Whenever I visit Ordsall Community Cafe the conversation usually turns to the Salford Lads Club, which is situated on Coronation Street just around the corner.

For me the club is famous as it featured on the inner sleeve of The Smiths “The Queen is Dead” album.

Photo: Stephen Wright / Redferns

The Smiths famously posed in front of Salford Lads Club for the inner sleeve of The Queen Is Dead; this is one of the other photos from that session. From left to right: Johnny Marr, Morrissey, Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce.

The club, and the back streets of Ordsall, were used as the setting for the video of The Smiths “Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before” which was due to be a single taken from the album “Strangeways Here We Come”.

However when plans to release the single were shelved a re-edited version appeared as the video for ” I Started Something I couldn’t Finish”.

David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, is a “apparently” a fan of The Smiths and on a recent visit to Salford Lads Club visited the Smiths Room.

Another surprising note is that the club, along with the tagline “Some jobs are bigger than others” (a reference to the “Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others” track which appeared as the closing track on “The Queen Is Dead” album), was used as part of a recruitment campaign for private health care company BUPA.

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