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* Eliza Walton

..... one of the FIRST trainees at the Salford and Pendleton Dispensary (later Salford Royal), England in 1866. Under her guidance the dispensary set up its own training scheme for nurses, one of the FIRST to do so outside London where Florence Nightingale had established a school at St Thomas's

* Elizabeth Hodgkiss

..... in 1974 she was ordained at the Methodist Conference in Bristol and became Salford's FIRST woman Methodist minister

* Elizabeth Kayes

..... known as "Mammie" to fairground and circus folk all over the UK she died in 1957 and was buried in Weaste Cemetery. She was head of Buffalo Bill's Circus and matriarch of a family which had been in the circus business for over 200 years

* Elizabeth Raffald

born 1733 died April 19th 1781

..... the King's Head was one of Salford's most ancient hostelries and c1770 it passed into the hands of Mrs Raffald, author of the first English cookery book called The Experienced English Housekeeper. She had previously been a housekeeper and when she married she established a confectionery business in Manchester and moved to the King's Head which eventually became classed as a ' superior hotel'. It was the chief posting house and the London stage ran from it. The first Masonic Lodge of which there is record in Lancashire met there and was in existence before 1727, one of the four Lodges comprised within the Masonic Province of Lancashire, founded in 1734.  Mrs Raffald set a new standard for English cookery and she sold the rights of her book for £600 to a London firm of publishers. She was looked on as a Lady Bountiful in Salford as she gave generously to the poor providing them with food, clothing and simple medicines. She also established a normal school in which young ladies were grounded in all the attributes of the English gentlewoman. Mrs Raffald also published the earliest known Directory of Manchester and Salford

* Elizabeth Tomlinson

..... died in 1972 at the age of 75 years. She was one of the famous Tiller girls and went on to start her own well-known juvenile troupes The Dinky Dots. Known as "Auntie Lily", between 1925 and 1942 she trained local young girls who had never been on the stage before

* Elsie Cotton

born 8th April 1886

..... in the Ordsall area of Salford. She became the idol of the theatre world, Salford's 'Merry Widow' and her face appeared on picture postcards, chocolate boxes and advertisements. Winston Churchill, as a young man, was once heard to say " It is unthinkable to see 'The Merry Widow' without Lily Elsie ( her stage name).  She was brought up by her grandparents on Trafford Road and began her show-business career as a child entertainer in local concert parties and at the age of nine was in demand for concerts at the London and North Western Hotel on Cross Lane opposite the military barracks. She was billed as 'Little Elsie' and part of her act was to do impersonations of favourite music hall artists such as Vesta Tilley and Harry Lauder. When Sam Higham wrote a sketch entitled "There'll Come A Time One Day, in which he and Elsie acted, it became very popular and the pair performed it across the road at the then new Regent Theatre (later the Palace) in a charity benefit for the manager. The sketch was repeated at the Prince Of Wales' theatre in Liverpool Street, and Elsie came to the attention of Richard Flanagan, manager of the old Queen's Theatre in Bridge Street, Manchester. In 1897 Flanagan engaged her to play the part of Princess Mirza in The Arabian Nights.'  Theatre managers competed for her services, she appeared at the Gaiety Theatre and afterwards went on tour but when in London she would only travel with her grandmother, Mrs Hodder. Her first musical was at the Strand Theatre in The Chinese Honeymoon. Back in Manchester, at the Queen's Theatre, she acted in ' See, See,' before receiving an invitation from George Edwards to accompany him to Vienna to see the musical by Franz Lehar, The Merry Widow. Edwards wanted Elsie to take the leading part in his London production but at first she declined the offer, as she felt unable to cope with the dancing, but eventually, and reluctantly, consented to appear. So, in 1907 The Merry Widow' came to London's Leicester Square. When 'Lily Elsie' appeared there were gasps of admiration and when she sang and dance the whole house was enchanted. The famous waltz was repeated over and over again. At the age of 26 years she married a millionaire's son, Ian Bullough, and the wedding took place at All Saints Church, Ennismore Gardens, London. in November 1911.  Elsie was given away by the Hon Charles Russell who had been the unsuccessful Liberal candidate for South Salford in the 1910 election. On the marriage certificate Elsie's mother, Elsie Cotton, was recorded as Elsie Barrett, a lodging-house keeper and her father, the late William Thomas Cotton, as being a former theatrical manager from Wortley, Leeds.  She retired from the stage and enjoyed a happy married life for many years but eventually her husband became an alcoholic and they went through a number of bad patches until they finally separated. The strain affected her also and she retired to a nursing home where she died on 16th December 1962

* Emily Greenhalgh

..... FIRST application by a Salford City publican for a music licence was granted to her in 1949

* Emma Lowndes

..... rising young Salford actress who was helped by a donation from The Salford Sports And Arts Trust which was established in the 1970s by Albert Finney and Harold Riley to assist talented youngsters from the city

* Enid Mills

..... lived in York Street, Pendleton, was a former pupil of Langworthy Road Primary School and Pendleton High School. In 1974 she was made a Freeman of the City of London. The honour was conferred on her as head of the Engineering Department at the City of London School for Girls