St Mary’s Garden.

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St. Mary’s Garden 1882.
(The Builder)







1887



1902

 

[Vivienne14]

The garden must have been where the Dental Hospital was built. That has also gone (c2022) and the 2024 Streetview shows the land being redeveloped.

 

[Vivienne14]

This aeriel view from 1921 shows the garden/playground behind St Mary's church (church closed in 1925 and was demolished shortly thereafter). A link to a thread about the church is here: https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/st-marys-church-whittall-street-birmingham.2882/

And a plan of the garden.

 

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It was open ended on the 17th October 1882 but not without a bit of controversy.

Some cried desecration! No fewer than 57,226 souls had been interred in the graveyard and there were 1,200 stones.

 

[Vivienne14]

See post #22 about reburials on this thread:

https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/disinterment-and-reinterments-at-birmingham-burial-grounds.52108