Cliff Hayes is a local historian who has written many books about the North West

Cliff Hayes - Local Historian

Cliff Hayes was born in Ellesmere Port , Wirral and brought up in Widnes . He is `A Lancashire Lad', regarding Widnes as Lancashire and Manchester and Salford as home. He has been associated with printing and the written word since he was eleven years old, when he had a part-time job scrubbing forms at a jobbing printers. Four years at the Liverpool School of Art taught him about design and printing and also got him involved with the Mersey Beat magazine. He wrote for them, as well as providing a disc column for the Weekly News in the area. Jobs as a ship's printer on round-the-world cruises and as a ‘DJ’ followed. Cliff has had a lot of experience working in Blackpool , Liverpool and on the Isle of Man , before settling in Manchester and working on the Daily Mirror for 12 years. After leaving the Mirror; Cliff embarked on another new career, as publisher and author. His numerous books since then, for a variety of publishers, have done much to popularise the subject closest to his heart - the local history of the towns of Lancashire . Cliff's books reveal a vast knowledge and love of the people and places of the area. It is fitting that in his latest book (The Changing Face of Salford), Cliff returns to Salford , the place to where the rover has returned and from where he started his publishing career. Cliff and his wife Sylvia now live on the Eccles/Patricroft border.

"The Changing Face of Salford" is available in many local bookshops.

Sad news: Cliff Hayes died at approximately 10 pm on October 4 2004 following a long illness.