Edwardian Salford

By Michael Kennedy The Classic Slum; Salford Life in the First Quarter of the Century. By Robert Roberts. (Manchester University Press. £2-64.)

and Mr Roberts gives amusing details to prove his point. JJNGELS described mid-19th century Salford as " the classic slum." The phrase; makes the perfect title for Robert Roberts’s superb book about the Salford in which he grew up during Edward VTI’s reign. Mr Roberts’s mother kept the " corner shop " where he was able to observe every stratum and variety of workingclass life. The result is a vivid, moving, funny, unsentimental and, we may be sure,...