Weaste
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Weaste is an inner-city suburb of Salford, Greater Manchester, England. It is bordered by the town of Eccles to the West and Seedley to the East. In 2014 Weaste and Seedley ward had a population of 12
St Luke's Church, a Grade II* listed building in Weaste
A datestone in Weaste on a house wall near where the Victoria Mills used to stand depicting the letters WBC (Winterbottom Bookcloth Company) and year 1876.
All Souls RC church's original garden wall with ornamental masonry was kept after its demolition and is now used by the residential development built in its place.
St Luke's Church, Weaste
Friedrich Engels
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Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best known for his lifelong collaboration with Karl Marx, with whom he co-authored The Comm
Weaste
…common" in local dialect or from Old French waste meaning "common land, waste". 19th-century cotton firm Ermen & Engels—part-owned by the father of Friedrich Engels—established Victoria Mills, a factory making sewing threads, in 1837 near the now-closed Weaste railway station on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway…
Engels in 1877
Engels's childhood home in Barmen, Prussia, a town which he later described as the "Zion of the obscurantists".
Self-portrait of Engels at age 19 in 1839
Sketch by Engels depicting the Berlin Freien, 1842