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38-647: Quality Save was a chain of discount stores operated in northern England. The head office/store for Quality Save was located in Swinton. Quality Save was founded in 1974 by Bob Rudkin. He started off with an indoor market stall in Walkden , and a small shop in Farnworth . The company opened more outlets over time. In 2010, stores began playing a clip every fifteen minutes reminding customers of their "Star Buy" deals, their cheap prices in comparison to pound stores, and

76-497: A 'Phase 5' development of Walkden Town Centre, and this included provision for a new cinema and plans to increase footfall in the old side of the centre. However, these plans did not materialise. Following local campaigning by residents, subsequent plans have since been released for Egerton Walk and Victoria Square sections of the centre by The Derwent Group in October 2023. These include provision for new retail units, green space,

114-502: A Conveyor Belt Repair Shop. The yard closed as a British Coal workshop in 1986 and is now a housing estate. Until 1894, Walkden lay within the township of Worsley in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Eccles , within the Hundred of Salford in the historic county of Lancashire , although some parts including Linnyshaw and Toppings Bridge were within the parish of Deane . Worsley Urban District Council , which included Walkden,

152-522: A pedestrianised boulevard and a new shopping centre atrium, with works totalling at least £15 million. These new features would be built by November 2025, following planned demolition works. Plans for the redevelopment of the centre were officially granted consent by Salford City Council in June 2024, with work due to start in the same year. There are extensive and frequent bus services in Walkden, linking

190-576: A result of the coal mining in the area. According to 2006 figures, Walkden station (operated by Northern Rail ) was used by over 150,000 passengers annually;. Passenger numbers for Walkden peaked during 2019-20 with 374,288 estimated passengers. Usage dropped to 19% during the 2020-21 travel lockdowns and recovered to 65% by 2023. Monday to Saturday daytimes, two trains per hour go eastbound to Manchester Victoria and two per hour towards Wigan - both trains continue to Wigan Wallgate westbound and one continues to Kirkby (down from three each way prior to

228-574: A single field would have been divided under this system among the lord and his tenants; poorer peasants ( serfs or copyholders , depending on the era) were allowed to live on the strips owned by the lord in return for cultivating his land. The system facilitated common grazing and crop rotation . Any individual might possess several strips of land within the manor, often at some distance from one another. Seeking better financial returns, landowners looked for more efficient farming techniques. Enclosure acts for small areas had been passed sporadically since

266-549: A superstore was launched in the ex Tesco unit next door. It was then confirmed that their biggest ever superstore would open in the beginning of 2017 in Walkden, the town where the company was first founded on a market stall. In February 2017, the biggest ever Quality Save store was opened in Walkden Town Retail Park. This store was 22,000 cubic feet. On 26th January 2023, Quality Save was sold to TJ Morris, owner of Home Bargains, with all stores to rebrand to

304-579: Is a Victorian park. Blackleach Country Park covers 50 hectares half-mile north of the town centre. The site is a designated local nature reserve. The reservoir was originally used by factories. The formerly derelict and badly polluted site at Blackleach was next to a chemical waste tip, and was crossed by a disused railway line. It was reclaimed and restored after a community campaign. A one tonne glacial erratic limestone boulder can be found in Parr Fold Park, indicated by an information sign. It

342-720: Is thought the provenance of the rock is linked to formations in the Lake District or South West Scotland, having been transported South to Walkden by melting ice 18,000 years ago. Both of the parks have been recognised in the Green Flag Awards . A small, gated angling pond can be found next to the Walkden Town Centre car park and can only be accessed by members. The site regularly holds fishing matches. The Ellesmere Monument in St Paul's Churchyard

380-586: Is used by local commuters, with two services running each morning as part of the Bee Network . The RHS1 bus route links Manchester City Centre, Walkden Station and the RHS Garden Bridgewater between 1 April and 1 October each year. It was announced in July 2024 that the numbers V1 (serving nearby Ellenbrook) and 36 (serving Walkden) buses would become the first 24 hour services, as part of

418-472: The Old English denu , a valley, belonging to a man possibly called Wealca ( fuller ), an Old English personal name. It has been in existence since at least the 13th century. The name was recorded in documents dating to 1246. A Roman road crossed the area roughly on the line of the present A6 road through Walkden and Little Hulton . In 1313, in a dispute involving land, a jury decided that Walkden

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456-639: The Salford City Council administrative area. Walkden was part of the Worsley and Eccles South parliamentary constituency . Between 1983 and 2010 it was part of the Worsley parliamentary constituency . Between 1885 and 1983 Walkden lay in the now defunct Farnworth constituency and before that, from 1868 to 1885, within the South East Lancashire constituency. Following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies ,

494-421: The 12th century, but advances in agricultural knowledge and technology in the 18th century made them more commonplace. Because tenants, or even copyholders, had legally enforceable rights on the land, substantial compensation was provided to extinguish them; thus many tenants were active supporters of enclosure, though it enabled landlords to force reluctant tenants to comply with the process. With legal control of

532-521: The City of Salford, and now largely functions as a retail centre and commuter suburb of Greater Manchester. Historically in the township of Worsley in Lancashire , Walkden was a centre for coal mining and textile manufacture . In 2021, the electoral wards of Walkden North , Walkden South and Little Hulton had a combined population of 39,761. The name Walkden or Walkeden derives from

570-785: The Ellesmere were sunk but were independent of the levels. Walkden Yard or NCB Central Workshops was situated south of High Street, close to Ellesmere Colliery was partly in Little Hulton . It was built 1878 by the Bridgewater Trustees as a central works depot providing engineering services for their collieries and colliery railways. On the site there was a Drafting Office, Machine and Fitting workshop, Pump Shop, Joiners Shop, Electricians shop, Paint Shop, Blacksmith and Tinsmith Shop, Welders Shop, Locomotive Overhaul and Repair Shop, Waggon sheds and Waggon machine shop and

608-726: The Greater Manchester Bee Network. Walkden once had two railway stations. In 1875, the London and North Western Railway opened a station on the Bolton-to-Eccles line known as Walkden Low Level . It was closed in 1954. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway provided a station on the Manchester-to-Wigan line in 1888. Walkden railway station , originally known as "Walkden High Level railway station", remains open. Both lines were built as

646-725: The Home Bargains brand. Later in August 2023, TJ Morris would contact the stores of Stalybridge, Atherton, Chorley and Darwen, notifying them that their store would close down for good. These closures were completed by October 2023. The Chorlton and Dewsbury stores were also later closed down due to redevelopment and building issues respectively. Quality Save's final store, Widnes, was closed for rebrand to Home Bargains on 1st April, 2024. Quality Save stores could usually be found in major shopping streets and shopping centres. Stores range from small to large outlets. Quality Save's largest store

684-635: The Inclined Plane Pit all before 1800. The Worsley Navigable Levels linked many of the mines to the Bridgewater Canal at Worsley. The levels were used to transport coal from the mines of the Bridgewater Collieries in Walkden until railways were used as an improved form of transportation. After 1800 Urmston's Meadow, Moss Hill Top, Parkinson's and Sawney, Atkin's Croft, Barrack's, Magnall's, Ashton's Field and

722-579: The NCB Offices in Bridgewater Road. It was taken down when the Tesco store was erected. The original clock was used to alert coal miners to the beginning or end of their shifts. The workers claimed that they could not hear the clock strike once at 1.00pm to mark the end of dinnertime and the resumption of the working day, and it was altered to strike 13 times at 1.00pm, a tradition continued by

760-414: The centre has been subject to criticism for a leaking glass roof that covers the centre. An installation made up of plastic buckets hanging from the roof was placed by shopping centre managers Derwent Estates (the management company for The Derwent Group, which manages the assets of The Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation as a subsidiary company ), to make light of the issue. Plans were announced in 2017 for

798-657: The company's alcohol policy. These clips end with the company's name and their slogan: "Quality Save. Quality Brands – Quality Prices". In 2012, Quality Save closed an outlet in Barnsley to open a much bigger one a few feet down the road. They also closed a temporary unit in Urmston , and opened a new one in the Eden Square Shopping Centre. In 2015, the Middleton branch of Quality Save was closed, and

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836-602: The electoral wards of Little Hulton , Walkden North and Walkden South are now part of the newly-formed Bolton South and Walkden parliamentary constituency . Following the July 2024 General Election, the Bolton South and Walkden constituency is represented by Yasmin Qureshi MP in UK Parliament. Walkden has two main parks in the town, namely Blackleach Country Park and Parr Fold Park. Parr Fold Park

874-525: The land was categorized as "common" or "waste". "Common" land was under the control of the lord of the manor, but certain rights on the land such as pasture , pannage , or estovers were held variously by certain nearby properties, or (occasionally) in gross by all manorial tenants. "Waste" was land without value as a farm strip – often very narrow areas (typically less than a yard wide) in awkward locations (such as cliff edges, or inconveniently shaped manorial borders), but also bare rock, and similar. "Waste"

912-615: The land, landlords introduced innovations in methods of crop production, increasing profits and supporting the Agricultural Revolution ; higher productivity also enabled landowners to justify higher rents for the people working the land. The powers granted in the Inclosure Act 1773 ( 13 Geo. 3 . c. 81) of the Parliament of Great Britain were often abused by landowners: the preliminary meetings where enclosure

950-470: The location for one of the largest Tesco stores in the UK when it opened in 2010. The centre has 2000 free car parking spaces and is visited by 150,000 shoppers every week. It was announced in 2022 that the bargain homeware retailer The Range would open a large 40,000 sq ft shop in the retail park, and this has been trading since November 2023. Despite £70 million being spent on Walkden Town Centre regeneration,

988-518: The pandemic). Only one train per day (weekdays and Saturdays) continues to Southport since the summer 2019 timetable change. All Sunday services continue to Southport. Most Manchester departures continue along the Caldervale Line to Todmorden , Burnley Manchester Road and Blackburn or to Leeds via Brighouse . Inclosure Acts Before the enclosures in England, a portion of

1026-411: The replica clock. The opening line of George Orwell 's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), referring to the clocks striking thirteen, might have been inspired by his time in the area writing The Road to Wigan Pier (1937). The main shopping destination in Walkden has been rebranded as Walkden Town Centre (previously The Ellesmere Centre), housing 447,000 sq ft of floor space. The centre became

1064-579: The town with Manchester , Bolton and Leigh . Services include the 36 and 37 routes between Bolton and Manchester via Farnworth (37), Little Hulton (36) and Swinton . The 38 route runs through Walkden and terminates at Manchester Piccadilly or Logistics North in Bolton. The 20 bus takes passengers from Walkden to the Trafford Centre via Monton , and the 29 takes people to Media City . The X39 runs as an express bus at peak periods, which

1102-561: The towns. This contributed to the Industrial Revolution – at the very moment new technological advances required large numbers of workers, a concentration of large numbers of people in need of work had emerged; the former country tenants and their descendants became workers in industrial factories within cities. The Inclosure (Consolidation) Act 1801 ( 41 Geo. 3. (U.K.) c. 109) was passed to tidy up previous acts. The Inclosure Act 1845 ( 8 & 9 Vict. c. 118) instituted

1140-502: Was completed in 2006. It was later rebuilt. Walkden Town Hall was demolished in 1999, to create extra car parking spaces for Walkden College. Parr Fold Park has a cenotaph memorial, which is the site of Walkden's annual war Remembrance Day services. There is also a memorial garden to remember dead service men and women. The Ellesmere Centre had a clock-tower which is a replica of the Lady Bourke Clock which once stood by

1178-412: Was discussed, intended to be held in public, often took place in the presence of only the local landowners, who regularly chose their own solicitors, surveyors and commissioners to decide on each case. In 1786 there were still 250,000 independent landowners, but in the course of only thirty years their number was reduced to 32,000. The tenants displaced by the process often left the countryside to work in

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1216-876: Was dominated by coal mines and textile manufacturing. Walkden's industrial history links are mainly to coal mining, but also to cotton mills . There were many shafts for small collieries sunk to the shallow coal seams of the Worsley Four Foot mine on land owned by the Egertons, the Lords of the Manor of Worsley which included Walkden. Named shafts were, Speakman's, Edge Fold, Lloyd's and Hey's Field before 1770, Turnpike Lime, Barlow Fold, Scowcroft's, and Crippin's Croft before 1780, Pin Fold, Parr Fold and Tub Engine before 1790 and Grundy's Field, Stone, Windmill, Charlton's, and

1254-453: Was erected in 1868 to commemorate Harriet (d. 1866), wife of the 1st Earl of Ellesmere . It was designed by T. G. Jackson , and inspired by the medieval Eleanor crosses . It originally stood at the junction of the A6, A575 and B5232 roads but was moved into the churchyard in 1968 to reduce traffic congestion. Statues of four angels on the monument were stolen. A project to restore the monument

1292-681: Was formed in 1894. Walkden was amalgamated into the City of Salford metropolitan district of Greater Manchester in April 1974, as part of the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972 , having previously formed part of the Worsley Urban District in the administrative county of Lancashire . Walkden is divided into three electoral wards ; Little Hulton , Walkden North and Walkden South . Walkden remains part of

1330-526: Was located in Walkden , followed by the store located in the Stretford Mall. They acquired some of the former outlets of Woolworths . Although the official slogan for the company was "Quality Brands – Quality Prices", the Quality Save stores carrying old signs displayed the Home Bargains slogan: "Top Brands – Bottom Prices". They were supplied by TJ Morris Ltd . Because of this, Quality Save

1368-399: Was not officially used by anyone, and so was often farmed by landless peasants. The remaining land was organised into a large number of narrow strips, each tenant possessing a number of disparate strips throughout the manor, as would the manorial lord . Called the open-field system , it was administered by manorial courts , which exercised some collective control. What might now be termed

1406-640: Was often confused with Home Bargains. Stores had a red and sky blue logo similar to that of Home Bargains, which was later changed to avoid confusion between the two companies. Many Quality Save stores, however, retained the old logo up until the rebranding of the business to Home Bargains. Walkden Walkden is a town in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester , England, six miles (ten kilometres) northwest of central Salford , and seven miles (eleven kilometres) of Manchester . Walkden has been designated as one of seven main town centres in

1444-457: Was too small to be considered a hamlet or a town but was "only a place in Farnworth". In the 15th century Walkden appears to have covered a wider area than at present, spreading into Farnworth and Little Hulton. In 1765 "Walkden Moor" was the subject of a parliamentary Enclosure Act . The Duke of Bridgewater was the biggest landowner in 1786, owning over half the land. At one time Walkden

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