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Pendleton Church

Broad Street, Pendleton, at the beginning of the 20th century St Thomas's church, built in 1831 with a capacity to seat 1200 people, replaced the old chapel and was another of the "Waterloo" Churches to be built in the Manchester Diocese. Who would have though that 75 years later the road would be twenty feet lower than the level shown on the photograph.

Salford Market. On the 4th June 1228, Henry III granted Salford a weekly market to be held on Wednesdays. In addition provision was made for an annual fair on the eve, day and morrow of the feast of the Nativity of St Mary which fell on the 7th, 8th and 9th September. During the next century the day was changed to Monday and there were two fairs, one on Whit Monday and the other on the 6th and 7th November. The Flat Iron Market was held on the land around Sacred Trinity church and was so called because the area of land was the shape of a flat iron. In 1939 the Flat Iron market closed and the market moved to the main shopping centre of Salford at Cross Lane. As part of the redevelopment of Salford after the second World War a new shopping centre was proposed to attract Salford shoppers to shop in Salford. In 1967 plans to replace the Cross Lane general market were also approved and the new shopping centre and market opened in 1970. Not a well know fact but Salford does have its own M & S situated in the shopping centre just off the A6 round-about at Pendleton Church.

Churchill Way. Churchill Way runs along the south side of the Ellor Street estate, one of the biggest rebuilding schemes in Salford and took from 1959 to 1975. It replaced an area of slums and factories, known ironically as "Hanky Park" after a street formerly called Hankinson Street, which was the scene of Waiter Greenwood's novel, "Love on the dole".