Salford United
Salford is a great place, there's some amazing characters there and there's always such a friendly (northern) vibe when I pop across the water into Salford itself.
Anyway, I'm currently reading a book called The Battle of Bexley Square by Edmund and Ruth Frow which laments events from the 1931 event in Salford, where an estimated 10,000 unemployed women and men peacefully protested against cuts in both the coal allowance and the unemployed allowance & poor living conditions, with general mass unemployment. The protesters were met with violent opposition from both police truncheons & the mounted police. Edmund was arrested on that day and has since set up the Working Class Movement Library -> https://wcml.org.uk/blog/the-story-of-our-founders-ruth-and-eddie-frow/
Dirty Old Town
On that day, the protest in the Salford branch of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement was intended to see them organize a march to the town hall in Bexley Square.
Despite this, upon their arrival, they realized that their way was obstructed by the police and, following a stand-off, a squadron of mounted police charged into the crowd, resulting in very serious injuries. People thronging the streets included Jimmy Miller, alias Ewan MacColl, folk singer and political activist, and Walter Greenwood, on whose account of the events that took place on that day in his novel Love On The Dole
An important event in the labour history of Salford, illustrating the desperation felt by the working class during the Depression.
This struggle had an influence on the welfare reforms that followed World War II. A plaque in Bexley Square commemorates the event. (pictured).