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For the electoral ward of the City of Salford, see Weaste & Seedley (ward).

Weaste
St Luke's Church, a Grade II* listed building in Weaste
Weaste is located in Greater Manchester
Weaste
Weaste
Location within Greater Manchester
Population12,616 Ward profile conducted by Salford City Council in 2014.[1]
OS grid referenceSJ805985
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSALFORD
Postcode districtM5
Dialling code0161
PoliceGreater Manchester
FireGreater Manchester
AmbulanceNorth West
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Greater Manchester
53°28′59″N 2°17′35″W / 53.483°N 2.293°W / 53.483; -2.293

Weaste (/wiːst/) is an inner-city suburb of Salford, Greater Manchester, England. It is bordered by the town of Eccles to the West and Seedley to the East. In 2014, Weaste and Seedley ward had a population of 12,616.[1]

History

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The name either comes from the English word waste meaning "uncultivated land, common" in local dialect[2][3] or from Old French waste meaning "common land, waste".[4]

Textiles and the Industrial Revolution

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A datestone in Weaste on a house wall near where the Victoria Mills used to stand depicting the letters WBC (Winterbottom Bookcloth Company) and year 1876

19th century cotton firm Ermen & Engels—part-owned by the father of Friedrich Engels[5]—established Victoria Mills, a factory making sewing threads, in 1837 near the now-closed Weaste railway station on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway line.[6][5] Friedrich worked for the factory in its offices for a period of time starting in 1842.[7]

Victoria Mills was later sold to Archibald Winterbottom in 1874 after two years of negotiations. He used the site to found Winterbottom Book Cloth Co Ltd.[6] The company produced bookcloth—a material used for hardcover binding—and tracing cloth.[8] The site was expanded in the following years by the addition of new buildings and a chimney which was amongst the tallest in Lancashire at the time.[6][9] The company was immensely successful and saw Victoria Mills in Weaste become the top manufacturer of tracing cloth and bookcloth in the world.[9]

It kept producing bookcloth until 1980.[6][9] By 1982, a property developer had bought the remaining buildings and the site was turned into an industrial area.[10]

Religion

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In 1892, the All Souls Roman Catholic church was built on Bute street (later renamed to Kintyre avenue) in Weaste next to the All Souls primary school.[11] In 1934, a new church building was opened in Weaste at the intersection of Liverpool street and Weaste lane to replace the church on Bute street.[11][12] The funeral of Albert Scanlon (one of the Busby Babes and survivor of the Munich air disaster) was held in this church in 2010.[13] The church was demolished in 2011 and a residential development was built in its place.[14][15]

All Souls RC church's original garden wall with ornamental masonry was kept after its demolition and is now used by the residential development built in its place.

Education

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The De La Salle College was a secondary school located near the intersection of Weaste Lane and Eccles Old Road.[16] The school was established by the Roman Catholic parish of Salford which purchased the site containing a mansion called Hopefield in 1924.[16] By 1926 a secondary school for boys had been established on the site and was being run by the De La Salle Brothers.[16][17] The school merged with Pendleton College in 1997 and took its name.[18] It was closed in 2012[16] and demolished in 2015 to make space for a residential development.[19]

Its notable alumni included the Salfordians Terry Eagleton[20] and Tony Wilson.[19]

Governance

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Weaste was historically part of the County Borough of Salford in Lancashire. In 1974, it became part of the newly-incorporated metropolitan borough of the City of Salford which itself is within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester.

The electoral ward of Weaste and Seedley is represented in Westminster by Rebecca Long-Bailey, MP for Salford as of February 2025.[21]

As of February 2025, the ward is represented on Salford City Council by three Labour councillors:[22] Philip Cusack,[23] Alexis Shama,[24] and Charlotte Youd.[25]

Landmarks

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St Luke's Church, Weaste

St Luke's Church is a grade II* listed building designed by George Gilbert Scott[26][27] where Emily Pankhurst, the women's suffragette leader, was married.[27]

Between 1901 and 2011, Salford Red Devils Rugby League club played their homes games at the Willows off Weaste Lane.[28] In 2012, the club moved to the Salford City Stadium in Barton-upon-Irwell.[28]

Weaste Cemetery was opened in 1857 as Salford's first public municipal cemetery[29] and as of February 2025 remains one of four cemeteries in Salford.[30] Musical conductor Sir Charles Hallé,[31] 19th century lifesaver Mark Addy,[32] Eddie Colman[33]—one of the Manchester United Busby Babes who died in the Munich air disaster—and Ferdinand Stanley,[34] who rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade, are all buried in Weaste Cemetery.

Transport

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Weaste tram stop serves the area as part of the Manchester Metrolink tram system. It is on the Eccles line.

Weaste is not served by a train station since the closure of the Weaste railway station in the 1940s.[35]

The A57 (Eccles New Road) passes through Weaste, which lies close to the M602 motorway.

Notable residents

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Albert Finney, the BAFTA award-winning actor famous for films such as Tom Jones and Murder on the Orient Express grew up in Weaste on Gore Crescent.[36][37]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Weaste and Seedley Ward Profile (PDF). Salford City Council. March 2016.
  2. ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198691037.
  3. ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1922). The place-names of Lancashire. Manchester University Press.
  4. ^ Bullock, Roy (2014). A History of Weaste and Seedley. Neil Richardson. ISBN 9781852161729.
  5. ^ a b "Ermen and Engels". Grace's Guide To British Industrial History. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  6. ^ a b c d "Winterbottom Book Cloth Co Ltd". Science Museum Group. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  7. ^ "Friedrich Engels". Grace's Guide To British Industrial History. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  8. ^ Dorey, Susan J (2010). A Winterbottom Family (PDF). Saddleworth Historical Society: Library Registry. p. 36. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
  9. ^ a b c Tomlinson, William; Masters, Richard (1996). Bookcloth 1823–1980. Stockport, Cheshire: Dorothy Tomlinson. p. 19. ISBN 0952773600.
  10. ^ Dorey, Susan J (2010). A Winterbottom Family (PDF). Saddleworth Historical Society: Library Registry. p. 39. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
  11. ^ a b "All Souls and St John Vianney, Weaste, Roman Catholic". GENUKI. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
  12. ^ "Church of All Souls and St John Vianney, (RC), Weaste Lane, Weaste, Salford". Architects of Greater Manchester. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
  13. ^ "Funeral for 'Busby Babe' Albert Scanlon". BBC News. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  14. ^ "Memories of church to live on after demolition". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
  15. ^ "Watson Homes starts on £6m Salford development". Place North West. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
  16. ^ a b c d Wooler, Fiona (2015). Former De La Salle College, Weaste Lane, Salford (Report). Wardell Armstrong Archaeology. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
  17. ^ "Greater Manchester's lost schools - and the stars who went to them". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
  18. ^ "Further Education: Mergers". UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  19. ^ a b "Greater Manchester's vanished schools and the famous faces who came from them". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
  20. ^ "High priest of lit crit". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
  21. ^ "Rebecca Long Bailey MP". parliament.uk. UK Parliament. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  22. ^ "Your Councillors". sccdemocracy.salford.gov.uk. Salford City Council. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
  23. ^ "Councillor Philip Cusack". sccdemocracy.salford.gov.uk. Salford City Council. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  24. ^ "Councillor Alexis Shama". sccdemocracy.salford.gov.uk. Salford City Council. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  25. ^ "Councillor Charlotte Youd". sccdemocracy.salford.gov.uk. Salford City Council. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
  26. ^ Historic England. "CHURCH OF ST LUKE (1386145)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  27. ^ a b "Heritage at Risk list adds knights' cave and Grimsby's Kasbah". The Guardian. 8 November 2018. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  28. ^ a b "Salford Red Devils chief executive Paul King reflects on move away from The Willows and how deal was "done in desperation". Total Rugby League. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  29. ^ "WEASTE CEMETERY". Historic England. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  30. ^ "Weaste Cemetery". Salford City Council. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  31. ^ "Sir Charles Hallé". BBC. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
  32. ^ "Biographies of people buried between 1890 & 99". Weaste Cemetery Heritage Trial. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  33. ^ "Biographies of people buried between 1950 & 59". Weaste Cemetery Heritage Trial. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  34. ^ "Charge of the light brigade". Weaste Cemetery Heritage Trial. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  35. ^ "Station Name: WEASTE". Disused Stations. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  36. ^ "Famous Salfordians". Salford City Council. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
  37. ^ "Albert Finney, one of Salford's finest actors, dies aged 82 - latest tributes". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
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