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Everything you ever wanted to know about death in Liverpool |
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- and everything you'd probably rather not know as well!!
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If you're looking for a burial in Liverpool this guide to the burial grounds should help |
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Facts, figures, bye-laws, mortality figures, coroner's orders and post mortems |
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First hand accounts of deaths, reports of funerals, monumental inscriptions and the changes in |
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fashion which prompted the establishment of privately funded burial grounds and cemeteries. |
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The poor are always with 'us' - but what should we do with them when they die? |
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Some of the earliest traces of Liverpool's cultural diversity can be found in our burial grounds |
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The burial grounds and cemeteries in the town centre rapidly became overcrowded and the |
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resulting public health concerns led to the eventual closure and removal of many of them. |
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Often referred to as the Gateway to the New World, Liverpool is a town of passage as much as one of |
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settlement and as such has many memorials to those who died elsewhere or who have no grave at all. |
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