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Wardsend Cemetery is a disused graveyard in Hillsborough Sheffield with quite a rich history. It is the final resting place of people from the Great Sheffield flood in 1864, Soldiers from both World Wars that were stationed at the nearby Hillsborough Barracks and the site of a grisly mass grave, where bodies used and dissected by Sheffield Medical School, were illegally buried without ceremony or coffins by the Sexton Isaac Howard. Howard took payment for the burials and improperly disposed of the bodies to save money and line his own pockets. The discovery of the pit sparked allegations of grave-robbing and riots broke out in which a mob of locals descended on Howard's house and burned it down, nearly killing his wife (Isaac wasn't home). The mob then started digging up graves of their loved ones to make sure they were in there and hadn't been tampered with. Wardsend is also the only cemetery in England with a railway line running through it! I've only explored one side of the railway so far.
A gravestone carelessly smashed in half to erect a new railway fence:
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A gravestone carelessly smashed in half to erect a new railway fence:
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