All Saints Church Kings Heath

[les hancock]

Drove past All Saints a couple of hours ago. It appears that they are digging the whole grave yard up and replacing it with a big block paved patio and some new trees. What actually happens to the grave stones they remove??

 

[ColinB]

Not sure if any gravestones are affected, they were all laid flat in 1948 when the graveyard was laid out as a garden, I believe they will remain buried (the gravestones that is) under the new Garden of Remembrance.
See my website.

https://www.bhamb14.co.uk/index_files/CHURCHS.htm

Colin

 

[Brum Burgin]

Oh dear,another landmark gone in the name of progress.

 

[Vivienne14]

Two charming views of the church with a cabman’s shelter, horse trough and drinking fountain. The image with the girls is from 1906, the second image gives a clearer view of the horse trough and drinking fountain. Have these two water features survived ? Viv.

 

[Vivienne14]

And the Church in 1918. A fair bit of activity around the church gates. A Spring Sunday morning perhaps ? Viv.

 

[Morturn]

Viv, I don't recall seeing them

 

[pjmburns]

Neither do I.

 

[sospiri]

I don't think they were even there when I lived in Kings Heath in the 1950s.

Maurice

 

[Vivienne14]

Interior photos of All Saints. Not seen inscriptions like these before.

 

[mikejee]

Two threads co,bined