April 2019

Continuing the story of the early history of Western Cemetery, Hull – in 1886 the Burial Committee minutes of the time record that the necessary drains and paths were laid-out across the site. Presumably this was across the whole site (either side of Chanterlands Avenue, see picture History of Hull Cemeteries 7), while in the

The picture above shows a section of Western Cemetery taken in the part of the Cemetery west of Chanterlands Avenue and in the Committee Minutes (s.p.b.s) referred to as ‘new site’ (as opposed to ‘old site’ east of Chanterlands Avenue). The impact of the landscaping is much more impressive today than it must have been

The inscription on this plaque reads as follows ‘Dedicated to celebrate the centenary year of the first local authority municipal crematorium in the country’. This confirms my assumption of a couple of blogs ago that this is Hedon Road Cemeteries claim to fame rather than it being the first to exist. As promised a comment

This and my third blog of this week will be a collection of minutes from the Burial Committee archive relating to the first few years of Crematorium at Hedon Road Cemetery, Hull. The picture above is of the date-stone set into the lower wall of the Crematorium (disused since 1961, s.p.b.). It gives the year 1899 so

Above picture shows part of the columbarium (s.p.b.) at Hedon Road Cemetery, Hull. Burial Committee minutes show that in October 1892 there were negotiations with the North Eastern Railway Company to buy their land then between the Cemetery and the rail line (still exists) to increase the capacity of the Cemetery. At the same meeting

Undoubtedly one of the most interesting elements of the municipal cemeteries in Hull is Hull’s first crematorium (now disused) located towards the eastern end of Hedon Road Cemetery site (not normally visible from the main road), see above picture. Records at Hull History Centre state that this building was a working crematorium from 1901 –