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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote] So the extensive views would have been , the windmill and pond and the other way a view over Shipley and Smalley ? that's better that todays view. 1858 HEANOR The Cemetery is now nearly completed, and will be opened on the first day of the New Year. It is four acres in extent, and the soil is of a light and dry nature, which will dispense with the necessity of draining. A better site could scarcely have been selected. It is very pleasantly situated, commanding extensive views of the surrounding country. The chapels are two elegant structures built in the form of a cross, and form a picturesque object from the Ilkeston road. The Cemetery is equally divided into two parts, the east side being appropriated to the church, and the west side to the dissenters. That portion set apart for the church was consecrated last Thursday, by the Bishop of Lichfield, in the presence of a great number of spectators. The inhabitants are extremely well satisfied with the taste and judgment of the Burial Board, and the manner in which it has carried out its duties. From the readiness it has always shown to consult and carry out as far as practicable the wishes of the ratepayers, and the anxious desire to avoid any unnecessary expense, it forms a great and favourable contrast to its contemporary the board of Health, for this township, which hitherto appears to have acted on quite a contrary principle. Jenny[/quote]
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Jennypeg
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Marlpool Cemetery
replied on: 6/4/2005 6:34:53 PM

So the extensive views would have been , the windmill and pond and the other way a view over Shipley and Smalley ? that's better that todays view.

1858
HEANOR
The Cemetery is now nearly completed, and will be opened on the first day of the New Year. It is four acres in extent, and the soil is of a light and dry nature, which will dispense with the necessity of draining. A better site could scarcely have been selected. It is very pleasantly situated, commanding extensive views of the surrounding country. The chapels are two elegant structures built in the form of a cross, and form a picturesque object from the Ilkeston road. The Cemetery is equally divided into two parts, the east side being appropriated to the church, and the west side to the dissenters. That portion set apart for the church was consecrated last Thursday, by the Bishop of Lichfield, in the presence of a great number of spectators. The inhabitants are extremely well satisfied with the taste and judgment of the Burial Board, and the manner in which it has carried out its duties. From the readiness it has always shown to consult and carry out as far as practicable the wishes of the ratepayers, and the anxious desire to avoid any unnecessary expense, it forms a great and favourable contrast to its contemporary the board of Health, for this township, which hitherto appears to have acted on quite a contrary principle.

Jenny

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