The Graveyard Detective

Two Early Casualties of WW2 The day after war began, two soldiers lost their lives on a Lancashire road. Pte Thomas Albert Lawson was a Terr...

Chief Steward Arthur Hugh Ford, Mercantile Marine lost on SS Lusitania. His was 58th body of 259 recovered [Queenstown]. Buried at Everton C...

Walter Bentley Sharples, 5th Engineer Officer, Merchant Navy is named on the family memorial in Haslingden Cemetery, Lancashire. His name i...

Samuel Wolstenholme and his son William were killed in the Kearsley Colliery explosion March 12, 1878. They are buried together at St Steph...

Too Sweet for Earth: John [9] and Margaret [3] - the two Peake Children are buried at Atherton Cemetery.

Pte Charles Silvester Greasby, 19th (3rd Salford Pals) Bn, Lancashire Fusiliers died on the First Day of the Somme when most of the Salford...

John Edward Campbell visited a claypit, clambered on a raft and fell in. Despite the efforts of another child, he drowned. Three nearby adu...