Salford Community Leisure. Although little is recorded of its earlier history, Salford is, in fact, of great antiquity.
It grew up as a village on the banks of the Irwell and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 923 makes a reference, it is thought, to this village. It was certainly, however, a place of some important in the 'land between the Ribble and Mersey', in the ancient kingdom of Northumbria, a kingdom that had covered the whole of northern England until the Danish invasion. MediaCityUK. Media city salford. BBC Salford: 'Billion-pound' state-of-the-art HQ where no-one wants to work. By Paul Revoir Updated: 12:54 GMT, 11 May 2011 Security guards zooming around on high-tech Segway vehicles and giant neon hamster-wheel-style seating booths: This was the sight that greeted visitors yesterday as the BBC unveiled its new northern base.
The Corporation displayed the multi-million-pound MediaCity UK complex in Salford as it emerged that it faces an estimated £12million bill just to help staff to find new homes nearby. The new building boasts giant neon and metal seating booths, dubbed by some as ‘thought wheels’, as well as ‘collaborative pods’, designed to encourage creativity. New home: Senior BBC staff have unveiled their new MediaCityUK home in Salford, but many corporation staff do not want to move North Purpose built: The new headquarters are on the site of Salford's derelict former docklands Also scattered around are artistic high-back chairs which muffle out background noise for people using their phones. There is also a space called the ‘Map Wall’ and the ‘Word Wall’. The BBC's £2m London-to-Salford travel bill.
The actual spending would have been higher, however, because the figures do not include journeys paid for by individual staff and claimed back through the corporation’s expenses system.
Officials defended the costs, insisting that every effort was made to keep rail and air travel expenditure to a minimum. They declined to release further details because it would mean having to trawl manually more than 200,000 individual expenses claims. According to the figures, in 2009/2010 more than 10,500 train trips were made from the capital to Manchester and Salford at a cost of nearly £805,000.
The following year, the rail travel bill increased by 29 per cent, with almost 13,500 journeys costing more than £1 million. Meanwhile, 316 flights to the North West were booked in 2009/2010 at a cost of £51,310. The air travel is for flights taken from all major London airports to Manchester and Salford but does not include “multi sector” trips. Queen opens BBC's new base in Salford. 23 March 2012Last updated at 13:56 ET.
BBC Salford move. Manchester - Places - Mapping the 'Dirty Old Town' Morrissey/ the smiths/salford lads club on bbc culture show. Smiths Room - Salford Lads Club. The Smiths Room History Phil, Leslie and the Duke of Kent – April 2004 The ground floor room off the main gym room was originally a fives (squash) court.
This was altered in1920 to create a changing room for gymnastics and football. Iconic image: The Smiths outside Salford Lads club - Features - Art. But one of Wright’s old-fashioned shots, as his son might see it, has recently been admitted to the National Portrait Gallery in London.
The image is of band The Smiths outside the Salford Lads club in and was used on the vinyl album sleeve of the Queen is Dead which came out 25 years ago this week. It was one of a series of shots taken by Wright when he - a fan with cheap equipment, as he saw it- , was invited to photograph the band who were in their prime in Manchester for the new record’s artwork.
He immortalised Morrissey and his band-mates in a series of recognisable Mancunian locations including, Free Trade Hall and Coronation Street. To coincide with the 25th anniversary of the album release the Idea Generation Gallery in London’s Shoreditch has hung six of the photographer’s favourite Smiths images. Salford tries to shake off its image of a 'dirty old town' - This Britain - UK. But the birthplace of the painter LS Lowry is undergoing a transformation in a promotional push in which its industrial past is only part of the picture.
A series of maps and guides accompanying three new heritage walks aim to cater for the tastes of most visitors, and include a trio of beverage-related attractions. Salford, the guides reveal, was home to Copperheads, the favourite drinking haunt of George Best, the Manchester United legend, when he was at the height of his powers in the 1970s. In the Crescent pub, on Chapel Street, the bar talk was of more elevated kind between Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Pogues - dirty old town.
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