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[wooder]

I am looking for any information about st helens cremaroriumi know it opeaned in 1962 has anybody got any pictures of the site
before it was built or when it was being built ?any pictures inside the chaple when it first opened ive asked at all the obvious places
but nobody seams to have records of it being built . anybody old enough to remember were the coffin was placed when you went
to a funeral i am convinced that the coffin was placed on rollers about 2 feet off the floor to the left off were the vicar
stand now and it slowly went though a curtain . I dont think i dreamt this and when you look were the coffin is placed today behind
them 2 big pillows it just dose not seam someone would design it in that way any info please their must be someone who knows /

[eddieguff]

Dunno any details about it being built etc wooder, but you are right about the coffin being placed on rollers. First time I was in the crem was in the early 1980's and it was as you said then. By the way, welcome to the site.

[Handsome Johnny]

i'll give you a funny true story about when it was being built, my mum went to see if they had any jobs as she thought they were building a new factory.........

[RATTY]

Couldnt seem to find anything except this and Im too young to remember, there may be something in the library but I couldnt see anything in the catalogue, maybe someone else will know.


The cemetary was opened in 1858 and the crematorium was opened in 1962. There is room to expand until the mid 1990,s. The crematorium is more popular but that has not always been true. Two to three people get buried a day on average but seven a day get cremated on average. There are three chapels there but only one is now used. St.Thomas's Well is supposed to cure blindness. The oldest grave is 1857 20 November, and the person was Marian Shanks. When the cemetary first opened to be buried cost £9.

Edited by RATTY, 21 November 2011 - 11:42 PM.

[tessmop]

well researched ratty

[RATTY]

Why thank you

[Kneeshin]

RATTY, on 21 November 2011 - 11:41 PM, said:

Couldnt seem to find anything except this and Im too young to remember, there may be something in the library but I couldnt see anything in the catalogue, maybe someone else will know.


The cemetary was opened in 1858 and the crematorium was opened in 1962. There is room to expand until the mid 1990,s. The crematorium is more popular but that has not always been true. Two to three people get buried a day on average but seven a day get cremated on average. There are three chapels there but only one is now used. St.Thomas's Well is supposed to cure blindness. The oldest grave is 1857 20 November, and the person was Marian Shanks. When the cemetary first opened to be buried cost £9.

Marian Shanks was buried 4 month before the cemetery was opened she was the wife of James Shank and was the sister of his first wife and the cost was £10/16/00 of which £1/16/00 cost for the vault
The first burial after the cemetery was opened was the of Emily Florance Marsh her father was John Marsh Mayor 1870/1872 the cost was £9/00/00
The first Pauper was Sarah Tunstall at a cost of £0/4/6
Those who have and the have nots

[antonio111]

The first cremation I attended there was in 1979. I distinctly remember it was the first time I had seen a trolley used in church with the 'bearers' wheeling it, however when they got to the crem they had to carry on shoulders to line the coffin up with the catafalque before the (Pearl and Dean presents) curtains came down.

[Phyll]

Hi Wooder, to Connect. There are other threads on here which may help you.
Here is a link with a little more info.

http://www.parksandg...eview=1&Itemid=

[Kneeshin]

Wooder, Been in the Cemetery to-day and here is your answer there is two chaples the one that is in use now and a small one that is no longer used in the small one the coffin go's though the wall in front of you,In the one that we use the coffin go's though the wall on the left. Both was used in the 1960/70 but the small one was shut due to H.S. Hope this help

[wooder]

thanks will see if they will let me have a look ? i think it was the big chaple i rememnber

[DJGAZZA]

Did you know the people who live in those big houses opposite the cemetery can't be buried in there?

Edited by DJGAZZA, 02 December 2011 - 10:07 PM.

[eddieguff]

DJGAZZA, on 02 December 2011 - 10:06 PM, said:

Did you know the people who live in those big houses opposite the cemetery can't be buried in there?

Of course they can't Gazza, they ain't dead yet!

[DJGAZZA]

Correct