5 Best Activities In Salford

No, and the list proves it. These five entries are Salford's own: an old hall, a city museum, a park, a watersports centre and a trampoline park, none of which are what people picture when they say Manchester. It makes a decent day in its own right rather than an overflow from next door.

Peel Park Salford is the easy answer, because a park absorbs a four-year-old and a twelve-year-old at once without either needing to be managed. Ordsall Hall is the other, since old buildings tend to interest older children while giving younger ones somewhere to explore at their own pace.

Helly Hansen Watersports Centre is set up for it and it is the most distinctive thing on this list. Watersports carry age, ability and swimming requirements that differ from session to session, so it needs arranging beforehand. This is not a place you turn up at with a spare hour and hope.

Salford Museum and Art Gallery for a quiet couple of hours, Oxygen Activeplay MediaCity for the exact opposite. Four of the five entries have indoor space, so bad weather rearranges the order of the day rather than cancelling it, which is one advantage a city list has over a rural one.