Layton Cemetery is a graveyard located at Talbot Road in Blackpool, Lancashire in England. It was opened in 1873 when Blackpool parish church was replete with burying. The site encompasses 30 acres, having being regularly expanded during its history. It is administered by Blackpool Council. A number of memorials in the cemetery are executed in Portland stone.
The cemetery was designed and laid out by Garlick, Park and Sykes, architects of Preston. Originally there were three mortuary chapels, Anglican, Catholic and Non-Conformist but only the Anglican remains. There was a lodge at the entrance which provided a residence and office for the custodian. The original part of the cemetery was surrounded a stone wall, topped with iron railings with a double iron gate at the entrance. These structures are extant. A World War I memorial is centrally situated.
In the 1930s, the cemetery was rapidly nearing capacity and therefore a new cemetery and crematorium were opened, known as Carleton Crematorium and Cemetery. Layton Cemetery is now replete but interments are permitted in existing graves. [1]
Notable interments
- Dick Barlow England test cricketer
- Gerald Irving Richardson Superintendent of Lancashire Constabulary. Posthumously awarded the George Cross.
- George Washington Williams Afro-American historian
- Samuel Laycock dialect poet
- Edwin Hughes last survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade
- Alfred Tysoe British athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1900 Olympic Games.
- Spencer Timothy Hall Writer and mesmerist.
- Ada Boswell Queen of the Gypsies
Gallery
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Samuel Laycock's grave
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Gerald Richardson's grave
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Dick Barlow's grave
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George Washington Williams' grave
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Edwin Hughes' grave
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Alfred Tysoe's grave
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Spencer Timothy Hall's grave
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Ada Boswell's grave
References
- ^ Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society. Blackpool Cemetery, Layton
External links
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