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Beatrice and Edith Clayton Pepper were sisters who played an active part in the militant suffrage campaign and the activities of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU).

They were born in Chorlton-on-Medlock, but lived at 2 Primrose Avenue,…

The footpath ran from Flixton Church and connected with other subsidiary paths to Shawe Hall. A Blue Plaque was originally erected at Flixton Station in 1992 but was destroyed when the building caught fire later that decade.
In the early 1820s,…

Lord Kitchener (real name Aldwyn Roberts) is widely known as the “Grandmaster” of calypso music, Trinidad’s native musical style. Also known by the names “Kitch” and the “Road King”, Lord Kitchener achieved international success and legendary status…

Edward Colquhoun Charlton was born on 15 June 1920 in Gateshead, County Durham. Edward moved to Stretford aged 5 attending St Hilda’s Church of England Primary School and Old Trafford Secondary Boy’s School.Edward enlisted in the Irish Guards,…

William ‘Bill’ Speakman was born on 21st September 1927 at 17 Moss Lane, Altrincham. He attended Oakfield Road School, Altrincham and Wellington Road Secondary School, Timperley. Bill left school at the age of 14. He joined the 1st Cadet Battalion…

Born in 1881, at Church Bank, in Bowdon, Edward Kinder Bradbury was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in the First World War (1914–1919).

In September 1914, Bradbury was serving with the British Expeditionary Force which, after being faced…

Political, environmental and access campaigner, and leader of the ‘Mass Trespass’ on Kinder Scout (Derbyshire) in 1932, Benny Rothman was critical to the passing of the ‘Right to Roam’ legislation (also known as the Countryside and Rights of Way Act…

On 5 July 1948, the Health Secretary, Aneurin Bevan, launched the National Health Service (NHS) at Trafford General Hospital (formerly known as Park Hospital). In 2018 a blue plaque was unveiled for the 70th anniversary of this event, and can be seen…

British engineer and co-inventor of the first working computer memory, Tom Kilburn was also responsible for designing and building the first stored-programme computer. His advances in computer technology greatly impacted the development of computers…

George Saul Mottershead was born at 33 Lindow Street, Sale Moor, in 1894. From 1912–1920, he lived above 131 Northenden Road, in Sale, where he opened a physical culture school known as ‘Saul’s School of Scientific Physical Culture’. After visiting…