Explore Salford Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Salford plaques & local Salford history / heritage content through street plaque schemes (including Blue plaques, English Heritage & National Trust) plus Walkfo’s millions of audio plaques in Walkfo’s Audio Travel Guide to Salford.
About Salford Salford was granted a charter by Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, in about 1230 . It was granted city status in 1926 . The wider Metropolitan Borough of the City was established in 1974 with responsibility for a significantly larger region . It became the headquarters of CBBC and BBC Sport .
171 street plaquesWalkfo has converted physical plaques into audio files triggered by GPS on a phone when you pass close by on foot, bike, bus or car. You hear Salford history information & more at the places where they happened, with up-to-date content created by our AI, sourced from trusted history resources such as Wikipedia, local Salford plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Salford’s physical Salford plaque schemes with additional, more detailed information than the writing on the physical plaque. With millions of audio places / virtual plaques created across the whole of the UK, you can explore Salford the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Salford plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 369 unique history facts in Salford plus 171 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Salford history map for you to explore.”
Salford plaque map 369 Salford history spots & 171 street plaques for Salford
Salford History / Plaques Map Key
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Salford Plaque / Street Plaque List
• Graveyard, Eccles blue plaque • Churchyard, Eccles blue plaque • Library, Eccles blue plaque • New Regent Picture House, Eccles blue plaque • Arthur Wellesley and George Stephenson blue plaque • Magistrates Court, Eccles blue plaque • The Royal Oak, Eccles blue plaque • St Mary’s Parish Church, Eccles blue plaque • Andrew Carnegie brown plaque • County Bank blue plaque • Eccles Federation of Residents & Tenants Associations blue plaque • Original Eccles Cake Shop and James Birch blue plaque • Shuttle Street blue plaque • Town Hall Hotel, Eccles blue plaque • John Pearson blue plaque • Star Inn, Eccles blue plaque • Isabel Mary Heywood red plaque • Lamb Hotel, Eccles blue plaque • Eccles railway station stone plaque • Silk Street blue plaque • Eccles Wakes brushed metal plaque • Sarah Storey brushed metal plaque • Town Hall, Eccles blue plaque • Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta, Pan African Conference, Mäkonnen Wäldä-Mika’él, and 3 other • Thomas de la Warre blue plaque • first automatic traffic signals in the North West of England plaque • Thomas de la Warre, Humphrey Chetham, and Chetham’s Hospital black plaque • Roy Castle blue plaque • Charles White blue plaque • Pendleburys green plaque
• postbox bronze plaque • Shudehill Fight red plaque • Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster red plaque • The Circus, Manchester blue plaque • George Holyoake bronze plaque • Henry Royce and Rolls-Royce red plaque • first Manchester Gas Works red plaque • Robert Owen blue plaque • Cathedral Church of St. Mary, St. Denys and St. George, Manchester black plaque • John Bennet and John Nelson blue plaque • Richard Lane blue plaque • John Barker black plaque • Edward Salomons black plaque • William Temple blue plaque • Peter Green blue plaque • John Benjamin Dancer slate plaque • Ernest Jones blue plaque • Pat Phoenix blue plaque • Bryan Mosley blue plaque • Doris Speed blue plaque • Harold Brighouse red plaque • Alfred Waterhouse black plaque • Violet Carson blue plaque • Robert Angus Smith blue plaque • Thomas De Quincey, Elizabeth Gaskell, John Dalton, Robert Peel, and 3 other • Co-operative Insurance Company red plaque • John Dalton blue plaque • Catenian Association red plaque • Royal Hotel, Manchester red plaque • James Herriot red plaque • Audrey Smith brown plaque • Court of Record for the Hundred of Salford in the County of Lancaster blue plaque • Nagasaki and Hiroshima green plaque • Norman Evans blue plaque • William Fairbairn plaque • Longridge House and Royal & Sun Alliance brushed metal plaque • Manchester red plaque • Elizabeth Gaskell red plaque • Brushed metal plaque № 43757 • Tommy Taylor blue plaque • Frederick Crace Calvert blue plaque • John Wesley blue plaque • pissotière grey plaque • James Prince Lee blue plaque • Chaim Weizmann blue plaque • Little Ireland red plaque • Edward Frankland and Henry Roscoe blue plaque • John Bradford and Edward Barlow blue plaque • Annie Horniman and Gaiety Theatre, Manchester blue plaque • Manchester Poor House and The Duke of Cumberland tavern, Manchester plaque • Pierre Adolphe Valette blue plaque • Catholic Social Guild red plaque • Boardwalk, Manchester blue plaque • Stephen Hunt grey plaque • Longridge House and Royal & Sun Alliance brushed metal plaque • James Sadler blue plaque • Ian M. Gall black plaque • Northern Rugby Football Union grey plaque • New Bailey Street Bridges blue plaque • John Byrom wood plaque • Henry Royce, Charles Rolls, and Rolls-Royce gold plaque • Edward Schunck blue plaque • Harry Secombe blue plaque • Henry Royce and Charles Rolls gold plaque • Harry Vickers brushed metal plaque • Salford’s Children bronze plaque • William Thomson and James Prescott Joule blue plaque • Marie Ashworth green plaque • Irwell Street Bridge brown plaque • River Irwell bronze plaque • William Harrison Ainsworth black plaque • Arthur Wellesley, George Cadbury Junior, and Liverpool Road railway station, Manchester black plaque • Charles Robert Cockerell and Bank of England blue plaque • Dodie Smith blue plaque • David Williamson blue plaque • Beyer, Peacock and Company, Charles Beyer, Richard Peacock, and Garratt Class Steam Locomotive No 2352 blue plaque • Duncan Edwards blue plaque • Henry Hunt and Peterloo Massacre blue plaque • Robert Bradshaw and John Rosworm plaque • Alport Lodge, Manchester and James Stanley blue plaque • Liverpool Road railway station, Manchester red plaque • Elizabeth Raffald plaque • Elizabeth Raffald black plaque • Nikolaus Otto black plaque • Joseph Jordan red plaque • Tom Curry blue plaque • Richard Cobden blue plaque • John Dalton blue plaque • John Dalton green plaque • Charlotte Brontë and Patrick Brontë blue plaque • Herbert Birley plaque • Les Dawson blue plaque • Isobel Baillie black plaque • Charles Edward Stuart blue plaque • Frédéric Chopin bronze plaque • Thomas Wright blue plaque • Peterloo Massacre red plaque • Henry Royce bronze plaque • Midland Hotel, Manchester bronze plaque • James, The Haçienda, Tim Booth, Paul Gilbertson, and 2 other • Humphrey Booth stone plaque • Manchester Town Hall, Iwakura Ambassadors’ Mission, Iwakura Tomomi, Ōkubo Toshimichi, and 3 other • John Byrom, John Wesley, Charles Edward Stuart, St. Ann’s, Manchester, and 2 other • William Henry blue plaque • Peak District and Northern Counties Footpaths Preservation Society red plaque • Co-operative Society red plaque • Shelagh Delaney bronze plaque • James Prescott Joule blue plaque • L. S. Lowry stone plaque • James Prescott Joule black plaque • Albert Henry Bentley black plaque • Victoria black plaque • James Prescott Joule blue plaque • Les Hough and Leslie Hough plaque • New Bailey Street Bridges blue plaque • William Crabtree blue plaque • Ewan MacColl red plaque • Peter Hook blue plaque • Shameless and Coronation Street blue plaque • Chartists and Kersal Moor maroon plaque • Battle of Bexley Square red plaque • Town Hall, Salford brown plaque • Richard Lane and Town Hall, Salford brown plaque • Victoria, Manchester Ship Canal, and Edward Leader Williams black plaque • James Prescott Joule brown plaque • Christ Church, Salford brown plaque • Swinton Lions bronze plaque • Tony Warren green plaque • Cross Keys, Eccles blue plaque • Plaque at 6 Bradley Street • Plaque at Royal Exchange • Plaque at Albert Bridge • Plaque at Staffordshire Arm • Plaque at Grocer’s Warehouse • Plaque at Town Hall Interior • Plaque at Portland Street • Plaque at Hanging Ditch • Plaque at National Westminster Bank • Plaque at Merchant’s Warehouse
When using Walkfo App to explore Salford’s plaques, you will hear the full history story at the location of each plaque.
Salford has 171 plaques as part of official tourist plaque schemes for you to explore in the Walkfo Salford plaques map. Plaque schemes such as National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” display plaques as visual marker on streets & buildings to highlight points-of-interest & history at the places where they happened.
The Walkfo AI has performed further research about the location of each plaque to provide a fuller, deeper content experience for when exploring Salford plaques.
Experience the hidden history & stories at each location when the Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio files close to each Salford plaque. And in additional to official national plaque schemes like National Heritage Blue Plaques & Westminster’s Green Plaques, Walkfo has created millions of ‘virtual geo plaques’ unique to Walkfo across the UK, making Walkfo the largest national & international plaque organisation in the world.
Explore Salford plaques & local Salford history / heritage content through street plaque schemes (including Blue plaques, English Heritage & National Trust) plus Walkfo’s millions of audio plaques in Walkfo’s Audio Travel Guide to Salford.
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