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St Leonards Frankley

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over the next couple of days we will be visiting here does anybody need any info re graves or church etc seems as though I am being whisked off on another jaunt again lol:rolleyes:
 
Yes Cazzxx1.. St leonards is a lovely old church with a lot of history it is the parish church of Frankley ... Robert... you can find out more on this link

https://www.worcesterbmsgh.co.uk/Frankley.html
we visited a little while back and found something unexpected for one of the members of the forum :) here is a photo of a headstone memorial carved into a stonefrom there.. posted elsewhere ..we always seem to find something extra on these churchyard Jaunts:)
 
Just lovely Tom and Maggs I love trawling round graveyards and don't find them scary at all just peaceful. It's just great when you find information for someone.......Tom you are getting the bug!:D:D:D
 
I lived in Northfield for 12 months 1963, before Frankly was built. I recall some were of Cock Hill lane Wwas afootball pitch and just beond that was a cemetery. We believed it belong to Rubery Hall hospital. Dont know if its still there as was very over grown and unkept.
 
Robert I may be wrong but I believe that may have been the graves from ww1 of Hollymoor & Rubery hospital etc I had a friend who campaigned to have a memorial placed in the gardens as the powers that be tried to ignore or "forget " about the fact that for years on local maps etc it was marked as a graveyard !..the memorial is where you walk through now to Colmers Farm school :( there is a football pitch further up the road now past the Cock pub in New inns lane over the road from the pub was the old quarry again most of is now new homes :)
 
before Homemead Grove,Rubery Farm grove, was built I believe it was all quarry and they just dug it all out to make those houses
 
I've just had a look at an AtoZ at the area, its changed so much since 1963. It shows a burial ground and it does say burial ground ? rather than grave yard or cemertery. I remember it at the bottom of Tessal lane of to the right before the level crossing. There were rows of mounds with only one or two head stones, in fact if the head stones had'nt been there you would not have known about the other graves as the grass was so tall and covered in bramble. The football pitch was right next to it , the goal line would have only been about 20/25 FEET away from the first row of mounds. Some times it took ages to find the ball.
 
Thats what i meant Tom, burial ground as opposed to graveyard or cemetery. I allways think of a burial ground as an old closed cemetery or some where people of the same tribe or something are burried.
 
Robert your not saying that to me are you ?? I would hate someone buried beneath my house lol
 
if you check out the earlier link .. re St Leonards ..I posted ...and come down the page to other sources there is a good link ...society of geneologists ..and from there it gives you email addresses and contacts etc which may be helpful to some members :)
 
I used to live in Northfield as a child in the 50s and we would walk up to Frogmill Crossing and play damming the river and floating on old railway sleepers near to it was the old overgrown graveyard it was very eerie I was told they were from Hollymoor Hospital which was a mental hospital then but previously in WW1 was a military hospital I wonder what happened to the graves.
 
HI OTHER HALF
Will you be taking your camera if so any chance of taking a pic of the head stone of ray jelf
whom i beleive you said last year was burried there
i have passed there ast year a couple of times its seems so quaint cem ;but
the gates always semmed to e locked is there a verger or some one there any time
many thanks ;Astonian ;;;
 
Hiya Alan
lovely to see you on here..when the rain stops me and Tom will pop up and get the pic for you ..can you send me an I M with ya email again cos when i upgraded my computer i lost yours and a few others ..hope all ok
 
hi maggs
hope you are both well as it leaves me the same very much apprecite mag; for doing it
an look foreward to seeing it would you keep your eyes peeled for any other member of the family please
as old george junior only lives down the lane in woodcock lane ; and i was told a very long time ago he has a son whom looked very much like my grandfather, but saying that old george [junior also resmbles my own very mother george is in is ninetys now and he his totally death
i will send you my personal em around or just after lunch time okay ;enjoy your day ;
and once again many thanks to you both best wishes Alan ;;
 
pittam said:
I used to live in Northfield as a child in the 50s and we would walk up to Frogmill Crossing and play damming the river and floating on old railway sleepers near to it was the old overgrown graveyard it was very eerie I was told they were from Hollymoor Hospital which was a mental hospital then but previously in WW1 was a military hospital I wonder what happened to the graves.
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Hi pittam welcome to the forum see the earlier post no 8 on this thread my friend campaigned to have a memorial placed to remember all the people who are buried here
 
Beore I moved to Tardebiige I used to go to the service at St Leonards every week, my youngest daughter was also christened there.
a few years back I went back after almost twenty years it was as if it was only a week since I went there everyone was so welcoming, after the service I joined a riends family for the burielof her Dads ashes, It was amazing that the place where they were buried was overlooked by Windrush House where he lived in Ley Hill Farm Road...of course all of the Ley Hill Estate has now been demolished and a lot of it re-built.

Michael was still viacr there then he has now moved on..lovely man.
 
Hi tom
is st lenards still being used by the local# parishoneers for sunday mornming worships and etc
if you wanted to stroll through the cemetry to find graves or visiting is it open top public every day of the week or only just at week ends whilst there is a service going on
best wishes astonion
 
Hiya Alan
yes it is still open for services..we went a few weeks back and the church is locked but the vicarage is next door so i suppose you could always ask the vicar
Maggie
 
hi maggie
many thanks for your reply i hope you are both well and you are enjoying our great british weather
the reason i asked because i want to op over and visit dennis jelfs grave as i will be paying george jelf a visit in the next couple of weeks
to see how he is keeping he is geting on in age now and he his moms 1st cousin when i lok at him he reminds me of my mother he has got her features
and do youknow my mother always used to say that ever i went on about politics she would always say you take after george jelf my no 1 cousin
we have met before george just lives along the lane from the church but i will await for the weather to pick up
i do pass that way quite often when going up to brum i always go that way down the lanes of the motor way
once again maggs thank you very much give my regards to tom best wishes alan
 
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