outlined in the last issue of LifeTimes Link, the advanced works at Salford Museum and Art Gallery are currently under way. They commenced in October, later than initially anticipated, and they are due for completion in February 2013.

The work focuses on the ground floor of the building with improvements to museum’s entrance. There will be a new reception with retail sales area and a relocation of the café from the first floor to the ground floor gallery overlooking the Peel Building.

Once this work has been completed there will be additional work in the North Gallery, removing the school room and returning the gallery space to its original splendour.

Whilst the works are in progress entry to the museum will be through Lark Hill Place on the other side of the building to the usual entrance. We plan to stay open and offer our usual services throughout this period.

Our outreach team have taken this opportunity to refresh and revitalise our Memories Matter reminiscence resources with a view to re-launching the service. See pages 10 and 11 to learn more about the service.

Salford Museum and Art Gallery’s popular sporting exhibition, Salford’s Sporting Stars continues in the LifeTimes Gallery until April next year. It is then followed in May 2013 by a retrospective exhibition of Salford artist, Harold Riley. The exhibition will feature oils, watercolours and drawings by the artist, focusing on Salford and some of the people important to him. Harold Riley’s life, work and archive are featured on pages 12 and 13 along with photos of his works.

Join the Friends of Salford Museums

The Friends remain at the heart of support for Salford

Museum and Ordsall Hall. They are always keen to welcome

new members.

For further information on joining the Friends, ask at Salford Museum and Art

Gallery or call John Sculley on 0161 778 0816

A project that the collections team have been working on, in conjunction with the Public Catalogue Foundation, is showcased in Our Choice of Your Paintings from December this year. The project’s aim is to photograph and make available via their ‘Your Paintings’ website the 200,000 paintings in public ownership in the United Kingdom. Over 900 oil paintings in Salford’s collections have now been photographed and are accessible to all via this website.

See Link Listings on pages 18-19 for further details of our exciting programme of exhibitions at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, and page 20 for other things to do at the two sites.

We continue to receive many letters, photographs and articles from our readers which we hope will be of interest to fellow readers of this magazine. We are grateful for these contributions – please keep them coming!

We hope you enjoy reading this issue of Link and will support the magazine in the future. Please continue to send your contributions and comments to LifeTimes. Contact details on page 3.

Please note that anyone who does contribute a feature or letter which we publish will receive a complimentary copy of the magazine.

If you’d like to subscribe to LifeTimes Link, please call 0161 778 0818 or go to www.salford.gov.uk/lifetimes for more information.

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Page 2 Useful contactsEditorialJoin the Friends

Page 3ContributionsSt. Augustine’s Church project

Page 4 - 5 Collections CornerPeter Ogilvie &Peter Turner

Page 6 - 7 The filming of Hobson’s Choice in Salford, 1953Margaret Jones

Page 8-9 You Write

Page 10 - 11Why do memories matter?Michelle Flye

Page 12 -13Harold Riley: Salford 1947-2012Amy Goodwin

Page 14Community activities at Ordsall HallHazel Fenton

Page 15Salford’s First World War centenary celebrationsJohn Sculley

Page 16 - 17Sharing photos

Page 18 -20Link Listings

Page 21Ordsall launderette Ken WilliamsonWorsley cottages oil painting

Page 22Mystery Pix

Page 23Local History Roundup

ContentsShare your stories of St. Augustine’s Church and its community

St. Augustine’s Church

Do you have stories or memories of St Augustine’s Church, Pendlebury, and its local community?

We want to hear from you, whether you or your family attended the church, worked at the local collieries, or have other connections!

We are pupils, volunteers and staff at St Augustine’s CE Primary School, and we are collecting local people’s stories.

Your memories and stories will help us tell families, volunteers and people in Pendlebury and Salford more about St Augustine’s church and its role in the lives of the local community.

To share your memories please contact Jocelyn Arschavir on 0161 794 4083 (school reception). St Augustine’s CE Primary School, 380 Bolton Rd, Pendlebury, M27 8UX

We may ask you to take part in an oral history recording, which will be deposited with the NorthWest Sound Archive

www.nwsoundarchive.co.uk/default.aspx

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Contributions Send your letters, articles and copies of photographs to:LifeTimes Link, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Peel Park, Crescent, Salford, M5 4WUTel: 0161 778 0809Email: lifetimes@salford.gov.uk

The deadline for items for the next issue (summer issue: May 2013 – November 2013) is 4 March 2013.

Please note: we cannot accept any responsibility for the loss or damage to contributor’s material in the post. We cannot guarantee publication of your material and we reserve the right to edit any contributions we do use.

Cover photo: One of our Local History Library’s many mystery photographs (see page 22 for more), possibly from the Irlam area. Do you have any clues about this motley crew? Please get in touch if you do.

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Peter Ogilvie, Collections Manager & Peter Turner, Collections Assistant

This issue features items that we have acquired over the last year, which we have previously not had the space to feature. This varied mix from around the city includes a number of commemorative items.

An ink drawing of Barton Old Viaduct and a print of Worsley Old Hall have been donated by Anne Hood. Worsley Old Hall dates from the fifteenth century and is still standing today. The drawings previously belonged to the donor’s parents who lived on Worsley Road, Westwood Park.

David Roughley has donated pencil drawings of Trinity Congregational Church by Fred Mather. The church stood on Swinton Hall Road (formerly Jane Lane), Swinton and held its first service on 13 June 1882. The last service was on 27 March 1966 and the building was demolished in 1973.

Celebrating the end of the First World War, a Salford Peace Medal has been acquired from Albert Rooms. These medals from 1919 were likely to have been given to school children in Salford, this example being received by Eunice Plumber. The obverse features busts of George V and Queen Mary and the reverse the Salford Coat of Arms with ‘E. Mather Mayor’ and ‘Council Borough of Salford’ above.

On 13 July 1905 King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra opened No. 9 Dock of the Manchester Ship Canal. A handkerchief commemorating this royal visit has been donated by Richard Preston. Eighty-seven years later, in 1992, Salford City Council was awarded two engraved glass bowls as a planning award for Salford Quays. They were presented by the Royal Institute of Chartered

Salford Peace Medal

King Edward VII 1905 royal visit handkerchief

Salford Hundred plates

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Ladywell mug and plate

Surveyors for water quality improvement and regeneration and are now in our collections.

Gallery Oldham has transferred some Salford Hundred plates, made by Minton of Stoke-on-Trent, to the museum’s collections. The Salford Hundred was an ancient division of the county of Lancashire which had Salford as its judicial centre. Also transferred from Galley Oldham is a Burrow’s Pointer Guide Map of Salford which dates from the mid twentieth century.

A selection of items has been donated by a delegation from one of Salford’s twin towns, St.Ouen, during the 50th anniversary of town twinning links. Items include a bag, badge, pennant and booklet. St.Ouen is an industrial suburb to the north of Paris.

A Ladywell 100 plate has been donated by Muriel Dunn. Her father was Edwin Cole, Chairman of the League of Friends for Ladywell Hospital. We have assumed these were produced to celebrate the hospital centenary year in 1992; can readers supply any further information?

Muriel Dunn also donated a Salford Charter Festival mug which was produced to commemorate the 750th year anniversary of Salford gaining its royal charter.

If readers have any comments or further information on any of the above objects please write to LifeTimes Link – details on page 3

St. Ouen town twinning objects

Print of Worsley Old Hall

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The filming of “Hobson’s Choice” in Salford, 1953

Filming Hobson’s Choice in Peel Park

by Margaret Jones

Maybe I can add some information to that already known but bear in mind that some of this is what I was told at the time and it was years ago. I am interested because in our house there was much excitement for days on end. Why? Because when David Lean’s film crew arrived in Salford they needed the help of Salford Fire Station and from then on we heard all the surprises, set-backs and solutions to their days filming in Salford. Although a book called “Salford: a city and its past” says that filming the outdoor scenes of this film all took place on 7 September 1953 in Salford, I have my doubts. Filming is always a protracted affair of preparation, problems, and re-shooting and this crew had some problems we found amusing.

The first problem that surprised them was that instead of a gloomy north-west drizzle giving the right impression for filming this story, it was dry and bright. The fire brigade came to the rescue hosing down streets, buildings, and probably actors in the process. With the benefit of a new DVD I can refresh my memory. Many adults in Salford were co-opted to be extras in the street scenes and Peel Park. Suitably attired they look perfectly at home in their scenes. The children living on Fire Station Square were co-opted to run about the streets in various scenes, apart from me because my mother refused to let me miss school. I was quite jealous and wanted to know afterwards about their brush with high life. However they were

not at all impressed. Five of them spent a whole day cooped up in a caravan and were only let out for a few minutes to run about and do their scenes.

One serious delay was the filming of a street, I think the one with every house step occupied by a seated poor soul wearing a shawl, headscarf, long skirt and boots, all-in-all an intended “mean streets” impression. Each householder (I mean female!) was persuaded to swap their pristine white net-curtains, clean windows and weekly stoned door-step for the wardrobe department’s tatty grey curtains, dirty step and windows. That is each lady apart from one. She absolutely refused and it seemed that nothing would budge her. The shot would be impossible. Clever lady, she came to an arrangement, conformed and filming continued. On the internet there is a comment about Brussels Street filming. It says that each householder was paid £5 to change their front doors to better reflect the period of the film.

The biggest laugh we had was the day they were to film John Mills and his intended walking in Peel Park along the path at the side of the River Irwell. Huge icebergs of soapy foam were flowing down the river from, I think, Cussons soap works upstream. A not unusual occurrence. Filming stopped and I was told they then negotiated with Cussons to stop

putting their suds into the river on another day, when they did complete this scene.

The website Reel Streets has a mass of stills of filming Hobson’s Choice. They think the scene used on the film by the Irwell was actually filmed “canal-side” around the same area as that used in A Taste of Honey. The summer issue of this magazine showed both photos (p7). The still photo from Hobson’s Choice I think looks exactly like the the path we trod every day with our dog and quite different from the canal-side in A Taste of Honey. My money is on it being shot in Peel Park.

There are many families in Salford who had one or more members co-opted for filming in 1953. Example comments from the internet are “my mam and dad were extras in the scene at the top of Peel Park steps, sitting on a bench.” Another person wrote that a relative was an extra in the scene where a group process with a Band of Hope banner. Another, “I watched with my mother at Chapel Street“.

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Some of the streets identified in the film by the site Reel Streets, still exist, like Cleminson Street, Arlington Street, and Chapel Street, whereas Brussels Street has gone. The unmistakable outline of Salford Cathedral appears in some shots. Cleverly sometimes they shot a bit of one building and joined it up with the outline and inside of another building. This happened when John Mills is standing on an imposing forecourt of a church in which he is about to be married. The forecourt was Christ Church, just to the left of our fire station house and the film shots were joined up with a wedding scene shot in a Stockport church. Christ Church was demolished on 11 July 1958. My father took the only photo of the spire in the act of falling. So if these memories jog those of other readers, do write in with your, or your family’s experience of film companies in Salford, especially filming “Hobson’s Choice“.

Filming Hobson’s Choice 1953

Scene from Hobson’s Choice

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Dear Editor

Do any of your readers, I wonder, remember music teacher Mrs. Lily Dick who lived in Westwood Crescent, Winton, many years ago? Like many others I started to have piano lessons at the tender age of seven in Mrs. Dick’s front room which she used as her music room. It was simply furnished, with a lovely upright piano, table and chairs and a ‘Magicoal’ electric fire that was used in cold weather.

Every Thursday from 6.45 to 7.30pm I took my music case along accompanied by my mother and spent those 45 minutes struggling with my tutor book (‘On the Farm’, not the more popular Smallwoods tutor) to play the simple tunes, eventually progressing towards my first and only concert recital in Pendlebury.

Mrs. Dick invited mother and me to her house one evening to hear her star pupil, Max, play. He was a curly haired boy of around 14, with flashing eyes and flashing fingers. He was a very gifted pianist and was already composing melodies. His first was inspired by the fire irons in Mrs. Dick’s living room and he called it, I believe, ‘Hammer & Tongs’.

Some months later he and I and a few of Mrs. Dick’s other pupils travelled on the bus to Manchester to sit our respective music exams, mine the Preliminary stage which I passed quite comfortably with kind comments from the examiner.

Eventually we moved house and that was the end of my piano lessons. But Max went on to great things and is now known as Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Master of the Queen’s Music. I shall always remember that impromptu recital in the front room of a council house in Winton and feel privileged to have known the early days of that young boy’s career.

My one and only concert experience was playing piano on two nights during a show at the Blue Ribbon Hall, in Pendlebury. The show consisted of songs, dances, sketches and music and was produced by my cousin, John Tweed, who produced several shows for the same hall. He also wrote and produced a pantomime, ‘Rumplestiltskin’ and I remember my mother typing out scripts for the panto on our old Oliver typewriter.

Incidentally, I still have the beautiful little bible that Mrs. Dick gave me as a birthday present. She was a kind person who gave a love of music to so many.

Julie Nichols

If you’d like to tell a story, ask “where are they now?” or share your memories then please send your letters in to: The Editor, LifeTimes Link, Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Peel Park, Crescent, Salford, M5 4WU. email: lifetimes@salford.gov.uk. Tel: 0161 778 0809. Due to space limitations we reserve the right to edit any letters that we do include. Please get in touch with us if you have any responses to our ‘You Write’ page.

Dear Editor

As a young teenager in the late 1950s I was really looking forward to my main Christmas present from my mother. Dad had died from the effects of the war so as you can imagine, there wasn’t a lot of money to spare.

The present was one of those big boxes with a beautiful picture on the front and lots of lovely chocolates inside (older people will remember them). They don’t seem to be around much anymore.

Mum put it under the tree before we went out to take midnight communion at the Church of the Ascension, Lower Broughton (our normal start to Christmas).

We lived alone, but on our return home the box of chocolates was open. Many of the chocolates were missing, only the coffee creams remained. Our dog didn’t like coffee creams!

Freda Lear

Montpon-Menesterol

France

Freda attended Barr Hill Open Air School and is interested in anybody’s recollections and memories of the school from around 1955.

She is also looking for news of the Bellis family (George, Barbara, Alan, Janice, Anne and Brendan) of Raglan Street off Lower Broughton Road who moved to Coniston Avenue, Little Hulton.

Please write to us at LifeTimes Link if you can help her with either of these.

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Drawing by William Morton of the Manchester Race Course at Kersal Moor, 1760.

Dear Editor

I took the opportunity to visit your recent “Sports Exhibition” and was particularly taken by one of your first displays of “Naked Foot Running” on Kersal Moor, frowned upon by Oliver Heywood in 1760. My interest was kindled on this occasion not by the ‘scantily clad ladies’, but by an equally intriguing anecdote.

Barbara Nabb, widow, I believe, of Sir Nicholas Mosley of Manchester and endowed, it seems, with a large portion of the land at Chorlton Row, (Chorlton-On-Medlock), was so impressed by the naked figure of Roger Aytoun sprinting on Kersal Moor, that she fell in love with him and promptly married him. Lady Mosley was in her eighties at that time, Roger Aytoun in his mid twenties; the marriage was the scandal of polite society in Manchester in the late eighteenth century. However, your identification of gymnastic running on Kersal Moor lends an extra dimension to this story.

Charles Walker

Dear Editor

I was very interested to read two of the letters in the recent edition of LifeTimes Link (issue no. 31) from Frances Soanes (nee Henshaw) regarding evacuation from her home, and the second, sent by Stan Andrews, regarding the Old Salfordian’s Association.

Our family, led by Jack Whitehead, who was Head Gardener at Peel Park, lived in the Park Lodge, at Frederick Road, Salford, during the Blitz. When a land mine landed on a works building diagonally opposite the lodge it caused considerable damage when it exploded to both the building and the lodge. Also an unexploded bomb was deposited outside the park gates, close to the lodge, so we had to evacuate, father, mother, sister, brother and I. We all went to stay with my three aunts, who lived at No. 2 Eades Street, off Broad Street, Salford 6.

Prior to this I had obtained a scholarship to attend the Salford Grammar School in Leaf Square, commencing in the September 1939. To ensure my attendance I was regularly accompanied by the then headmaster, Mr. Althom, when he walked up from Lower Broughton, past the tram depot which was opposite the lodge, so ensuring that we arrived at the school in good time each school day.

From then on I remained on the register, becoming a prefect, and playing for the school football team, until at the age of sixteen, I was transferred to Trinity College, Carmarthen, South Wales, where I took up similar duties, plus membership of the Scout group.

I believe that I can be seen on one of the many photographs in the present Grammar School. When I completed my training at college I was posted to the Hampshire Regiment, based at Burford Camp, and from there to the Education Corps, based at Saighton Camp, Chester, where I was a Sergeant Instructor to twenty new recruits teaching them how to read and write and often writing or answering letters for them, to or from their homes.

Following upon this experience I began my education lifetime at Lostock Junior School, Stretford, under the headship of a certain Miss Horridge who was a good leader. I gained transfer to Seymour Grove School, Stretford, and from there to St.Hilda’s School, under the headship of Mr. Palmer, and finally in 1971, became deputy head teacher, and then acting head, at Gorse Hill Primary School, until I took early retirement in 1983.

Perhaps whoever now dwells in the Lodge, down Frederick Road, could contact me.

R. Whitehead Dip. Ed.

Park Lodge Frederick Road 1977.

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Why do Memories Matter?by Michelle Flye, Memories Matter Project Support Worker

The ‘Memories Matter’ service has been in operation at Salford Museum & Art Gallery for over six years loaning free reminiscence resources, including objects from our handling collection and picture packs of areas of Salford, to local day centres, care homes, charities and community groups to support reminiscence activities for older people.

The service continues to go from strength to strength, offering ‘Introduction to Reminiscence Training’ to any staff or volunteers who work with older people, consultancy for reminiscence development and specialised reminiscence tours of Lark Hill Place. Our next exciting phase during 2012 is to redevelop all of the resources, as some of our well loved and used handling boxes have become a little tired!

Over the years that Memories Matter has continued to develop and grow, its ethos of the importance of reminiscence and how easy it is to do has remained. We do it every day and at every age without even realising it, whether it’s talking about a holiday we’ve been on, a special event we attended such as a birthday or wedding, or even something as simple as a day at the park in the sunshine! Most people enjoy talking to friends and family recalling these memories. As a result their mood is lifted and they feel valued by being listened to; this is because our memories and personal history are what shapes us as a person. The following quote describes this:

Reminiscence work – and a philosophy based on it – is applicable to all age ranges and all conditions; in short to everyone. We all feel better and function better when we are being respected and valued. (Bender, Bauckham and Norris, 1999)

Reminiscence, at its heart can be nothing more than an enjoyable, fun, social activity to take part in; however there are further benefits to taking part in reminiscence activity that can help improve a persons well being. During reminiscence sessions that the Memories Matter team have run, we have often found that reminiscence has helped to open up new relationships with people who realised that they both grew up in the same area, only living a few streets away! Great Clowes Street nursery, Broughton, 1938

It can also help people identify with who they are as a person by reflecting on their previous life achievements and gaining a stronger sense of identity in the present. It can also help to transmit cultural heritage and family history, passing on important information about people, places and events, and can be a valuable source for local and family historians.

Within a care setting, reminiscence has also helped care staff better understand the people they care for; by learning more about their past history they can learn how their past experiences have shaped them as a person today, improving the care they receive.

To evidence the benefits of reminiscence is often problematic as it’s based on how a person feels rather than on any outcomes that can be tested. However there have been studies undertaken by researchers at Exeter University which have recently discovered that just six half hour chats boosted recall of people with dementia by 12%. This simple act of swapping stories, experiences and past adventures makes use of parts of the brain which otherwise might lie dormant.

Participants getting involved in a reminiscence session

A recent group session ran by the Memories Matter team explored the theme of Childhood Holidays for an exhibition held at the Museum last year. The participants’ memories and stories were included within the exhibition and below we share with you a few snippets of these:

“The holiday camp in Prestatyn was famous – we called it Jam Butty Camp! There was a play area outside that was supposed to be haunted because you could hear the swings creaking. The girls and boys stayed in different areas, and all the rebels were put together. Before you went, you had to go to a clinic on Regent Road and get your head examined to see if you had nits!”

Flo.

“When the knitted costumes filled with water, they sagged, well more than sagged. I was learning to knit and so I knitted one, as you couldn’t normally afford a one, but a knitted one, well, it just fell to the floor. You’d get rather embarrassed!”

Hilda.

“I ran away from home when I was 8, and got all the way to Blackpool by hanging off the back of lorries! I was there one night; I was put up in a convent and brought back by the police the next day. I got in loads of trouble”

Ernie.

If you would like further information on Memories Matter, please contact either Naomi Lewis or Michelle Flye (contact details on page 2)Handling objects

Rag rugging

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Harold Riley: Salford 1947 to 2012 by Amy Goodwin, Exhibitions Officer

Harold Riley has dedicated much of his career to capturing the everyday street life of Salford. A mini retrospective of these works including oils, watercolours and drawings are going to be brought together for a major exhibition at Salford Museum and Art Gallery in spring 2013.

Harold was born in Salford in 1934. His relationship with Salford Museum and Art Gallery started at an early age when he sold his first painting to the gallery aged 11. He went to Salford Grammar School and at 17 won a scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London. He then went on to study at the British School in Rome and Madrid University. For the next two years he served as an officer in the army.

In the 1960s he returned to Salford where his connections with Salford Museum and Art Gallery grew strong. He exhibited numerous times and held art classes for children and young people at what was then Buile Hill Park Museum. Salford Museum and Art Gallery now holds the largest retrospective collection of his work.

One of his most famous relationships was the friendship he built up with L.S Lowry, who he first met in his student days. Both artists took inspiration directly from their surroundings, the industrial northern landscape. In the 1960s they worked together on a project called ‘the streets’ where they recorded everyday working life in Salford at that time. Some of the drawings from this project can be seen in the exhibition.

Riley is also a very successful portrait artist. He has created many famous portraits including Nelson Mandela and Sir Matt Busby. His more recent work has expanded to other major interests of his including golf and football. His love of football started at an early age when he played for Manchester United junior team. His other love, apart from his painting, is photography. His father was a photographer so Riley was introduced to it at an early age.

Just across the road from Salford Museum and Art Gallery is Riley’s studio and headquarters of the ‘Riley Archive’. This holds his drawings, paintings and photographs of the city along with his sporting studies and portrait work. The principal body of his life’s work will be left to the city, housed in this archive studio refurbished by the city in 2002, the architect working to designs made from Riley’s drawings.

Broad Street 1964

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The archive also holds an extensive library with numerous first edition books that Harold has collected over the years, including Shelagh Delaney, Walter Greenwood; photographic books and sport books on golf and football. He also collects memorabilia from sporting events, coal mines, cotton mills, the ship canal and the railways.

At the studio along with the archive collection of his works is a painting room for Riley to work in, a photographic print room, a collection of catalogues from each of his exhibitions and a huge collection of over 1000 of his sketchbooks. Harold and his wife have transformed the outside space into a green haven, with many unusual plants from around the world including gifts from Picasso, a palm tree from Nelson Mandela and an acer tree from Henry Moore.

Currently Harold and his small team are digitising the whole archive to enable access for everyone to everything. His photographs, drawings, graphics, paintings and sketchbooks will all be available online next year as part of a new dedicated website.

The Riley Foundation is also run from his archive premises. This is a charitable foundation set up to promote and preserve his work to keep it here in Salford, benefit local schools and colleges by contributing educationally, provide artwork to hospitals and to benefit the people of Salford. It is self generating through the sales of prints, reproductions, books and original artworks.

The exhibition ‘Harold Riley: Salford 1947 to 2012’ opens on Saturday 4 May 2013.

The Man 1962

Chimney Pot Park 1963

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Community activities at Ordsall Hallby Hazel Fenton, Arts and Communities Officer

Ordsall Hall’s history and heritage has long inspired and engaged the communities of Salford and this year has been no different. We have been working on two particular projects, ‘The Art of Celebration’, and ‘Homing In’, both of which celebrate the people of Salford, their creativity and stories.

Ordsall Hall was granted the Inspire mark by the London 2012 Inspire programme for its project ‘The Art of Celebration’. The London 2012 Inspire programme recognised innovative and exceptional projects that were directly inspired by the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

‘The Art of Celebration’ was inspired by the integration of arts and culture into the London 2012 Games to foster a shared sense of community and ownership. By doing so, the Olympic ethos of understanding and friendship amongst all peoples was simultaneously celebrated.

Throughout the summer, Ordsall Hall and ceramic artist Rosanna Martin worked with visitors and communities across the city to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Great Hall being built. This was done using the media of clay and visual storytelling. Participants created 500 oak leaves and decorated them with images inspired by the Hall and their lives in Salford. The oak leaf was chosen due to the use of oak wood in the Hall’s structure and its traditional symbolism of unity, strength and power.

The culmination of the project saw the unveiling of the communities’ work at Ordsall Hall on 9th September, with visitors invited to take a leaf away with them, disseminating this special artwork far and wide. As a thank you to all those who created work for the exhibition, artist Rosanna Martin gifted individuals a limited edition ceramic acorn.

Participants feedback was overwhelmingly positive, with many surprised by their own creativity; one family commented that the making process was like ‘magic’. One group of women commented on how playing with the clay was reminiscent of playing with mud and reminded them of their childhoods in Pakistan.

Throughout their work participants shared the people, places and stories that are meaningful to them. These included family and friends, traditional remedies and local architecture, cultural traditions and cooking.

In August the Hall began working in partnership with Salford Young Carers on the development of an exhibition that will open at the Hall in December. The young people have been inspired by the theme of Ordsall Hall as a home to explore their own lives and homes in Salford. During the five month project they have also shared and reflected upon their own experiences and those of older carers. The exhibition ‘Homing In’ will showcase their work documenting places, people and objects that are meaningful to them.

The young people have taken responsibility for all aspects of the exhibition; from creating work and writing labels to installation. They undertook training in photography and have employed their creative skills to share their personal stories. The resulting exhibition will reflect a real celebration of the young people and the valuable contribution they make to their families and city. We hope you enjoy the showcase of their work which will run from 2nd December until 3rd March at the Hall.

As we move towards a new year Ordsall Hall continues to develop its ever growing community programmes and looks forward to building upon current work throughout 2013.

Both projects have been generously supported by the Friends of Salford Museums’ Association.

The Art of Celebration © Nick Harrison

Homing In - Untitled

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Salford’s First World War Centenary Commemorationsby John Sculley, Museums and Heritage Services Manager

2014 marks the centenary of the start of the First World War. Imperial War Museums (IWM) are leading Britain’s commemorations through a national partnership programme that, amongst other benefits, offers resources as well as branding opportunities to groups and societies that are planning linked events.

More information about the national partnership and how to sign up can be found at www.1914.org/partners Salford is already developing ideas, partnerships and projects of its own to link with IWM and help commemorate the centenary across the city. The Friends of Salford Museums are taking the lead in coordinating the city’s contributions. Salford Museum and Art Gallery has programmed its Lifetimes Gallery for a major 2014, First World War exhibition. The museum’s learning service has worked with colleagues across Greater Manchester to build an on-line teacher’s resource and the Friends of Salford Museums have dedicated time and resources to ensure the city’s contribution and sacrifice is properly acknowledged.

We are keen to ensure that all organisations, groups and individuals have every opportunity to participate in what will be the most important and moving centenary commemoration in recent history. The first meeting, held at Salford Museum and Art Gallery in early September, introduced the centenary to representatives of local groups in order to encourage as much involvement as possible. There were introductory presentations by IWM and Salford Museum and Art Gallery, followed by an open discussion to help generate ideas that we can build on over the next couple of years.

As well as the Friends of Salford Museums and Salford local history societies, other groups represented included SWARM (Salford War Memorials) and the Billy Unsworth Project. Billy Unsworth was an Ordsall soldier, killed at Gallipoli in 1915. To hear the full song you can Google the Ballad of Billy Unsworth at www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbZm5J33Oxo. Salford’s Working Class Movement Library and Salford and Trafford Councils were also represented.

There will be other public meetings arranged during the lead up to the commemorations as well as opportunities for groups and individuals to contribute to wider activities.

If you have any ideas, or family stories, or objects and memorabilia from the First World War, please let us know. In the first instance, you can contact John Sculley at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Peel Park, Crescent, Salford M5 4WU or email john.sculley@salford.gov.uk

Pte. John Warburton 15th Lancashire Fusiliers

Women doing war work 1914-18

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Carol Eckersley sent us three photographs relating to her mother’s childhood in 1930s Salford.

Frampton Street, 1937This photograph was taken by Carol’s mother, Mary Adams (nee Lee) then aged 14 at the coronation of George VI. She remembers all the names of her old neighbours, and what number houses they lived at.

Front to back, right-hand side of table: Tom Jolly, No.3; Adelaide Jolly, No.3; Annie Fletcher, No.8; Mary Elizabeth Lee, No.2; Mary Glynn, No.2; Mrs. Barnett, No.10; Louie Lee, No.4; Mrs. Baines, No.14; Ralph James, No.12.Top of table: Sitting: Mrs. Shoebottom, No.5. Standing: Mrs. Haslam, No.16Front to back, left-hand side of table: Ethel Haslam, No.16; Mrs. West, No.7; Mary Ann Lee (Pope), No.17; Fanny Barnes, No.10; Ted Barnes, No.10; Betty Redfern

If you would like to share your photos with us in future issues of Link, please get in touch with us. We do recommend you only send us copies of your photos and we will return any photos sent in.

New Windsor School, 1933Mary Adams (nee Lee) recalls the names of her classmates in this photograph of her New Windsor School class from 1933.Front row: One of the Leonard twins, Irene Jenkins, Edith Thompson, Edna Rutherford, Elsie Garner, Pauline Fishwick Second row: The other Leonard twin, Noreen Fitzsimmons, Ivy Poole, Edna Ogden, Dorothy Spencer, Elsie Haworth, Lily Brow, Doris Wood, Elsie Wheeler Third row: Joyce Dray, unknown, Marjorie Valentine, May Moores, Edna West, Mary Lee, Irene Shoebottom Back row: Miss Ford (Cocky Ford), Marion Cheadle, Doris Mycock, Margaret Fitzgerald, Hilda Whittaker, Mary Swindells, May Brooks

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Mr. J.R. Rowlett wrote to us about and shares two photos of his father, John Rowlett.

My father John Rowlett was born at Cork Barracks, County Cork Ireland. John went to St. Cyprians School and Ordsall Board School before leaving at the age of 14 years. He spent 2 years working at W. H. Baileys Oldfield Road, Salford Engineers and then joined Warrel Waites Lever Street Towel Manufacturers before starting as a dock worker on the Manchester Ship Canal.

John married Beatrice Rowlett, nee Massey at St. Clements Church, Salford on 2nd August 1930 and was living at 6 Sand Street Salford at the time of his marriage.

Dad recalled the hard times in the 1930s and 1940s when men had to stand in line hoping to be selected for work or to be given work at another port. It was difficult to make ends meet and at one particular low point he recalled walking along Eccles New Road to his mother’s without a penny to his name and vowed that would never happen again.

After Mum died in 1984, Dad moved to Hereford to be closer to his family and enjoyed gardening. He was very fit and active until the time of his death on 18th October 1995.

Above: A National Dock Labour Board reunion. John Rowlett is 6th from the front on the left hand side of the long table.

Above: John Rowlett with his grandchildren, Stephen and Audrey in 1970.

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A taste of forthcoming heritage events

A full programme of events and exhibitions can be found in our twice yearly (approx January and July) Events and Activities publication. Pick up a copy from our museum or any Salford library, or check www.salford.gov.uk/museums for full events listings.

You can also find much more to see and do (as well as find out the most up to date venue or event details) at www.visitsalford.info

Remember- internet access is free at all Salford libraries and help is always available.

Exhibitions

Salford’s Sporting StarsUntil 7 April 2013

A taste of sport in Salford! Discover some of the sports and sporting stars that have a connection to Salford from the past and present. From running and rugby to boxing and water polo, this exhibition brings together stories, objects and images from the museums collections. Lost Salford Streets21 July to 2 December 2012

An installation of family snaps, oral histories, home videos and street signs from the people that lived in some of Salford’s lost streets and communities demolished over the past 50 years. These are brought together with other unseen parts of the Re-Tracing Salford project archive. The project is an on-going collection engaging people with their heritage, re-connecting people in the present with former neighbours, friends and relations through exhibitions and the on-line archive. For more information visit www.streetsmuseum.co.uk

Did you or someone you know live on a lost Salford street? Or do you want to know more about the project? Lawrence Cassidy, project coordinator, will be in the gallery to collect your memories and photographs to add to the Re-Tracing Salford archive. You can also use the large scale maps to trace former homes and districts. Please visit our website for dates.

A Tourist in Your Own City: the paintings of Nigel Walker17 November 2012 to 10 March 2013

Salford born artist Nigel Walker devotes his life to painting, capturing the people and essence of street life in Salford and Manchester. His paintings take the viewer on a journey, revealing stories of the characters met along the way, instead of focusing on the landmark buildings that form a backdrop to his work.

After distancing himself from his home city he travelled the world to discover himself as an artist. This took him into isolation in the Alps, following the footsteps of Picasso and Matisse

on the French Riviera, and to a remote island in the middle of the North Sea. In 2007 he embarked on a solo 5000 mile mountain bike journey to China and South East Asia constantly observing the people and places around him. On his return to Salford in 2009 he found his true style, with the fresh eyes of a traveller, a tourist in his own city.

This is the first major solo exhibition of Nigel Walker’s work and an unmissable opportunity to see the talent of this up-and-coming artist.

Our Choice of Your Paintings 8 December 2012 to 17 February 2013

The Public Catalogue Foundation is revealing the United Kingdom’s collection of 200, 000 oil paintings. By photographing collections held in public ownership, the registered charity is enabling digital access to these via their website ‘Your Paintings’, in partnership with the BBC. To celebrate this project and mark their involvement, different members of staff at Salford Museum and Art Gallery have chosen their favourite paintings from the collections that have contributed, many of which have not been on public display for a number of years.

Journeys, Narratives and Land Marking: A celebration of the Irwell Sculpture Trail23 February to 19 May 2013

Winding its way from Bacup to Salford Quays, the Irwell Sculpture Trail features over 70 artworks by locally, nationally and internationally renowned artists. This exhibition showcases the artistic work

Salford Museum & Art Gallery

Manchester and Salford Boundary Line, Bridge Street by Nigel Walker

The Ligurian Shepherdess by Henry Herbert La Thangue

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Harold Riley: Salford 1947 to 2012 4 May 2013 to 23 February 2014

Harold Riley has dedicated much of his career to capturing the everyday street life in Salford. This exhibition is a mini retrospective of these works including oils, watercolours and drawings. Growing up in Salford, Riley has seen many changes within the city. He and LS Lowry recorded the lives of working people during the 1960s. Some of these drawings will feature in the show. This exhibition places Riley’s works of his home city next to a selection of portraits of some of the people important to him.

Worn to be Wild 30th September to 25th November 2012

An exhibition of costume inspired by the wildlife of Britain, designed and created by costume maker and textile artist Kate Plumtree

Each outfit in this vibrant exhibition has been inspired by a British bird or mammal combined with a specific era of fashion. Ordsall Hall provides the ideal historic location for the Tudor inspired badger and Elizabethan inspired grebe! Many of the animals represented are frequent visitors to the grounds, such as the fox, heron and bat. The outfits are displayed on mannequins alongside the artist’s location photography, fabric sample touch boards and step by step construction portfolios showing in photographs how each costume was made. There is even an extra rail of costumes for children and adults to try on! “Worn to be Wild aims to enlighten and inspire through the beauty and diversity of nature, the evolution of fashion, the craft of costume making and the art of creative textiles”, Kate Plumtree - costume maker and textile artist

produced at re-launch events for the trail and pop-up arts projects, delivered by local artists and organisations and the All About Us project which has engaged young people and families in Ordsall in arts and digital technology activities. This exciting exhibition includes photographs, films, geocaches, tree canvases, audio stories, performance and creative writing, all inspired by the trail and its sculptures.

There’s a Rainbow in the Road: Caroline Johnson23 March to 7 July 2013

This is Caroline’s first solo show in a public gallery. Her highly graphic, graceful paintings and drawings reflect both the vibrancy of recent changes, and the history of Salford and Manchester. Caroline’s contemporary urban artworks investigate the hidden charm of overlooked corners, as well asgiving a fresh interpretation to architectural icons.

Caroline lives in the north-west where she was brought up on a post-war housing estate and drew from an early age. She attended art schools in Preston and Falmouth and the Central College of Art and Design, London.

Caroline is the official Urban Sketcher for Manchester and carries her sketchbook with her at all times. She’ll be making sketches in the area in the months leading up to the exhibition and these will be on show alongside her larger works. There’ll be workshops with the artist, too, and opportunities to meet her informally in the gallery.

Seed – Irwell Sculpture Trail

Police house by Caroline Johnson

Golden Eagle (courtesy of Kate Plumtree)

Like a flame by Michelle Barnard – Ten Plus Textiles

Homing In2 December 2012 to 3 March 2013

Salford Young Carers have been inspired by the theme of Ordsall Hall as a home to explore their own lives and homes in Salford. During the five month project they have also shared and reflected on their own experiences and those of older carers. This exhibition showcases their work which documents places, people, and objects that are meaningful to them.

Ten Plus Textiles @ Ordsall Hall: A New Exhibition 10 March to 9 June 2013

This exhibition showcases new work created by Ten Plus Textiles over the last year. Based in the North West, Ten Plus are a group of 18 fully qualified textile artists who have recently celebrated 20 years of working with fibres and fabric to create contemporary textile art from a wide range of techniques. Using fine hand and machine embroidery, patchwork, quilting and beadwork, weaving, collage and mixed media, their work includes framed pieces and hangings, 3-D items, fashion accessories and jewellery, all of which will be featured at Ordsall Hall.

Ordsall Hall

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Things to do

School holidays at Salford Heritage Services

We always enjoy the school holidays at Ordsall Hall and Salford Museum & Art Gallery. During summer we had fun on National Playday, and made hats, puppets and lots of junk art! To find out what we’ve got coming up visit our website:

Salford Museum & Art Gallerywww.salford.gov.uk/schoolholidayactivities

Ordsall Hallwww.visitsalford.info/oh-school-holidays

‘Agatha Christie and Art Deco’ – presentation by History WardrobeSunday 10th March, 11:30 am.Seductive, sensational and chic, this stunning new presentation celebrates the life and times of the Queen of Crime...with the added twist of a mystery to solve. Characters from Christie’s era are brought to life through dramatic readings and dazzling Deco fashions from the 20s & 30s - dainty day dresses, beaded ‘flapper’ frocks and sweeping evening gowns.

Places must be booked, contact 0161 778 0800 to reserve your place.To find out more visit our website:Salford Museum and Art Gallery

A brilliant scene in a box - made during our junk modelling workshops

Playing with some Victorian toys at Playday 2012

Some amazing junk art

Workshops at Salford Museum & Art Gallery

www.salford.gov.uk/workshopsOrdsall Hallwww.salford.gov.uk/oh-workshops

Christmas is coming…And Salford Heritage Services has festive events to celebrate the season

Christmas Festival Weekend at Salford Museum and Art GallerySaturday 1st and Sunday 2nd December 2012, 1:00pm – 4:45pmFestive music, craft fair, family activities and Father Christmas. Free entry, £3.50 per child to visit Father Christmas. No need to book.

Tudor Christmas Live!Sunday 2nd December 1:00pm – 4:00pmHave a go at some Tudor Christmas Activities! Come and make a child friendly stained glass Christmas window (using child safe Perspex) in our special workshop.£4 per person. For ages 8. Booking is essential for the workshop. Call 0161 872 0251. The rest of Tudors Live is free, and there is no need to book.

Christmas Wreath WorkshopTuesday 11th and Wednesday 12th December 1:30pm – 4:30pmCome and make a festive wreath to take home using natural materials such as chillies, oranges and pine cones. The price includes a mince pie! All materials provided.£20 per person. For ages 14 + places must be booked on 0161 872 0251

At Ordsall Hall

Workshops and classesAs well as activities for children we also have a range of workshops and classes for adults – a great chance to learn a new skill in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.

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One memory that lingers was when I got a job at a launderette shop which was in West Park Street, about five houses down from where I lived. It was run by two sisters, Mabel and Mary. The system at the shop was simple. People would bring their dirty bedding, etc., the two sisters would wash it, and then the customer would pick it up. It sounds easy, but nothing was easy in those days, it was all elbow grease and people did not have the facilities in their own homes.

My duties were to take clean washing to different addresses then collect dirty washing on the way back. To enable me to do this I had to wheel a home made wooden cart. Actually, it was a large wooden crate on wheels, with two pieces of wood sticking out for handles! Every day after school, I had to wheel this contraption over Ordsall Park and back again. Not a pleasant job for a pint-sized school kid, although it did have its compensations, it doubled my porridge rations.

One day, on about my third week, Mary filled my cart up with clean linen and told me to take it to their house which was over Ordsall Park and just behind the Salisbury Hotel on Trafford Road. On arriving, and having off-loaded my cargo, Mabel offered me a cup of tea and a bun decorated with icing which I quickly engulfed.

“You’d best get back now” she said after I drank my tea, “Mary’ll be wondering where you’ve got to.”

I wiped the sticky icing from my face, then inspected the floor in the area where I was sat in case I had dropped any crumbs.

“Thanks for the cup of tea and cake Mabel” I said, as I got to my feet and walked towards the exit, then gasped in horror when I realised that somebody had pinched my cart.

“Mabel…Mabel” I shouted, “My cart’s gone”

Mabel ran from the house, “What do you mean…it’s gone?”

“Someone’s nicked it!”

She stood there with her hands on her hips, “Well don’t just stand there, go ‘n find it.”

Ordsall launderette memoriesby Ken Williamson

Off I went like greased lightning. I looked high and low, but to no avail. When I returned Mabel was standing on the croft.

“Did you not find it then?”

“No!” I replied

“You’d best go ‘n tell Mary then. Have a look for it on your way back.”

Off I went like a scalded cat, my eyes scanning the area over and over again. The suddenly I spotted it halfway down the slope in the park passage minus one of its wheels! Somebody must have been using it for a chariot, or something? I found the wheel some twenty yards away, and quickly picked it up, then balanced the cart on one wheel and returned to the shop.

“What have you done to the cart?” demanded Mary when I returned.

“Someone stole it and broke the wheel” I explained.

She made a tutting noise and then shook her head. “I don’t know! Pass me that hammer and get some nails out of the drawer.”

I looked on as she started to hammer away at the broken down cart, cursing with every stroke. That was my first encounter with Mary and I was determined that it was going to be my last.

Needless to say I kept a clean sheet after that…!

Worsley cottages oil painting - can you help?Susan Bearder has written to LifeTimes Link asking whether we can help us identify a painting in her possession. She writes:

I wonder if your magazine could help me identify the view of a painting I have had for a number of years? I didn’t actually know where Worsley is but the www.salford.gov.uk website has been very informative. It explains to me the body of water in the picture which I think is the canal.

I hope that somebody will recognise the picture, there seems to be a footbridge across the water, any help would be much appreciated. (Please contact LifeTimes Link, details on page 2 if you are able to).

The painting is dated April 1972 and the artists signature on the reverse is possibly either C.B. Missome or Miscombe.

Do you recognise this view?

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Salford Local History Library has over 70,000 photos in their collection. Unfortunately we can’t identify all of them. Drop us a line or pop into the Local History Library if you can help! (Open Tuesday to Friday 10am to 4.45pm, with a late night opening on Wednesdays until 8pm).

Mystery Pix 1This shop front, from around the time of the Queen’s coronation in 1953, is possibly in Hanky Park. Can anybody remember it and its location?

Mystery Pix 2Does anybody know where this dinner is being held? Or what the building or organisation, possibly in the Eccles area, hosting it is?

Responses from last issue...Mystery Pix 1We had several responses to this picture which is of St. Paul’s Schoolrooms, on the corner of Liverpool Road and Chapel Lane, Irlam. Originally a Methodist chapel built in 1853, it is still standing and is now a medical centre as can be seen in the photo showing it today sent in by M. Cullen. Thanks also to Deirdre Owen, Pat from Irlam Library, Christine Hall and Debbie Yates who all confirm this.

St. Paul’s Schoolrooms

Mystery Pix 3 Jenny from Irlam Library e-mailed to tell us that this picture is of Buille Hill animal park which was near the entrance at Weaste Lane. She used to go regularly as she lived nearby and the man that worked there let them go in and hold a baby lamb just after it was born.

Response from Issue 29Mystery Pix 2Clive Davidson contacted us to tell us that the players are Swinton RFC and the player on the right is Tom Preston, who was his father-in-law. Tom’s brother Stan was also on Swinton’s books at the time. Tom’s son Don played for Swinton and became a well known youth coach, coaching England schoolboys, and was a popular celebrity in rugby circles.

The building as it is today, a medical centre

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Please note: Walkden Local History

Group and Worsley Methodist Church

& Community Association have unfortunately disbanded and will no longer meet.

This calendar of local history and heritage activities is based on information supplied by the individual organisations, and is believed to be correct at the time of going to press. It may be advisable to confirm details with the organisation in advance of attending an event.

Note to programme secretaries. For your group’s talks to be included in this listing please send your programme to us before the deadline as shown on page 3.

Please note that some societies have their own websites.

Boothstown & District Local History GroupThe informal meetings are held in the main hall of Boothstown Community Centre, Stansfield Drive, on the third Wednesday of the month.

Further dates to be announcedTalks start at 7.45pmCost - £1.50; yearly membership £7.50

Chalk History Group, Charlestown and Lower KersalMeet at St. Sebastian’s Community Hall, Douglas Green, fortnightly every other Friday at 12.30 pm. For further details for forthcoming meetings check their website atwww.chalkhistory.colsal.org.uk or email: chalkhistory@yahoo.co.ukFurther dates to be announced

Eccles & District History SocietyMeet at Alexandra House, Peel Green on the second Wednesday of the monthContact Andrew Cross 0161 788 7263Website: www.edhs.colsal.org.uk

14 November 2012The Cheshire Canal RingDavid Firth

12 December 2012Christmas meal

9 January 2013Gilbert and SullivanRichard W. Hall

13 February 2013Alderley Edge copper minesStephen Mills

13 March 2013The Mersey and Irwell NavigationDavid George

10 April 2013Viking boat burial

8 May 2013Annual General Meeting followed by slides of old EcclesTalks start at 7.30pm

Irlam, Cadishead & District Local History SocietyMeet at St. Paul’s Church, Liverpool Road, IrlamContact Deborah Yates 0161 775 8708www.icdlhs.colsal.org.uk

21 November 2012A girl with no nameTony Foster

7 December 2012No meeting: Christmas party at Boysnope Golf ClubPre-booking essential

15 January 2012Preston GuildDeborah Yates

20 February 2013Manchester odditiesKeith Warrender

20 March 2013The Irwell Valley Mining ProjectPaul Kelly

17 April 2013How our ancestor livedBernard Champness

15 May 2013Stranger than fictionPeter Watson

Talks start at 7.30 pmVisitors welcome: £1.00

Salford Local History SocietyMeet at Salford Museum & Art GalleryContact Roy Bullock 0161 736 7306www.salfordlocalhistorysociety.colsal.org.uk

28 November 2012The history of brass bands in the north of EnglandStephen Etheridge

December 2012No meeting

30 January 2013The lore of birth, death and the householdPeter Watson

27 February 2013A Taste of HoneyNaomi Lewis

27 March 2013More photographic reminiscencesDon Rainger

24 April 2013Annual General Meeting

Talks start at 6.00pm

Visitors welcome: £2

Swinton & Pendlebury Local History SocietyMeet at Swinton Library, Chorley Road, Swinton Contact Jean Appleby 0161 7944570 or Marjory Williams 0161 7937847www.splhs.colsal.org.uk

19 November 2012Friends of Salford CemeteriesJean Coward3 December 2012Christmas quiz

7 January 2013Reminiscence session

21 January 2013Christmas luncheon

4 February 2013Down forget-me-not laneBrian Hallworth

18 February 2013Joseph EvansJohn Aldred

4 March 2013Toast masterStephen Saunders

18 March 2013Salford in the First World WarB.A. Lightfoot

8 April 2013The other Black BeautyMr. Jack Morris

22 April 2013Coach trip – to be advised

13 May 2013Abandon hopePeter Watson

3 June 2013Annual General Meeting

Talks start at 10amCost £2.00 (£1.00 for reminiscence sessions)

WCML talksA continuation of a series of talks at the Working Class Movement Library.

Working Class Movement Library, Jubilee House, 51 The Crescent, Salford, M5 4WX.

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Salford Museum and Art GalleryPeel Park, Crescent, Salford M5 4WUTel: 0161 778 0800 • Fax: 0161 745 9490Email: salford.museum@salford.gov.ukOpen: Mon-Fri 10.00am-4.45pm and Sat-Sun 1.00-5.00pmDisabled access, gift shop, cafe.Parking charges - £2.00 for up to 3 hrs; £5.00 for 3 to 6 hrs; £8.00 for 6 to 12 hrs

Salford Local History Libraryat Salford Museum and Art Gallery:Tel: 0161 778 0814Open: Tues, Thurs and Fri 10.00am-4.45pm and Weds 10.00am-8.00pmClosed weekends and Mondays

Ordsall Hall Museum322 Ordsall Lane, Salford M5 3ANTel: 0161 872 0251 • Fax: 0161 872 4951Email: ordsall.hall@salford.gov.ukOpen: Mon-Fri 10.00am-4.00pm and Sunday 1.00-4.00pm. Closed SaturdayParking charges - £2.00 for up to 3 hrs; £5.00 for 3 hrs or more