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These petitioners were probably proved correct as Aberdeen went on to become the most frequently raided city (after London) in Britain suffering 32 attacks and 364 air raid warnings earning the city the nickname the ‘Siren City’

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Salford Quays Through Time These petitioners were probably provedAs recently as the 1870s the whole area which is now Salford Quays was largely empty, occupied by little more than a medieval hall and a racecourse. But in 1887 the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal began, and the largest docks were built on the Salford bank of the canal. These docks were called Manchester Docks though they were often referred to as Salford Docks both by locals and on maps. The docks reached their peak traffic in the 1950s,