Send flowers to Salford

The City of Salford in the historic Red Rose county of Lancashire, is located to the west of Manchester. Connections to the M602 and several major motorways ensure good access to Old Trafford Football Stadium and to the nearby Trafford Centre, which opened in 1998.

The Trafford Centre is now the largest indoor shopping centre in the UK, beating Bluewater, with Europe's largest food court, hosting over 60 restaurants and a range of services including florists offering next day delivery flowers in Salford and the surrounding areas.

Salford has seen many historic firsts, such as Robert Stevenson's construction of the world's first public inter-city railway line linking Liverpool to Manchester.

The boom in the textile industry in the industrial revolution also resulted in the rapid expansion of Salford Docks and by 1914, this inland port was handling 5% of the UK's imports, now regenerated as Salford Quays and MediaCityUK, home to both Granada Television and BBC Manchester. Salford has excellent rail inks with the stations of Salford and Salford Central and is also on the Eccles line of the Manchester Metrolink, which has been extended with a new station at MediaCityUK.

Local landmarks include the Bridgewater Canal and many Grade I and Grade II listed buildings, including Salford Cathedral, Ordsall Hall and Salford Lads Club, famously featured in the artwork for the Smiths album 'The Queen Is Dead'. Justin Timberlake's video for the song 'Lovestoned' was also filmed in Salford.

When Hans Reynolds moved to Salford in 1880, he invented the modern bicycle chain. Other notable local alumni include Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the suffragette movement, the physicist James Joule, footballer Paul Scholes, composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and artist LS Lowry, whose works depicting the industrial revolution are on display at The Lowry Centre , Salford Quays.