Visiting Salford Quays, 14th July

Visiting Salford Quays, 14th July
Visiting Salford Quays,
14th July 2026

Salford Quays is a thriving waterfront district that blends a rich industrial heritage with modern media, residential, and cultural spaces. It functions as a bustling extension of Greater Manchester, driven by major media institutions, continuous urban development, and community-centric environmental upgrades.

🏗️ Infrastructure & Regeneration

  • Master Framework Progress: The area is actively executing its long-term MediaCity/Quayside Regeneration Framework, pushing forward with plans to add 3,200 new homes, additional hotel rooms, and 800,000 sq ft of commercial space.
  • Waterfront Greenery: To address concerns over becoming a “concrete jungle”, the council kicked off the Mariner’s Canal transformation project to establish large planting beds, boost local biodiversity, and expand public green spaces along pedestrian paths.
  • Residential Shift: Major housing projects, such as the newly approved hundreds of apartments between MediaCity and the city centre, continue to alter the skyline, shifting old 1980s office blocks toward waterside residential living.

📺 Media & Innovation Hub

  • Broadcasting Powerhouse: MediaCityUK remains the beating heart of the Quays, acting as a major digital and tech employer hosting the BBC, ITV, and massive production spaces.
  • The Coronation Street Experience: Located right on the docks, this remains a highly popular tourist asset drawing soap opera fans into the area.

🎭 Culture, Leisure & Events

  • Salford Centenary: The city is celebrating 100 years of city status, bringing historical exhibitions and community celebrations to local venues.
  • Major Landmarks: Cultural mainstays like The Lowry theatre/gallery and the Imperial War Museum North (IWM North) continue to anchor the tourist economy.
  • Signature Festivals: Key annual highlights include the return of the massive We Invented the Weekend Festival at the Piazza, alongside regular Salford Quays Makers Markets.
  • Dining & Retail: Central points like the Quayside MediaCity mall and the vibrant Kargo MKT food hall offer highly popular street food concepts and family entertainment.
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Welcome to my site! After graduating in Computing in 1990, I accepted a position as a programmer at a Runcorn based software house specialising in electronic banking software, namely sp/ARCHITECT-BANK on Tandem Computers (now HPE NonStop). This was before the internet became more prevalent and so the notion of enabling desktop access to company accounts for inter-account transfers and book keeping was still quite a cutting edge idea (and smartphones only ever hinted at in Space 1999). The company was called The Software Partnership (which was taken over by Deluxe Data in 1994). I spent 5 years in Runcorn developing code for SP/ARCHITECT for various banks like TSB, Bank of Scotland, Rabobank and Girofon (Denmark) to name but a few. I then moved onto a software house in Salford Quays for further bank facing projects. After a further 23 years in the IT industry and now a Senior IT Project Manager (both Agile and Waterfall delivery), I thought I would echo out my Career Profile in this corner of the internet for quick and easy access.

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