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Exhibition opens at Manchester Central Library

The latest showcase exhibition for the Salford & Cheetham Hill In Focus project launches on Thursday 11th August 4.00 – 7.00pm at Manchester Central Library. At the launch, there will be an introduction to the project, an informal guided tour by a local historian and a chance to meet some of the team behind the […]

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Cheetham Cultural Festival event,
Manchester Central Library
21st September 2019

We attended Manchester Central Library’s showcase event as part of the Cheetham Cultural Festival, a community focussed event which we’ve always supported and enjoyed attending. We talked to people about our Salford and Cheetham In Focus photography project. At these events its always great to distribute our book, which has a wide selection of photographs […]

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Salford Histories Festival
Sat 21st Sept 2019

We really enjoyed the two history events we attended today, where we exhibited our interactive maps and distributed our project books. Firstly, Salford Histories Festival, which was held at The Methodist Church, Walkden. There were stalls promoting many great projects, including The Irwell Valley Mining Project and the Salford Victoria Theatre Trust. It’s always really […]

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Memories of Ordsall’s Peacock Sculpture
Thurs. 21st Feb. 2019

Ordsall Community Arts is running a project to restore the ‘Ordsall Peacock’, a beautiful bronze sculpture made for Ordsall Secondary Modern school, Salford, in 1961. It was made by Gertrude Hermes, O.B.E., and we featured archive images of her work in the exhibition, featured in the photographs below. Once restored the Peacock will be permanently […]

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Cheetham Festival Closing Event, Sunday 30.9.18

We will be joining the festival party later today at the brilliant Ukraine Centre from 4pm to celebrate the ever enjoyable Cheetham Cultural Festival weekend. We will be distributing our Salford and Cheetham In Focus photographic booklet for free, so come along and get our copy. Look forward to seeing you there!  

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Salford Histories Festival 2018

We will be at Hope Chapel this weekend on Saturday 22nd September 2018, from 10am to 4pm, for Salford Histories Festival. We will be exhibiting street maps, books and photographs. We will also be talking about a special Ordsall history project, exploring memories of the Peacock sculpture which was located at the front of Ordsall […]

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Heritage Open Days, St. Clements Church, Ordsall

We will be at St. Clements Church  for the Heritage Open Day weekend (13th-16th September) talking to people about the social history of the area and also memories of the ‘Ordsall Peacock’, a bronze statue formerly located in the grounds of Ordsall High School in the 1950s. We are also currently celebrating  the 25th anniversary […]

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Presentation closes People’s History Museum show

  To mark the final day of our exhibition at People’s History Museum in Manchester in February 2018, there was a presentation talk by local historian Eddie Weinstein about life in Cheetham Hill in the 1950s and 60s. A packed room heard Eddie talk about his family living and working in the Cheetham Hill Road […]

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Great turnout for exhibition talk

  There was a great turnout for the presentation talk at our exhibition at People’s History Museum on 13th January 2018. Visitors came from as far afield as London and Oxford to hear project co-ordinators Lawrence Cassidy and Gail Skelly discuss finding, conserving and digitising the photographic archive for future generations. The process of cleaning […]

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