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Many of the headstones in Everton Cemetery date back much further than its opening. Whenever work was undertaken in the city, like widening of roads or dock gates, if this work cut into the city's graveyards, the bodies would be exhumed, and moved to Everton, along with their headstones. Sections of
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On 31 August 1898, Liverpool's Necropolis Cemetery (Low Hill/Everton), was closed, due to an edict of the City Council, citing the unsanitary conditions spreading to surrounding neighbourhoods, plus the fact that the cemetery was nearing its full capacity of 80,000 burials. The old headstones were
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The majority of standing Necropolis Headstones at Everton Cemetery are in the centre of Section GEN6; however, there are a few of these headstones placed in other religious denomination sections of the cemetery. Older 'dropped' headstones and remains, from churches within the city, long gone, are
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Headstones from 'active' private plots at the Necropolis were removed to Everton Cemetery, along with much older headstones and remains from church graveyards within the city boundaries, when public works, such as road-widening or improvements to the riverside docks were undertaken in the early
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Liverpool (Everton) Cemetery contains 55 First World War burials and 15 from the Second World War. There is a small Screen Wall memorial bearing the names of those whose graves are not marked by headstones. During the First World War, almost 700 American servicemen died in Liverpool's military
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tribal representatives, the head was exhumed in 1997 (despite a common grave of 22 infant children having been made over it in intervening years) for repatriation and reburial in
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In December 1914, Liverpool became one of the 21 Auxiliary Patrol Bases and, in February 1915, the base of the
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hospitals and most of them were buried in Everton cemetery. Their remains were later removed in 1920 to the
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Fforde, Cressida (2002), "Chapter 18: Yagan", in Fforde, Cressida; Hubert, Jane; Turnbull, Paul (eds.),
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The gates to the cemetery, the lodge and the chapel are all Grade II listed buildings.
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The Dead and Their Possessions: Repatriation in Principle, Policy, and Practice
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buried in the outer boundary sections of Everton Cemetery (CE32-38).
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a public park, which was opened by City Alderman J.R. Grant in 1914.
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Everton Cemetery contain many of these graves, from the likes of
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After lobbying of British and Australian governments by
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The site for the cemetery was bought in 1876/7, and
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Everton Cemetery
Fazakerley
Liverpool
Merseyside
Coordinates
53°27′25″N 2°56′31″W / 53.457°N 2.942°W / 53.457; -2.942
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