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Gaythorn Street, SALFORD, M5 4YZ

Liam Curtain’s artwork ‘Rise’ surrounds the ground floor of Transport House, a building developed on the site of the former TGWU Headquarters. It is a tribute to the strong trade unionist tradition in Salford. It takes as its inspiration ‘Rise like Lions’, a line from Percy Shelley's 'The Masque of Anarchy' written in 1819 in response to the Peterloo Massacre. The artwork honours all those who have defended just causes and who have taken collective action to achieve their aims. The quote reads, : “Rise like lions after slumber, in unvanguishable number, shake your chains to earth like dew, which in sleep had fallen on you. Ye are many they are few.” Rise was commissioned by Irwell Valley Housing Association in collaboration with CITE (Commissions in the Environment). It is part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail http://www.irwellsculpturetrail.co.uk/ It is lit by coloured LEDs at night.

New development of flats in Salford.

The postbox is outside the former post office on Oldfield Road Image The apartment building in the background is called Transport House and is built on the site of the former Transport and General Workers Union offices. http://www.urbanrealm.com/features/78/Architect_MBLC_has_designed_a_housing_scheme_in_Salford_that_follows_the_footprint_of_its_predecessor%2C_the_TGWU_offices%2C_scene_of_many_a_dispute..html

Looking along Oldfield Road in Manchester.

Part of the A5066 through Salford. Until 2008 what is now the Adelphi Sandwich Bar was a Post Office. A row of shops past Chung's Chippy had been demolished by 2011 but work on building new apartments on the site only started in 2017. Outside the former post office is an EIIR postbox Image

At the end of Oldfield Road Image off Salford Crescent (the A6) is the grade II listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1386163 Lancashire Fusiliers Memorial by George Frampton which dates from 1905. The base carries an inscription recording those who fought in South Africa, 1899-1902, and insignia in low relief. The apartment building in the background is called Transport House and is built on the site of the former Transport and General Workers Union offices. http://www.urbanrealm.com/features/78/Architect_MBLC_has_designed_a_housing_scheme_in_Salford_that_follows_the_footprint_of_its_predecessor%2C_the_TGWU_offices%2C_scene_of_many_a_dispute..html

ERECTED BY THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF SALFORD TO THE MEMORY OF MANY TOWNSMEN WHO SERVED THEIR SOVEREIGN AND COUNTRY IN SOUTH AFRICA 1899 - 1902 AND PARTICULARLY IN HONOUR OF THE VOLUNTEER ACTIVE SERVICE COMPANIES OF THE LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS --------------------------- DARING IN ALL THINGS

A statue and war memorial on Oldfield Road.

At the end of Oldfield Road Image is the grade II listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1386163 Lancashire Fusiliers Memorial by George Frampton which dates from 1905. The base carries an inscription recording those who fought in South Africa, 1899-1902, and insignia in low relief.