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The 'Bard of Salford' is set to be given the city's greatest honour

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As the master of the gritty sonnet, the man himself would have appreciated where the idea to honour him was hatched - in a backstreet pub off Chapel Street in Salford.

Councillors John Warmisham and Steve Coen were having a pint in the New Oxford, a glorious, tiny boozer, tucked up one corner of Bexley Square.

The square was the location for an infamous violent clash between mounted police and thousands demonstrating against cuts in unemployment benefit in October 1931 outside the then town hall.

According to one half of the duo, the pair of councillors had already become experts in ensuring well-known Salford sons got the recognition they deserved.

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