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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.

Viva Space, Hope, and Brutalism

Elain Harwood (1958–2023) and her untimely death, reflecting on her work in Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture.

Prince Philip greeting dignitaries inside Salford Technical College

Campus art gallery

Guest post: William Mitchell's Minute Men brought the atmosphere of the stars and space travel to Salford. An artistic tour with Natalie Bradbury.

Birks: Building the New Universities

Shortly after Beloff's The Plateglass Universities, architectural historian Tony Birks published his thoughts on the new universities in 1972.

Lowry - An Old Lamp Behind Leaf Square 1926

Lowry at the School of Art

L. S. Lowry's work features perspectives from the Peel Building as they look across the campus towards a smoggy industrialised City of Salford.

EC Stoner Building

Leeds: A whole of three parts

Guest post: architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon understood the fundamentals at the University of Leeds. Lisa Brown investigates.

School of chiropody (foot clinic) The Crescent, 1949

Could I have my feet done?

The time when the Minister of Education, Miss Ellen Wilkinson became the School of Chiropody's first client!

Oaklands Road halls of residence, Kersal, c1970 (2)

Davy Joule Faraday

Investigative work has uncovered new details about Salford's first student halls of residence at Oaklands Road, designed by Tom Mellor.