Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Salford, Greater Manchester*

Famous residents and ex-residents.

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• Allan Clarke of The Hollies
• Pat Phoenix from coronation street lived at number 13 Epsom Mews, Bury New Road for a number of years. Jimmy Saville lived at 103 Ascot Court, Bury New Road from the time they opened around 1963 to the early seventies, when he quit his flat with it's contents intact. He kept his Rolls Royce and a small collection of 'bubble' cars (the round cars which opened at the front) in garages between Ascot Court and Epsom Mews. Roger Moore had a flat there as well, but as I never met him, I don't know if he was the Roger Moor or just a Roger Moor.
• Don Arden, father of Sharon Osborn and manager of acts such as Gene Vincent, The Small Faces, Lynsey De Paul, Ossie Osborn, The Move, ELO and Wizzard was born in Cheetham Hill in 1926.
• Elkie Brooks (Elaine Bookbinder), was born 25 February 1946, in Salford. She attended North Salford High School for Girls on Leicester road.
• Duo "Me and our Kid" (Pete and Joe Martin). "Hanky Park" duo, (Pete Martin and friend).
• Anyone remember Alistair Cooke, the journalist, radio 4's "Letter from America" which is still going strong? He was born in Isacc street, Ordsall, but still maintains he was born in Manchester, not Salford! Also, what about dear old Mike Sweeney, best D.J. ever to come out of Salford!
• Peter Hook (Hooky, Joy Division, New Order, Monoco). Russell Watson Irlam's greatest opera singer.
• Mikey Brodie Jimmy Savill Paul Scholes Big Damian
• Peter Kaye used to drink at the PAV aswell as going to uni here! yeaaaaaaaah! Terry Nutkins was born here in a manger. Patrick Moore once remarked that Salford was 'the shittest place i've ever seen in my entire fucking life'
• Tony Wentworth 1st year BNP student youth leader type thing Harold Shipman murderous GP John Leslie Rapist Ulrika Johnson Rape victim
• The Moyse Machine Apache Pub Rock Slick Anjum Anjum let us in (x7) homeslices ltd.
• Mike Leigh - dramatist(Abigail's Party) and film-maker (Topsy-Turvy, Career Girls). Grew up in Broughton, dad a local doctor. Tony Bookbinder - of the Dakotas. Parents had a bakers. Tony's 'little sister, Elaine' - better known as Elke Brooks, was with Vinegard Joe before becoming solo singer. Shelagh Delaney - ex-Pendleton High School, her 'Sixties play "A Taste of Honey" later filmed,shocked sensitive Salford folk by suggesting there were unmarried mums, black men and gays in their genteel city. And going back awhile - Walter Greenwood, novelist, most famous book was 'Love On the Dole', life and struggles of young people in 1930s Salford, was filmed and also made a radio play.
• Ghandi and Jesus - well, Ben Kingsley and Robert Powell anyway.
• I remember vinegar Vera too. She used to get on my number 1 bus late at night going to Broughton. She was always drunk, foul mouthed and giving her boyfriend a hard time. Jimmy Saville did live in broughton, in the 'luxury flats' on Bury New Road. One hot summer - not many of those - he was sunbathing on the grass on front of the flats with Des O'Connor and Anita Harris.
• Andrew + paul modlinsky farther and son also came from the salford area and still have strong family ties in the weaste area
• That prat who plays Terry in Coronation St lives on Nine Acre Court. Tim Burgess (The Charlatans) used to live there too.
• VINEGAR VERA Used to get on the bus pissed up and batter her boyfriend and anyone else in line of site, (even got me on a few occasions).
• john cooper-clarke:punk poet & first white rapper
• Albert Finney ex Gore Cres Weaste Mark Peters ex of The Alarm
• Salford's greatest export remains sadly neglected by his home town. Paul M. Farrell, drama and dance teacher, revolutionised the practice of Expressive Arts in the East Midlands town of Loughborough from 1992 until 1994. A devotee of theatre legends Ronald Harwood and Simon Callow, Farrell was as equally adept at knitting his own jumpers as he was at cracking lame witticisms concerning bus drivers, bastards, babies, and the boob. His love of Callow was revealed after an off-the-cuff admission that "he's got a nice bum". Harwood's influence was manifest in Farrell's casual disdain for style, wit, or aplomb. Farrell's greatest legacy at Burleigh College is his unique repertoire of vocal warm-up exercises, some of which are still in use today. These include: "Buggerneckerbuggerneckerbugger";"miniminiminimini"; "rhimineyrhimineyrhiminey"; and the standard singalong number, "Jean Harlow (Momma's Gonna Walk, Momma Talk, Yeah!)" After a number of controversies, including poor mock exam results, a general low standard of teaching, and an alleged liaision with a former student, Farrell was hounded from the Expressive Arts office, and left Loughborough for good, never to be seen again. Perhaps he has finally now found inner peace, and returned to his home town.
• My mate reckons Jimmy Saville used to live in Higher Broughton.
• Saun Ryder L.S.Lowry 1887-1976 Mark.E.Smith (The Fall) Bernard Sumner (Joy Division/New Order/Electronic)

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