Sale Rotary

28/05/2026

Thank you to Kelvin our guide and all the volunteers at the Greater Manchester Museum of Transport for hosting our Sale Rotary Club visit. It was a great visit, so much to see and explore, over 200 years of transport heritage on display. It was far more extensive than we had released, perhaps the reel produced by Gareth and Louise gives some indication of the scope and scale of the exhibitions and the large number of Trams, Buses and Coaches on display - if you have now been visited we heartily recommend it…..

28/05/2026

Thank you to Kelvin our guide and all the volunteers at the Greater Manchester Museum of Transport for hosting our Sale Rotary Club visit.

It was a great visit, so much to see and explore, over 200 years of transport heritage on display. It was far more extensive than we had released, perhaps the reel produced by Gareth and Louise gives some indication of the scope and scale of the exhibitions and the large number of Trams, Buses and Coaches on display - if you have now been visited we heartily recommend it…..

27/05/2026

Sale Rotary - Making Sale a little better every day….



Members of Sale Rotary Club have been working to clean and preserve the bench on Washway Road corner with Eastway, along with a great deal of weeding and sweeping….



In 1969 Sale Rotary donated funds to what was then known as the “Sale Old People’s Welfare Council” to provide the bench – we are pleased that it is still being enjoyed 57 years later….

27/05/2026

Sale Rotary - Making Sale a little better every day….

Members of Sale Rotary Club have been working to clean and preserve the bench on Washway Road corner with Eastway, along with a great deal of weeding and sweeping….

In 1969 Sale Rotary donated funds to what was then known as the “Sale Old People’s Welfare Council” to provide the bench – we are pleased that it is still being enjoyed 57 years later….

15/05/2026

13/05/2026

Thank you to Rotarian Peter Munday for a very interesting presentation last evening.

Peter shared with us his fascinating memories of his time on HMS Ganges a training ship for the Royal Navy.

Peter showed a video which demonstrated mast training. The 142 foot-high (43m) mast, consisted of three separate portions, that are stepped (overlapped) where they join. The mast was used as part of the training for 15-18 year old boy seamen. Each boy at HMS Ganges was required to ascend, at least once, to the top platform (i.e. the lowest platform on the mast), a height of 60 feet (18 m). This required a climb by the inclined ratlines to a point near where the lowest yard crossed the mast where the boy transferred to the outward leaning futtock shrouds to reach the edge of the platform, which protruded 10 feet (3m) from the mast. Once there they would have to hoist themselves up and over the platform edge, a point known as the "devil's elbow". The platform contained doors which allowed access by the ratlines, without passing the devil's elbow. These doors were locked shut on the side that boys ascended the mast but open on the opposite side to allow them to descend by the ratlines alone.

On ceremonial occasions, one boy would be selected to stand on the button, an 18 inch diameter button, a round piece of timber at the very top of the mast some 142ft above the parade ground.
Those selected (from volunteers) were known as "button boys" and received a coin from the commander of Ganges.

Peter also demonstrated his skills at giving commands with his original bosun’s whistle (or bosun’s pipe) this is a traditional, high-pitched nautical instrument used to pass commands on ships, designed to be heard over the sound of the sea.

13/05/2026

Sale Rotary Club visit to the Greater Manchester Museum of Transport.

Tuesday 19th May 2026

7pm

Boyle Street, Cheetham Hill, Manchester M8 8UW

The Museum is located on Boyle Street – a cul-de-sac off Queens Road, going along Boyle Street, pass the Tram Sheds on the right and the Museum entrance is at the end of the short road on the right.

Free car parking is available outside the museum.

The nearest Tram Station is Queens Road Stop which is on the Bury Line this is a short walk away from Boyle Street, on exiting the Station turn left, after a five minute walk the large red brick Tram Sheds will appear on the right, just before the entrance to Boyle Street.

Tea and Coffee will be served half way through the visit. We will not be dinning that evening, so members and guests should eat beforehand.

Family, friends and guests are most welcome to join us.

For further information email: [email protected]

27/04/2026

Sale Rotary Club has prepared and donated watering cans for use at Sale, Brooklands Cemetery. We are sure they will be well used and appreciated by those visiting the graves of loved ones.

23/04/2026

Sale Rotary Club is proud to support the Sale St. George’s Scout and Guide Parade, this Sunday (26th April) at 1pm to be held in Worthington Park, Sale.

23/04/2026

Wishing everyone a very Happy St. George’s Day from all at Sale Rotary Club.

01/04/2026

The Colonel’s Plute by Harold Bolter CBE

The Harold Bolter Book Launch

As we celebrated the publication of fellow Sale Rotary Club member Harold Bolter’s third book, it was an honour to host the Book Launch at our meeting last evening at the Legh Arms in Sale Moor.

It was a wonderful occasion, hearing the Author’s journey which lead him to write ‘The Colonel’s Plute’ and the opportunity to obtain signed copies.

The Colonel's Plute is set in the 1970s and 1980s, when plutonium was thought to be vital to the UK's nuclear energy programme. The book includes short but important appearances by famous people, such as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, President Ronald Reagan, Tony Benn, and Arthur Scargill, as well as members of the IRA, and Greenpeace, the leading environmentalist group at the time.

The story centres, however, upon ordinary people: a family with working links to Sellafield, where much of the UK's plutonium is still stored (until some use is found for it). The head of the family is Sergeant Len Stanton, a policeman, who left the West Midlands with his family for a better paid job with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary; a healthier lifestyle for all of them in the Lake District. Len's wife, Rita, died of cancer, and Len is becoming an increasingly embittered man.

And where does Colonel Gaddafi fit into all this – well you’ll have to read the book to find out…..

Sale Rotary always welcomes new members, and also guests to our events. We are a diverse group of people who join together in fellowship, meeting each Tuesday evening at the Legh Arms in Sale Moor over a meal often with a guest speaker or some activity. We do not meet on a Tuesday that follows a Bank Holiday, and occasionally we may go bowling instead or visit a place of interest etc… We support the work of Rotary International and various humanitarian projects. We also particularly enjoy working in the local community, anything from recently re-painting the bandstand in Worthington Park, to local litter picks etc…
For more information please send us a message…..