Kensington Jewish Cemetery
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I will be looking to post regularly, helping with peoples questions where I can and likewise, asking for help on things I am working on.
Let's get going then! Firstly, I would be grateful if anyone could provide me with any information on this 'disused' graveyard in Dean Road, which runs between Kensington and Edge Lane.
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I have visited the site and it appears to contain gravestones with what I would say could be possibly Jewish inscriptures on. Looks like nobody has been inthere for some time and access is prohibited.
Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Stu.
Jewish Cemetery, Deane Road.
It was consecrated in September 1837.
Deane Road was then called Deane Street.
It was closed in 1904 when Broad Green Cemetery opened.
Above the entry it says: "Here the weary are at rest", which is presumably repeated in Jewish.
Kensingtons Jewish Cemetry
This is the entrance to Kensington's Jewish Cemetery, it's opposite the Lidl, there is talk of it being re-opened to the Public
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David Lewis & Deane Rd Jewish Cemetery
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DaisyChains
i would love a guided tour.
I think we are extremely lucky in Liverpool with the historic, park-like cemeteries of Victorian times.
St James', Toxteth, Anfield, etc to name a few
I understand from the Rabbi at Prince's Rd Synagogue Toxteth that the founder of Lewis's Department store, one David Lewis, is buried at this cemetery. As well as owning the nationwide chain of Lewis's Department stores, he was a well known 19th C Liverpool philanthropist.
Poor condtion of cemeteries
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DaisyChains
They might. They also might be willing to put forward some capital to restore the place, if they have any, is more in line with what I was thinking.
Possibly. Really it's up to the old Hewbrew Congregation at Prince's rd Synagogue who own the cemetry to maintain it. Though I suppose the poor state of the Deane Rd Cemetery is no diffferent from the poor state of St Nicholas's Liverpool Parish Cemetry at Walton which is much much larger . This parish doesn't have the money to look aftre the cemetery either.