Members are invited to submit photographs taken in their cemetery - older views appreciated recording the history
as well as modern digital images

Beckett Street Leeds [courtesy Lynda Kitching]

 

Southampton Old Cemetery - grave of Captain George Smith RN who

developed a lifeboat which sat on the top of the paddle wheel box.

This was fitted to RN ships and Royal Mail Steam Packet. Smith also persuaded 

the Admiralty to use a redundant ship HMS Excellent as a gunnery school training ship. 

 

 

Beckett Street Leeds [courtesy Lynda Kitching]

 

Southampton Old Cemetery. The unmarked grave of a sea captain Charles Rawden Maclean who died on a ship returning to England led to the research that he was known as John Ross. As a young cabin boy he was shipwrecked off Natal and was given shelter by a small group of European settlers and the Zulu chieftain. The community lacked stores and medicines and supported by Zulu warriors Maclean undertook a 300 mile trip with oxen to gain supplies in Portuguese East Africa. As a result the Europeans survived and their settlement became Durban.

 

Friends of Southampton Old Cemetery and Fraserburgh Heritage Centre raised funds for a commemorative headstone to be erected and a nurse from Southampton General Hospital of Zulu descent and members of Fraserburgh Heritage Centre joined the mayor of Southampton Councillor Brian Parnell at the ceremony.

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