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Warstone Lane Cemetery

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Lovely photo's Brian I can't believe how close they built to the cemetery your last photo says it all....unbelievable!!
 
Finally got back into the Cemeteries after 2 months! (apart from taking pics and creeping abouit in the dark staking plots!)

We had a great day ripping Ivy off the catacombs, and a good weekend burning her!

Hopefully, another nice smokey fire tomorrow. If you smoke signals, it's not the locals, just me!
 
They only rebuilt on the land already used in Mikes pics earlier! The side of the Conferance centre is the long side of the Engineering works.
 
Brian
They are some nice pictures, but I'm not sure if they are in the same place as where I remember my old photos were taken. I may be wrong, as i only have google streetview and my memory to go by , as my notes were accidently submerged some years later. The order that the photos were taken is not quite as they went on the forum It was 6,7,8,1,2,3,4,5 . I think I went along sort of as the red line below from vyse St. I;m pretty sure 1 & 2 were where the blue arrows are (Stevjay are listed in the directory as being alongside that wall). Am not sure if I turned the corner .Maybe the streetview is out of date, but your views of 6 & y don't seem to fit with what is at that position now.
 
Hi Mike

I coul;dn't remember your order so just went from the Lodge towards thwe site of the old chapel.
My 6 is the same as your 2nd and 3rd shots - Large Square monument to the Parton family with a cross on top.
That row of buildings are marked on the original cemetery drawings, or their predecessors are. The ground from the Lodge along, with an access path at the rear. originally, some had gates into the Cemetery land (before it was a cemetery)
 
That's Great Brian. Thought I had miss-directed you. The buildings around had changed so much I wasn't sure
Mike
 
Brian, your such a lovely person, so kind, and caring,with out you and the other kind people on the forum we would never of found our sister, pam x
 
My sister Pam and i have been to Warstone Lane today to visit our sister Renee's plot.We bumped into Brian and we told him what a wonderful job you are all doing at the cemetery you have worked so hard.Irene x
 
Here are two older photo's of Warstone Lane Cemetry. I am not sure of the year they were taken.
Note the two tier catacombs at the back of the photo. One of Britains well know printers is
buried here a mr John Baskervill.



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Warstone_Lane_Cemetery.jpg




Regards Stars
 
Lovely photos stars I have not seen the one showing the path to the catacombs before.
 
We will win one day Brian it's awful stuff.

I have some in a plant pot that has attached itself to our block paving it has to go!!
 
Hi
I had to look twice Brian, i thought i seen you hanging over the wall with
your sheers lol.

Regards to Wendy & Brian Stars (Eric)
 
I'm hoping someone out there can help me with a query I have about Warstone Lane Cemetery. I have recently found out that my great grandmother is buried there, Section J, Vault 9. She died in 1923. I always thought that if you were buried in a vault you had money so I was quite surprised to see she was buried in a vault! I am absolutely certain that my rellies weren't a wealthy bunch. So could anyone explain how she may have ended up in a vault (or do I have the wrong idea of what a vault is!!?) I am hoping to visit her grave soon (I'm just hoping there is something to identify her grave/vault). I would love to know if her husband (or any other family member) is buried with her. I'm hoping to close some of the gaps I have in my family tree.
 
Section J is a public vault, one of those with slabs around the top of the catacombs. Lots of vaults were made public - not sure how they work at Warstone, but I know how they are at Key Hill. It would have been quite a cheap interment in terms of burial costs, but remember the funeral would have been more expensive relatively speaking that they are today. I have checked out costs of vault burials at Warstone, and if my memory serves me right, about £1.25 - £1.50. Some of the vaults have slabs with the name inscribed, it would depend on the family as it was an extra charge for the name.
 
Here's vault J-9. It is one of the public graves above the catacombs. Your great-grandmother's name may or maynot be on the slab; payment
was required to have the name added to the slab.
Click on the pictures to enlarge them:
Grave_J_9.jpg
As you stand above the catacombs, j vaults are to the left. The picture below will show you the location:
WL-J-slabs-annotated.JPG
 
Hi Dani,
The Public vaults at Warstone lane, were deep, brick lined 'cellars' used for 'Public' or 'Common User' Burials.
These were for those working class people who could not afford to buy freehold, an entire grave for their own personal/family use.
Bit like renting a room in a block of flats or a row of terraces instead of buying your own detached house!
There are just over recorded burials in J9, from late 1923 through to early 1926. Looks like your Great Gran was one of the first in and has plenty of company.
As stated above, these were among the cheapeat burials the Cemetery did, and it cost extra to have your name inscribed on the memorial Stone, which is why ther there are not 70+ names shown!

It is also one of the few vaults that do not appear to have been reopened by the Council in the 1950's and 'topped up' with additional burials.

Brian
 
Thank you all so much for your assistance regarding the vaults at Warstone Lane. I managed to get to the cemetery a couple of days ago and with your help I was able to find the relevant slab (although my Great Grans name isn't on there - not surprisingly - we were a poor bunch!). Without your assistance I would have been wandering around the place looking at all the headstones!! I have since found out that my Great grandfather died in 1925 and he is also in Warstone Lane, which means he is probably in the same vault. Whenever we went to the jewellery quarter when I was young, one of my parents would comment about Warstone Lane Cemetery and the catacombs and how well known Brummies were buried there - well now I know that two of my own are there and in good company too.
 
Hi Dani,
Glad you found the place OK - Leslam's pics help a lot.
If your Gt G/Dad died in 1925, he's probably in the next vault. Most are full within a year - you can follow the dates as you move down the stones.
Mary in the Torist Info Office in Vyse St - Opposite the Cemetery, has a disk with the names & graves on of all in both cemeteries.
There is a printed copy in Pen Museum, Frederick St, down to the clock, straight over - 1 mins walk. Open 7 days a week.
If you mention the names, me or Wendy can confirm tyhe grave number on here for you - maybe have another trip over there than when the weather brightens up?
 
Is the brick wall the back of the Mint?

[Further information: the wall referred to is in the picture on #108, posted by stars]
 
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Having messaged Irene to establish which wall she was referring to, I have established that it is the wall in post#108.

Yes, Irene, I think that the wall is the side of the old Mint (if I'm wrong. I'm sure that Brian will correct me!)

If you look at post #113, you can see roughly the same view now. The obelisk should help you get your bearings.
 
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If you mean the low brick wall in post 171- next to tghe Catacomb Public vaults - the vaults with memorials stones - than No - this is the wall around the outside of the catacomb Circle.
There are numbered vaults with flat memorialss - a few are missing. There are almost 400 in many of these vaults - again -they wree 'topped' up in the 1950's.
 
The old picture in post 108 is the side of the Mint Going from the corner down to Icknield St.

Taken from Section L looking down R & T, with Q & S on the right where you can see Pitsford St.

Very little of the memorials in the distance remain above ground, although the ones in the foreground are all pretty well intact.

Brian
 
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