I was contacted last week by Jude Kenny who now lives in Spain to tell me that she was clearing out her late, Uncles house a keen amateur photographer, Austin Slater who had taken literally 100s of photographs mostly of Eccles and would I like them.... yes please! Austin would take his camera with him and take photos of what he thought were of interest and many of them were taken at his workplace Lankro/Akcros Chemical, Eccles in the mid 1990s. There are lots more showing Manchester Ship Canal, Barton Aquaduct, Eccles Town Centre, charity events such as three legged races, pram races. marches, parades, shoppers etc. We shall scan them all for our archives but if anybody recognises themselves on the photos we shall be glad to give you a copy, the rest will given to the Salford Local History Library for the photographic archive. Today's photos show the workforce at Lankro/Akcros at both work and leisure, I posted some yesterday on our Salford History and the response was fantastic. So a massive thank you to Jude Kenny for rescuing them and contacting me, hope you enjoy looking at them...I did.
