Social History

On Kersal Moor there is a plaque commemorating the great democracy rallies...

In 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...

Mary 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...

Fairy Lane, off Bury New Road, did actually have fairies on it, according to legend...

Soviet era maps from 1975 show how Russian tanks were set to invade Manchester via Bury New Road...

There was Karl Marx...There was Friedrich Engels...And there was Mary Burns...Mary Burns?

With spies trying to track every move of Friedrich Engels while he was in Manchester and Salford, he had official addresses and unofficial secret addresses. No-one knew where all these were until Roy Whitfield uncovered the web...

While all the places Engels lived are completely demolished, here's some commemorative sites....

Friedrich Engels - From Germany to Salford and Manchester, and the world...

Friedrich Engels - the man who really did change the world lived in Strangeways at the start of Bury New Road