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Simon James Hadfield

Hobson's Choice filming

Peel Park melancholy

Maggie Hobson: “I’ve been watching you for a long time and everything I’ve seen I’ve liked."

Donald Webster (left) and Tony Halliday (right), co-founders of Design Group Nigeria, partaking of some local hooch, at some point in the mid-1950s. Image: Peter Halliday.

Tropical modernism

Guest post: Peter Halliday transports us to 1950s Nigeria when his Dad worked under Maxwell Fry and Jane Dew.

Is Shirley Baker responsible?

The contemplation of several archive photographs, and the artist who captured them in and around Pendleton, Salford.

Crescent House, c1980s

Crescent House’s hidden casket

But here's the thing, a little fascinating nugget of detail concerning one of Salford's (and Greater Manchester's) finest Modernist buildings.

Cross Lane Market Superintendent Office and Clock Tower

Pendleton’s Streamline Moderne

Pendleton's former Cross Lane Market Office is an almost forgotten gem in the architectural discourse concerning the City of Salford.