Working Class Salford

Salford

The photograph above was taken by Shirley Baker, a local photographer who documented street life in Salford, Hulme and Manchester during the slum clearances of the 1960s and 70s.

Reg Cordwell wrote A Salford Family Chronicle
He was the secretary of the Manchester & Salford Worker's Film Society

The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists

Classics about Salford

Classic Slum

Ragged Schooling

Walter Greenwood

Shelagh Delaney

Videos: The Changing Face of Salford Parts 1 & 2

Working Class Movement Library

51 Crescent, Salford, M5 4WX, UK. 0161 736 3601

The Working Class Movement Library was built around the personal collection of 

Edmund and Ruth Frow