One event that we not fail to publicise this Easter weekend is a tour of Weaste Cemetery.
It was Salford’s first municipal cemetery, and in the mid Victorian era, boasted four chapels and a glazed summer house.
Understandably Weaste Cemetery became the most desirable of final resting-place for well to do Mancunians and Salfordians as is evidenced by the large ornate monuments in ‘Rich man’s plot’.
It is home to some three hundred thousand people within its thirty nine acres and includes amongst that number Joseph Brotherton, a leading social reformer who became Salford’s first M.P; Sir Charles Hallé, the founder of the Hallé Orchestra.
Mark Addy, who saved over 50 people from drowning in the River Irwell and four Crimean War veterans who rode in The Charge of the Light Brigade.
The tour, organised by the Friends of Salford Cemeteries is free and commences at 11.00am.The group will be conducting a number of events this year.
