Salford, Peel Park Museum 1889
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The building seen here is properly called the Royal Free Museum & Library; it opened on 9 January 1850, and was the first unconditionally free municipal public library in the United Kingdom. The importance of this event was marked by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert agreeing to become Patrons, and the royal title was used up to 1940. Among its early visitors were Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, the King of Portugal, the Duke of Wellington, Mr Gladstone, John Ruskin, and many others.

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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Salford

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My maternal grandmother, born in 1885 in Salford, as a girl worked in the mills. Up to the time of her death in Ladywell hospital, at the age of 93, she always wore long clothes to her ankles and a woollen, thick shawl. When gran married grandad in the early 1900s, they lived on Arlington Brew. Salford 3, I believe. One of their five children, Lizzie, died of a twisted bowel at the age of eight. In her ...see more
In 1950, St Ann’s R.C. mixed infant school was just off Silk Street. Salford 3, I think. I remember, aged 3, lying down on the fold-up bed with all the other kids on their beds in the large nursery room in the afternoons for our nap, and the appetizing smell of the cold round of toast, spread with echo margarine that my gran, who lived a few streets away on Cannon Street, had made me for lunchtime. I recall the ...see more
I was born in 1947 and lived at 52 West St, Lower Broughton, Salford 7. I attended St. John's School for girls, just off Chapel St. My parents were Annie and David Johnson. I had an older sister, Jean, and a younger brother, David. My Gran Johnson and her daughter, my Aunty Nell, lived at 39 Princess St. My Uncle Bill and Aunty Rose lived on Havelock St, and my Gran Russell and Uncle Frank lived at 4 Errington St. ...see more
I was born in hope hospital in 1956, we lived at 49 Tatton Street with my gran, she was Emily Pearson, my mam was Doreen Pearson, till she married my dad Jim Scanlon. Does anyone have any memories of the area or photos please? We moved to Knutsford when I was 3-4 Dave Scanlon