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90: 22: 401: 516: 74:, with surface water being problematic during burials and visitation to grave sites. The city has worked to rectify this situation in recent years, with the installation of ground drainage schemes being completed in 2009. The ground drainage scheme has opened up new areas for the opening of new graves, in parts of the cemetery that were originally thought to be unusable. 59:, being an independent company), opened in 1959. The crematorium features 3 chapels – one large, central chapel, with twinned smaller chapels to the eastern and western sides of the building. Until 2022, the crematory area of the crematorium was equipped with three 'Newton'-model cremators, installed by the Furnace Construction Co. Ltd. of 108:
cemetery following rebuilding work at the prison, were cremated at Blackley Crematorium. The cremated remains were re-interred in two graves (plot C2710 and C2711) at the adjacent cemetery. They included the remains of the three
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area. This project is currently in the planning and problem-solving stage, and it is as yet unknown when the new burial area will be opened for use.
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In 1991, the remains of 63 executed prisoners (of which 45 were identifiable) that had been exhumed from unmarked graves in the
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and his wife and children stands in the cemetery. They were all killed by the IRA in 1974 in the
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The cemetery was, at one time, well known for having problems with
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A currently unused area of the cemetery is to be developed into a
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Blackley Crematorium was the venue for the funeral in 1994 of
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The cemetery contains Blackley Crematorium, the only
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situated within the northern suburbs of the city of
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cemetery
Manchester
Manchester City Council
crematorium
Manchester City Council
Southern Cemetery
Hyde, Cheshire
Leeds
drainage
Natural Burial

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
Strangeways Prison
Manchester Martyrs
Salford
Coronation Street
Doris Speed
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
M62 coach bombing
"Cemeteries and Crematoria"
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"Cemeteries and Crematoria"
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"Essential drainage works at Blackley Cemetery"
"Mass Exhumation"
"Consistory Court Cases 2007"
Ecclesiastical Law Society
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"Manchester-family-history-research.co.uk"

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