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by **Sharon** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 11:33 am

ok, it ain't cancelled then...it only goes skin deep as every mother could assure you!!

by **Ronnie** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 11:49 am

Mind and wrap up warm, Sharon.

by **Sharon** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 11:54 am

i'll dig out the oil skins!! ::):

by **kn0wledge** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 9:00 pm

Doesn't look like I'm going to be able to make it tomorrow :< I can't get a lift into the city, and I don't know what public transport is like on a Sunday. This blows, I was really looking forward to it.

I'm expecting to see plenty of photographs :>

by **Sharon** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 4:16 pm

Hidden away amongst new houses in Partick is the Society of Friends burial ground, on the west side of Keith Street, gifted to the local Quaker community by John Purdon in 1711. The last burial was in 1857.

by **Schiehallion** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 10:59 pm

The Modern Fossil wrote:..there was a book out a few years ago (80’s 90’s) about the city’s grave yards. It hade descriptions of famous and infamous people buried in each cemetery. The one person I was most interested in was Stan Laurels mother who was buried over in some south side cemetery. It actually gave you directions of where to locate each tomb. I'll try me local library…

If you are going to Cathcart Cemetery I can give you directions to Stan Laurel's mother's grave. Meanwhile if anyone gets a photo of any famous graves in Glasgow, they can submit it to:

http://www.findagrave.com

which already has some Glasgow graves such as Thomas Lipton and Benny Lynch.

by **Pgcc93** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 11:24 pm

Thanks for the link Schiehallion. It even has has Dolly the Sheep listed

by **Schiehallion** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:41 pm

Pgcc93 wrote:Thanks for the link Schiehallion. It even has has Dolly the Sheep listed

I assume you stumbled across her by searching by location as opposed to............ :roll:

by **Fossil** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:21 pm

another trip to graveyards lined up for 10th April
The voice has it covered so if anyone cares to come along I’m sure it will be announced as an event

by **crusty_bint** » Wed May 19, 2004 6:48 pm

Cathcart Old Cemetary

Nice old graveyard, although in a terrible state

Unusual one... although there were a few lying around

The Martyr's Stone

Mausoleums

1827

1771... possibly the oldest I've seen in Glasgow

Various

Grave in a cage

James Couper (of Holmwood)

Thats all folks

by **Fossil** » Wed May 19, 2004 10:05 pm

Nice pictures Crusty
Here's a few I took a while back one Sunday afternoon.
Did you go over the wall at the back?

Tower

Obelisk

Mcgaw

-Fossil-

by **crusty_bint** » Wed May 19, 2004 10:16 pm

Right back atcha Fossy

I scaled the gate myself, on hindsight the wall would probably have been easier

Crusty

by **joe49** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:45 pm

Does anyone know that the oldest graveyard is in INGRAM STREET Someone famous buried their any ideas?

by **Andyb79** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:56 pm

Would that be in the grave thats now under the pavement?

Found this

The cemetery harbours the grave of one Pierre
l’Angelier, supposedly murdered in the 1850’s in the Victorian
middle class environment of the Georgian quarter you
glimpsed earlier by arsenic poisoning at the hands of his
former lover Madeleine Smith. The trial was a scandal and
sensation but Madeleine went free, found ‘not proven’ by
Scots Law. She emigrated later to America, taking her secret

by **AMcD** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:28 pm

I'm sure Ronnie knows the history of Ramshorn / St David's ... but if it's the pavement near the main entrance that's marked with a cross and the initials A F and R F, it's those of the Foulis Brothers, Andrew and Robert.

They were printers for the College / University in the High Street.

http://www.electricscotland.com/history ... inters.htm

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