Sackville Gardens

Sackville Gardens in Manchester, England, is bounded by Manchester College’s Shena Simon Campus on one side and Whitworth Street, Sackville Street and the Rochdale Canal and Canal Street on the others. The land was purchased by Manchester Corporation in 1900 and laid out with walks, lawns and flower beds. Known as Whitworth Gardens, it was planned to complement the Municipal College of Technology’s Sackville Street Building.nThe park contains the Alan Turing memorial statue, which depicts the “father of modern computing” sitting on a bench at a central position in the park. nThe park also contains the Beacon of Hope, the UK’s only permanent memorial for people living with HIV or AIDS and lives lost to it. The sculpture, a decorated steel column designed by Warren Chapman and Jess Boyn-Daniel, was erected in the year 2000.