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The University of Salford is a public research university in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, 1 mile (1.6 kilometres) west of Manchester city centre.The Royal Technical Institute, Salford, which opened in 1896, became a College of Advanced Technology in 1956 and gained university status in 1967, following the Robbins Report into higher education.
Salford City Council agreed to support the library and, in 1987, gave the WCML, and the Frows, a new home in a former nurses' home, Jubilee House, situated near the University of Salford. Designed and constructed in 1897 by Henry Lord (who also built the Peel Building opposite) it was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.
Working Class Movement Library in Salford. Along with her husband Edmund, Frow was the founder of the Working Class Movement Library in Manchester. [9] The library was originally the personal book collection of the couple, to which scholars or students of labour history could access for free. [10]
The Peel Building is a building at the University of Salford located in their Peel Park campus adjacent to the A6 Crescent and is the university's oldest building in current use. Peel Building viewed from Working Class Library
The University of Salford is a large public university in Salford, in the United Kingdom. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. P.
Lark Hill Place, a re-creation of a Victorian street inside Salford Museum. Lark Hill Place, an exhibit on the ground floor, is a re-creation of a typical Victorian street, built using shop fronts that were saved and restored in 1957 when many shops and houses in central Salford were being demolished to make way for new developments.
The Centenary Building is a building at the University of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. It was designed by the architect Stephen Hodder , completed in December 1995, and opened in 1996 . The building won the RIBA Award and inaugural Stirling Prize in 1996, [ 1 ] as well as the Civic Trust Award in 1998.
The University of Salford has over 19,000 students, [141] ... The library was said to be the first unconditionally free public library in the country, [145] ...