cemetery

Hi, I am an amateur local historian and have been researching the story of a double train crash and double runaway trains in Derbyshire in September 1867. The main runaway train was carrying cattle and eight Birmingham drovers. Five died in that crash. I have written up the story at...

Hi everyone, I’m trying to find my nans grave at lodge hill. She was buried in a common grave. I’ve purchased the records and can see it was grave number 205 in 67e? I think. I’ve looked at maps but can’t find anything about this. I’ll attach the grave number. If anyone has any info I’d be...

Hello everyone, I have a relative - John Benjamin Hosford - and I've found out he was buried in Yardley cemetery in 1943. The details are: John Horsford (it's actually Hosford - someone's added an extra "r" which is a fairly common mistake), section E, grave 28238 ,buried Oct 27 1943. The...

I was talking to the lady in the office at Yardley Cemetery and she told me there used to be a small chapel in the original part of the cemetery that was demolished when they built the crematorium. It used to be on, what is now, the large oval traffic island type thing near the South entrance...

Hi Not sure if anyone has seen this, I had a look through the threads and couldn't see any mention - apologies if this is a repeat. The BBC are running a story that due to the HS2 (which seems to be controlling my life at the moment) they may have to exhume bodies from the Park Street burial...

Hello everyone, If anyone will be visiting Witton Cemetery any time in the near future, would someone be willing to look for my great grandfather's sister's (Jessie [Jones] Pepper) grave and if a headstone exists, take a digital photograph. I am from the US and this would be quite difficult...