April 2019

By the lay-out plans for Northern Cemetery (s.p.b.) walks and drives were to be at right angles ‘to avoid waste of space’. Initially three chapels were proposed but only one was built (see above), this giving the same accommodation as the chapel in Western Cemetery. The photo. above shows the original chapel (surviving, but I have not […]

The photo above shows a section of the brick-built columbarium at Northern Cemetery, Hull. A Northern Cemetery website states that the Cemetery was first opened in 1915 so by study of the Corporation Burial Committee Minutes only tells the story of the early land acquisition as I am currently only up to 1908 (except for

The photograph above shows the memorial (centre-right) in Hull’s Western Cemetery to the men killed in the R38 airship disaster of 24th August, 1921 (s.p.b.). Two front plaques list the names of the American servicemen one side and the British servicemen on the other. The memorial was erected (I believe) in 1923 and the stone remains pristine

The photograph shown above (taken from Wikipedia) was taken on 23rd June, 1921 and shows part of the first trial flight of the R38 airship which was of a type planned by Britain late in the Great war but taken over by the United States Navy in 1919. So what has this got to do with

Early in 1889 the Burial Committee (s.p.b.s) appointed a chaplain on a yearly contract ‘for such interments as are not otherwise provided for’. Committee members also decided that the ‘New Cemetery’ (s.p.b.) should have built a urinal and w.c.s for men and women visiting the site, the resulting small building survives but is no longer

The picture above shows ‘The Cross of Sacrifice’, commemorating the soldiers from Hull in the Yorkshire Regiment who were killed in the Great War, sited near the centre of Western Cemetery (west of Chanterlands Avenue). To continue coverage of the early development of Western Cemetery, Spring Bank West/Chanterlands Avenue, Hull and to repeat the point