My first job was with WUDC - Worsley Urban District Council. Known by us as Working Under Difficult Conditions :-)

Then, one day in April 1974, I went to bed in Swinton, Lancashire, working for Worsley Council and woke up the next day in Salford, Greater Manchester and working for the Salford City Council. I didn't even notice! Still, I suppose the new Salford metropolitan area was nothing new after all. The Hundred of Salford, which encompassed the whole new area and much more, had Anglo-Saxon origins.

Incidentally, a friend I used to see regularly until his stroke laid him low and I moved out of the area was Ted Edwards. He wrote some of the finest songs and poems known to the folk world from his Eccles flat! Look up some of his work for inspiration :-)