Music in real places

Salford Lads Club

Coronation Street, Ordsall, Salford

Explore the places

Markers identify buildings or documented location references. They do not mark an exact recording room, stage position or camera angle.

Salford Lads Club — Map source

The red-brick corner entrance of Salford Lads Club, green double doors under its sign — Salford Lads Club on the corner of Coronation Street, April 2023. Ridiculopathy · CC0. Existing local rendition. Venue illustration; not a photograph of the historic music event.

Music happened here

The Queen Is Dead: outside Salford Lads Club

Wright photographs the band outside Salford Lads Club

1985

Stephen Wright photographed the four Smiths outside Salford Lads Club in 1985; the photograph was used inside the sleeve of The Queen Is Dead.

Stephen Wright on the Salford Lads Club session
Salford Lads Club and the Smiths

Reading the place today

The club remains a community setting. Check its own visiting arrangements for the Smiths Room and respect youth activities. The historical session occurred outside; no band performance inside is claimed.