Salford Star Magazine

08/05/2026

Salford Star Archive photos by Steven Speed tomorrow Sat 9th May 1pm Working Class Movement Library on The Crescent - here's some preview stuff...

21/04/2026

Salford Star…

An Exhibition of Archive Salford Star Photos by Steven Speed

2026 sees the centenary of Salford as a city, and also twenty years since the controversial community centred magazine Salford Star first appeared, originally in glossy magazine print format and later as a website featuring over six thousand articles.

While the Star folded in 2021, its fifteen year lifespan of news, views, investigations, cultural happenings and community fightbacks was almost a real time history of a city undergoing huge change during the period.

Now, from the Salford Star archive of tens of thousands of items, two hundred photographs by Steven Speed of Salford people who appeared in the Star, are to be donated to the Library’s archive.

To celebrate this, there will be an exhibition of photographs and graphics that defined the Star’s ‘attitude and love ###’ in the Annex at the Working Class Movement Library from May 4th 2026 as a first step towards making the archive accessible to the community. There will also be an open event on May 9th where the plans for the future of the whole archive will be discussed.

11/09/2025

We're looking to try and preserve for future generations the Salford Star archive of thousands of articles and artefacts, and to make our many zillions of photos of Salford accessible to everyone. The Star was almost a real time 15 year history of Salford, from 2006 to 2021, and covered everything from the expenses scandal, to the floods, the birth of Media City, demolitions, riots, gentrification, anti-fracking protests, May Day rallies, Salford City FC before the takeover, celebs, music, community groups and loads loads more. Does this all need preserving to tell the tale of the city?

07/06/2025

New Elbow track - Dis-Graceland 463-465 Bury New Road, Salford - it's rather good!

Following tunes from Bugzy Malone, Mark E Smith, Graham Gouldman and a zillion others, Bury New Road has inspired yet

19/05/2025

A day was held by family and friends on Kersal Moor, Salford, to remember the incredible Alice Searle - the article includes an ace short film of the day by her son, Richard Searle

In May, dozens of people came to the historic Kersal Moor, just off Bury New Road, to remember and rejoice

28/04/2025

New plans for Salford and Strangeways via Bury New Road

Almost 250 businesses and one hundred homes could be bulldozed in Salford to make way for a new park, according

08/04/2025

Put this in your diaries - Alice, amongst many other amazing stuff, was also a director of the Salford Star...

01/04/2025

The Guardian obit of Alice Searle by her journo granddaughter, Leonie Cooper !

Other lives: Teacher of English and sociology who spent much of her spare time campaigning on community issues

25/03/2025

Great tribute to the amazing Alice Searle in the MEN!

Alice, a retired teacher, died on March 3rd aged 88. She has left a legacy which will be part of the social history of Salford. It is a record of her experiences locked behind closed doors in her home on Moor Lane, Kersal. Neal Keeling reports.

04/03/2025

For the 5th anniversary of coronavirus lockdown, we have published a new 56-page booklet - Alice In Salford Isolationland - first featured as a weekly column on the Salford Star website - a fitting tribute to an amazing woman
https://www.burynewroad.org/salford/alice-in-salford-isolationland-on-bury-new-road/