The Glasgow Necropolis - History Insights
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2016
- The Glasgow Necropolis contains 55,000 burials, but only 3,500 memorial stones. The site had been called Fir Park however the trees died from air pollution and the Merchants House built the Necropolis here in the 1830s. The statue of John Knox was erected in 1825. Lady Well lies near the original entrance to the old Ladywell Quarry.
I lived in John Knox St for five years as a boy between 1954 & 1959, before we moved to the north of the city. Always remember that my bedroom overlooked the Necropolis.
We've just filmed a 4k walk through the Necropolis, so it's especially interesting for us to hear more about it. Thank you for the insight Roger.
Glad you found it interesting
I was born and raised in the Drygate ,my family lived in the area for more than 250 years , I played in the Necropolis as a child
A fascinating playground
My gran lived in townhead , on Sundays whenever I stayed the weekend with her , she would take me here and show me all the historical graves there .it is a very interesting place to visit and well worth a look, also visit Glasgow Cathedral, Provan Lordship, and The Barony Church, all around the same area .
Recently it was chosen for the new Batman movie ,and is being filmed as Gotham City .
They were at the old Hartwood Mental Hospital as well it seems. You were lucky to have such an interesting Gran.
Yes I was Roger , my dad was obviously influenced by my gran, he was forever telling my brother and I to look up and we would see how beautiful Glasgow was . We are lucky to have some great architecture around us .
Those people had a lot of time back then to build these awesome monuments. Not like today!
Time and money :-)
Nice video Roger.
Many thanks
you're welcome @@rogergriffith286
Thanks
This cemetery is very well looked after i stay not far from it. Sadly they are 19 firemen buried there after the cheapside street whisky bond fire disaster
My god it looks like Dark Souls
They say the place is very haunted
No.
This place has a lot of paranormal round it lay lines everywhere no one would enter it at night. Would Zack & Ghost Adventures crew enter am going to try & see if Zack & the guy's would come over to investigate its pure haunted me & mate's have done it wish we didn't nightmare wee have out of this world.
I see the monuments, but where exactly were the bodies? Surly 55,000 were not buried in the ground on such a small area? An interesting site. Here in America, near Charleston South Carolina, where I am, we have a burial yard called Magnolia Cemetery, It is the oldest public cemetery here, founded in 1849. We just do not have the History you do, being a much younger nation, obviously.
Enjoy your videos and will keep watching.
Thanks. It's bigger than you might think. A number of graves have multiple burials as do the burial crypts/mausoleums, etc. Still seems to be something of a disparity though! In ancient times they removed the bones to make more room and put them in a charnel house and when that was full they were sometimes burned - origin of the word 'Bonfire' it is said! In the 19th century whenever old bones were uncovered the farmers used them as fertilizer!
I see. I am familiar with the practice of moving the bones but was not sure that had been done here. The Catacombs of Paris sound amazing , with the bones of millions placed there.
Yes your right - I was talking 'medieval'
Bodies were buried as many as ten deep in a grave, though the family mausoleums could hold more if wealthy enough to have a large vault.
On the eastern summit section there are two large grassy areas without monuments, below the grass are rows of brick lined trenches cut deep into the whinstone outcrop of the hill which house the vast majority of the Necropolis' permanent residents. These are termed 'common graves', a somewhat technical term used to distinguish them from individual or family plots, as there's no guarantee that the person buried below or above you would be in any way related. It doesn't mean "graves for common people" as is often presumed.
Close by the Jewish cemetery, I saw several gravestones had conch shells placed on top of them. Does anyone know why?
It is suggested that a seashell left on a grave was to indicate a loved one’s visit to the deceased, leaving a shell behind as an indicator of the visit to others and as a decoration. Victorians used them in gardens quite a bit.
Thankyou, Roger. I love your videos.