Salford Museum & Art Gallery
Victorian civic museum and gallery in a park, with a recreated nineteenth-century street inside.
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This guide to Salford Museum and Art Gallery, in Peel Park just outside central Manchester, follows the money behind the building you walk into. It centres on Edward Ryley Langworthy, a textile merchant turned Salford mayor, and the will he left in eighteen seventy-four. Along the way you'll meet the mill workers whose subscriptions helped buy the Lark Hill estate. Best heard standing in the entrance vestibule.
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