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SALFORD REGENERATION THROUGH THE EYES OF ITS FAMOUS SONS AND DAUGHTERS
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Star date: 24th July 2016
FROM PETER HOOK TO MAXINE PEAKE, ROBERT POWELL AND NIGEL PIVARO
To celebrate ten years of the Salford Star here we present the second part of an article on the city through the eyes of the many local celebrities we've featured since the first print issue in 2006.
In Part 2, we venture from Peter Hook and Stephen Lord's views on Langworthy, to Robert Powell's `trickle down effect' of Media City, to the Bez, Sweeney, Pivaro and Peake takes on local politicians.
Full details here...
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"Obviously it's a tragedy if the communities are pushed out for yuppies and it's wrong..."
Christopher Eccleston, print issue 1, 2006
"People just don't think they've got a voice any more. Thatcher would be absolutely delighted with the way we've all turned out...this `me' culture...I thought we wouldn't be stupid enough as a country to let this happen but we have...We should keep alive the notion that we do have power...
In Salford, first the terraced housing went, then the flats went up and now they're saying `Let's regenerate again'. I'm convinced it's a conspiracy to keep the community apart throughout the years regeneration has been about trying to destroy the heart of the community"
Maxine Peake, print issue 1, 2006
"What really upset me about it was that all the information that Salford Star was asking for that was relevant, they weren't allowed to have... Someone's gone `If we give this to them then we're fucked, that's our jobs down the line'. You don't get many who do what the Salford Star is doing because normally little people are left to get walked on..."
Peter Hook on Langworthy regeneration, print issue 4, 2007
"The last verse of Dirty Old Town...`We'll chop you down like an old dead tree'...the implication to me is that `We'll chop you down and build you again like you should be, for the people who live there'...But I don't know that they will, as long as there are developers and the idea of `progress' they want it built more fancy, and the people who live there can't afford it any more. It has to be the people who live there who say how it's going to be...
Ewan was appalled when he saw what they had done to Coburg Street...It was gone...he hated the things that were put up in its place. It was nothing but the worst for the working classes, as he put it."
Peggy Seeger on Ewan MacColl, print Issue 4, 2007
"It's hard to swallow. This was a vibrant community and now you're looking at streets that you used to play in and everything's boarded up with fucking metal...I mean, the mad thing is that everybody in Salford knows this exists but the outside world...people who aren't aware of this...this would be classed as fucking nowhere land...As a kid, to me this was posh...this was fucking posh"
Stephen Lord on Langworthy, print issue 6, 2007
"I think the local politicians have become moribund from the same party being in power for too long...I still find it amazing that I lived in a time when Salford was supposed to be poor, yet we had our own buses with conductors, five police stations, five swimming baths...Politicians should remember that politics is not just a game but it's about people..."
Mike Sweeney, print issue 7, 2008
"I do believe that all this regeneration that's going to take place over the next 15 years cannot be anything but good for Salford. Other people will benefit from it, obviously big business will benefit from it, but there has to be a trickle down effect...they're not going to import people and bring them in here to work..."
Robert Powell on MediaCityUK et al print issue 8, 2008
"You can knock the buildings down but you can't knock down what's inside people and what's passed on..."
Christopher Eccleston, print issue 10, 2015
"We believe in true democracy and are trying to create a new language, getting away from all those old political terms and all that, because we've never lived in a true democratic society, so that's what we would like, a true democracy for Salford people.
"What we've got now is that Greater Manchester Mayor - what is all that about? It's not democracy. It's definitely not been discussed with us. It would be alright if they even told us what they were planning but no, they don't even want to do that. They make all the decisions behind closed doors. True democracy is what we're fighting for, otherwise we're slipping into this dictatorship that we haven't asked for."
Bez on standing for the Reality Party, online 2015
"We are not so lacking in an identity that we are defined by gangsterism or show business. If anything we are lately defined by civic incompetence that has robbed us of our past, fudged our present and has no plan for our future."
Nigel Pivaro, writing for Salford Star online 2016.
* See Part 1 - Ten years of Salford Star celebrity interviews - click here
See also - Salford Star celebrates ten years of attitude and love - click here
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Save the Crown Theatre, Eccles wrote
at 10:18:19 on 25 July 2016 |
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| Another great reminder of the 10 awesome years of Dedication Salford Star and its Diverse readership have to this GREAT CITY OF SALFORD. However, we are battling with planners, men in grey suits, people who let power rule over what their COMMUNITY WANT!
We have a deadline of the END OF JULY to get as many Objections in as possible to PREVENT THE DEMOLITION of the GRADE ll CROWN THEATRE in ECCLES, SALFORD.
We would love 2016 QUOTES from all these wonderful people in the 'STARS ARTICL' to help us get more support.
MOST OF ALL........PLEASE, PLEASE go online and OBJECT TODAY to 'Save the Crown Theatre Eccles':
http://publicaccess.salford.gov.uk/publicaccess
Planning has been submitted To DEMOLISH on the Site of the Former Crown Bingo/ Theatre, Eccles. You have until the End of July 2016 to make your objections known to the Planning Officer at Salford Council.
1/ DEMOLITION OF A GRADE ll LISTED BUILDING Ref: 16/68465/LBC
ANYONE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD CAN OBJECT TO THE ABOVE PLANNING APPLICATION - As its about a historical landmark that is irreplaceable & may have memories you can attach to it or you may find it of interest. Architecturally of interest, of beauty, of merit, whether in its Theatre, Music Hall Days, Cinemascope, WWll Pals Recruitment, Cinema or Latter Bingo Days. or ANY other
neighbourhoodplanning.org sort of way!!
2/ ERECTION OF 72 APPARTMENTS Ref: 16/68464/FUL
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. |
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