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Carly and Alex from the Playground, Nico Hall and Nico's dog Ginny with the finished well-dressing. Photo by Sarah Truman

Well-dressing 2022 jubilee celebrations

10th June 2022

Story by Saleema Imam. Photos by Nico Hall, Sarah Truman and Donna Wainman. The Friends of Burngreave Cemetery held their annual well-dressing in conjunction with a community picnic on Saturday 4th June. The theme this [Read more]

Apple Day 2021

13th December 2021

Story by Saleema Imam. Photo by Sarah Truman. As part of 2021 Heritage Open Days theme ‘Edibles’, the Friends of Burngreave Cemetery held their apple day on Sunday 19th September. After an early downpour, the [Read more]

Cemetery Bat Walk Friday 24th September

23rd September 2021

The Friends of Burngreave Cemetery are hosting a bat walk around the cemetery 7-9.30pm on Friday 24th September. The walk will be led by Robert Croxton from Sorby Natural History Society. Meet at the old [Read more]

Well Dressing 2021: “Peace”

12th June 2021

It was a lovely sunny day for the annual Well Dressing events in Burngreave Cemetery on Saturday 5th June. This year’s theme for the Well Dressing was ‘Peace’. Story by Christine Steers. Photos by Christine and Patrick Amber [Read more]

Tourists flock to Burngreave

4th November 2019

Story by Graham Jones | Photo by Tim Neal This summer has seen a number of organised walks through Burngreave with the majority of walkers coming from other parts of the city and places beyond. [Read more]

New life in the cemetery

29th April 2019

Story by Saleema Imam | Photos by Alex Giblin Price On Thursday April 11th, children and staff from the adventure playground planted hawthorn saplings in Burngreave cemetery with members of the Friends of Burngreave Cemetery. [Read more]

Sam Wardle photo courtesy of Northern General Hospital history group

A tragic homecoming

18th March 2019

Samuel Wardle was born on 19th October 1897 the son of James Wardle and Mary Marshall who already had six children. James died in 1905 and was buried in Burngreave Cemetery. Mary married Edward Hannah in 1906. [Read more]