Author name: Richard Clarke

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

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