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Topic: Saltwell Cemetery - photo offer (Read 136 times)
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Nick Carver
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I am going to visit Saltwell Cemetery at the end of September to visit a couple of family graves for the first time. If anyone would like any pictures taken of gravestones in the cemetery, could you please let me know.
Given the size of the place, you really need to give me a grave reference number - the local council were very happy to co-operate when I was looking. BTW, I've not moved on to a digital camera yet, but can scan and mail traditional photographs.
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E Yorks - Carver, Steels, Cross, Maltby, Whiting, Moor, Laybourn
W Yorks - Wilkinson, Kershaw, Rawnsley, Shaw
Norfolk - Carver, Dowson
Cheshire - Berry, Cooper
Lincs - Berry
London/Ireland/Scotland/Lincs - Sullivan
Northumberland/Durham - Nicholson, Cuthbert, Turner, Robertson
Berks - May
Beds - Brownell
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Nick Carver
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Okay Julie, that should not be too much of a problem. Am visiting on 28th September - don't have a digital camera but will post you a photograph if you PM me with your address between now and then. It may be that I can scrounge a digital camera by then so please let me have your e-mail as well.
Nick
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E Yorks - Carver, Steels, Cross, Maltby, Whiting, Moor, Laybourn
W Yorks - Wilkinson, Kershaw, Rawnsley, Shaw
Norfolk - Carver, Dowson
Cheshire - Berry, Cooper
Lincs - Berry
London/Ireland/Scotland/Lincs - Sullivan
Northumberland/Durham - Nicholson, Cuthbert, Turner, Robertson
Berks - May
Beds - Brownell
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Nick Carver
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Julie
I finally got there and went into a very ordinary gate opposite Saltwell Crematorium. It was so ordinary, I didn't bother taking a picture. The map of the cemetery that the local council kindly provided (and marked on it the graves I was hunting) doesn't mention any other gate. I drove all the way past the cemetery along Saltwell Road South without seeing one. Sorry.
I was encouraged to find that the two graves I was visiting - a 1939 grave and a family grave with the first internment in 1910 were both intact and the inscriptions perfectly visible. Obviously the local stone is much better than the stuff I see around where I live (Cambs), where many graves of similar age are illegible due to wearing.
If I've missed something with the gates, please let me know. I am up in the area three or four times a year and can revisit quite easily.
Nick
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E Yorks - Carver, Steels, Cross, Maltby, Whiting, Moor, Laybourn
W Yorks - Wilkinson, Kershaw, Rawnsley, Shaw
Norfolk - Carver, Dowson
Cheshire - Berry, Cooper
Lincs - Berry
London/Ireland/Scotland/Lincs - Sullivan
Northumberland/Durham - Nicholson, Cuthbert, Turner, Robertson
Berks - May
Beds - Brownell
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hi nick im sorry .i must of remembered it wrong.or it looked different to a child.things looked so much bigger way back then 
.thank you anyway.best wishes julie.