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    Warstone Lane Cemetery

    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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    Warstone Lane Cemetery

    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...
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    Joseph Allday, Warstone Lane Cemetery

    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.
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    Joseph Allday, Warstone Lane Cemetery

    Call this an early Christmas present C233
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    Joseph Allday, Warstone Lane Cemetery

    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.
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    Jamaica Row

    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...
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    Warstone Lane Cemetery

    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
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    News of help in future to those seeking graves (for C of E)

    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.
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    News of help in future to those seeking graves (for C of E)

    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...
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    Moseley school of art

    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?
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    Warstone Lane Cemetery

    Hello Josie The JQRT.org website says Albert john wakeling is in grave O 1088, and Edna is in grave P 1967
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    Royal School For The Deaf - Church Road, Edgbaston

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

    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...
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    Warstone Lane Cemetery

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

    Hi Everyone I have just joined today because I have a family grave in Warstone Lane cemetery, and I have been trying to found out more information on the grave because the gravestone is no longer there. I just thought I would let you all know that when a lot of gravestones were removed in the...
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