Looking at the map I really feel there is an error.
I know the cemetery so well and my friends and I walked there often.
In addition my grandson had a contract to straighten the headstones in the tiny Jewish cemetery
which was right at the end, up to Bank St which separated The Roman Catholic cemetery from the Protestant one.A tiny little Synagogue was there too.
That is the EEsection.
The map says section A3 is the Jewish cemetery but that is nowhere near where I know it was.
I lived on nearby Bradford Road after the war and when married on The Colony-a small housing development off Hulme Hall Lane so the park and cemetery were within a few minutes walk and I took my chlldren regularly.
It had always been a nice walk and Sunday afternoons after Sunday school my friends and I went tyere right up to being teenagers.
If you went to BankSt you couldcross the Medlock there and it was a short cut to Ashton New Road where there was a shop which sold food for hens.
My dad and I went very often, dad kept hens.
He laughed one day when I asked why there was music on the graves in the little gated cemetery.
I had never seen Hebrew script,dad explained it all.
I remember the fine chapels which were demolished,and had been used for funerals if people did not belong to a particular church or Chapel.
There was a babies` section near Hulme Hall lane which was removed when the stadium was erected.That was sad
.Paupers graves below the first part of the main through path,on the right. That is also where the soldier from Rorke`s drift was buried, "Zulu",the medical orderly.
He sold his medals through need.
Viktoria.