old ordsall

This is a Slide show of Old Ordsall created by Stacy, using pictures donated by Ann Monoghue from Salford Central library's archive.

Old Ordsall

This is a slide show created by Stacy, the pictures have been provided by Ann Monogue from Salford Central Library; with permission to show for historical use.

Ordsall Regeneration

Here are some pictures of one of the old school St. Clement's, being demolished. It has now been replaced by a new school Primrose Hill Opened in September this year.










This is a personal account of the thoughts of one resident of Ordsall (JT), regarding the Regeneration taking place in Ordsall.
Have your say.... Please send your thoughts, pitures etc to:

ordsall.on-line@hotmail.co.uk

The Regeneration

Salford was new and exciting! There was a time when the docks were it! It made Salford so rich, and the area was buzzing.
Now the docks are dead, and Salford is one of the poorest cities in England. It is time to tear down the old, and make it all new.
But areas have spirit, have soul! Ordsall was the pits! It was a bad area. But now the bad ones have been cleared out, and what is left is the social gold! As ‘Secret millionaire’ found, there are people who will give you a free meal, when they are struggling to eat!
New people are outsiders for many years. The Quays have shown the lack of social cohesion you can get. You bring in temporary workers, and they stay for the job, and probably don’t even know what a library is!
I live at the Quays, and it is pretty! I live in the houses, where I am the new one – I have only been there for 6 years! They know each other, and are a community – of workers. And then there is me, who is part of the retired population, I am strange in that I am quite young, and socially active.
Now I have seen St Clement’s school torn down: MY Church’s school consigned to the pages of old building plans in the planning offices history files of Salford.
I know people who say ‘That is where I broke my leg’, ‘That is where I got involved with the Red Cross’, ‘That is where I first kissed a boy!’
People’s memories are being torn down with the building. The new school will be good, when I was thinking of adopting a daughter, it was a very big plus point! Salford was to have it own school academy: Like Eccles already does.
But the new school will only work if there are good people involved with it! If it serves a vibrant new community.
Will Salford get it? I hope so. It will have a new tram system, into the heart of the most exciting cities in England.
Manchester is where the industrial revolution kicked off. No doubt there was as much building work then, though not a lot of demolition.
Will Salford and Manchester be the cities of the 21st century? In the new Internet age. I hope so, as I am involved in digital video on my computer. It has the infrastructure to make a difference.
But rather than being flattened in the Second World War, it is being levelled by the demolition ball.
Will a new, fantastic society take root? That is where you come in!

Ordsall Health Centre

Ordsall Health Centre

Here is a link to the healthy living site. We are hoping to establish a monthly surgery with one of the doctors, who may be available to answer questions with regards to health questions.

On this site we will also post health issue for the General public which require awareness, such as when flu jabs are available and who is in need of them.

We are looking for feed back on the site and of course your suggestions.

Please send any comments to Ordsall.on-line@hotmail.co.uk

If you have any items that you think will be of interest, please send them too.


Ordsall Community Reporters

With Thanks

After our summer break the Ordsall On-Line Site is working fast to keep you up to date with whats going on in the area.

But firstly, can we give a huge thanks to MCIN for all their help with this project. We are doing our best with all the new information and training that Gra is offering-- thank you from us all and we hope to drive you mad continually in the forthcoming months.

Can we also give a mega thanks to Gary Copitch for his time, effort and neverending belief in our group.

So with all the news thats going on in Ordsall, we must move to getting our reader numbers on the up and most of all try to get more members to the Community Reporters.

Please keep checking our site for up to date information on events, issues and information- not forgetting the new format we will be using with selection pages on certain items.

Ordsall On-Line

Ordsall Acapella Choir

On Friday 18th May, I went with the Acapella Choir to Stockport Art Museum, where they were booked to sing at the preliminaries before an Achievement Award Presentation. There were many dignitaries there, canapés and drinks were served and a bongo band was playing as people entered the museum. The choir were asked to sing in the chapel of remembrance where the acoustics were brilliant for this type of singing.

After their traditional warm up, they sang many songs, under the watchful eye of the professional choirmaster who puts them through their paces every Tuesday at the Every One Centre in Ordsall. Their performance was outstanding and very professional, especially considering some of the members had only been with the group for a few weeks. Lots of people stopped and listened to the choir and gave them tremendous applause. Some even asked could they go to the Tuesday night sessions.

I have been to many of their performances, over the last few years, when there were only at the most half a dozen singers, this time however there were 15 of them. This influx of members is mainly due to their appearance on Radio Manchester in March when they asked for new members.

If there is anyone out there who enjoys singing, and wants to sing for pleasure and be with a good crowd of fun loving people, then here’s your opportunity.

If you have any event where a choir would be appropriate please get in touch with Ordsall Community Arts at the Everyone Centre in Ordsall.

The Duke comes to Ordsall

- and plays table football!

Anybody who turned on Granada News on Thursday, 17th May will have seen the pictures of the Duke of Gloucester coming to visit Salford Lads and Girls Club on Coronation Street in Ordsall.
However, that's all you will have seen.
The camera showed you the Duke entering the building. What happened next?

First, the Duke was introduced to the Officers of the Club - the Chair, the Secretary and the Treasurer. The he met Leslie Holmes, the Club's Development Officer, who took the honoured guest on a tour of the Club. They looked at the Memorial Brass Plaque first, which lists the members of the Club who fell in the First and Second World Wars. Then, moving upstairs, the Duke was fascinated to see the wooden shields which record the winners of the Club's annual gynastic competitions going back to the 1920s.

Moving on, the Duke saw the Snooker Room, the Secretary's office, and was then ushered into the old Concert Room, and was shown the holes in the plaster and the crumbling roof which needs repairing. The guest sympathised with all the work that needs doing, and expressed support for the Club's current 'Million Pound Appeal', which hopes to raise enough funds to fix up the building for the 'next hundred years', as Leslie told him.

Also, on the first floor is the boxing gym. The Duke was keen to talk to all the young people training there and hear about their recent successes. Ushered down the back stairs, the Duke was then led into the Junior Games Room. He was offered a game of pool but seemed more keen to try the Air Hockey. He wasn't put off when the puck flew off the table, and insisted in pursuing the game until he scored enough points to win!

Next stop was the Senior Games Room which is where all the other guests were gathered, for a cup of tea and international buffet, prepared by Ray and Marie. The Duke was thanked by the President of the Greater Manchester Federation of Youth Clubs and made a short speech, before being led back out the front door and onto the coach for a short trip to the airport.


The visit had been organised by 'The Fed' to celebrate a hundred years of their existence. As most people know, our Club in Ordsall has been going even longer. Still, it was a great honour to see the Duke and a great pleasure to have him view the Club and see all the improvements that have been made in the last few years. Also, it was welcome to know he's supporting the Club in its improvement plans.

Watch this space.

a Success

Ordsall Café Project - A Community Success

A burnt out building at the end of Tatton St, in Ordsall, a dream for local residents, who formed a committee, a lot of arduous work and negotiating with Salford Council and of course the Fund Raising; is what it took to make the Ordsall Community Café Project the success it is today…

The café 1^st opened its café doors in June 2005, and all the hard work continued until the building was completed this year. The rooms are beautiful, and range from a meeting room to a counselling/quiet room at the top of the building. The food is low priced and tasty, with the focus being healthy eating.

The Community Centre now has meeting rooms available for hire, a salon; local Community Services use the café and their rooms. A computer suite with wireless internet access for free use, from which a Community Reporters group has been set up, using the skills they have gained from the free training it holds; from basic skills using a computer to making films and pod casts for blogs. There are Parents and Toddlers groups on a Thursday afternoons, Weaning Classes run by the P.C.T., help and advice on healthy living and even a refugee link permanently based in one of its rooms. Table top sales and fairs are held there and the Bingo sessions on a Friday afternoon are fun too.

With a Manager, 2 part-time staff and dedicated volunteers this centre has become a hub of the Community of Ordsall, which is in great need of the services the Café provides. Such as the forthcoming Health and Well-being Event being held in June, to which anyone from the Community can attend.

A web site has been set up, that has lots of useful news, information and links; newsletters are produced bi-monthly and distributed throughout the area.

In the last year the Café has had its hard work recognised by two organisations, by the presentation of awards: Towards Excellence in Volunteering for 2 recommendations in Monitoring and Development of Policies in Volunteering and its work towards Expansion of the group of volunteers. The second prestigious Award won this year, which was presented to the Café’ and accepted by its Manager Alison Cordingley, was the Co-Operative Foundation Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Community, under the category of: Community Facilities.

Along side this the centre has featured on the BBC’s program “The Life of Grime”, showing the building in the beginning, when it was burnt out and the only thing in it were hundreds of pigeons; and more recently it was included in a Channel 4 program being aired later this year.

The whole project which relies on funding and volunteers has come along way in such a short time, it provides venues for local people, includes the schools and forums for other projects in the area, such as the Regeneration of Ordsall, which is a huge part of the areas development into the 21^st century.

For further information you can visit their up to the minute website on www.occ.colsal.org.uk