Weaste Cemetery is a public cemetery in Weaste, Salford, Greater Manchester, in England. Opened in 1857, it is the oldest of Salford's four cemeteries, covering 39 acres and containing over 332,000 graves. [1]
Weaste Cemetery is a public cemetery in Weaste, Salford, Greater Manchester, in England. Opened in 1857, it is the oldest of Salford's four cemeteries, covering 39 acres and containing over 332,000 graves. [1]
The cemetery lies south of Eccles New Road (A57 road) and is approached via Cemetery Road.
Salford was one of the earliest British municipalities to recognise that churchyards were getting full and that alternative burial grounds were required. When originally opened the cemetery included four chapels and a glazed summer house, which have since all been demolished. [2]
The first interment was that of the very popular MP, Joseph Brotherton, who had campaigned for the cemetery and died just before its completion. [3] Brotherton died on 7 January 1857 and his funeral took place a week later on 14 January. The cemetery was formally opened on 1 September 1857. [4] [5]
Then known as Salford Borough Cemetery, the site was extended by 16 acres (6.5 ha) in 1887, by which time there had been 124,500 burials. The original 21 acres (8.5 ha) site was becoming full and a 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) area bought earlier with the intention of being used as an addition had been compulsorily purchased for development of the Manchester Ship Canal. At that time, the cemetery was making a profit of around £2,500 per annum. [6]
During the Second World War at Christmas 1940, a German bomb fell on the cemetery during a raid on the nearby docks. Several headstones are still peppered with marks and holes caused by the shrapnel. [7]
Salford Council have mapped out a heritage trail for the cemetery and noteworthy graves have been provided with information panels. Occasional guided tours of the cemetery also take place. Several of the monuments in the cemetery are Grade II listed. [8]
The cemetery contains the graves of 373 Commonwealth service personnel who died during the First and Second World Wars, plus numerous memorials to servicemen buried abroad. Some of the 274 First World War dead lie in war grave plots in both the Church of England and Roman Catholic sections, each plot having a Screen Memorial listing the dead buried within them, while the 99 Second World War dead are scattered amidst the cemetery and there is also a special memorial listing 7 personnel buried in graves that could not be marked. [9]
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