Coming from the Mill theater and art gallery complex that opened in 2000 at Pier 8, Salford Quays in Salford in Greater Manchester in the UK, which is named for Lowry. Coming from the Mill "Coming from the Mill" is a painting by British painter Laurence Stephen Lowry from 1930. Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976) often painted his surroundings in Pendlebury, Lancashire in the United Kingdom, where he lived and worked for more than 40 years. His fame lies in images from the industrial districts in the northwest of England from the mid-1900s. He developed a painting style of cityscapes with people, often described as
Salford named Peel Park after Robert Peel who contributed to the subscription fund. The library was the first unconditionally free public library in the country. Harold Brighouse's play "Hobson's Choice" takes place in the Salford of 1880, and the 1954 film version was shot in the town. Walter Greenwood's 1933 novel "Love on the Dole" was set in a fictional area known as Hanky Park, said in the novel to be near Salford, but in reality based on Salford itself. A more modern fictional setting influenced by the area is "Coronation Street"'s Weatherfield. The Salford of the 1970s was the setting