START IN SALFORD BRUNSWICK HOUSE STORIES - Salford Star

HOME

ARCHIVE

GALLERY

SHOP

ABOUT US

START IN SALFORD BRUNSWICK HOUSE STORIES

Star date: 1st December 2012

A CHURCH, A SCHOOL, A START IN SALFORD CENTRE

Start in Salford has just won a Lottery Heritage Fund award to tell the story of its base at Brunswick House on Broad Street. Now the community art charity is looking for people with memories of the building – from when it was a church, a school or in its current format. Gareth Lyons reports…

Full details here…

click image to enlarge

Salford Residents Wanted to Explore History of Salford Landmark

Start in Salford, the community creative arts charity, has been awarded a £9,900 grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of a country-wide initiative to bring to life the stories of historic buildings and monuments.

Start in Salford's headquarters, the historic Grade II listed Brunswick House, situated on Broad Street, has been chosen as one such building. As a result Start in Salford want to hear from people who have memories of Brunswick House, whether it be when Brunswick House was a church, school or in its current guise as a community learning centre.

All stories will be used to tell the story of the building from a human perspective, keeping history alive in our city with its ever changing and soulless new skyline.

"All of us at Start in Salford are thrilled to have been awarded this grant and we can't wait to get started" says Michelle Dennett of Start in Salford "Brunswick House is such a special place and we are sure there is so much to discover about its past."

If you have a story or wish to get involved contact Michelle Dennett on 0161 351 6000 or email michelle.dennett@startinsalford.org.uk

* Photo shows Brunswick House circa 1909

Bernard Lavelle wrote
at 21:41:06 on 02 March 2021

When I was studying at Salford College between 1973 and 1976 Brunswick House was used as an annexe to the college. We used to walk down there every week for elective studies. The church at the time was old and in in need of some repairs but it was only for a lesson each week. It’s great to see that it has been put to a good use today. Would love to see some photos from the 1970s when it was used as an annexe. Thank you.

William Lockett wrote
at 17:26:04 on 17 November 2017

My mum and dad were the caretakers of Brunswick curch in the late 60s and early 70s. My sisters and I played in the walled graveyard at the back. In the basement of the Section of the Church where the tall Tower was (no longer visible on the colour photo) there had been a first World war hospital and the door in to the cellar on the side of the Church was completely sealed up. As a kid of 8 years old I soon found a way to sneak into the cellar through a hole in the wall behind the boiler room. In 1970 the cellar was still full of iron bedsteads and all the stuff associated with an early hospital including ornate ceramic water filtration pots. It was a really creepy Place which made it so much fun for me and my chums to explore with a candle. Strangely I still occaisionaly Dream about the old Church and the cellar and they are not unpleasant Dreams. Such fun we had.

Dawne Sheldrick Keating wrote
at 06:39:03 on 19 December 2012

Tears and smiles seeing my old sunday school, and local church, where i used to go I lived just down the road no more than 200yds @ 40 Broad Street Between the Pendleton congregational and this was on the corner of strawberrry Road the old mail box is still there. number 40 was where the gap now is between the new flats immediately at the top of Gerrard St. oh so many memories of Broad Street was so sad when they dismantled the Brunswick Church they sold it and the stonework was shipped abroad made my dad furious the church was also on songs of praise yours sincerely Dawne

Dawne Sheldrick Keating wrote
at 06:38:58 on 19 December 2012

this church and its John Wesley school Building can also be seen in a film which dora Bryan starred in think its called a taste of honey as the bus actually passes down Broad Street I lived on broad st from the late 50's to 1980 when they demolished the row of houses which had a name plate on the end of the block 2 doors down from ours on the front of the house/offices known as Coronet caravan's which curved round the corner onto Gerrard St(number 1) and the name plate said CHESTER PLACE but the postal address was known simply as Broad St..oh you so have my heart and head going I so miss the old church and Living on Broad St...has so lost the old community spirit now.....I would move back to Broad st to live right now so many memories growing up there :) Give me the OLD SALFORD ANYDAY !!!!

White wrote
at 14:30:59 on 03 December 2012

Between 1961 and 1965 when I was a part-time student at Salford ‘Tech‘, the building was used, when needed as an examination hall.

Please enter your comment below:

Name:
Email:
comments:

Contact us

e-mail: info@salfordstar.com

phone: 07957 982960

Recent comments

article: PAUL HOUGHTON BRINGING MOSAICS AND TAPE ART TO SALFORD

	Hi Paul I hope you are well, please can you tell me how much it would be to have the George Best Mosaic made? Indeed if you are st... [more]

article: CUSSONS SOAP AND KERSAL MOOR SALFORD – A VERY CLEAN STORY

	I am Marjorie Goodwin's grandson. I still have that battered tobacco tin. I don't know what happened to the silver one! ... [more]

article: SALFORD PRECINCT SHOPPERS STUNG BY PARKING `RACKET’

	I parked here with a disability badge and my back tyre was slightly over line as I suffer with coordination and it says if I appea... [more]

article: SALFORD LOST STREETS

	4 North Johnson Street, Salford. My Great Grandfather was the son of Household James Rowlands 68. x2. His wife Frances Rowlands... [more]

article: John Cooper Clarke On Life In Higher Broughton.

	lived for many years as a kid in Murray st. Hilda who was mum to John would visit my grandmother and would tell us about what john... [more]




	Days	Hours	Minutes	Seconds
THE SALFORD STAR COUNTDOWN TO NEXT REFERENDUM ON GETTING RID OF THE MAYORAL SYSTEM IN SALFORD: 26TH JANUARY 2022

Help the Salford Star...

all donations welcome

More articles...

SALFORD STAR CLOSES AFTER 15 YEARS WITH ATTITUDE AND LOVE XXX

Star date: 17th May 2021
SALFORD STAR – 15 YEARS OF ATTITUDE AND LOVE XXX
The Salford Star closes tonight after 15 years of giving the community a voice, holding power to account and bigging up all the great things that have happened in the city.
Thousands of people in Salford have been involved in one way or another with the Star and we'd like to thank them all. Salford is a very special city and, hopefully, we've given it a very special community publication.
For the final curtain click here...

SALFORD STAR CLOSURE: HOW SALFORD COUNCIL TRIED TO BLOCK AND DISCREDIT THE STAR

Star date: 17th May 2021
THREATS, LIES, FEAR AND LOATHING IN SALFORD...
Today, the Salford Star shuts down but we write this article as a warning to others who may follow on the pitfalls of founding a genuine publication that aims to give the community a voice and hold public bodies up to account.
They will try to discredit you, block information and shut you down. Here the Salford Star editor, Stephen Kingston, looks at how democracy perished badly under the Salford mayoral system.
Full details here...

SALFORD HAS 7 NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES AS RESTRICTIONS ARE EASED

Star date: 17th May 2021
A WHIFF OF FREEDOM AS RESTRICTIONS ARE EASED
Salford has 7 new coronavirus cases, down from the previous day's 14, while the seven day rate per 100,000 population now stands at 30.1, down from 30.9. There have been no new virus-related deaths announced by Salford Royal Hospital.
Today sees restrictions eased and the first whiff of freedom in over a year. It's also the final coronavirus bulletin from the Salford Star which is closing. Here we look back over 14 months of the pandemic and the absolute communication failings of Salford City Council and its City Mayor.
Full details here...

SALFORD STAR CLOSURE: HOW SALFORD COUNCIL TRIED TO STOP THE STAR

Star date: 16th May 2021
THEY WILL TRY TO DISCREDIT YOU...TO BLOCK YOU, TO SHUT YOU DOWN
We are almost at the final closure of the Salford Star but we write this article as a warning to others who may follow on the pitfalls of founding a genuine publication that aims to give the community a voice and hold public bodies up to account.
They will try to discredit you, block information and shut you down. In South America they just blow up the offices of journalists that don't play the game. Here they just financially assassinate you...
Full details here...

SALFORD STAR CLOSURE – GUY GRIFFITHS ON THE HUMAN COST OF PATHFINDER DEMOLITIONS

Star date: 16th May 2021
THE HUMAN COST OF REGENERATION
The Griffiths brothers of Higher Broughton are kind of infamous as the only people to be forcefully evicted from their house as part of the Pathfinder 'housing market renewal' project during the first decade of the 21st Century.
Here, Guy Griffiths, now living in 'sunny' north Wales and one of the main inspirations for the Salford Star's creation, writes the second part his own personal view of the Government project that devastated communities throughout Central Salford.
Full details here...

written and produced by Salfordians for Salfordians
with attitude and love xxx