Stories From The Stones | Friends of Key Hill & Warstone Lane Cemeteries

Oct 204 min read

Sat 26 Oct 2024, Daytime Halloween Events. Guided Tours of Birmingham Interior Catacombs. Fungi Foray walking tour, plus a burial information stall aiding your Family History

The Friends are pleased to announce we are hosting Guided Tours of the Birmingham Catacombs a rare chance to explore hidden Birmingham...

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Birmingham Local History and Family History Fair Saturday 13 July 2024

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Jul 121 min read

Birmingham Local History and Family History Fair Saturday 13 July 2024

The Friends of Key Hill cemetery & Warstone Lane cemetery will be attending the Midland Ancestors event and look forward to welcoming you....

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Sat 4 May, V.E Day, interior catacomb tours, walking tour explore the plants & fungi used in WW2, BARRA, all events leave from Warstone Lane cemetery, Vyse St, B18

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Apr 303 min read

Sat 4 May, V.E Day, interior catacomb tours, walking tour explore the plants & fungi used in WW2, BARRA, all events leave from Warstone Lane cemetery, Vyse St, B18

Saturday 4 May - early V.E. Day Events The Friends will be conducting interior catacombs tours of both Warstone Lane cemetery underground...

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Apr 15, 20222 min read

Police Inspector John Parry

John was born in Herefordshire to Sophie Gilbert & John Parry in 1860 and was christened 26 August 1860 at St John the Baptist,...

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Apr 10, 20221 min read

Midnight burials with lanterns.

One would think from the image below that this family are still resting in the catacombs at Key Hill Cemetery in Birmingham Jewellery...

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Samuel Beale 1803-1874, Mayor of Birmingham 1841

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Apr 1, 20222 min read

Samuel Beale 1803-1874, Mayor of Birmingham 1841

Samuel Beale was born in Birmingham on 4th of June 1803 the eldest son of Sarah and William Beale. Samuel’s younger brother, William...

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Mar 31, 20222 min read

Walter Abbott, Professional Footballer

Walter Abbott was born 7 December 1877 in Small Heath, Birmingham to Mary Ann Wheelwright & George Abbott a Gun Barrel Borer. Walter was...

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Mar 28, 20221 min read

Robert Thomas & Galton House, Smethwick

The buried grave was found of Robert Thomas and his wife Jane Ward Earp and some of their children. This grave that was buried deep...

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Sudden death of Birmingham’s smallest person in 1884

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Mar 23, 20227 min read

Sudden death of Birmingham’s smallest person in 1884

The nineteenth century was a period for such forms of entertainment for disabled people being exhibited at traveling fairs and circuses....

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Alan Andrew Lamb Hickman (The Railway Man)

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Mar 22, 20222 min read

Alan Andrew Lamb Hickman (The Railway Man)

Alan Andrew Lamb Hickman was born in Southampton in 1884 the son Mary Elizabeth Lamb and William Hickman whose occupation was a...

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Mar 22, 20221 min read

Constance Naden, famous female poet

Constance Naden was an artist, philosopher, scientist and poet, very famous in her lifetime and considered to be one of the foremost...

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Mar 8, 20221 min read

The famous Warstone or Hoarstone

The Warstone / Hoarstone is a glacial made from the volcanic rock which was carried here from Wales by glacial ice. The Warstone was...

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Birmingham Blitz, Mary A Greenhill & Mary White, mother & sister of author Kathleen Dayus.

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Feb 22, 20222 min read

Birmingham Blitz, Mary A Greenhill & Mary White, mother & sister of author Kathleen Dayus.

The family of Author Kathleen DAYUS Mary Ann GREENHILL nee SMITH born 20 June 1867 died Thursday 10 April 1941 at 26 Camden Grove,...

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The Birmingham Blitz and the"Sand Bag" deaths

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Feb 22, 20222 min read

The Birmingham Blitz and the"Sand Bag" deaths

A survivors story at the Inquest from the Birmingham Mail 6th November 1940 An inquest was held in Birmingham on 6 November 1940 of three...

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The Blitz in Hockley, and the unknown lady victim

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Feb 22, 20225 min read

The Blitz in Hockley, and the unknown lady victim

Bombing of The Vine Pub Alfred James WAKELING was born 1885 in Hockley, Birmingham to Alfred WAKELING & Mary Ann KENDALL . He had...

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Frederick WAKELING, Suffragette supporter

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Feb 8, 20221 min read

Frederick WAKELING, Suffragette supporter

Photograph of Frederick WAKELING, Suffragette supporter

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