Altogether, Calderstones Hospital cemetery is said to have the remains of over 1,000 children and adults
During World War II, thousands of sick children were evacuated from Manchester as it came under threat from German bombers. In 1939 alone, 20,000 left the city.
Altogether, its graveyard is said to have the remains of over 1,000 people, children and adults, including former staff. But today the land has fallen into disrepair. Many of the gravestones are missing, and the land is neglected and overgrown.Campaigners from Lancashire and Greater Manchester now want to save the Ribble Valley hospital cemetery's protected status and restore the site.
But campaigners claim there has been neglect and disrespect of the cemetery over time since the sale. Now, they hope the Bishop of Blackburn will maintain the site's consecrated status, preventing it from being redeveloped. The hospital cemetery has been the focus of debate in the Ribble Valley and beyond. Relatives of the deceased and other people with links to the site, including former hospital staff. come from across the north-west.
The Friends of Calderstones and Brockhall Hospital Cemeteries group hopes the bishop will keep the Mitton Road site's consecrated status.RELATIVE Maria Evans has Manchester and Chorley links. At Calderstones, she visits the burial plot of her uncle, Geoffrey Tebb, who was the brother of her mum, Stella Evans.
She added: "Apparently the headstones were removed for some reason after the first owner bought the site. I can't understand why they would move all the stones from people's graves? I can't see how it was for a health-and-safety reason? 'I LOOKED AFTER ELDERLY LADIES HERE' Ellen Duperouzel is a former Calderstones Hospital nurse who lives nearby. She said: "I was a nurse here from 1984 to 2019. I looked after 15 elderly ladies. The hospital was called an asylum and was for people with learning disabilities. It changed a lot over the years I worked there.
"Today, I could draw pictures of them and describe their personalities. But they are at risk of being forgotten. We don't want that. This place is full of souls." He added: "It's recommended that a crematorium should be located on a site measuring five acres. This is a two-acre site. Also, neighbouring houses are less than 200 yards away, which is supposed to be the minimum distance."
"The logical thing would be for this to become a Whalley cemetery, owned and managed by Ribble Valley Council. People from the area could be buried here. But the council cannot afford the price of valuable land.
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