Salford tourist attractions, such as Ordsall Hall, the Bridgewater Canal and the Lowry Centre, an award-winning theatre and art gallery complex, consisting of two theatres and three art galleries. The centre is named after the artist L. S. Lowry, who attended Salford School of Art and lived in nearby Pendlebury for 40 years. Many of his paintings of Salford and Manchester mill scenes, populated with small matchstick-like figures, are on display. The waterfront development at MediaCityUK will make Salford a major centre of UK media production. The development houses BBC departments including CBBC, BBC Sport and Radio 5 Live which moved
City of Salford City of Salford The City of Salford () is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, named after Salford, but extending west to include the towns of Eccles, Worsley, Swinton, Walkden , Little Hulton, and Irlam. The city has a population of 245,600, and is administered from the Salford Civic Centre in Swinton. The city's boundaries, set by the Local Government Act 1972, include five former local government districts. It is bounded on the south east by the River Irwell, which forms its boundary with Manchester, and by the Manchester Ship Canal to the south, which forms its