BEN WALLSWORTH - Salford Quays visionary, war hero & public servant

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BEN WALLSWORTH - Salford Quays visionary, war hero & public servant
BEN WALLSWORTH - Salford Quays visionary, war hero & public servant

BEN WALLSWORTH MBE: Born in Ordsall, Salford in 1920, it was Ben’s vision to transform the disused and desolate Salford Docks into the what we now know as Salford Quays and MediaCityUK, cementing Greater Manchester’s reputation as the foremost city region outside the capital.
On an inspirational trip in the early 1980s to visit his daughter Christine in Canada, Ben observed the waterside developments at Vancouver and Victoria. On his return he wondered if these radical redevelopments could be the blueprint for the derelict Salford waterfront with its empty buildings, and redundant cargo cranes.
Ben convinced the then leader of Salford City Council, Les Hough to buy the ship canal and docklands off Manchester Council for £1m. Greater Manchester owes a great debt to Ben’s ambition. Salford Quays and MediaCityUK has been described as one of the most successful regeneration projects in the UK.
Ben was awarded the Military Medal by King George VI for his bravery with the British Expeditionary Forces on the beaches of Dunkirk in May 1940. He shot down with a machine gun, several German fighter planes which were attacking British forces stranded on the sand, and played a part in disabling a German gun emplacement.
In 2001 Ben received an MBE from the Queen. In 2019 he was bestowed the freedom of the City of Salford to acknowledge his 44 years service as a councillor.

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GREATER MANCUNIANS is a Manchester College student led landmark photography project (supported by Manchester City Council). It features those people born, bred, or who have made their home within the current Greater Manchester boundary and who have in some way culturally shaped the city and its surrounding boroughs.
The project will be published and exhibited in a major city centre exhibition in 2021/22.

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Taken on: November 29, 2019
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