Digital Hearing Aids Sale –Greater Manchester Digital Hearing Aids

Digital Hearing Aids Sale –Greater Manchester Digital Hearing Aids

When a large sprawling city like Manchester continues to expand you will find a host of suburbs – like satellite villages – scattered around the larger conurbation.  Sale is just over 5 miles from the heart of Manchester and is one such ‘village’.  Not surprisingly it serves as a commuter town for Manchester.

Until the reorganisation of boroughs, Sale was in Cheshire which again goes to show how Greater Manchester is spreading.  It wasn’t always so for Sale.  Originally Sale was a ‘township’ linked to nearby Ashton upon Mersey by a shared church.

Life began in Sale in Roman times as far as we know and was then developed by the Anglo-Saxons.   In fact township is typically Anglo-Saxon as is the name Sale.  It derives from the ancient English Salh meaning ‘next to the sallow tree’.  A sallow tree is a Willow.  Part of the old Roman road joining Chester and York runs through Sale and 46 Roman coins were found in Ashton upon Mersey some years ago.  There is no official mention of Sale anywhere until the 12th–13th Centuries, after the Domesday Book.

Sale and Ashton upon Mersey were rural agricultural towns producing enough fresh veg and corn to support them and farming cattle, which were sold to the lords of the local manors.  Like the development of many parts of this area, it was the arrival of the railways and the canals that changed everything.  Once the railways were built in the 19th Century, Sale became a popular place of residence for the middle class business men who could by then afford to move out of Manchester.  As Sale grew, it swallowed up Ashton upon Mersey which is now a district of Sale.

As well as agriculture as Sale’s main source of income, the area was known for producing ‘Garthweb’, a woven material used to make girths to keep horse saddles in place.  In latter years Sale’s economy relies mainly on service industries.

Friends, Romans or Sale locals and countrymen ...
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Sale Sharks and the oldest rule book
We know Sale is near the Mersey but we are not aware of any sharks being spotted.  That’s unless you’re talking about the rugby kind!  Sale has one of the oldest Rugby Union Football Clubs in the country.  It dates back to 1861 and holds the oldest book of rules of the game still in existence.  This dates from 1865.

Sale Rugby Union Football Club is an amateur club playing at the Heywood Road grounds in the town.  The grounds are also used by two other clubs: Ashton upon Mersey and Trafford Metrovick Club.  Sale Sharks is the professional arm of Sale Rugby Union Football Club who still use the ground to practice, even though Stockport is their ‘home’ ground now.

The Sharks are renowned for bringing on a number of players in their junior team the Jets.  These include England players Steve Hanley, Mark Cueto, Dean Schofield, Chris Jones, Andy Titterell, Charlie Hodgson and Jason Robinson.  Many went onto to play for the Sharks too.

People of note connected to Sale
With its close proximity to Manchester it isn’t surprising that Sale had many connections with a number of famous or notable people over the centuries.

• One of Sale’s earliest recorded connections is to John Collier a caricaturist and satirical poet who went by the name of Tim Bobbin

• 18th Century physician Dr Charles White founded the Manchester Infirmary.  He lived in Sale

• John Brogden was a 19th Century industrialist who had experience in the coal and iron mining businesses and in cleansing.  He lived in Sale and was a contractor for the construction of the local railway bringing growing prosperity to the town

• Businessman and banker Samuel Brookes owned nearly 25% of Sale during the 19th century

• Samuel was closely followed by his son William who inherited his land in Sale and became MP for Altringham

• James Prescott Joule moved to Sale later in life.  He is known for developing the ‘first law of thermodynamics’

• Born in Ashton upon Mersey William Stanley Houghton became one of the Manchester School of playwrights.  His best known play was Hindle Wakes, the story of a mill worker who embarks on a ‘dirty weekend’, which caused quite a stir in its time

• Meanwhile author Dodie Smith grew up here.  She is most famous for writing The Hundred and One Dalmatians.  She also took a turn at acting in her early career and published other novels including the charming ‘I Capture the Castle’

• Lancashire CC and Cambridge University cricketer Joseph Makinson lived here in his later years; as did Cyril Washbrook who played for England and Lancashire CC.  William Taylor who played for Worcester County Cricket Club was born here

• Famous Oscar winning screen writer Robert Bolt was brought up in Sale.  Two of his most famous screen adaptations are Doctor Zhivago and A Man for All Seasons.  He also collaborated on the screenplay for Laurence of Arabia supplying most of the dialogue

• Peter Tinniswood made a name for himself as a comedy script writer for TV and radio and also for authoring a number of cricket-based novels.  He is well known for his work on ‘That Was The Week That Was’, ‘The Frost Report’ and ‘The Dick Emery Show’ amongst others all for TV

• Another local is Marc Riley who presented the Radio 1 Breakfast Show and now presents Radio 6‘s evening show.  Did you know he used to be guitarist with The Fall?

• Famous singer/songwriter David Grey lived in Sale before moving to Wales as a child

• Olympic gold medallist sprinter Darren Campbell was brought up here, as was 800m Commonwealth gold medallist Diane Modahl

• Phil Jagielka, the England and Everton footballer was born here


• Finally a word for Karl Pilkington who was also born in Sale – he is a writer, producer and actor who has worked closely with Ricky Gervais

Calling all current residents
If you currently reside in Sale you are not a million miles from Castle Hearing Aids in Stoke on Trent.  In fact less than 40 miles and just under an hour’s drive.  So if you are concerned or know that you have a hearing problem, we can help.  You can come to us or we can organise a professional audiologist to come to you.  His tests will show how digital hearing aids can help you.

Don’t hang around, make a call today and we can sort it out in no time at all.  Our number is 01782 698090.