Walk around Manchester city centre today and it is difficult to
appreciate that in the nineteenth century you would never have been
more than a few minutes walk from a graveyard. Today, virtually
every trace of these once numerous burial grounds has been erased.
John Marsden takes you on a tour of thirty-seven of Manchester's
burial places, starting with the pre-conquest parish churchyard and
ending with the emergence of cremation as an alternative to burial.
He discusses the development of burial in the city and its eventual
banishment to the suburbs following the Burial Acts of the 1850s.
The book provides a history of each graveyard, tells what became of
it and highlights some of the more notable burials which took place
there.
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