MARY BURNS SUPERSTAR

From Salford Star issue 6 Winter 2007

THE MYSTERIOUS SALFORD SUPERSTAR MARY BURNS...

She's been honoured in Salford Star with her own Mary Burns Page and the annual Mary Burns Awards but who was Mary Burns?

Click here to find out...

FRED ENGELS IN SALFORD

From Salford Star issue 6 Winter 2007

ARE YOU READY FOR FREDDY?

How Salford Changed The World...

The Salford Star, with funding from the Lipman-Miliband Trust, commissioned Matt Carroll, of the famous Central Station design team, to produce a special limited edition poster of Fred Engels which appeared in issue 6.

Click here to see the poster in larger format and to read about Fred's influence on the world, plus his fave things...

ENGELS ON CRIME

From Salford Star issue 6 Winter 2007  Engels In Salford Part 4

FRED ON ROBBING

Engels was probably the first writer to `prove' the link between crime and poverty by using statistics. That was over 150 years ago. Since then, the stats haven't changed much...

Full story here...

ENGELS IN SALFORD

From Salford Star issue 6 Winter 2007

ENGELS IN SALFORD - Part 3

FRED ON SOCIAL CLEANSING

Writing over 120 years ago about what we now know as `regeneration' and `social cleansing', Fred Engels could have been describing what's going on in Salford, and elsewhere, today...it's so accurate it's scary...

Full story here...

FRED ENGELS IN SALFORD

A GUIDE TO ENGELS' SALFORD - Part 2

For your guide to Engels in Salford click here...

From Salford Star issue 6 Winter 2007

FRIEDRICH ENGELS IN SALFORD

From Salford Star issue 6 Winter 2007

"TO GET THE MOST OUT OF LIFE YOU MUST BE ACTIVE, YOU MUST LIVE AND YOU MUST HAVE THE COURAGE TO TASTE THE THRILL OF BEING YOUNG" Fred Engels 1840

Part 1

Fred Engels is the most famous person who ever breathed in Salford - but he's been totally forgotten. Fred wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx, and his words were used to inspire revolutions all over the world.

In the communist countries that perverted his theories, he was like a god and they used to parade his image everywhere – on stamps, coins, banners and statues…But the image was always of this dusty, beardy old git.

Yet when Fred came to Salford, age 22, he was on the ale every night, copping off with local girls and stirring up all sorts of trouble. He was the original angry young man, slagging off developers, the council, the capitalists and the conditions that working class people were living in... Hmmm, it seems Freddy Engels is so out, he's in.

Click here for a total Freddy Fest!