Not Manchester: The Proud Story of Salford - Couverture souple

Oldham, David G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1918786003 ISBN 13 : 9781918786002

Editeur : D&H Publishing International, 2026

Synopsis

Salford is not Manchester. It has never been Manchester.

For a thousand years, the River Irwell has divided two cities that the rest of the world treats as one. On one side: Manchester, the city everyone has heard of. On the other: Salford, the city almost nobody has, and that's exactly the problem this book sets out to fix.

Not Manchester is a popular history of Salford told through the streets, the factories, the people, and the river that separates them. From the Domesday Book of 1086, when Salford was a royal manor and Manchester was a footnote within it, through the Industrial Revolution, two world wars, the rise and fall of the docks, and the reinvention of the Quays, this is the story of a place that has spent centuries being confused with its neighbour and has never once accepted the confusion.

Woven through the history are the author's own family: a grandfather who worked the docks, an uncle at Agecroft Power Station, aunties who walked to work at the Imperial Leather soap factory and the tube works on Langley Road, and a DJ known as Chunky Baby who sat at the kitchen table with a glass of Guinness and a story that could last an hour.

This is not an academic history. It is not a lament. It is a warm, honest, unsentimental book about a real place that deserves to be known on its own terms, written by a Salfordian who now lives in Normandy but has never stopped correcting people who say Manchester.

"Salford was already everywhere its people went. It still is. And it is still not Manchester."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: D&H Publishing International
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1918786003
• ISBN 13: 9781918786002
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 151
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg