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bennerley

Grave at Shipley Hall
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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