1984 Eccles rail crash

Salford Royal Hospital (formerly known as Hope Hospital) is a large university teaching hospital in Pendleton, Salford, England operated by Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. It is one of the top-performing hospitals in the United Kingdom.

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust operated Salford Royal Hospital in Greater Manchester until 2017. Its chief executive is Dr Owen Williams. In December 2017 it was announced that the Trust was to form a new healthcare organisation by combining with Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The new organisation, to be called the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group, would have 17,000 staff, and a combined operating budget of £1.3bn covering Oldham, Bury, Rochdale, Salford and North Manchester.

Ladywell is a tram stop on the Eccles Line of Greater Manchester's light rail Metrolink system. It is located in the Ladywell area of the City of Salford, in North West England, and opened on 12 June 1999 as part of Phase 2 of the system's expansion. Ladywell has a Park and Ride car park for Metrolink customer which is a few minutes' walk from the end of the platforms. The tram stop itself is named after the nearby roundabout, Ladywell roundabout, under which the tram lines are tunnelled.

Trafford power station supplied electricity to the Trafford and Stretford areas of Greater Manchester, and to the national grid, from 1929 to 1976. The generating station was built by the Stretford and District Electricity Board which it operated until the nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry in 1948. The 60 megawatt coal-fired station was supplemented in 1952 with an experimental 15 megawatt gas turbine generating set.

Weaste and Seedley is an electoral ward of Salford, England. It is represented in Westminster by Rebecca Long-Bailey MP for Salford and Eccles. A profile of the ward conducted by Salford City Council in 2014 recorded a population of 12,616.

All Hallows RC High School is a mixed Roman Catholic secondary school in the Pendleton area of Salford, Greater Manchester, England.It is a voluntary aided school administered by Salford City Council and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford. Pupils are mainly admitted from Catholic primary schools in Salford, including The Cathedral School of St Peter & St John RC in Salford, Holy Family RC Primary School in Oldham, St Boniface RC Primary School in Higher Broughton, St Joseph's RC Primary School in Ordsall, St Sebastian's RC Primary School in Pendleton and St Thomas of Canterbury RC Primary School in Higher Broughton.All Hallows RC High School offers GCSEs, BTECs and Cambridge Nationals as programmes of study for pupils. The school also has specialisms in Business, Enterprise and Sport.

The 1941 Eccles rail crash occurred on 30 December 1941 at the east end of Eccles railway station in Lancashire, England.

Weaste railway station is a closed station on the Liverpool to Manchester line located between Seedley and Eccles in Salford. The line opened on 17 September 1830 but there is little detail of early stops or stations, early intermediate stations were little more than halts, usually where the railway was crossed by a road or turnpike.The station opened about 1831 or 1832 as Gortons Buildings, it is not known how long it was open for under this name, or if it was only open intermittently. The stop was not mentioned in the companies February 1831 list of stopping places but it is mentioned as existing in 1831 by Thomas(1980).Gortons Buildings are shown on the OS 1848 six-inch map to the south of the line, on the Eccles Turnpike between Warrington and Manchester, Weaste Lane Station is shown to the north at the end of Weaste Lane, adjacent to Victoria Cotton Mill, no platforms are shown on the map. Weaste Road did not exist at this time.In these early days the station was variously known as Gortons Buildings, Waste Lane, Weaste Lane and Weaste Lane Gate, it was called Waste Lane by Drake in his 1837 Road Book and Weaste Lane in the 1839 and 1850 Bradshaws.By 1856 it had settled down and was known from then as Weaste.By 1893 the running lines had been quadrupled with Weaste Road crossing the railway on an overbridge about 500 feet (150 m) west of the end of Weaste Lane, the area of the original station having become a goods yard. The station started to take goods traffic from 2 April 1883. Weaste station was now mostly located to the west of Weaste Road, with three platforms extending back under the overbridge. There was a central platform with running lines on both sides and outer platforms with one face to the railway. The station building was at road level with three stairways leading down to the platforms.It closed to passengers on 19 October 1942 and to freight on 1 November 1947.The line is still open but no trace of the station remains with the buildings having been removed and site obliterated by the building of the M602 motorway.

The Willows was a rugby league stadium in Weaste, Salford, England. It had a final capacity of 11,363 with 2,500 seats.

Lamb Hotel is a Grade II listed public house at 33 Regent Street, Eccles, Salford M30 0BP.It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.It was built in 1906 by Mr Newton of the architects Hartley, Hacking & Co, for Holt's Brewery.

Buile Hill Park is a Grade II listed public park in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. Covering 35 hectares (86 acres) it is the largest public park in the city, as well as the second oldest after Peel Park. The park and mansion are owned by Salford City Council. The Friends of Buile Hill Park is a non-profit society which contributes to activities in the park and how it is managed.

Weaste is a tram stop on the Eccles Line of Greater Manchester's light rail Metrolink system. It opened to passengers on 12 June 1999 as part of Phase 2 of the network's expansion, and is located the Weaste area of the City of Salford, in North West England. Weaste tram stop is close to the M602 motorway and The Willows, the former home stadium of Salford City Reds.