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Brooklands Cemetery (Old Part)
Brooklands Cemetery layout is fully described in the CD "Memorial Inscriptions of Brooklands (Old Part)" obtainable from D Johnson, 91 Streford House, Chapel Lane, Stretford, Manchester M32 9AY.
Brooklands Cemetery Old Part viewed from Marsland Rd. This public cemetery was opened in 1862 on land purchased by Sale Township. Previously, people from Sale and Ashton had been buried in church cemeteries at St Martin's and at St Mary's, Bowdon.
Plot A144-145 Alfred Knowles (died 1880) a master cotton spinner. He moved to Northenden Rd, Sale in 1869. Earlier he had shared a house in Chorlton-on-Medlock with Friedrich Engles.
Plot B208-9 James Prescott Joule (1818-1889) famous physicist, mathematician, and brewer born in Salford. The "772.55" on the gravestone is a reference to his discovery -Wherever mechanical force is expended an exact equivalent of heat is always obtained.
Plot D2244 John Benjamin Dancer (1812-1887) Manchester instrument maker who supplied much of the equipment for Joule's early experiments. Scientist and recognised as the founder of microphotography.
Plot G1106 Richard Marsden Pankhurst (1834-1898) radical lawyer husband of Emmeline and father of Christabel, Sylvia and Adela of the Manchester Suffragette family.
Plot K618-19 John Brogden (1798-1869) a cleansing, building and railway contractor and an iron and coal master. Contractor for Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway (Altrincham Branch). Lived at Raglan House, Sale.
Plot M582-3 Edward "Ned" Hulton (1838-1904) newspaper proprietor in Victorian Manchester.