Photograph By Kate Vernon FRONT These Members of / His Majestys Forces / Died in the Service / of their Country CAPTAIN M.T. HINKS / Royal Army Service Corps 7.4.1941…
Category: History
Grade II Listed Memorials
Apart from the buildings and the war memorial which are grade II listed, English Heritage has also listed four of the monuments as of special interest. These are Sam Wilson…
War Memorial
Lawnswood Cemetery contains 138 burials of the First World War, 88 of them forming a war graves plot. As these graves could not be marked individually, the names of the…
History of the Cemetery
HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT The cemetery movement came into being because of gross overcrowding in urban churchyards and public awareness of the health hazards associated with it. The first cemetery which opened…
Crematorium
Cremation was declared as legal in England and Wales when, in 1884, Dr William Price was unsuccessfully prosecuted for cremating his infant son. In 1885 the first official cremation took place…