Where is Salford?

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walsden and some of Todmorden were in Lancashire too.

Was there a debate on which county you could play Championship Cricket for regarding Todmorden at one time, depending on which part of the town you lived in. The Lancashire and England fast bowler, Peter Lever, was born in Todmorden.

I telephoned Salford Cathedral who confirmed that the parish of St Joseph in Todmorden is still part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford.

 

[Andrew Nelson]

Boddingtons (Cream of Manchester) was brewed in Salford!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boddingtons (Cream of Manchester) was brewed in Salford!

Are you not confusing the Salford brewery with that one which was once a large Threlfalls brewery that was passed close by, by the trains on the Chapel Street girder bridge to and from Manchester Victoria station and Salford station ?

Boddingtons brewery was situated on Great Ducie Street in the Cheetham district of Manchester and when it was closed, production was moved to the Hyde's brewery in Moss Side, Manchester. I am not too sure, but have a feeling that it is now brewed in Samlesbury in Lancashire. My memory may play me false and I am willing to be corrected.

 

[Eagle]

Boddingtons is now brewed in Samlesbury, Lancashire and Magor, Monmouthshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boddingtons is now brewed in Samlesbury, Lancashire and Magor, Monmouthshire.

Thanks for that confirmation. I was aware of the Magor site, but only made mention in my post of Samlesbury as it was in the same geographical area as the matter in question.

 

[Andrew Nelson]

Are you not confusing the Salford brewery with that one which was once a large Threlfalls brewery that was passed close by, by the trains on the Chapel Street girder bridge to and from Manchester Victoria station and Salford station ?

Boddingtons brewery was situated on Great Ducie Street in the Cheetham district of Manchester and when it was closed, production was moved to the Hyde's brewery in Moss Side, Manchester. I am not too sure, but have a feeling that it is now brewed in Samlesbury in Lancashire. My memory may play me false and I am willing to be corrected.

Quite probably.

 

[snail]

Are you not confusing the Salford brewery with that one which was once a large Threlfalls brewery that was passed close by, by the trains on the Chapel Street girder bridge to and from Manchester Victoria station and Salford station ?

Boddington's Strangeways brewery was on Great Ducie Street and New Bridge Street (now Trinity Way), adjacent to Victoria Station. In Manchester.
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Trafford Park, the once major engineering hub of the North-West is also NOT in Salford.

Salford City Council have never collected any business or domestic rates from any properties on that side of the Manchester Ship Canal.

But they did have Manchester Docks on the other side of the canal, now more famously known as Salford Quays and MediaCityUK.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

But they did have Manchester Docks on the other side of the canal, now more famously known as Salford Quays and MediaCityUK.

But I was at pains to make reference to the area that was on a different side of the canal....not that one.
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Boddington's Strangeways brewery was on Great Ducie Street and New Bridge Street (now Trinity Way), adjacent to Victoria Station. In Manchester.

Indeed so, as I had already mentioned so in my earlier posting. It was on the same side of the River Irwell as Strangeways prison, which no-one ever claims to be in Salford.

 

[telstarbox]

For the avoidance of doubt, both Old Traffords (MUFC and LCCC) are on the south side of the Manchester Ship Canal which is Trafford not Salford. The Ship Canal forms the boundary between the two boroughs.

 

[merlodlliw]

Are you not confusing the Salford brewery with that one which was once a large Threlfalls brewery that was passed close by, by the trains on the Chapel Street girder bridge to and from Manchester Victoria station and Salford station ?

Boddingtons brewery was situated on Great Ducie Street in the Cheetham district of Manchester and when it was closed, production was moved to the Hyde's brewery in Moss Side, Manchester. I am not too sure, but have a feeling that it is now brewed in Samlesbury in Lancashire. My memory may play me false and I am willing to be corrected.

I was told by the head brewer of the old Border Brewery in Wrexham, its in the water underneath the brewery that gives the taste, how right he was,Marstons took over,shut the Wrexham Brewery & the imitation brewed at Burton was awful. The same went for the famous Wrexham Lager,now back,using the same Soft Wrexham water supply for taste. So boddies I am told now lacks that Salford spring supply taste. I also recall Hydes Moss Side site.

 

[HowardGWR]

Boddington's Strangeways brewery was on Great Ducie Street and New Bridge Street (now Trinity Way), adjacent to Victoria Station. In Manchester.

Mention of Ducie reminds me that the one in Bristol is always pronounced as 'Juicy Street' by locals, carrying on a fine Anglo-Saxon tradition of murdering Norman / French names (think 'Beaulieu' for example).

Is the real beer Boddingtons (as opposed to the other sort) still available?