Sign up to the MySalford newsletter to keep up with what's happening in and around the city Derek recalls standing in the middle of the 'vast expanse' of Salford Quays sometime in the early 1980s, soon after the Manchester Docks had closed. "Everything was demolished," he said. "There was nothing as far as the eye could see." Beside him stood his colleague Ben Wallsworth, a fellow councillor in Salford who convinced the town hall to buy the ship canal and the docklands for £1m. READ MORE: The deep divides hidden beneath Salford's £1bn boom - and what the city's 'sensible socialist' mayor plans to do about it The two men turned to each other and said: "Gosh, what have we done?" Speaking at his final council meeting before standing down
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