Thank you for the tour, very interesting. The flat gravestones look like they have been laid flat deliberately for safety reasons. Making a memorial safe is the responsibility of the grave owner, but probably all the grave owners have passed on. It would be very expensive for the Council to re-erect them in a safe condition. It's a shame, but better than a gravestone toppling onto a child.
Some of the stones look like they've been laid down on purpose, and the condition of the WWII civilian memorial is shameful to say the least. I thoroughly enjoyed the assortment of hand crafted stonework in this cemetery. Thank you.
I have a number of ancestors buried at Anfield. As DM notes below, I think a number of these memorials have been laid down as they may have been precariously placed and likely to fall as the ground has shifted over the years. This was a very enjoyable watch. Thank you. 🥰
The picture beneath the heart on the Brennan's headstone is that of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (also known as Padre Pio), who was a Franciscan friar, priest, and mystic. He is the first priest to bear the marks of the Stigmata (the Wounds of Christ on the side, feet and hands) on his body. He is a well-loved and revered saint of the Roman Catholic Church. He's not a family member.
Thankyou Such a peaceful place with so much history and memories. I think I recall all the white headstones that go in a curve are soldiers of the war Good video! Thanks for showing us
The head stones have been placed like this for a reason by Liverpool City Council by permission of the families! It stops vandels knocking them over, even though this does happen from time to time, not sure if other city councils does the same
Hello Boots Mc tee just watched 2 year old video of Anfield cemetery . Very interesting thank you . Just to say grave headstones are managed by cemetery and are laid flat for health and safety reasons . It’s not vandalism 🇬🇧🇬🇧
This might not be the local bad boys knocking over the stones.My local cemetery has a lot of these older stones lying down due to the local council getting all safety aware.Now all headstones have to be fixed properly into the ground so they don't topple over.
You should see some of the rural cemeteries in the U.S.A. Vandalism is very much an issue. There does not appear to be any mandate to keep the cemeteries mowed etc. Monuments fall down or are victims of the vandals and not repaired.
I would say you did enter through the main entrance,there are only a few gateways accessible by vehicle,the other few entrances are gateways for pedestrians.
Your insistence that some headstones have been pushed over is wide of the mark. Some headstones are deliberately laid flat but some have fallen because of subsidence in the ground.
Due to a nasty accident and one of the old stones falling, the stones were laid down for safety reasons, a little research beforehand, wouldn't have gone a miss, you make us sound disrespectful to our dead, bit rude referring "like a bombsite"! bit anoyed you kept saying it Also theyre catacombs and are under restoration!
I have a distant relation buried here called Robert Irwin 1910, a child, buried in a paupers grave. His parents are from Cloonboygher, County Leitrim. RIP.
Thank you for the tour, very interesting. The flat gravestones look like they have been laid flat deliberately for safety reasons. Making a memorial safe is the responsibility of the grave owner, but probably all the grave owners have passed on. It would be very expensive for the Council to re-erect them in a safe condition. It's a shame, but better than a gravestone toppling onto a child.
Agreed with you ... how sad....still you created an interesting video and I thank your efforts....
Some of the stones look like they've been laid down on purpose, and the condition of the WWII civilian memorial is shameful to say the least. I thoroughly enjoyed the assortment of hand crafted stonework in this cemetery. Thank you.
I have a number of ancestors buried at Anfield. As DM notes below, I think a number of these memorials have been laid down as they may have been precariously placed and likely to fall as the ground has shifted over the years. This was a very enjoyable watch. Thank you. 🥰
Yes your right, time, weather and ground movement
I've family here too
The picture beneath the heart on the Brennan's headstone is that of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (also known as Padre Pio), who was a Franciscan friar, priest, and mystic. He is the first priest to bear the marks of the Stigmata (the Wounds of Christ on the side, feet and hands) on his body. He is a well-loved and revered saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
He's not a family member.
At least the grounds are mowed, kept clean unfortunately some grave sites been interfered.
Thankyou
Such a peaceful place with so much history and memories.
I think I recall all the white headstones that go in a curve are soldiers of the war
Good video! Thanks for showing us
The head stones have been placed like this for a reason by Liverpool City Council by permission of the families! It stops vandels knocking them over, even though this does happen from time to time, not sure if other city councils does the same
Hello Boots Mc tee just watched 2 year old video of Anfield cemetery . Very interesting thank you . Just to say grave headstones are managed by cemetery and are laid flat for health and safety reasons . It’s not vandalism 🇬🇧🇬🇧
This might not be the local bad boys knocking over the stones.My local cemetery has a lot of these older stones lying down due to the local council getting all safety aware.Now all headstones have to be fixed properly into the ground so they don't topple over.
You should see some of the rural cemeteries in the U.S.A. Vandalism is very much an issue. There does not appear to be any mandate to keep the cemeteries mowed etc. Monuments fall down or are victims of the vandals and not repaired.
OWEN OWEN had a large department store in the city centre.
I think the wind has blown the gravestones down,there is a fierce wind comes up off the River Mersey.
I would say you did enter through the main entrance,there are only a few gateways accessible by vehicle,the other few entrances are gateways for pedestrians.
the masonry on the old chapels are amazing,olus they filmed some of the Batman movie here.
A morte é uma coisa fascinante, embora ninguém queira morrer.
it's not in Lancashire anymore the county is now called the Liverpool city region. it used to be called Merseyside
Your insistence that some headstones have been pushed over is wide of the mark. Some headstones are deliberately laid flat but some have fallen because of subsidence in the ground.
My mum and dad are here.
The stones are laid down not pushed over as a safety precaution.
Excellent video. Do The Welsh retain more of their culture, than the other cultures in U.K.? e.g. Irish and Scotts.
Historically educational.
I wonder if many of the citizens of Anfield, know of the memorials which are in a poor state, it would not take alot of effort to right the wrongs
Due to a nasty accident and one of the old stones falling, the stones were laid down for safety reasons, a little research beforehand, wouldn't have gone a miss, you make us sound disrespectful to our dead, bit rude referring "like a bombsite"! bit anoyed you kept saying it
Also theyre catacombs and are under restoration!
I have a distant relation buried here called Robert Irwin 1910, a child, buried in a paupers grave. His parents are from Cloonboygher, County Leitrim. RIP.