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Looking from the entrance from North Star Drive.

Completed in 1987, Islington Park is built on the site of an old cemetery where 22,000 people were buried between 1829 and 1858. The cemetery was known locally as the ‘Plague Cemetery’ http://www.visitsalford.info/documents/chapelstreettrail.pdf ; most of the burials were young children who died in the cholera epidemic that spread through England in the 1830s. The mosaic in the centre of the park, designed by pupils from nearby St Philips School, was originally created in 1992. The wording reads: “If you look the right way you can see that the whole world is a garden” Part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail http://www.irwellsculpturetrail.co.uk/ , the mosaic was restored in 2010. http://www.theislingtonestate.com/foip/ Friends of Islington Park

Originally created in 1992, the mosaic was designed by pupils from nearby St Philips School. The wording reads: “If you look the right way you can see that the whole world is a garden” In 2010 the Friends of Islington Park embarked on a project to restore a weather-damaged mosaic artwork in the park, working with the original pupils who created the mosaic and they in turn involved their own children. The centre of original artwork had to be replaced and the new design, developed with local school children, focused on the Secret Garden, written by Frances Hodgson Burnett who had lived in the Islington area as a young girl. Islington Park is a remembrance garden for the 17,000 people, who were buried there between the harsh years 1829 and 1853. The mosaic is part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail http://www.irwellsculpturetrail.co.uk/

In the foreground is the Ainscow Hotel, the spire to the centre is the church of St Philip with St Stephen and to the right is Salford Cathedral.

A new Hotel in Salford.

This building on the corner of Chapel Street and Trinity Way started life in 1846 as a Presbyterian Church. From 1912 to 1958 it was a cinema. Between 1967 and 1985 it was a Bingo Hall. Now it is the New Harvest Christian Fellowship Church.

Completed in 1987, Islington Park is built on the site of an old cemetery where 22,000 people were buried between 1829 and 1858. The cemetery was known locally as the ‘Plague Cemetery’ http://www.visitsalford.info/documents/chapelstreettrail.pdf ; most of the burials were young children who died in the cholera epidemic that spread through England in the 1830s. http://www.theislingtonestate.com/foip/ Friends of Islington Park

Ye Olde Nelson on Chapel Street, Salford, an ornate building, one of the landmarks of the city, was built in 1899 on the site of a pub which had opened for business in 1805, the year Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson died as his fleet defeated the French and Spanish. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/86/86031_sea_of_change_leaves_nelson_adrift.html Buildings around it have already been demolished in what has become a development site. In the background is the new Hilton Image in Image