Local author, Alice Searle, uncovers executions, suicides and ghosts on Kersal Moor...
Read moreFrom 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...
Read moreA small piece of moorland that has a huge and rich history, from Chartist demonstrations, to horse racing, Spanking Roger and more...
Read moreUna 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’...
Read moreOn Kersal Moor there is a plaque commemorating the great democracy rallies...
Read moreIn 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...
Read moreMary 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...
Read moreFairy Lane, off Bury New Road, did actually have fairies on it, according to legend...
Read moreSoviet era maps from 1975 show how Russian tanks were set to invade Manchester via Bury New Road...
Read moreThere was Karl Marx...There was Friedrich Engels...And there was Mary Burns...Mary Burns?
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