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pollyanna
 Post subject: haggate graveyard
PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 3:46 pm 
Mel did you find out who is supposed to be looking after haggate graveyard? I think you were going to ask Roger.
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I was Pollyanna, it completely slipped my mind. Sorry.
I think he will be busy this weekend with the Remembrance Day event so I'll give him a call on Monday.

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Thanks Mel
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I haven't forgotten this. I have tried to phone Roger a couple of times this week and got the answerphone.

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I have spoken to Roger. The same body of people are looking after it now that were looking after it when the Chapel was standing. The Chapel still holds it's services in the school building.
Enquiries should be addressed to the Chapel Secretary. If anyone would like the details of who this is, let me know and I will get the info from Roger and PM it. I don't want to post it on here as I wouldn't like someone broadcasting my details on the world wide web.

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Like many who do not live in the area I still have an interest in the graveyard, Bradshaws and Watsons of my family are partying there. About 3/4 years ago after a family burial when the graveyard was looking a little neglected I wrote afterwards to thank the minister for his service and suggested consideration might be given to forming a Friends of Haggate Graveyard. I didn't get a reply, he may not have got the letter or thought it a barmy idea, but I am sure many like me who can not visit regularly would be willing to participate in upkeep costs if needed, it really is the most lovely place to visit. Where does the funding come from, does anyone know? Have to say I have not visited for over a year so am not qualified to give any opinion on what is happening now.
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We visited Hill Lane Chapel a couple of years back and they had some young men doing community service. They were doing general tidying up work, and a good job of it as well. That was, I think, a saturday morning.

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One of the stones at Hill Lane has been broken this year. I thought it looked like clumsiness as opposed to vandalism. The graveyard had recently been tidied in the area where the stone has been broken. A crying shame, if I remember right, the stone was over 200 years old

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Something else Roger mentioned, the old part of Haggate graveyard is now closed. There is a gate on Halifax Road which is now locked/bolted. I believe this is because this particular section is dangerous with many sunken graves. I got the impression that it was closed following the demolition of the Chapel. This section is also fenced off from the newer graves section.

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We climbed through the fence, and yes there are a lot of sunken graves. A lot of it is overgrown, there are holes and broken gravestones.
My James Kippax who died 1847 is in that part, but there was no headstone, and no grave numbers then.

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The gate used to be unlocked. I remember going there with mum and dad when the Chapel was still standing. It was winter so the grass wasn't too overgrown but my dad still managed to nearly fall down one of the sunken graves.
We tried to look in the old section some years earlier before the fence was put up. We turned the corner by the wall and got no further. The grass was as tall as us!

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Have those headstones been transcribed anywhere? or are they in with the new part of the churchyard?

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As far as I am aware they are untouched.
They should be on Haggate MI's as these were recorded in the 1970's/1980's.

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I think I worded that wrong Mel, I didn't mean, had the headstones been moved.
So I am right in thinking they are in the MI's you have put on the site?
Hope that makes sense.

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If they were recorded in the MI's, and they are amongst the ones that were given to me that I have added, then yes they should be on the site.

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