A montage of Salford in old photographs

Enjoy a trip down memory lane as we take a look at how things looked in Salford years in gone by.

[darkshepherd]

I'm Canadian, but my Grandad is from Salford. It's strange being here, but when I look back at my history - it's all over there. He was in Leeds during war and met my nan.

[paulmcallister]

Am a scouser and absolutely love old historic photos of all northern towns and cities. And Salford is just amazing 👏

[dippydipso]

Thank you so much. I was born in Pendleton 80 years ago and wish I could go back to being a child there again...

[MarkFromSalfordUK]

Born in 1977 and grew up in the Weaste area, my earliest memories would be starting 1980 and lived in Seedley so back when i was a kid Salford very much resembled alot of old Salford.
We had great times playing in Buile Hill park and the side streets and going to Langy Rd Shops and Liverpool street shops.
Happy happy bye gone days, now Salford seems so much differnt to wot i rememberd.
Great photos, thanks for sharing

[martinwall]

Fantastic pictures But so sad great people in Salford them days

[josephmiller]

😃 Brilliant Video Of Old Salford 😃 ~
❤ I'm From Salford 6 & Proud Of It 👍, I Don't Like How Modern Salford Is Nowadays. So Many Beautiful Old Salford Buildings Have Been Demolished 😖. Even My Secondary School
"Hope Hall/High" No Longer Exists 😮, Along With Many Other Schools 🙁.

[archbell]

I remember Barmy Mick's on Eccles New Road. Great video

[cw]

A lot of memories there! And I spotted myself on Edward Street, Lower Broughton. I'm on the right, my cousin David on the left (he lived on nearby Cambridge St) and my brother Paul in the middle.

[paulw]

Wow that brought back so many memories, lived in Ordsall till moving to Salford precinct around 1971 and stayed there till around 87.
Can’t believe how much things has changed over the years and how clean did the streets look without the cars..
loved the Woolworths photo on the precinct spent many a time as a kid at the pick and mix counters..
And used to be so many pubs along Regent road and chapel street. How times have changed for the worse unfortunately…

[speedtriplerider]

Bittersweet nostalgia, thanks for doing.

[redtobertshateshandles]

Just showed dad your video. Jones the chemist was dad's uncle Jacks shop, originally hardware. One of their two sons drowned in a drain. He remembered the Hippodrome. They had topless women and were legal as long as they didn't move. Dad has many recollections about those places. The kids all hooted and hollered. Many thanks.

[creationinmotion]

Brought a few tears. I grew up in Swinton in the 80s. Lovely memories. Thank you 😊 ❤

[mollypotts]

Lovely photographs. I did my cadet nurse training at Salford Royal Hospital back in 1963 - 1964 so it was great to see it again. Some of the cadets were sent to Hope Hospital and we got people in our outpatients department from the skin diseases hospital. Poor things, wrapped in bandages head to foot, looked like mummies! I had a friend from Loreto Convent, Bowdon, Penny .Dickson, lived in one of those terraced houses, maybe on Oldfield St, as that rings a bell. I live in the USA now and am very nostalgic for anything about "Home"! Thank you kindly for posting.

[Parianparlay]

Some great pics again, you did really well putting it all together, thanks a lot!

[margaretnorth]

So many memories brought back to me from these photos. Thank you.

[redtobertshateshandles]

Dad's 94 and an Aussie nowadays but born and bred in Salford. He always mentions Cross Lane barracks where English soldiers left from to fight and die in the Napoleonic wars. Just demolished.

[valiantval]

Thank you for the photos I watch a lot of this kind of Salford videos but every one of your photos was new to me, I was born and bred in Salford . I am 80 years old and the dear old place is in my bones .

[ianmarsden]

Very enjoyable. Labelling 99% of the photos made the montage come alive and help me take in the detail, knowing where each one was. Thank you.

[PaulMann]

I know many of those places. I knew them when they were still there. But I still know them now that they have been destroyed. I would still know the way from Marple Street to Eller Street, passing Thommy Cheadle's grocers, the bombed church's rubble, on to Eller Street, and there find Kemmie Cannon's pet food shop on the left, Barber Dougie's and the cake shop on the right. And then go on to Broad Street, and find the toy shop where my Nana bought me shiny model cars, the hardware shop, where my Dad bought carpentry tools that I still have today, 60 year's later, and the grand post office with the solid dark-wood counters and shelf along the walls, where the grown-ups could fill in forms and postal orders, with the revolutionary new ball-point biros on little chains, although the old inkpots, dry and unneeded now, were still sunk into the thick wooden surface. It has all gone now, and the ways I know to go have been destroyed. The people have died. There are jabbering idiots all around talking about a weird world they want, but that never was, and never can be, because they do not know reality or truth, and do not even understand those words. I am glad I was young then, when what people said was honest and true, rather than now. And I still know my way around Salford when it was real.

[DPilk]

Lovely to see the old places again, better days I think.
Born in Salford, Myrtle Terrace, overlooking Cross lane railway station in 1949, christened at Stowells memorial church, my sister's where married there, I married at St Clements church, near Archie St.