It's now a thriving modern day city - but these striking photographs show it in a completely different light
Jun 2, 2025
Source Manchester Evening News Summary Some would have graced the cover of a Smiths album perfectly. They capture a city in turmoil and the people living through it with grit and humour.
A tanned young woman in a classic pink dress with black going out shoes sweeping the cobbles of a Salford street with a broom in 1969. With her sixties-style big blonde hair she is beautiful and natural. But she was not posing - just cleaning outside her home with the Poet's Corner pub in the background of the Lower Broughton scene....People Tanja Poppelreuter URL https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/its-now-thriving-modern-day-29267021
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Changing face of city charted in evocative images
Apr 26, 2024
Source BBC Summary An exhibition of evocative photographs will chart the transformation of a city from the 1950s to the 1970s.
The Invisible Cities display will look at Salford when many of its terraced houses were being replaced by contemporary architecture.
Curator Dr Tanja Poppelreuter said the images "evoke a range of emotions and memories".Linked Funders Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art People Tanja Poppelreuter Research Centres/Groups Art & Design Research Centre URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c84z0kx9e21o