Salford

Salford is mostly polycentric in that it has more than one single centre. Its main shopping centres are both Salford City Shopping Centre in the suburb of Pendleton and Salford Quays.

The main city centre would be located around Bexley Square where the town hall and cathedral are located near to. However, as the city has expanded and incorporated the towns of Eccles, Walkden, Swinton and Pendlebury, there are now multiple retail and economic centres in these towns. It is quite similar to Stoke on Trent in that there is more than just one main shopping centre.

@Ducado, you may have noticed that I am trying to make up for my earlier bad temper by searching for an answer for you. I hope it is accepted as an apology of sorts?
 
Barcon said:
Nice work @Eccles Blue

What is the history of Greengate Salford?


2 Greengate is the original historic core of Salford and sits within the easternmost part of the City of Salford. Salford was granted Borough status through a charter in 1230 including the right to hold a market. The site of the market place in Greengate still survives where Greengate meets Gravel Lane.
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It is an interesting area to explore as well @Barcon. When I was younger I used to wander around the area during my lunch break (I worked in Parsonage Gardens in Manchester but could get to Greengate very easily in those days. Now it would take me a day and about a 100 rest stops!!! :-) )
 
Eccles Blue said:
It is an interesting area to explore as well @Barcon. When I was younger I used to wander around the area during my lunch break (I worked in Parsonage Gardens in Manchester but could get to Greengate very easily in those days. Now it would take me a day and about a 100 rest stops!!! :-) )
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I don't think we ever got down there as kids. I think Blackfriars bridge was considered the end of the world when I was a nipper ; )
We did find an old, abandoned fish market once (somewhere near Tib st.) that was like Narnia to us.
 
I kind of Salford is overlooked nowadays and treated as just another area of Manchester

I am from Urmston my late great old man said when he was a child people never considered it part of Manchester or having much to do with it

Is the historic are just being consumed by Manchester?
 
Ducado said:
I kind of Salford is overlooked nowadays and treated as just another area of Manchester

I am from Urmston my late great old man said when he was a child people never considered it part of Manchester or having much to do with it

Is the historic are just being consumed by Manchester?
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Yes is the short answer. :-)

Eccles when I was a kid was also not considered part of Manchester and when I first left school in 19CoughCough and got a job in an office in Parsonage Gardens behind Kendals my friends thought I was being ever so posh working in the BIG CITY. :-)
 
Barcon said:
I don't think we ever got down there as kids. I think Blackfriars bridge was considered the end of the world when I was a nipper ; )
We did find an old, abandoned fish market once (somewhere near Tib st.) that was like Narnia to us.
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Would that be the old Smithfield Market site? That wasn't far from Tib St. Just up from Exchange Station.
 
Ducado said:
I don't want to start any arguments or cause any offence

But where exactly is Salford, there is the Metropolitan Borough of Salford which takes in a number of diverse towns such as Eccles and Prestwich but if you wanted to go into the Centre of Salford where would you go? We all know the centre of Manchester and Liverpool

I have often wondered this, it's classed as a City in it's own right but with no City centre

As an aside has Salford been consumed by Manchester and the historic demarcation disappeared? I know that Salford is a far older City than Manchester by the way
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Salford precient though it used to be around the cresent and up to bexley sq

And no any real Manc and Salfordian know the borders and also the history and rivalry, as you cross the Irwell either way and class the other bandit country.

Manchesrer 200+ years ago was a small town in the Slaford 100 municipality
 
urban genie said:
Plus I never call Salford.Manchester out of respect, same with the towns of bolton, bury, stockport. oldham, dale

They have their herritage and personality, Greater Manchester is and administration not a county or mega city
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Please, pretty please include Eccles in that list because we are an old, old town as well and were subsumed by Salford. :-)

We date back to the 4th Century and there are signs that Eccles existed even before that. :-)
 
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