Disused graveyards/ locations with alledged occult connectio

[yoker brian]

Its just a memorial to him in the necropolis, he is buried in tollcross, he was destitute when he died, so there is no way he would have been interred in the necropolis, you had to be worth a few quid to get in there.

Not necesserily - there is an area of the Necropolis which holds quiet a lot of unmarked / paupers graves

[Huggy]

QPR, if you're still above ground? A wee article on the cholera outbreak of 1849. Glasgow was overcrowded with folk escaping the famine in Ireland and the Highlands, in the east end the dead were stacked in burial pits six coffins deep.

http://www.happyhaggis.co.uk/1849cholera.htm hope this works!

The Old Calton burial ground still exists but the John Street & Abercromby Street burial grounds mentioned are a bit of a mystery. What stands on those sites today? I can't imagine cholera victims being disturbed. Are people now living on top of this?

Huggy.

[Lucky Poet]

Gruesome stuff. I must stop playing with the NLS's maps site so much, but here's what they have. They've not been built on, which is probably very sensible given what I've just read, and appear to be waste land.

Here's the Abercromby Street one. If you switch this map to the 1850s OS one, prior to St Mary's Industrial Schools there was a convent next door, which may or may not be a coincidence:
>Map 1<

John Street is now Tullis Street, and Green Street at the other side of the burial ground has partly been replaced by Landressy Place. The burial ground is marked disused by the time of the 1890s OS map:
>Map 2<

(As an aside, though most of the buildings around the second one have gone, including Bridgeton Free Church, I wonder if that's the church hall still there?)

[Huggy]

Many thanks for that LP but how do I access the maps, blank pages!
I must go and have a wee keek at the sites, gruesome I know but the thought of the juice from the pits running doon the street pit me aff ma dinner.
These folk are doubtless the ancestors of many present Glaswegians, their graves unmarked & forgotten.

Huggy.

[old jock]

Huggy

They work fine for me I'm running Chrome. There may be issues if your accessing via an I Pad, Mac or phone, not sure.

The maps can be accessed through National Library of Scotland. You pick the map you want to look at and you can then see the old map. Depending on how you choose to view there is sometimes a slider on the top left allows you to fade it out into a modern Google Earth image, so it brilliant for cross referencing the old maps to what is there now

http://maps.nls.uk/

All the instructions are there on the site, it is an absolutely blinding resource

John

[Huggy]

Many thanks for the map info guys, got the hang of it.

Huggy.

[Godsgift]

The man who wrote Wee Wullie Winkie is buried @ Tollcross gravy I`m told.(or was it wee willie wanker)Ah dont know if it has an occult connection but ah`m told he wore a kilt.

I think he's in the Necropolis.

You are 100 % right.

[BTJustice]

Surely a disused graveyard is just a field?

[bAzTNM]

The man who wrote Wee Wullie Winkie is buried @ Tollcross gravy I`m told.(or was it wee willie wanker)Ah dont know if it has an occult connection but ah`m told he wore a kilt.

I think he's in the Necropolis.

You are 100 % right.

There is also a plaque stuck onto the wall of the Tennents Brewery on Duke Street. I believe he must have lived in one of the houses opposite.

[Godsgift]

Surely a disused graveyard is just a field?

I was wondering that myself. How can a graveyard be disused? Have the corpses found better accomodation and moved out?

[yoker brian]

Surely a disused graveyard is just a field?

I was wondering that myself. How can a graveyard be disused? Have the corpses found better accomodation and moved out?

I remember seeing a "small ad" in one of the local papers it was along the lines of "Exchange Wanted - family lair, quiet location, stunning views, family looking to relocate"