Whilst there are a number of memorials in the old cemetery on Leicester Road that date from during the twentieth century, the majority can be found in the new cemetery on Leicester Road. Looking at some of these now, it’s interesting to note how they differ from earlier memorial stones.
By the time the new part of the cemetery was opened in 1947, the use of Swithland slate for headstones had long since finished. The heyday was probably around the mid-1850s, but there followed a rapid decline in usage, and the last quarry closed in 1887. So, rather than a profusion of Swithland slate, the new part of the cemetery is more likely to include headstones of granite, and limestone (Portland stone and York stone). Further into the latter part of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, black marble seems to dominate.
Other differences seem to be that the length of the grave is often covered in green stone. Headstones from the 1930s-1960s are often rectangular, rather than church window shaped which was popular in earlier times. Some areas of the newer cemetery were still laid out in regimented rows, too.
It proved difficult to track down twentieth-century headstones, as in comparison to some of the twenty-first century ones, they looked rather small, although were mostly the same dimensions as the ones in the older part of the cemetery. I did, however, photograph one that couldn’t have been much more than 2 foot high (where was my tape measure when I needed it?!).
Whilst in the old part of the cemetery, one side was reserved for Anglicans, the other for non-conformists, I'm not sure if this is the case in the newer part of the cemetery. There are, however, areas that seem to be distinctly reserved for Italian people, Polish people, Muslims, and Jews - at least, these were the ones I spotted, but I have no doubt there are many more special areas.
I have not
researched any of the people who are memorialised on the headstones I photographed,
so here are the pictures
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