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TAKING place on November 11, 2pm, at the Working Class Movement Library (WCML) in Salford is an event to celebrate the lives of the library’s founders Ruth and Eddie Frow.
It is 30 years since the library, with the support of Salford Council, found a new home in an old nursing home on the busy A6 leading in and out of a once radical city.
Across the road from the WCML is Bexley Square, now a playground for students, where Eddie, alongside his comrades in the National Union of Unemployed Workers, was battered by the police in October 1931.
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