The photo above shows the south facing entrance door to the chapels complex at Eastern Cemetery, Hull, to the left the war memorial mentioned in a recent blog. Over the last six months (almost) have been highlighting my main focus of study and research currently, that being the history, locally and nationally, of municipal parks, […]
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A couple of further comments on Eastern Cemetery, Preston Road, Hull; As far as I know Eastern is the only Hull cemetery to have two areas dedicated to Muslim burials. The ‘old’ site (certainly in use up to the early 1970s), see above, is near the south-east corner of the Cemetery, the ‘new’ site is
7th May, 2019 History of Hull Cemeteries 23. Read More »
The history of Hull’s Eastern Cemetery, beside Preston Road, being an inter-war development has not yet been covered by my research. The site is very well kept with a main carriageway from the mail gates to the two chapels complex seen above, and a rectangular network of paths radiating from either side. The ‘planting’ (s.p.b.s) examples the more
1st May, 2019 History of Hull Cemeteries 22. Read More »