About My Interest In Cemeteries

Let me introduce my less well-known interest. My alter-egos are ‘The Graveyard Detective’ and ‘Grave Photographer’. I have been interested in Graveyards and Cemeteries for fifty years and, over that time, I have accumulated a considerable archive of related ephemera, vintage images and much, much more.

When I retired in 2014, I began to photograph interesting graves and memorials in Lancashire. I would walk along the rows of graves and read the inscriptions. If I saw something interesting such as a Victorian policeman killed trying to stop a runaway horse or a Victorian family murdered by a husband who then killed himself, then I would photograph the grave and later research the story behind it. I would then post about it on my blog https://graveyarddetective.blogspot.com/ which I began in 2009.

Between 2014 and 2019, I shot 188,000 images of interesting graves and memorials. I reckon that is a lot!

I also make use of Facebook and Twitter running half-a-dozen FB groups and the same amount of Pages. I am also an administrator on several large FB groups. My Twitter account https://twitter.com/gravedetective is popular and only last weekend, I reached a total of 7,000 followers. My FB Grave Photographer page https://www.facebook.com/gravephotographer accrued 7,000 Likes in ten days when I launched it.

Anyway, that enough about me. I hope you enjoy the stories behind the graves I will be posting on here from time-to-time.