"Of your charity pray for the soul of Eliza Ann"
Today I explored two of the closed cemeteries in Nottingham, England. The General Cemetery and Church Cemetery, also known as Rock Cemetery.
This grave marker was found in the General Cemetery and dates from 1900.
The General opened in the 1830's and covers 18 acres, with 150,000 burials. The cemetery was closed to further burials in the 1920's due to health concerns as the corporation running it buried as many people as closely together as they could. Close relatives could still be buried into family plots as there was also an area reserved for war dead, which during WWII filled up quickly also as Nottingham suffered considerable losses.
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