Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS)

View looking down towards a pathway lined with bare trees. Either side of the pathway are gravestones amongst grassed over areas.

Tree lined path at Edgerton Cemetery, Huddersfield.
#ThickTrunkTuesday

Hope you have a good day too.

Good day to you.
Many over the years.

Photograph capturing a snow-covered cemetery featuring the disused chapel and Victorian era grave monuments under a clear blue sky.

Good day all.
Looking back to this day in 2023 when the cemetry was covered in a blanket of snow.

This memorial at Wardsend has the following inscription: IN LOVING MEMORY OF JOSEPH, THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF ELIZABETH CRESSWELL WHO DIED MARCH 6TH 1949, AGED 63 YEARS. I MISS YOU BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, YOU WERE DEARER THAN SILVER OR GOLD.

'I miss you because I love you.
You were dearer than silver or gold.'

'In loving memory of Joseph, the beloved husband of Elizabeth Cresswell'

Joseph died on 6th March 1949. He was 63 .

Image shows a close-up of the headstone of the Hanson family buried at Lister Lane Cemetrey. The inscription on the stone reads: In memory of Joseph Hanson, of Halifax, born May 24th 1822, died June 2nd 1880. Also of Harriet Emma, daughter of the above, born May 3rd 1860, died October 2nd 1862. Also of Ellen, daughter of the above, born January 4th 1868, died February 2nd 1869. "Thy will be done." Also of Martha, widow of the above Joseph Hanson, who died March 9th 1899, aged 73 years.

Remembering Martha, wife of Joseph Hanson, who died on this day in 1899 at the age of 73.

Good afternoon.

Good day to you.

Nice to know they are there. Waiting for warmer weather.

Close-up of about twenty overwintering ladybirds clustered together against the weathered stonework of a grave monument.

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Good day all.
Groups of ladybirds clustered aginst weathered stonework or in crevices of grave monuments.
🐞 🐞 🐞

Black and white images of photographs of lady embalmers, labeled as Mrs. Russ, Mrs. Greenslade, Mrs. Young, and Miss Gardner.

#InternationalWomensDay #TheVictorianBookoftheDead Profiles of early lady embalmers. While women traditionally laid out the dead, the notion of them working as embalmers seemed to shock. "STRANGE OCCUPATION FOLLOWED BY MANY AMERICAN WOMEN."
thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2018/11/14/l...

Grave of Humbug Billy - and peppermint poison victims - found in cemetery THE man known as ‘Humbug Billy’ was at the centre of a gruesome chapter of Bradford’s past - a mass poisoning that killed more than 20 people…

www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2591413...

Good day to you.

Thank you for your lovely comment. The cemetery is maintained by its wonderful volunteers with the help of Bereavement Servces and Community Payback.

Good morning. The building is the former Park Congregational Church on Francis Street, Halifax.

Thank you. Have a good Sunday too.

Good day all. Views from this morning's walk round Lister Lane Cemetery. Lovely to see more daffodils in bloom.

Good morning.

Good day to you.

Good morning. Hope you have a good one too.

Cose-up of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission headsstone marking the burial place of Drummer Sam Wadswoth. Either side of the headstone there are yellow daffodils in bloom.

Remembering Sam, son of Harry and Irene Wadsworth of Southowram Bank, Halifax. Drummer in the 4th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment. Sam died at Shelf Sanatorium on 7th March 1918, aged 18 years.
Image from April 2025.

Image features a wood pigeon atop a draped urn monument against a background of bare trees.

Good day all.
Wood pigeon atop draped urn monument.

A memorial to a young girl in a Tonbridge cemetery

Love where you live, and honour your ancestors

Good day to you.

Thank you. Hope you have a good one too.

Image featuring yellow daffodilis and purple crocuses growing amongst the grass against a slightly misty background of gravestones.

Good morning from the Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery.
#FridayFlowers

Demolished Toowong Cemetery Headstones - Friends of Toowong Cemetery Headstones demolished by the Brisbane City Council as part of their

Where did my family's grave go?

The Brisbane City Council demolished over 1000 graves in Toowong Cemetery in the 1970's.

We've published data about 725 demolished graves in a searchable table.

See a photo of the grave before it was demolished. 📸

www.fotc.au/headstones/d...

A weathered stone monument featuring a draped urn, a traditional symbol of mourning, stands prominently against a backdrop of rolling green hills and a clear blue sky. A blurred stone cross is visible in the foreground on the left.

Bethany Pioneer Cemetery, Bethany, South Australia.

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Good afternoon. It was grey and foggy here this morning. The sun is just coming out. Hope you have a good day.

A misty morning at Lister Lane Cemetery.