Sackville Gardens — Attraction in Manchester

Update. The Spice Heads, Drug Addicts and Scally Gangs have gone!!!!! Tourists, students, dog walkers, picnicers, lovers, first dates, families with a frisbee and residents have returned.

The garden space is excellent and the surrounding buildings and streets are some of Manchester's greatest in the city centre... but the problem its the spiced up pissed up drug addicts who now camp out like its a Havens Holiday site from 1988. I have just witnessed a full scally v homeless v gang members fight (one bloke was wielding a bottle of Bucksfast that's how pissed he was) which only got stopped when about 20 police turned up (some with side arms). It's...

One of the precious few open green spaces in Manchester city centre, offering a surprisingly calm environment despite its location adjacent to Canal Street and Whitworth Street. A memorial statue to Alan Turing can be found (which looks nothing like him), as well as the Beacon of Hope. The park also hosts a number of events throughout the year, often in conjunction with events in the Gay Village, the best attended of which is probably the candlelit vigil for those lost to HIV and AIDS, held on the August bank...

A pleasant and quiet part in Manchester's gay village. Inside the gardens you will find various memorial's; National Transgender Memorial, dedicated to all those who have and continue to strive for basic human rights for the transgender community. It also contains a memorial to the Father of Computing, Alan Turing, who managed to crack Enigma and came up with the theory that underpins modern computing, Turing Engine. He was unfortunately stigmatised and ostracised, ultimately taking his own life just...