Welcome to Episode 092 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast.
So, despite recently moving out of Salford, I felt it was an interesting enough place to do a podcast about. Partly because ‘Everywhere is Interesting’ and my VA wanted me to prove it. And what could be more interesting than the location of the world’s first municipal public park, the world’s first bus route, the world’s first street lighting, and the world’s only canal swing bridge. And the UK’s most polluted river, but let’s not talk about that, and anyway the other half of it is in Manchester.
Topics discussed in this episode are:
- Running along country lanes
- A potted history of the Salford area
- Salford Central … isn’t
- Salford Quays – the posh bit
- Canals and Rivers and Bridges and Hotels
- Old and Listed Buildings
- Peel Park
- Vimto
- A short overview of Salford Pop-Culture from The Smiths to Coronation Street
- Salford Firsts
You can listen via the feed above, or via Spotify, or on your podcast app of choice. Let me know if it isn’t, by the way, and I’ll see what I can do. In addition, a PDF transcript of this episode is available.
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There are no contributions in this episode, although my VA does purposely misrhythm a song lyric at the beginning.