Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Finally the renaissance of a beautiful Salford mansion dawns - after two decades of neglect
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFor more than two decades it has been at the mercy of the elements, vandals, failed plans to turn it into a hotel, and municipal inertia.
Now, finally, the possible renaissance of a Georgian mansion has begun. The Grade II listed building in Buile Hill Park, Salford, has been closed ever since the Lancashire Mining Museum, which was housed there, was dismantled and moved.
It is estimated £5.5m is required to restore it fully. Now Salford council, the owners, have said an extra £270,000 has been found towards design work.
It comes after proposals to transform the mansion into a new community and wedding venue were unveiled late last year. The property will become a new base for Salford’s Registry Office, with the existing one moving from the Civic Centre in Swinton into the first and second floors of the building to provide a ‘unique venue’ for weddings, civil partnerships, and celebrations.
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