Thread: Burslem Cemetery

The chapel is currently being demolished. I took these photos last month.

But the cemetery has greater sights than the chapel!

Apparently, it's rarely used and part of the ceiling has collapsed so they're just demolishing it. Can't imagine they'll rebuild a chapel, maybe a garden of remembrance?

Originally Posted by BereniceUK

Apparently, it's rarely used and part of the ceiling has collapsed so they're just demolishing it. Can't imagine they'll rebuild a chapel, maybe a garden of remembrance?

fab picssuch a shame to destroy itits the kind of place people buy and do up in grand designs or something

With the fabulous memorials in the cemetery plus Arnold Bennett the author being buried there, I don't understand why it isn't marketed as a Stoke-on-Trent tourist attraction when The Potteries have so little in the way of attractions.

maybe i'm getting cynical hangin around yam but maybe all down to money?

You're right - there's no money in Stoke-on-Trent. What there was upped and left when the coal mines and potteries closed down.

I wonder if anyone here can help me... I went to visit my brother in laws grave on tuesday ... and I asked my nephew where the church was.. he said they had knocked it down... I was disgusted to think they could knock something so beuatiful old down... Now my question is in 1968 my niece died of a cot death..she was 4 months old.. she was buried right by the side of the church.. does anyone know what would of happened to her remains? and is there is anywhere I can find out please

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