'A Grand Place to Escape From': Finding Green Space in Salford and Manchester
Wed 25 Feb
|Salford
From parks, allotments and flower shows, to cycling, socialism, and trespass, Helen Antrobus looks at the routes – both cultural and physical – that working people in Salford Manchester took to access green spaces
Time & Location
25 Feb 2026, 14:00 – 15:30
Salford, Crescent, Salford M5 4WU, UK
About the event
'A Grand Place to Escape From': Finding Green Space in Salford and Manchester
From parks, allotments and flower shows, to cycling, socialism, and trespass, A Grand Place To Escape From looks at the routes – both cultural and physical – that working people in Salford Manchester took to access green space.
Helen Antrobus is the Assistant National Curator (Social History) at the National Trust. Her research focuses on social activism, access to rural landscapes, and the lives of female conservationists between 1900 and 1945. She co-curated Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2022 and Represent: Voices 100 Years On at the People's History Museum in 2018. Her first book, First in the Fight: Women Who Made Manchester, was published in 2019.