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Topic: Anyone visiting Billing Road Cemetery, Northampton *COMPLETED* (Read 499 times)
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john_w
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Any response from the council yet? I suspect you are aware that the majority of the headstones have been moved and/or removed from site. Its also a big place, without some idea of location it could takes hours and still not find the one you are looking for.
Let me know if you get a location as I shall be right next door to the cemetery next week.
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john_w
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If you can't get a location would you like a few general photos of the place, along the lines of the ones i took for you in Kettering?
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seahall
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Hi John/Ridgeback.
As you are offering to help Ridgeback, John this information
may help you to find the grave he requires.
There is no headstone, but if you go through the main gates,
on the left hand side you can find not too far away a grave for
WARWICK (15569) and TITMAN (15568), carry straight ahead
(roughly 6 grave spaces) till you see one for HUGHES, this is
grave 15561, therefore Mabel's would have been back one 15562.
Sandy
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seahall
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Hi again David.
I don't think I am any more valuable than any other Rootschatter here. 
We are all willing to assist folk, where we can.
I just have resources available that others may not have for the Northants area.
John's offer as you know first-hand is extremely kind.
I have found the grave area, but hopeful what I typed previously will lead John
straight to it.
Sandy
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seahall
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Some photos are on this link which I took with others on Sunday.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/06pg/
David as P.M. I do have larger ones showing the area if any good.
Sandy
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red scorpion
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Hi. I.ve just been doing a bit of research on Billing Road cemetry as I have relatives buried there .And i was visiting there yesterday to find our grave which was very overgrown with ivy but had the most fantastic tree growing over it .After reading some of your replies as to the whereabouts of Mabels grave it sounds in exactly the same location as ours up on the left just inside the main gates and i.m sure i remember seeing someone who had died aged 33 years old whilst searching for ours .If you would like i can take a photo if it does turn out to be the grave you are looking for and email it to you regards .larraine
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seahall
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Hi Larrine.
Welcome to Rootschat.
It is nice of you to offer to take a photograph of the grave for Ridgeback/David.
I did send some by e-mail of the area to Ridgeback/David after he
requested them and can assure you there is no grave/headstone for the
grave no. Ridgeback/David gave us.
I do have a list of all the remaining graves and Mabel James and family isn't
one of them.
Sandy
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red scorpion
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Hi Sandy thank you for the info .Havent been back to the cemetery yet but as you have checked there is no headstone it may have been bombed as I know that a lot of them were damaged this way or vandalised .We were going to look to see if there is a statue of a white horse as many years ago there was one belonging to someone who was buried there from Billy Smarts Circus .Also to see Caroline Chisholm.s grave as friends of mine.s children go to the Caroline Chisholme school. Regards Larraine .
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seahall
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Hi Larraine.
The bombed area of the Cemetery was much further over, it hit
most of the WW1 and 2 graves (please correct me if that is in-correct anyone).
A notice used to be placed in the Local Paper announcing the intention to remove
gravestone/headstones and to allow any person owning them to object.
I remember hearing about the White Horse also.
Caroline Chisholm's grave had been attacked recently, yet I think it is okay now.
Sandy
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seahall
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Hi again Larraine.
I managed to find the print of the Cemetery at the
time of the bombing.
Sandy
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