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 –

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