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Witton Cemetery Memorials

gingerjon

gingerjon

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN R.I.P.
the plot number on my Uncles grave is different from the entry number give them a call and ask for the plot numbers. The plot number covers a area with many graves in each if there is a stone it will have the number of the grave on it, if yours as not got a stone you can work out were the grave is by looking at the one's around the plot to pinpoint yours
the plot for this grave is 81 and the grave number is different as you can see marked with X
 
Roddis & Nourse. they are both now deceased and also the business is no more deaths not known but that gravestone was there circa 1961
 
i noticed quite a few of the gravestones are being tied up and made safe by the council,i hope this doesnt mean families are going to be given bills or ultimatums to pay for the making safe,who decides whats safe and what isnt as headstone with a lean does not necessary make it unsafe.
i wouldnt be at all surprised if there isnt a department and an expert in angles of slope and probably a sliding scale of charges dependent upon slope,it could only happen here
 
dollyferret, request please next time you visit Witton cemetery could you take a few photographs from the church towards Birmingham a pan veiw if it's OK with you thanks John H
 
no sooner the word than the deed,will do sunday

cheers John H
 
I'd forgotten how elegant the main Chapel was. Is it a listed building?
I was surprised to read on the local Jewish website that the memorial chapel in the extension to the Jewish Cemetery on the corner of Warren Road and College Road, isn't listed Grade II. It was designed by Essex & Goodman in 1937. I remember it well, as I passed there almost every day. Sunday was the day for big Jewish funerals, when there would sometimes be a long line of cars parked in the grounds and overflowing along Warren Road as well.
Peter
 
john h.there is rather a lot of them,please feel free to delete most of them after a couple of days (or less) as they take up so much web space,the views are from the front of the church looking towards town and then panning right towards walsall
 
Hello Dollyferret, Lovely photo's of Witton Cemetery. I noticed the photo on the top of the page has a grave which reads George beloved son of George and Violet Causer. I have seen John K Colin has some photo's posted with this surname I thought it worth a mention.
 
Moma P....do you eat carrots ?....I viewed the photo and never seen the names.....I cannot find a connection with my lot (yet),

they are super photo's, I also have some of almost the same views.......
 
Behind the church you will see three graves......they belong to three young men who lost their lives in a air crash in 1962.
Anthony Martin aged 19, from Longacre Nechells, John Charles Champion aged 23, and John Frederick Crump also aged 23, both of Moorend Lane Erdington.
 
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