Salford
What to see
For the tourist potential of Salford plus shopping, eating out etc there’s ILoveManchester, Salford Star, Time Out and Visit Salford. Manchester, of course, is also featured on this site.
Links to Salford attractions include:
● Cathedral Church of St John the Evangelist
● The Lowry
● Manchester Jewish Museum
● Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester
● Ordsall Hall
● Salford Museum & Art Gallery
● Sis4ers Distillery Gin Experience
Towns of Two Halves extracts:
● “Some [Twin Cities] are neither fictional nor particularly famous: Manchester/Salford is one such pair. Salford’s city status has an ambiguous quality as a result. Known chiefly (if at all) as an adjunct of Manchester, it has recently begun reclaiming symbols of civic identity.”
● “Friedrich Engels, co-author of The Communist Manifesto, spent 20 years in the twin cities. According to a wonderful and extended piece in the radical, irreverent Salford Star ‘when Fred came to Salford, age 22, he was on the ale every night, copping off with local girls and stirring up all sorts of trouble’.”
● “Salford City play at the Peninsula Stadium. The ground’s unusual name is, needless to say, the result of a sponsorship deal. But it could also come from an eccentric looping digression made by the Irwell around Kersal Wetlands; strictly speaking it’s a meander, but if a football club were to play at the Meander Stadium it should be the Civil Service Strollers.”
These are taken from the Salford chapter, added in 2019 to Towns of Two Halves, published in 2018. To buy a copy, email info@townsof2halves.co.uk.