Anyone know anything about Wardsend Cemetery?

[mikebatty]

Wardsend cemetery was situated on the top of the hillside between waterside and the old shirecliffe tip . I think it was accessed from the road just beyond the bend at the back of Sheffield Wed . training ground down by the Owlerton stadium .

[HughW]

Yes landfill

 

http://www.thestar.co.uk:80/community/letters/graves_worth_more_than_this_1_3640345

 

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=parkwood+landfill+site+sheffield&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari

 

No.

 

That letter in the Star is codswallop.

[Allen]

I walked through Wardsend Cemetery today and was pleasantly surprised.

It's been a long time since I was down there.

A lot of the overgrown graves have now been cleared of vegetation. The path from the bridge is now tarmacked (was just a dirt path when I last visited)

I'm not saying it is restored...just that some work has been done to improve things.

Well done "Friends of Wardsend"......I presume you are responsible.

[mikebatty]

reflecting back to my younger days when we spent lots of time over that area where the cemetery and the tip are I recall even then that the cemetery was quite overgrown and unkempt . It is not until I read about the history of its incumbents that it makes one realise that respect and regard are very shot lived .

However , in the case of the tip , the question of regard and respect - for the health , safety and well being of the living should be of paramount importance .

Prior to the tip being as vast as it must be after all these years , I suspect a great deal of undesirable information and knowledge regarding what is deep under there is " well and truly covered up " .

 

I can recall streams from the springs higher up running under the tip . Water ran down the gulleys that were yet to be filled in . The filling in was done from the gas works as well as everywhere else . During the process of manufacturing the gas - as was the case then - there was all sorts of things dropped in . Much of the coke was still hot when it was tipped , along with wooden filter grates from the gas works . As a consequence those parts of the tip used to re-ignite and burn for long enough underground .

 

I would suggest that if any due regard was to be given to the health, safety and well being of people round the area , then extensive testing and research of the whole area should be a number one priority . The whole result of that research , plus discussion of the future use of the whole and surrounding area ,

should be the subject of a full and open public enquiry , to ensure that all vested interests are aired and there are no" cover ups " as is all to often the case in large projects like this .

[kaydee]

been bugging me for a few months now anyone now the history of the graveyard at rear of coopers scrapyard at the left of the five arches allovergrown now howmay /names

[Arfer Mo]

been bugging me for a few months now anyone now the history of the graveyard at rear of coopers scrapyard at the left of the five arches allovergrown now howmay /names

 

Wardsend grave yard l believe

[Kelvinlad]

been bugging me for a few months now anyone now the history of the graveyard at rear of coopers scrapyard at the left of the five arches allovergrown now howmay /names

 

http://www.friendsofwardsendcemetery.btck.co.uk/

[old tup]

I lived half a mile away from Wardsend Cemetery across the river Don at the side of where the new college is now from 1943 until the middle 60s.Our old cottage was part of a water mill built in the late 1700s the goit and dam had been filled in around 1930 so I never saw it.I knew the last family that lived in the house at the cemetery the Grattens I went to school at Hillfoot with Geoff his dad was the gravedigger he had an older brother Allen and sisters also I forget their names it seems such a long time ago!.

[rapido]

I've not read all the responses to you question but I know the cemetary quite well. I've not been for a few years though.

It's beneath Parkwood Springs at the back of the Casino on penistone Road. The way I used to get to it was to walk along the riverside path that began near the farfield pub (or is it the owl again?). There used to be some very old industrial buildings there that were allowed to burn down and now it's just a massive open site. Just follow the path along and you will get there eventually. You just sort of happen into it; it's a very peacful place and I remember a grave of somebody there who fought at Gallipoli. I don't remember any really grand monuments there but it really is a piece of local history that just seems to have been forgotten

[mikebatty]

I remember saying previously , we used to go onto " waterside " by the river Don when I was at hillfoot school . That was on the road from the Farfield . Being youngsters we played on by White Bridge but, being youngsters we never paid any attention to reverential importance of the cemetery , nor its historical importance . Having read the thread postings one can only regret that inconsideration now . However , that is no excuse for the inconsideration and decimation of such a site of historical value and importance by the authorities . Unfortunately , that seems to be the way of our world to-day.