March 2019

26th March, 2019. History of Hull’s Cemeteries, 7.

Following the adoptive Burial Acts of the 1850s, with later amending legislation, Hull Corporation established two large municipal cemeteries by the end of the century – Western Cemetery, Spring Bank West from 1861 and Hedon Road Cemetery from 1875. Western Cemetery was in effect a continuation westward of the Hull General Cemetery site (see previous […]

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22nd March, 2019 History of Hull’s Cemeteries, 4.

To return, for a moment, to the Castle Street disused burial ground, Hull (closed for burials 1861, s.p.b.s), and to further the theme of the partnership between cemeteries and parks, it was minuted (Corporation, Miscellaneous Committees – Burial) in October 1887 that gardeners were to be appointed to ‘disused burial grounds in the borough’ and,

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14th March, 2019. History of Hull’s Cemeteries, 2.

An additional point re the last blog’s consideration of the common features of public parks and municipal cemeteries is that in 1904 Kingston upon Hull Urban Sanitary Authority combined the two previously separate committees for Burials and Parks, henceforth known as the Parks and Burials Committee. The picture above shows the south-west corner of Castle St. disused

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