Unusual graves.

[Mumsie2131]

The poem is reproduced in "Reminiscences of a Chief Constable" by William Chadwick, page 88:
 
Though once beneath the ground his corpse was laid,
For use of surgeons it was thence conveyed;
Vain was the scheme to hide the impious theft,
The body taken; shroud and coffin left.
Ye wretches, who pursue this barbarous trade,
Your carcases in turn may be conveyed,
Like his, to some unfeeling surgeon's room,
Nor can they justly meet a better doom.
 
It is also reproduced on Carl's Cam.  This is a useful website of considerable interest.  The link to the site is http://www.carlscam.com/ and you should click on 'Places' in the top left-hand corner, then click 'M', then scroll down to Mottram-in-Longdendale and choose 'St Michael's Church'.  Choose 'Lewis Brierley' and the text should appear.
I thought you may all like to see this

[bevbee]

Good to see this thread resurrected (if that's the appropriate word in the circumstances).

The heart grave is beautiful and the inscription on the Lewis Brierley grave (which is so close to my name I did a double- take!) is so sad. Really interesting though.

 

[uk2003]

Here is a poem dedicated to the first police officer killed on duty in Manchester in 1867

[Guy Etchells]

Or simply the owner of the plot did not want any further burials in it.
Cheers
Guy

[Annie65115]

I found this one in the graveyard at Mancetter, Warwickshire. Imagine the frustration of thinking this could be your family but not knowing for sure!


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[Annie65115]

And I won't post a picture but I'm rather fond of a gravestone in Orston, Notts, which reads:

In memory of
William Dyer
who died Jan27 1861
aged 82 years
A brand plucked from the burning

and of MARY his wife
who died April 4 1849
aged 64 years
Blessed is the peacemaker

I think theirs must have been known as an argumentative household!

[ali607]

Found this while looking for gggg grandma's unmarked grave...sad story that caught my eye - a stark reminder of the dangers of coal mining

Alison

[Viktoria]

As a child I always thought the verse on a distant relative`s grave somewhat inappropriate. The man,a brother to my great-grandfather had been killed when the rope from which a basket-yes -a basket had been suspended broke and he plummeted hundreds of feet down a mineshft. He and another man had been carrying out routine maintenance work on the lining to the shaft. The date was 1875.  Here is the verse from The Baptist Hymnal. .                                                              Plagues and death around me fly ;
Till he bids I cannot die;
 Not a single SHAFT shall hit;
Till the God of love sees fit .    (My capitals)  I still think it a bit strange,and someone from another branch of the family  had lost a little two year old girl and this still reduces me to tears:-                ,Was to my parents as a rose ,a flower sweet and good, but death you see has called on me and nipped me in the bud.These two are  in a lovely isolated country graveyard attached to a little Baptist Chapel. Viktoria                                             

[Marion_C]

I don't know whether there has been a thread like this before, but I wondered whether anyone had any photos of unusual graves?

Here are two to start off with;

Bevbee,

I think the grave with the initials on might be a grave for foundlings.  I'm a volunteer tour guide at a cemetery where there are several such graves.  If records survive for the cemetery in question you might be able to check that out.

Marion