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Blackfriars Road, SALFORD, M3 7AG

View looking up Cross Street in Salford.

This building on Blackfriars Road was the former Sacred Trinity Parish School.

Manchester Tennis & Racquets Courts is an uninspiring building on Blackfriars Road, opened in 1880 and designed by architect GT Redmayne. Defying its outer appearance, the interior boasts a number of historical features including a real tennis court and skittle alley.

The railway from Salford Central to Manchester Victoria.

Sacred Trinity church was originally built as a chapel-of-ease to serve the growing population of Salford in 1635. It is Salford's oldest church and is a grade II listed building with many original features. Most of the current building dates from 1752 but it was restored in 1877-74 and adapted for more flexible use in the 1980’s. Painted by LS Lowry in 1925 it is one of the only views in his paintings that remains unchanged. William Webb Ellis was Christened here (famed for inventing the game of Rugby in 1823).

Looking along Blackfriars Road (A6041), towards Blakes' Vauxhall dealership, from Cross Street.

Manchester Victoria station used to be connected to the erstwhile Exchange station by the longest platform in the country. At the far west end, D5054 brings an engineering train from the west through the station. Definitely 1968, probably around Easter.

The figure stencilled on the wall is revered Manchester poet John Cooper Clarke who received an honorary doctorate of Arts from the University of Salford in 2013. John Cooper Clarke first became famous during the punk rock era of the late 1970s when he was known as a "punk poet". He released several albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and continues to perform regularly.

The once impressive Caxton Hall, rendered somewhat less impressive by the modern shop frontages References say that it was built in 1907 for the Typographical Society of Manchester although the front of the building clearly carries the date “1904” (Image]). It was named after William Caxton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Caxton , inventor of the printing press. The building was hired out to socialists and trade union activists for most of its life and was an important venue for the labour movement in Salford and Manchester. http://www.visitsalford.info/documents/chapelstreettrail.pdf Chapel Street Heritage Trail http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/outside/SALFORD/caxtonhall.html Manchester History Net

A close-up look at the front of Caxton Hall (see Image] and Image] for wider views) show that it carries the date 1904 although the first reference cited below says that it was built in 1907 for the Typographical Society of Manchester. It was named after William Caxton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Caxton , inventor of the printing press. The building was hired out to socialists and trade union activists for most of its life and was an important venue for the labour movement in Salford and Manchester. http://www.visitsalford.info/documents/chapelstreettrail.pdf Chapel Street Heritage Trail http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/outside/SALFORD/caxtonhall.html Manchester History Net