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The Willows

The Willows, Salford, home of Salford City Reds & Swinton Lions Rugby League clubs, in Salford, England


Albert Scanlon

Scanlon was admitted to the Salford Royal hospital in Salford with kidney problems and pneumonia on 21 October 2009.

Alice Ingham

In 1878, Herbert Vaughan, then Bishop of Salford, suggested that Ingham's group take on domestic duties at St Joseph's Foreign Missionary College, in Mill Hill, London.

Animal Hospital

The animal hospitals are still in use today and are situated at Sonderburg Road in Islington, North London, Clarendon Drive in Putney, South London, and Eccles New Road, Salford, Greater Manchester.

Anthony Crank

He recently took on the role of bad boy Levi in Hollyoaks E4 spin-off 'The Morning After The Night Before, and is soon to be seen as one of the central roles as debt collector 'Jimmy' in Simon Powell's Salford based feature film 'Poor, Wee Me', opposite Paul Hurstfield, Michelle Holmes, Tim Booth, Ian Mercer and Suranne Jones.

Brian and Michael

For the song, Coleman drew on his own memories of Salford and Ancoats as well as the paintings of Lowry.

Carrie Davis

She left the BBC on Thursday 1 March 2012 after taking redundancy and stated on Twitter that she was unable to commit to the BBC Sport move to Salford, due to family reasons.

Charles Atmore

His ministry until 1825 was in the following towns: York, Edinburgh, Halifax, Bristol, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Wakefield, Liverpool, Leeds, Hull, Salford, Sheffield.

Charles Royle

Charles Royle, Baron Royle (1896–1975), his son, British Labour MP for Salford West, life peer

Chief Blue Horse

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show was part of the celebration during the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in England, and toured through Birmingham, Salford, and London for five months.

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Salford, Bedfordshire

Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed church in Salford, Bedfordshire, England.

Clifton Aqueduct

Clifton Aqueduct, built in 1796, carried the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal across the River Irwell in Clifton, Salford, England.

D. G. Hessayon

Hessayon is the son of a Cypriot landowner and grew up in Salford, England.

Eccles railway station

However, with the creation of the MediaCityUK complex in Salford Quays, a much more frequent pattern of services stopping at Eccles has now been reviewed.

Frederick Foster Gough

He married Mary Vigars LeMare, at Christ Church, Salford, Lancashire, on 4 April 1854; he was widowed seven years later when his wife died in London in early 1861.

Graeme Johns

Graeme Johns is a professional rugby league footballer of the 1970s and '80s, playing at representative level for Wales, and at club level for Salford, and Blackpool Borough.

Harrison Hansen

Kiwi forward Harrison is the son of ex Salford and Swinton professional Shane Hansen and is a product of the Folly Lane ARLFC who play at the Blue Ribbon Field, Swinton.

Herbert Vaughan

Three were later called as bishops in addition to Herbert: Roger became Archbishop of Sydney, Australia; Francis became Bishop of Menevia, Wales; John became titular bishop of Sebastopolis and auxiliary bishop in Salford, England.

Independent Means

The play is set in the fictional town of Salchester (an amalgam of Salford and Manchester) in the 1900s.

Jamie Jones-Buchanan

Jones-Buchanan is the half brother of Salford and former Leeds Academy player Jodie Broughton his other half-brothers Austin Buchanan and Brooke Broughton are also professional rugby league players.

Joe Gladwin

He was born at 44 Tatton Street in the Ordsall district of Salford, Lancashire, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Gladwin (nee Dooley).

Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway

Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway CBE, DStJ (b. 1854, Salford, England, UK – died 4 January 1933, Antibes) was a British suffragist and noblewoman.

Leonard Kilbee Shaw

On 4 January 1871 he and Richard Bramwell Taylor started the Manchester and Salford Boys’ and Girls’ Refuges and Homes in a small house on Quay Street, Deansgate.

Manchester Carriage and Tramways Company

When the Tramways Act 1870 became law, the neighbouring councils of Manchester and Salford entered into negotiations for the provision of a tramway connecting the two towns.

Manchester Corporation Tramways

The first tracks therefore were built to allow the already existing lines from neighbouring Salford to run into the city along Deansgate.

Nathan McAvoy

He had joined Salford from Eccles ARL where he played alongside Adrian Morley Ian Watson (rugby league) and Carlo Napolitano.

Oasis Academy Brightstowe

Oasis Community Learning sponsor ten other academies across the UK, including South Bristol, Grimsby, Immingham, Enfield, Salford, Croydon and Southampton East and West.

Oasis Trust

Further "Church.co.uk" network churches have developed running alongside the communities of the Oasis Academies in Salford, Oldham, Brightstowe, Bristol, Enfield, Southampton (Lord's Hill & Mayfield), Immingham and Wintringham.

Palatine Bridge, Salford

A bridge between Chapel Street in Salford and Hunts Bank in Manchester was first proposed in 1858, as a means of improving road links between Salford and Manchester Victoria station, each separated by the River Irwell.

The land required on Chapel Street for the Salford approach to the proposed bridge was donated by Samuel Brooks

Pendleton College

In September 2007, the 260-seat Eccleston Theatre was named after Salford's Christopher Eccleston.

Rebecca Atkinson

Atkinson grew up on Weaste Lane in Salford and went to All Souls primary school on Kintyre Avenue, which was also the primary school of Warrington Wolves prop Adrian Morley.

Salford Quays

In 2003, Salford Quays was the venue for the first International Triathlon Union World Cup event to be held in the UK.

Salford Quays lift bridge

Except for Royal Navy visits and dredging, most vessels entering the Salford Quays turning circle are pleasure craft, and are most commonly seen between April and October, when Mersey Ferries operate the Manchester Ship Canal Cruise service from Liverpool to Salford Quays.

Salford Royal

In the Healthcare Commission's 2006/2007 review of the 394 NHS Trusts in England, Salford Royal was one of 19 to be rated excellent in its quality of services and its use of resources.

Sally Nugent

Since April 2012, she has presented sports bulletins alongside Mike Bushell on Breakfast, when the programme moved to its new home at Media City in Salford.

Terry Drainey

Upon his appointment he requested that people call him "Bishop Terry", to avoid confusion with Bishop Terence Brain of Salford.

In 1991, upon leaving Africa, Drainey returned to the Salford diocese where he was appointed parish priest at the church of the Holy Cross, Patricroft, Eccles in Salford, where he served for the next six years prior to being appointed spiritual director to the Royal English College at Valladolid in 1997.

The Willows, Salford

In 2013, a proposal to redevelop the site for housing was put forward by City West Housing Trust.

Tony Warren

In 2008 he was given an honorary degree from Manchester Metropolitan University "in recognition for his contribution to ground-breaking television and creative writing which has helped put Manchester and Salford on the cultural map".

Trevor Dwyer-Lynch

Born and raised in Moss Side and Salford, trained in Drama and Performing Arts at City College Manchester in 1990, Dwyer-Lynch has appeared in numerous television and theatre productions, merging both serious roles—such as "Gloucester" in Shakespeare's King Lear—to his best known comedic nice guy role in Coronation Street as Patrick Tussell the taxi-driver working for Steve McDonald (2002–2005).

United Kingdom Alliance

He had earlier been a member of the Manchester and Salford Temperance Society, and had taken his inspiration from the success of what later, became known as the Maine law.

Victoria Bridge, Manchester

The new bridge's first stone was laid on 31 March 1838 by Elkanah Armitage, Boroughreeve of Salford.

William Norman

He died on the 13 March 1896 in Salford, Lamcashire and was buried in a common grave at Weaste Cemetery, Salford.

William Shee

In 1837, he married Mary Gordon (died 1861) and their children included George Darell Shee and Henry Gordon Shee QC who became Recorder of Burnley and a judge in Salford.


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