3rd December 2025
Meeting place, Tree tops cafe Sale Water Park then Bridgewater Canal.
Dane Road Metro Station. Metro to Deansgate Metro Station. The
Britons Protection, Pevril of the Peak, Circus Tavern, City Arms, The
Seven Oaks, Sams Chop House, This and That, The Millstone, The Rat
and Pigeon, Train Home where some had a night cap in the Mounting
Stone and others found their own place for a final libation.
Distance. 2.5 miles round the water park to Dane Road.
Difficulty. Extreme by 7pm.
Weather. Sunny becoming bleary later.
Walkers. Julian Ross, Michael Barret, Alastair Cairns, Steve Brierly, Keith
Welsh, Clifford Worthington, Simon Williams, Russ Spencer, Andrew
Blease, Bob Howarth
Non-Walking Non-Drinker. Mark Enwright
Leader Ross then Spencer.
Starting point Tree Tops Cafe, Sale Water Park
Starting Time 10.45. Finishing Time. Varied.
This year's Wednesday Wanderers Christmas Ramble coincided with the
second murder walk in Greater Manchester that takes place every five years led by the once dashing GMP Detective J Ross.
This year's walk focused on the murder of Philip Brierley. He was killed by his wife who worked as a dominatrix on the internet, specialising in crush fetish.
Brierley was a sexual pervert in the premier league of perverts. He made the Marquis de Sade seem like a children's author and would have written similar accounts of
sexual deprivation had he been able to read or write above the age of a 10
year old.
After many years of being together, Tracy tried to leave Brierley on several
occasions and to settle into the arms of her younger lover. However, Brierley
always managed to bring her home and this continued until Tracy could see
no other way out but to kill her common law husband. This she did with the
help of others including their 15 year old daughter. Together, they shot him dead, cutting his body into pieces and depositing the parts into the canal.
For several weeks the conspirators thought that they had done the perfect
crime but like so many amateurs before them, they did not take into account the long arm of the law.
This investigation was the subject of a 45 minute documentary in the first
series of Murder in Suburbia episode 2. The Stiletto Goddess. It featured
Tracy Seward in the dominant role. It is available on YouTube (search for “Tracy Seward Stiletto Goddess”.
A link is below.
https://youtu.be/27x_gpHmSGE?si=fgnSQqTOegwo8NWE
Star of the show…..
Our fellow walker Steve Brierly stated that he was not a relative but as the
evening drew in he became more focused on researching his family tree to establish if there was a familial link.
We wish him well and wonder if he
would consider this a positive or negative connection.
We also welcomed Mr Bob Howarth who is not a regular walker but came
as a guest of Mr Barrett . Bob resides on the Avenue where the murderers
lived and had a desire to know his neighbours better.
He seemed slightly disappointed that he did not know the Brieleys better
during their time in the street.
Our walk took us round Sale Water Park to the river Mersey where we
stopped briefly to discuss the first site where Brierley's body parts were deposited.
We then walked parallel to the Bridgewater canal before passing under it and joining it at the Watch House Cruising Club.
We turned right and walked towards Sale, where again we stopped to
discuss the second dumping site and the reasons why this was chosen.
We left the canal at Dane Road Sale and caught the tram to Manchester.
Our tickets were checked on two occasions before we were permitted to
exit the tram system and make our way onto the metropolis.
However we need not have worried as the passenger next to Mr Blease had omitted to purchase a ticket and merely gave the ticket inspector a £5 prize for finding him and promptly left the tram. How the other half live.
We then embarked on a tour of hostileries led by Russ, who let members put special requests into his itinerary. This resulted in some fog
descending on the memory recall of the diarist.
1.This weeks walk will be a Chinley, Churn, Mount famine circular.
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30pm
Happy Wandering
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