Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the city There is a glimmer of hope for the empty historic home it has stood next to for 200 years.
But a huge tree dating from the late Georgian era which has graced the front of Buile Hill Mansion is to be felled. It has succumbed to Dutch Elm disease and must be axed for safety reasons.
It is thought it has been planted as a sapling when the Grade II listed stately home was built. Earlier this month after more than two decades of neglect Salford's City Mayor, Paul Dennett, announced that work to stop the mansion falling into further disrepair will start in June or July.
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