Southern Cemetery, Manchester
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Southern Cemetery, Manchester is a large municipal cemetery in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Greater Manchester, England, three miles south of Manchester city centre. It was opened in 1879.
The main area of the cemetery is located to the north of Barlow Moor Road and to the west of the A5103 Princess Road. A northwards extension is situated to the north of Nell Lane. Manchester City Council owns and administers the cemetery. Immediately adjacent to the northwest corner of the cemetery, also on Barlow Moor Road, is the Manchester Crematorium which opened in 1892, the second in the United Kingdom.
A remembrance lodge has been created in the cemetery, opened on 1 October 2008. It is situated at the main entrance on Barlow Moor Road and is for the use of families and friends wishing to pay their respects and remember loved ones. A Jewish Cemetery is located in the northwest section, next to Barlow Moor Road.
A number of famous people are buried in the cemetery, including Manchester-born Sir John Alcock, the first man to pilot a non-stop transatlantic aircraft[1] (with Arthur Whitten Brown as navigator) from Newfoundland to Ireland in June 1919. Manchester's first multi-millionaire, industrialist and philanthropist John Rylands, is also buried there,[2] as is Sir Matt Busby, manager of Manchester United Football Club.
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- Notes
- ^ Scholefield 2004, p. 217
- ^ Farnie, D. A. (2004), "Rylands, John (1801–1888)", Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24416, retrieved on 10 November 2008
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