Author name: Richard Clarke

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 – […]

The picture above shows the south-west corner of Hedon Road Cemetery, on the left is the second ‘lodge’ (cemetery-man’s house) and to the right part of the perimeter-wall and roofline of Hull Prison. As had been the case in churchyards for centuries, burials in municipal cemeteries had to be paid for. From the minutes of the Burial Committee

The picture above shows the main carriageway at Hedon Road Cemetery with the ornate main gates beside Hedon Road being behind the camera. This municipal cemetery, Hull’s first, was opened in 1875, the initial area (beside the prison) was 17 acres in extent (later expanded) and had been bought by the Corporation in 1872 for

Following the adoptive Burial Acts of the 1850s, with later amending legislation, Hull Corporation established two large municipal cemeteries by the end of the century – Western Cemetery, Spring Bank West from 1861 and Hedon Road Cemetery from 1875. Western Cemetery was in effect a continuation westward of the Hull General Cemetery site (see previous

By the late 18th century both of Hull’s then parish churches had had to have plots of land outside the then built-up areas consecrated for burials as the problems related to burials in their adjacent churchyards had become all but intolerable. The detached burial ground for Holy Trinity church was beside Castle Street (see recent blogs),

The picture above shows the surviving pedestrian access to the Castle Street disused burial site (s.p.b.s) looking across from the side of Railway Dock, this now moorings for pleasure craft. By the late 19th century the area of grass shown in the picture was a timber storage area on the dock-side, there are a couple of