Sports fans are well catered for with Fit City Ordsall, a recently-refurbished gym and indoor sporting arena used for a range of activities and home to both Salford Gymnastics Club and SAYO (Sports and Arts for Youths in Ordsall), a youth project which aims to create further leisure opportunities for the local community.

Ordsall Park, the second oldest in Salford, is a traditional well maintained public facility containing a rugby pitch, all weather sports pitch and a children’s play area all within a mature setting.

Additional facilities are being developed to include a picnic area, multi-sports play area, grassed amphitheatre and a football pitch.

For those who prefer to watch their sport, Ordsall is just a few minutes walk from Manchester United’s ground, Old Trafford and Old Trafford Cricket Ground.

Cultural activities in Salford Quays are focussed around the Lowry Arts Centre, a contemporary theatre which hosts a varied and extensive programme of theatrical events throughout the year including the Bolshoi Ballet through to musicals direct from London’s West End.

The Lowry is also an art gallery showing some of the finest works in the UK and in addition has a permanent dedicated space to L S Lowry who is famous throughout the world for his paintings of Salford in the early 1900s.

Salford Quays is also home to world renowned architect Daniel Libeskind’s Imperial War Museum North, an imposing and dramatic building which has received nearly two million visitors since opening in summer 2002.