BTW I was born and bred in Salford and lived there for 60 years before I moved to the countryside. Dirty Old Town was the first song I performed in public at the age of 14. We studied it at school. I have known and sung it most of my life. I am still active in the Dirty Old Town Facebook group that tried to save the gasworks. I would never class myself as an expert on it but I do believe I know it better than most.