Hillside Cemetery

[Foz77]

A few from two visits to this abandoned graveyard in Houghton-le-Spring:

 

[cstevens]

Very good...any details about it?

You might like some of mine

[ame]http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?p=147166#post147166[/ame]

 

[Foz77]

Very good...any details about it?

You might like some of mine

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?p=147166#post147166

Not much, iniitally the site was a quarry, with the burial aspect of it coming later. There seems to be no order to how the graves are plotted - headstones are everywhere and anywhere they could get them it looks like.

A few of them are getting uprooted by trees, and of course, there is the usual evidence of kids/charvers; remains of a fire, empty lager tins etc...

There is a preservation group set up with the aim of renovating/caretaking the area if you want to know more: http://www.houghton-hillside-cemetery.org.uk/

 

[godzilla73]

Lovely pics - headstones look mostly Victorian/Edwardian. Would this be about right?

 

[ThenewMendoza]

It makes me want to go grave robbing.

M

 

[Foz77]

Lovely pics - headstones look mostly Victorian/Edwardian. Would this be about right?

Yeh, I thikn so. That headstone in the first picture was a for a child who died in 1902 (if I remember) aged only a few years...

Well worth a visit this place.

 

[4737carlin]

This is good, Flaybrick cemetery was like that near Birkenhead a while back until it was taken over by a group and looks quite nice now

 

[Foz77]

This is good, Flaybrick cemetery was like that near Birkenhead a while back until it was taken over by a group and looks quite nice now

Ha Ha Where's your tool?!

 

[pollen101]

lovely pics of a lovely place,excellent stuff!