Patricroft

Patricroft is an area of Eccles in the Borough of Salford. The town was most famous for its foundry, opened in 1836, which later began the manufacture of steam locomotives. The factory supplied munitions in both the First and Second World War before it closed in 1989.

In Coronation Street, Patricroft was the setting for The Pink Flamingo nightclub where Vera Duckworth enjoyed a drunken night out with Ivy Tilsley in September 1987 to celebrate her fiftieth birthday when Jack refused to mark the occasion. Ivy was both driven to and from the venue by taxi driver and future husband Don Brennan.