Today in Southern Cemetery .... something for everyone

Now just a gentle reminder that today from 10 am in Southern Cemetery you can enjoy a whole range of activities designed to show off this important place.

It is after all the largest “largest municipal cemetery in the UK and the second largest in Europe, with stunning gardens and pathways, and six grade 2 listed buildings, four of which are chapels. 

The cemetery is also the final resting place for many great Mancunians including philanthropist John Rylands, British aviator John Alcock who made history with the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 and former Manchester United Manager, Sir Matt Busby.”*

The full programme consists of

Famous Graves Tours by Emma Fox

Tree Walks with Peter McKessy at 11.30 and again at 2.30

Wildlife Walks by Tony O’Mahony at 11.00 and again at 2.00.

The events have been organised by the Friends of Southern Cemetery,**and is part of Heritage Open Week.***

Tony O’Mahony one of the Friends is keen to point that "times may run a little late, make sure you have appropriate footwear and clothing and that all events will start at the main gates on Barlow Moor Road Entrance."

And sitting separately from the events put on by the Friends is an exhibition of Great War memorabilia in the Remembrance Hall from the collection of David Harrop.****

So not an event to be missed.

Pictures; of Southern Cemetery in 2013 from the collection of Andrew Simpson

*Southern Cemetery, http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/200032/deaths_funerals_and_cemeteries/5099/manchester_cemeteries_and_blackley_crematorium/5

** Friends of southern Cemetery, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-Southern-Cemetery/104042376342221

*** Heritage Open Week, http://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/

****Sharing the memories of the Great War, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/sharing-memories-of-great-war.html