FORD CEMETERY

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Hi Bob, would this have been part of the convent ?

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Its the chapel Keith opened 1861
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Remember the old gardener who used to shoot salt pellets at you if you climbed the wall of the Convent?
Dodged him a few times after scrumping apples there. :lol: Ken
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Naughty Ken :D :D :D
the chapel demolished in 1988
was designed by the son of pugin
e,w. pugin who designed more than a hundred churchs , chapels
it was called the chapel of holy sepulcre
and the carvings inside where by emanuel edward geflowski
a famous carver who lived at bootle mount up to 1864
wonder if they where saved
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I lived opposite Ford Cemetery on Sterrix Lane, moved in there in Dec 1982 and moved out in Apr 1997. :wink:
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Our House was in Randall Drive off Sterrix Ave 1953 to 2013 . Could see the Cemetery wall on Sterrix Lane from my Bedroom Window.
Used to climb over wall into Cemetery where the Number 56 Bus stopped.
Recently tracing my Ancestry discovered my Paternal Grandma's Father was buried in Row B there in 1891 I been jumping down onto his unmarked grave for years without ever knowing.
Remember being on the 56 going to town when a girl ran out of Convent, bus pulled away chased by two Nuns,
Driver stopped the bus and I watched, as girl pulled by the hair by the Nuns off the bus, back to the House of God Laundry.
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I lived in cumberland ave till 1985 my children went to the holy ghost
moved to the big city :D :D better prospects for my children
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It was a spooky place, no doubt.
Later when we were very brave after 6 pints in the Kirkstone we'd sometimes risk cutting through the Cem after closing to get back to Sterrix Lane. Scariest 10 minutes :shock: :lol: K
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