Mackenzie's Tomb - Rodney Street

[Downey]

St Andrew's Church Yard, Rodney Street, Liverpool

Does anybody know if the rumour true that inside that pyramid grave is a man sitting at a table playing cards?

[Kev]

thats fab!
gonna use it as my desktop!!

It's not perfect but its a start.

Great pics, does anybody know if the rumour true that inside that pyramid grave is a man sitting at a table playing cards?

Those rumours eh?

[MissInformed]

It's not perfect but its a start.



Those rumours eh?

That is a rumour I think, I think Tom Slemen has circulated it and made it urban myth. But where is the evidence for this?
Did Mackenzie make some sort of will?
Plus, has anyone ever tried to open the pyramid?

[Gerard]

Great pics, does anybody know if the rumour true that inside that pyramid grave is a man sitting at a table playing cards?

Eee rrr Downey..Oooooooooooooooohhh Eeeeeeee!!!..Wooooooohhhhhh.. !!!
Leave the Light on mate !!!.
http://www.geocities.com/tom_slemen/rodney.html

[Kev]

would this be worth moving the the urban myths section?

[MissInformed]

would this be worth moving the the urban myths section?

i mightily think so kev!

[shytalk]

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=713

[PhilipG]

That is a rumour I think, I think Tom Slemen has circulated it and made it urban myth. But where is the evidence for this?
Did Mackenzie make some sort of will?
Plus, has anyone ever tried to open the pyramid?

I hope you're not encouraging people to open the pyramid, Carrie?
This is one story that Tom Slemen didn't start, and, as far as I know, it's true.
William Mackenzie was a gambler, and wanted to be buried sitting up at a card table holding a winning hand.
(So the devil wouldn't get him, but that bit might be a myth.)

[Kev]

[MissInformed]

ta kev!

I have always been interested in the pyramid since I was a kid.

I fear that if anything is developed on the site, it will be cleared away

[Kev]

It better bloody not be cleared!!!! The place needs a sympathetic restoration and the tomb left alone.

[MissInformed]

i know. but i bet modern developers wouldn't think that way!

I remember my dad telling me as a kid that some workmen had once tried to open the tomb but been unsuccessful. I dont know if that is true at all...

Philip...Where does the myth originate?

[Downey]

Thanks for the story Gerard, I wonder what happened to the decoration atound the circle crest on the grave. You can see where it used to be.

[PhilipG]

i know. but i bet modern developers wouldn't think that way!

I remember my dad telling me as a kid that some workmen had once tried to open the tomb but been unsuccessful. I dont know if that is true at all...

Philip...Where does the myth originate?

Can't remember, Carrie, but I heard about it years before Tom Slemen's books.
And it just makes sense - why else have such an unusual shape?
What date was TS's first book, BTW?

[MissInformed]

Can't remember, Carrie, but I heard about it years before Tom Slemen's books.
And it just makes sense - why else have such an unusual shape?
What date was TS's first book, BTW?

ooohhh i think mid 90's.
I will have a little look through my books and get back to you on that.
He had some leaflet type things out before Haunted Liverpool though..