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

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