Mackenzie's Tomb - Rodney Street

[fortinian]

I've been doing some more work,

someone asked for a picture of him - i've got one here


Here is an up close shot of the cartouch above the portal. The motto reads: 'Always Faithful'.



The other interesting part of the story (Slemen's I mean) concerns thirty-three bodies that were found preserved in salt in a cellar in Liverpool. This story is true, much to my surprise. There was a Scottish connection but non with William Mackenzie. Two men were found guilty of grave robbing, Rev. James Macgowan and a man called William Gillespie alias. John Henderson.



The bodies were found to come from the parish workhouse graveyard which was adjacent to the school run by Rev. Macgowan. The bodies would have been worth up to £500 on the medical blackmarket in Glasgow where they were headed for.