The following is taken from a poem in the volume of verse entitled Rhymes, Grave, Gay and Otherwise and the locality around Salford Bridge is commemorated in a long poem called 'Copeley Hill', written by Thomas Townsend in 1876:
My muse claims no Vision of Prophecy, still
Let me dream of thy future, fair Copeley Hill!
Will some levelling Brummagem Mayor of the day
In some vast Improvement Scheme sweep thee away....
And along came Spaghetti Junction.