Other Sculptures in Worthington Park, Sale, Greater Manchester

Worthington Park, Sale, where there are several chainsaw wood sculptures by Tim Burgess. This is called 'The Wizard', and was created from a tree stump in 2008.

 

This one is 'Snail Bench' and includes a snail trail that I missed.

 

I couldn't see any details for this sculpture.

 

Here again, there were no details.

 

'The Worthington Park Lions' were unveiled in 2006, although the name of the artist is not mentioned.

 

Finally, the park's newest (June 2013) acquisition is an obelisk in the sunken garden inscribed 'Companionship is to the soul / As sun is to the garden'. I've no idea of the origin of this quotation and I'd probably be doing the author an injustice if I suggested Patience Strong, but the sculpture was put here by the Cyril Flint Volunteers, a charity whose purpose is to befriend lonely elderly people.

James Prescott Joule in Sale, Greater Manchester

James Prescott Joule (1818–89) was born in Salford and died in Sale. He came from a brewing family and distinguished himself as a physicist, with the unit of energy, the joule, being named after him.

 

From the 1870s Joule lived at 12 Wardle Road, Sale, where he died on 11 October 1889.

 

 

'772.55

I must work the works of
him that sent me, while it is day:
the night cometh, when no man can work. S. JOHN, IX. 4

 

JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE,
D.C.L., LL.D., FRS.
Born Christmas Eve, 1818.
Dies 11th Coctober, 1889.
Also of
MARY JOULE
Sister of the above
Born 18th January, 1823.
Died 19th May, 1893.
"Thy will be done."'

 

An interpretation panel in Worthington Park describes the significance of 772.55 as '[Joule's] 1878 determination of the weight in pounds that could be lifted one foot by the same amount of energy required to heat one pound of water by one degree'.

 

This memorial to Joule in Worthington Park, Sale, is by John Cassidy and was unveiled in 1905.

The J. P. Joule, a Wetherspoon pub in Northenden Road, Sale.

Robert Bolt in Sale, Greater Manchester

13 Northenden Road, Sale, Trafford.

 

'ROBERT BOLT

(1924–1995)

Playwright and Screenwriter

Author of

"A Man For All Seasons"

was born in this house

15 August 1924'

 

The play A Man for All Seasons was published in 1960, and turned into a screenplay by Bolt for the film that was released in 1966. It's probably slightly less well known that Bolt also wrote the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965).