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Where to Buy Your Memorial
When looking for a headstone, the temptation is there to search the internet for the best price and order online. However going about it this way can lead to a number of complications arising. Although you may find gravestones on sites such as ebay that seem to offer...
Inscribing a Gravestone
The art of engraving is as old as humanity itself, with the earliest known stone carvings believed to have been made in Indonesia as long as half a million years ago. Stonemasonry is also said to be the joint oldest profession in the world, along with prostitution....
Photographs On Headstones
In the last couple of decades the adding of photographs to gravestones has become commonplace in the United Kingdom, having been a tradition in some European countries for far longer. The most straightforward photographs are those that are on ceramic plates which are...
A History of Everton Cemetery
Everton cemetery is actually situated in Fazakerley, more than three miles from the historic centre of Everton. The reason for this is that in 1876 the overseers of Everton parish determined to buy a sufficient quantity of land so that they had an exclusive area for...
A History of Anfield Cemetery
Situated in the shadow of Liverpool and Everton football grounds, themselves there since the later Victorian period, Anfield cemetery is even older having been taking in burials for over 150 years. By the middle of the 19th Century Liverpool's graveyards were reaching...
Kerb Sets
A Kerb set can add distinction to your loved one's grave, giving it a beautiful marked border in addition to the headstone, as well as keeping the area around it tidy. In Merseyside, only Liverpool City Council allow kerb sets to be added to gravestones and a...