by Steven Horton | Oct 29, 2015 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Yew Tree Cemetery was the second of the two Roman Catholic cemeteries that were opened in Liverpool in Victorian times. It took its first burials in 1893, more than thirty years after the one at Ford, near Litherland. The cemetery is named after nearby Yew Tree Lane,...
by Steven Horton | Oct 22, 2015 | Blogs
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...
by Steven Horton | Oct 12, 2015 | Blogs, Uncategorized
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....
by Steven Horton | Oct 5, 2015 | Blogs, Uncategorized
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...
by Steven Horton | Oct 2, 2015 | Blogs, Uncategorized
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...
by Steven Horton | Sep 30, 2015 | Blogs, Uncategorized
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...
