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I wonder if anyone has an early photo of either Ickneild St, Vyse St or Pitsford St near to Warstone Cemetery. What we are looking are the railings originally round Warstone Lane Cemetery as we don't have any idea what they were actually like. Any help would be great thank you:).
 
Sorry John Leslam is right those are the gates of Key Hill. There are no railings around Warstone Lane I am not sure when they were removed maybe for the war effort I am not sure. Any photo's that may exist will be very old and black and white. Thanks for trying though. xx
 
Oops sorry about that the photograph of the lodge entrance as railings would they not have been the same
 
They may have been the same John it would just be nice to know. They may have been the same as Key Hill but again it would be nice to see and early photo.
 
Wendy said:
I wonder if anyone has an early photo of either Ickneild St, Vyse St or Pitsford St near to Warstone Cemetery. What we are looking are the railings originally round Warstone Lane Cemetery as we don't have any idea what they were actually like. Any help would be great thank you:).
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hi wend if its the railings on the vyse st side im pretty sure i posted a very old pic showing them ages ago...trouble is if i did it could be under the old evening mail...old brum or even vyse st threads:rolleyes:...it will take some time to search them all but i will have a go wend and will get back to you if i find one...

lyn
 
hi wend...this was the pic i was thinking of...thought it may show the railings on the right hand side....cant be sure though

lyn
 
Thank you Lyn I do remember that photo now it looks like standard church railings like the ones round St Pauls at one time.

Thanks for the link John looks very interesting.

Michael tells me that the railings on nearly all Church of England cemeteries were taken for the war effort to build planes, bombs etc. The reason Key Hill Cemetery retained it's railings is because it was privately owned so the railings could not be taken. If they did they could take factory railings which I don't think happened.
 
Wendy, my one family grave in Warstone lane seems to have railings or posts and chains missing from it as you can see where they used to be. I thought it was probably vandals/taken for scrap but when I came home and told my brother-in-law about it, he said the metal was probably removed for the war effort.
 
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