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Lads Club likely to be saved
Country Life UK
|August 27, 2025
SALFORD LADS CLUB, which was destined to become Greater Manchester's equivalent of Abbey Road, London NW8, after The Smiths posed outside its terracotta portal for the sleeve of their LP The Queen Is Dead in 1986, has been granted $437,961 by Historic England for essential masonry repairs.
It is thought to be the most complete surviving pre-1914 building of its type and was saved from closure only months ago, following a fundraising campaign led by the Manchester Evening News. Historic England has allocated a total of $15 million from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's Heri
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