Damage to headstone, Southern Cemetery,Barlow Moor Road,Manchester, North West England, UK, M21

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Southern Cemetery is a large municipal cemetery in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, 3 miles ( km) south of the city centre. It opened in 1879 and is owned and administered by Manchester City Council. It is the largest municipal cemetery in the United Kingdom and the second largest in Europe. Manchester Southern Cemetery originally occupied a 100-acre (40 ha) plot of land, in what was then Withington, that cost Manchester Corporation £38,340 in 1872. Its cemetery buildings were designed by architect H. J. Paull and its layout attributed to the city surveyor, James Gascoigne Lynde.

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Size: 5148px × 3648px
Location: 212 Barlow Moor Rd, Manchester,England,UK, M21 7GL
Photo credit: © Tony Smith / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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