Ha ha ha! That is also the Salford I remember. Maybe 'charm' isn't the right word. Obviously tower blocks aren't charming. Well, neither is the Precinct or the pubs, for that matter. I just received such a warm welcome everywhere we went. There is a pub near the precinct, a rough one that you have to have a fob key to enter, and it opens at like 9 in the morning. There are some crazy people in there at that time in the am, but they were all so friendly and warm and real. Actually, I think every pub we went to in Salford was that way. Real, no pretensions. I am so sick of the stupid student-filled bars that are nothing more than meat markets. I loved being able to go to a pub and sit down with strangers and talk and joke and drink and have a great time. I don't mind the roughness at all. I walked around Salford at all hours of day and night, even on my own at night a couple of times, and I have never been scared. I'm sure it helps that my husband grew up in the rough areas and knows everyone. Still, I am more frightened now back home than I was there. (gun control anyone? lol)

Ah, that brings a tear to the eye lol. People are actually paying 70 grand for those flats now they have painted them and started to call them 'apartments'. Who'd have ever thought we would be priced out of tower blocks!?!??

But, for me, there are few sights more beautiful than the sun going down behind Briar Hill Court. I have lived and loved in those blocks. In salford they are what we have instead of trees.

I met my love, on the streets at night, dreamed a dream, by the old canal....................

Hello all!

I am new here.

We are just about to move to Brisbane!

I was born and bred in Salford. I lived until I was 8 (1977) in Milton House, on Kersal Flats. The derelict flat that you showed in the picture is part of Kersal Flats I believe. I visited recently to see all my old haunts before moving. The area is even worse now!

Oh and living in those flats in the 1970s wasnt so bad. Although I left when I was 8 so what do I know!