Quote Originally Posted by Hutch View Post
This is a interesting site -
http://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects....poolrcburials/
11,000 burials by St Oswalds church in just a few years. Bodies brought from all over Liverpool for burial. They must have stacked them sixteen deep.
By all accounts this was a very large number of burials in a very small area. Well marked on at least one map.
Loads of rubbish has been written about the exhumation of the site, its location and the state of the corpses.
A very accurate, well researched account of the exhumation is on the "Old Swan" site, the article is produced by fortinian.
The thirty year closure of Home Office files has now passed, so historians should be able to access Home office records.
Thanks very much for this.
It seems to be the conclusive answer.
I've now seen the 1890 OS map, and the smaller burial ground (facing Mill Lane) did not exist, so the earliest that was added was in the 1890s.
We know that all the burial grounds became disused sometime between 1906 and 1925.
It'll be interesting to find out how the sites are described on post WW2 maps.



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