Grant Gardens

Grant Gardens previously Liverpool Necropolis, is a park and former cemetery in Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is named after Alderman J. R. Grant, J.P, chairman of the Corporation Parks and Gardens Committee.[1][2]

Grant Gardens
TypePublic park
LocationLiverpool
Coordinates53.414708°N 2.962158°W / 53.414708; -2.962158
Area5 acres (0.020 km2)
Created22 April 1914
Operated byLiverpool City Council
StatusOpen all year round

The Necropolis opened in 1825, with buildings by John Foster Jr, it closed in 1898 and was transferred to the council who reopened it as a park in 1914.[1] While the memorials and structures above ground have been removed, the graves themselves are intact.

Closure and location of memorials

On 31 August 1898, Liverpool's Necropolis Cemetery (Low Hill/Everton), was closed, due to an edict of the City Council, citing the unsanitary conditions spreading to surrounding neighbourhoods, plus the fact that the Cemetery was nearing its full capacity of 80,000 burials. The old headstones were 'dropped' over the graves, and subsequently landscaped in the early 1910s, to make Grant Gardens a public park, which was opened by City Alderman J.R.Grant in 1914.

Headstones from 'active' private plots at the Necropolis were removed to Everton Cemetery. The majority of standing Necropolis Headstones at Everton Cemetery are in the centre of Section GEN6; however, there are a few of these headstones placed in other religious denomination sections of the Cemetery.

Notable residents
gollark: C has more low-level stuff you probably don't want to bother with if doing a build script; Python has useful high level features like "working strings".
gollark: I disagree with that, actually.
gollark: It also took something like 10% of the time to write, which is good.
gollark: - unbee python- the osmarkspythonbuildsystem™ functions/variables, to the extent that they exist, constitute an "embedded domain specific language"- Python is more featureful than Dale syntax, however- well, mine does it seminonawfully, if you don't mind its complete lack of job throttling
gollark: Via parser combinators, I can define *exactly* what I want and easily parse it, unless it involves left recursion in which case aææææßæææaæææaaaaæææææææ.

References
  1. "Necropolis Home Page". Toxtethparkcemetery.co.uk. 22 April 1914. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  2. "Liverpool & South West Lancs Genealogy • View topic - Necropolis/Grant Gardens". Liverpool-genealogy.org.uk. Retrieved 28 July 2016.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.