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| RMMee Moderator Quote | Reply | | Grave at Shipley Hall posted on: 4/2/2008 4:01:26 PM I'm sure this topic has come up before, but I can't lay my hands on it.... "In Shipley park,near Shipley Hall, there is what looks like a small part of a wall. It is fenced off, and it has what looks like could have been windows. Near it is a small squared off area, about 5 foot tall, with 2 entrances. It says that it is consecrated ground, but there is no evidence of anything, or anybody, having been buried there. Could you please help to identify these places and their purpose?" |
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suzard
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replied on: 4/2/2008 5:20:01 PM There is (and from the description it is the same place) a small cemetery - just trying to remember for who? |
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philfred
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replied on: 4/2/2008 9:12:51 PM It is mentioned in the Miller Mundy family thread posted by Scuby. regards Phil |
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suzard
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replied on: 4/2/2008 9:13:02 PM There is reference to this on Miller Mundy topic (on this page at mo) There is the remains of the old cinder house -and also a pet cemetery, but it is thought the pet cemetery is out of view at the moment -unless bushes have been cut back. it is also known there is a piece of consecrated ground on which there used to be a cross -no longer there- it is believed one of the Miller Mundys was buried there -he requested to be buried looking over Mapperley village -but it is thought that his body was removed and reburied in a family grave down south" Enquiries are being made at the moment - so we should have some facts fairly soon. whch may prove/disprove the above |
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bennerley
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replied on: 4/11/2008 10:25:34 AM The walled cemetary to the South of the hall was where the last Squire Mundy was buried in 1920. When the hall was sold and with rumours of verbal threats to disinter the body,by disgruntled miners, the squire's wife had the remains exhumed and they were taken to be reinterred in the South somewhere. The large cross was there when I last went that way I guess in the 1990s. On the base I recall ' consecrated by Rev??? Bishop???...' No one else was buried in the private cemetary. The cinder 'building' was made of lumps of fired clay (as is the house in West Hallam). It was described as The Folly. When I first visited it in the company of a Park Warden there were inset into the wall about 6 feet from the ground, cast iron early railway rails. Each being about 2ft6in long and 1ft 6in wide. The rails were part of the cast plate. Some years later they had gone! I have a piece of the 'cinder' in my garden no doubt a souvenir from years ago by someone. I was told a former resident in Shipley Park that her husband was so upset at the ongoing vandalism in the area of the hall that he removed pets headstones and took them to the safety of his own garden. Since both my informant and her husband are dead I cannot follow this up. |
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Jennypeg
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replied on: 4/19/2008 6:07:53 PM Ripley & Heanor News 23rd April 1920 THE LATE MR. MILLER MUNDY IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL AT SHIPLEY A large and distinguished congregation attended the funeral service for Mr Alfred Miller Mundy, held at St Saviours, Upper Chelsea, on Tuesday. The coffin was Brough; into the church half an hour before the service began attended by two of the principal mourners. A simple bunch of lilies lay on the purple pall. Rev. Harry Price, vicar of Shipley and Cotmanhay, conducted the service, and at the conclusion Chopin’s Funeral March was played on the organ. The interment took place on Wednesday afternoon on the Shipley Hall estate, the obsequies being of a simple character. The remains of the late squire were in a massive oak coffin brought from London the previous evening, and were laid to rest in a vault in a sheltered corner on the Mapperley side of the estate, not far from the Hall. Jenny |
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