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Hi.
I was one of the early volunteers on this project as well. Most of the work was done by two dedicated Rootschatters recording at the cemetery itself, and one other (who was not based in the UK) maintaining the website. After the initial 'work party' meetings, when Rootschattters turned up from all over Manchester and Lancashire, there were perhaps half a dozen more volunteers like me, who turned up whenever we could. Of course the pandemic didn't help, and although the intention was to get started again once all that was over, I suspect other things will have got in the way. As they posted a while back, the two 'lead' volunteers had both been involved with family issues and bereavement, and although genealogy is great, sometimes you do have to focus on your present-day family and friends. I see neither of them has been active on Rootschat since summer 2021.  I don't know what happened to with the website either, but I can't believe all the paperwork recording the gravestones has been binned. It was a lot of work! We started out with a blank spreadsheet printout, filled it in by hand at the cemetery (a spreadsheet square corresponding to a grave row/number) and Cancan then transferred it onto her computer at home. The intention was to pass the record on to either Manchester Archives or the MLFHS, with the proviso that it would always be free to access by anyone who needed it. There was also mention at one stage, of the Friends of Philips Park getting involved with Manchester General, but I think that was more to do with general park maintenance - we were just concerned with transcribing the headstones.
It's great that you helped to get the project going in the early days, BF. I really do believe your contribution will still be around somewhere. That handwritten spreadsheet was very precious to them, and all the photos.  I'm not angry at all, but I do hope Cancan and Beannie are all right.
Best wishes,
Barbara

And thank you Jim and Rosie.

It's been so long, I've forgotten why I was looking at a death in Fulham, not one of my usual areas at all!

  Barbara

Thursday St found fame in Alan Garner's book 'Elidor'. It was the location of a portal to another world (missing ancestors anyone?) 

Elidor was published in 1965 and described the area round Thursday St as derelict and mostly abandoned, so Garner would be accurately describing the slum/bomb site clearances of the 1960s in Manchester.

This has helped me, I couldn't understand why 2 distant relative could have died in the same place in 1938 and 1943. So take it 123, Cresent Road would have been a Hospital then?

Yes, it was originally a workhouse and became the hospital. See
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Manchester/
(scroll down to Crumpsall)