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Although there will be no gravestone the 'Friends of Warstone Lane and Key Hill cemeteries' are doing an open day in the cemetery on Saturday, and they might be able to help you find where the grave is...

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Hi Lyly, I have searched the burial records on jQRT.org and she is buried in section P grave 1427. I have looked at the section plan also on this free website, and the grave is right against the wall in section P. The two lines of graves from the wall along section P were unmarked graves used...

No the bodies were not removed, in the case for C233, it was just the kerb to the grave that was removed. No bodies were removed in the 1950s.

Call this an early Christmas present C233

Hello everyone, I have checked the pike list burials for gravestones buried or removed in the 1950's and C233 is on the list. I have attached the grave information.

Hi It's been 7 years since your comment on this thread I hope you're still on this site. William Daniel snr was my Gt-Gt grandfather. William and his wife Margaret Kernick and their family came up to Birmingham from St Ives Cornwall soon after the railway came to St Ives in the early 1870s...

Hi Rosie, I am volunteering with the Friends on Saturday in Warstone Lane cemetery. I will have a look in that area then, and if there is anything untoward happening there I will report it to them. Richard

I heard it will go live next spring. Unfortunately you need an authorized user name and login to use the website at the moment, but most of the graveyards have not been photographed yet. I doubt it will be ready to go live then so it may be delayed.

I spent a few months earlier on this year helping to digitise the key hill and Warstone lane graves for this project. The digital map that is produced picks up about 90% of the actual headstones, and volunteers add the rest. It only has Graves where gravestones still remain, and volunteers at...

My grandfather William Arthur Dyer went there in the 1920s. I have this photo of him and it looks like it's a school uniform he's wearing. I wonder if it is the Moseley school of art uniform?

Hello Josie The JQRT.org website says Albert john wakeling is in grave O 1088, and Edna is in grave P 1967

Hello, I found this last week in a mid 19th scrapbook at my Mothers house.

Hi Key Hill Brian, In reply to your post from 21st May 2019. I have looked at a copy of the inscriptions from the graves that were buried or removed in the 1950's, and I found out that one of my family's grave was one of them affected. Grave D1194 in Warstone Lane. I did hear that only the...

Hi Brian thanks for that information. I live by Lichfield so buying it online was definitely cheaper for me. Richard