IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Crescent, SALFORD, M5 4WX
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Crescent, M5 4WX by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (219 Images Found)
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Working Class Library Movement - Reading Room
Image] was designed and constructed in 1897 by Henry Lord (who also built Image] opposite); it was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. Previously a nurses’ home for Image], it has housed the Working Class Movement Library (WCML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Class_Movement_Library ) since 1987.
It is a Grade II listed building (English Heritage List Entry Number: 1386174 http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1386174&resourceID=5 Heritage Gateway).
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 25 Jan 2017
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The Reading Room, Working Class Movement Library, Salford
Image] was designed and constructed in 1897 by Henry Lord (who also built Image] opposite); it was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. Previously a nurses’ home for Image], it has housed the Working Class Movement Library (WCML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Class_Movement_Library ) since 1987.
It is a Grade II listed building (English Heritage List Entry Number: 1386174 http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1386174&resourceID=5 Heritage Gateway).
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 25 Jan 2017
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Working Class Movement Library
The Working Class Movement Library started life in the 1950s as the personal collection of Edmund and Ruth Frow. It became a Charitable Trust in 1971 and moved to its present home in Jubilee House on Salford Crescent in 1987.https://www.wcml.org.uk/about-us/our-founders--ruth-and-eddie-frow/
The building is Grade II listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1386174 Dating from 1897 it was formerly a Nurses' Home.
Image: © Gerald England
Taken: 24 Sep 2016
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Working Class Movement Library, Salford
The Working Class Movement Library started life in the 1950s as the personal collection of Edmund and Ruth Frow. It became a Charitable Trust in 1971 and moved to its present home in Jubilee House on Salford Crescent in 1987. https://www.wcml.org.uk/about-us/our-founders--ruth-and-eddie-frow/
The building is Grade II listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1386174 Dating from 1897 it was formerly a Nurses' Home.
Image: © Gerald England
Taken: 5 Mar 2018
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Queen's Jubilee Nurses Home, Salford
Former nurses home, now library of Working Class Movement. Dated 1897 [link] , architect Henry Lord. Brick with terracotta dressings and some mock timbering. Listed Grade II. It originally was attached to the Salford Royal Infirmary.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 23 Aug 2024
0.01 miles
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The Working Class Movement Library, Salford Crescent
Jubilee House, on Salford Crescent, was designed and constructed in 1897 by Henry Lord (who also built Image] opposite); it was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. Previously a nurses’ home for Image], it has housed the Working Class Movement Library (WCML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Class_Movement_Library ) since 1987.
It is a Grade II listed building (English Heritage List Entry Number: 1386174 http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1386174&resourceID=5 Heritage Gateway).
See also Image]
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 21 Jun 2016
0.01 miles
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Queen's Jubilee Nursing Home, Salford
Jubilee House, on Salford Crescent, was designed and constructed in 1897 by Henry Lord (who also built Image] opposite); it was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. Previously a nurses’ home for Image], it has housed the Working Class Movement Library (WCML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Class_Movement_Library ) since 1987.
It is a Grade II listed building (English Heritage List Entry Number: 1386174 http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1386174&resourceID=5 Heritage Gateway).
This inscription is on the side facing Acton Square.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 25 Jan 2017
0.01 miles
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Jubilee House, The Working Class Movement Library
Jubilee House, on Salford Crescent, was designed and constructed in 1897 by Henry Lord (who also built Image] opposite); it was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. Previously a nurses’ home for Image], it has housed the Working Class Movement Library (WCML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Class_Movement_Library ) since 1987.
It is a Grade II listed building (English Heritage List Entry Number: 1386174 http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1386174&resourceID=5 Heritage Gateway).
See also Image]
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 21 Jun 2016
0.01 miles
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Acton Square
The house on the left is Joule House, 1 Acton Square. It was the home of James Prescott Joule, notable physicist who established the principle of the mechanical equivalent of heat and whose name is now used for the SI unit electrical work, the Joule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule .
See Image]
The house is now owned and used by the University of Salford.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 19 Mar 2014
0.02 miles
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Acton Square
Image: © Gerald England
Taken: 5 Mar 2018
0.02 miles