CWGC - Daughter of William and Martha Sylvester,
of 4 Coronation Street. Died at 96 Bigland
Street.

Bigland Street Incident, Ordsall.

A land mine killed 11 adults and four children
when it landed between numbers 94 and 106 Bigland
Street.  It wiped out five members of the
MOORHOUSE family residing at number 106.

At least 12 of the 15 are buried in the Salford
Communal Civilian Grave in Agecroft Cemetery, four
of whom could not be identified.   Two teenage
friends at 89 Bigland Street decided to go back
into their house and make a pot of tea when the
explosion occurred.  They were killed instantly
and are amongst the unidentified.  Two of those
killed were serving Air Raid Wardens.
The street is no longer in existence, but it ran
parallel south-east of Ordsall Lane just before
Regent Road.  It was intersected by South Hall
Street and Woden Street which are still there. 
The bomb-site is now a car park.