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Salford

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.

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.

Summetime

‘Summertime’ Peel Park

Follow Salford's students on a long, hot day as they make the most of the sunshine - revising, relaxing, and being cool!

Paternoster lift in the Chemistry Tower, 1986

Building a picture of the past

Guest post: Alexandra Mitchell explores the archives to understand what makes them special - there's even a forgotten paternoster lift!

Photograph by Shirley Baker

Salford mavericks 

Shirley, like Walter, Shelagh, Robert and Laurence share aspiring qualities, let's salute some of Salford's modernist heroes.