Japanese Garden in Walkden Park

This Japanese Garden was opened By The Japanese Ambassador in 2006. He planted a tree to commemorate it

Walkden Park Brooklands.

This is a Dovecote which had to be moved to accomodate the motorway. It is now in Walkden Park Brooklands. These were common in stately homes in the past. They provided fresh birds for the table

Our old friend the Bridgewater Canal runs by the Cemetery

The Long Boats are used for pleasure these days. So moorings are provided. This is the view from a road bridge looking up towards Sale. Very Peaceful

The Chapel at the Sale and Ashton upon Mersey Grave Yard

This Chapel was built in local stone in 9 months. The nearer you were buried to the Chapel the more it cost. If you lived out side the Sale boundaries it cost almost double. Paupers were buried in mass graves in certain areas. No coffins sometimes no clothes The bodies were kept in a Morge till there was a good few.

This is Strange Rememberance Grave. 1930

Sgt Wright of the Royal Engineers probably went right through the 1st World War.

He was killed in Montana in USA by Bandits who shot him in head when they robbing a train. He is buried in a military cemetery in Montana. His relatives remembered him with this headstone

The Grave of Alfred Knowels rented a room with Carl Marx also Engels

Alfred Knowels or Fatty Knowel's as he was known rented a room, with Carl Marx and his friend Engels in Manchester. He provided Marx with information about cotton workers wages. Carl Marx went on to write the Communist Manifesto. Daz Kapital.

James Prescott Joules.

James Joules was born in Salford and went on to be a famous Physicist. He had unit of energy named after him. It is still used today