The haunted Necropolis of Key Hill Cemetery
A site survey of Key Hill Cemetery, Birmingham. A haunted Necropolis. Opended 23rd May 1836. Now forgotten and abandoned. The beautiful ornate Grecian style chapel which once stood was demolished in 1966 after years of neglect.
The whole area was previously known as Dead Mans Lane due to the position of a nearby scaffold and gallows used for public executions ( the precise location today being the junction of Icknield Street and Warstone Lane). Lies close to Warstone Cemetery and its catacombs which are also haunted.
Before both Key Hill and Warstone Cemetery were consecrated, the sites were used to bury the executed victims of the nearby gallows, along with suicides, unbaptised child death and lunatics. Unhallowed Ground. . . . .
It is said that Key Hill is the resting place of Highwayman Philip Matsell, wrongfully convicted of murder, the last public execution to be held in Birmingham in 1806. Key Hill was also the home of the beautiful but dangerous Highwaywoman Kate ' Kit ' Pedley.
People have reported dark spectral figures drifting across the lawns, the sound of rattled chains and the sound of grinding tombstones and catacomb doors being opended. These have been witnessed by train passengers using The Jewelry Quarter Railway Station which divides Key Hill and Warstone Cemetery.
WARNING ! DO NOT VISIT KEY HILL CEMETERY ALONE AT NIGHT !
Its not just the dead to worry about, but the living also. Key Hill has a reputation for drug addicts, muggers and aggressive beggars.
See also :
The haunted catacombs of Warstone Cemetery
The Ghost of hanged Highwayman Philip Matsell
TNT News - The key points of Key Hill Cemetery Heritage Open Day
This was held on the weekend of 12-13 September 2009. The Lord Mayor, Cllr Wilkes unveiled a restored memorial to the Tangye family. The Tangyes were manufacturers in Birmingham and they made a name for themselves all over the world.
The steamship Great Eastern was launched with the help of hydraulic jacks made by the Tangyes and this made them famous. Dick Empson who is chairman of the Friends of Key Hill Cemetery says: The Tangyes launched the Great Eastern and you could say that the Great Eastern launched Tangyes because it made them popular.
When we were at Hill 62 in Ypres on the World War I battlefields we saw some of Tangyes lifting gear that had been dug up from a field. It is on our Hill 62 report.
Cemetery Seek: Brookfields in the jewelry quarter Birmingham
Sometimes known as Warstone Lane sometimes known as Key Hill, otherwise going by the name of Brookfields. What a conundrum!
Alas, with not only 92,000+ graves my main sights were set on the catacombs. Lets go on an adventure!
The forgotten Victorian graves of Yardley Cemetery
A site survey. Yardley Cemetery is located in the district of Yardley, one of the most historic districts within the city of Birmingham, England. Founded in 1883, it covers 64 acres. Yardley Cemetery is one of seven municipal Victorian Cemeteries which exist within the city :
Key Hill (1836)
Warstone (1848)
Witton (1863)
Yardley (1883)
The Uplands (1890)
Lodge Hill (1895)
Brandwood End (1899)
This footage was captured and uploaded for the sake of posterity - to record the beautiful legacy of Victorian grave and headstones. Many of the Victorian graves at Yardley are in a sad state of decay - after 140 years of exposure to the elements, time and vandalism. Most have not been tended by surviving relatives in decades.
This rapidly vanishing legacy of our Victorian history is replicated on a national and even international level. Give it another 20 or 30 years and all remaining examples of beautiful Victorian Necro - Erotic graves will have gone forever. These unattended, forgotten, abandoned graves have been frozen in time within this upload, so that when they are gone, future generations will still be able to view their vanished heritage.
See also :
The haunted catacombs of Warstone Cemetery
The haunted Necropolis of Key Hill Cemetery
The haunted Chapel of Brandwood End Cemetery
The forgotten graves of Uplands Cemetery
a postcard from the past - Warstone and Key Hill Cemeteries’
Warstone Lane and Key Hill historic cemeteries’ in Birmingham are two grade II and II* listed on the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest and is a site of architectural and historical importance.
Built in 1847 Warstone Lane has two tiers of catacombs, whose unhealthy vapours led to the Birmingham Cemeteries Act which required that non-interred coffins should be sealed with lead or pitch.
Key Hill Cemetery, originally called Birmingham General Cemetery, a nonconformist cemetery, and is the oldest cemetery (not being in a churchyard) in Birmingham, England. It opened on 23 May 1836.
The cemetery was originally laid out for the Birmingham General Cemetery Company by local architect Charles Edge. Many of its fittings and memorials are of architectural and artistic merit. The railings and entrance gates with imposing piers (all by Edge) are Grade II listed. The Greek Doric chapel, also by Edge, has been demolished. The cemetery is itself listed Grade II* on the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. A campaign group, the Friends of Key Hill & Warstone Lane Cemeteries, lobbies to have the cemetery restored. The entrance piers and gates on both Icknield Street and Key Hill have been restored in recent years.
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Warstone Lane Cemetery
Warstone Lane Cemetery in Hockley Birmingham, dates from 1847 and is one of two cemeteries located in the city's Jewellery Quarter.
A major feature is the two tiers of catacombs, whose unhealthy vapours led to the Birmingham Cemeteries Act which required that non-interred coffins should be sealed with lead or pitch.
Music is 'Cemetery' by Project Divinity
Key Hill
The oldest Cemetery in Birmingham
Paths of the Dead - Warstone Lane Cemetery, JQ Birmingham
Warstone Lane Cemetery is a nexus of peace in the heart of the bustling Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham. Opened in 1848 to provide a last resting place for Birmingham's burgeoning population, the last burials were in 1982. A vast mausoleum, like a coliseum of the dead, was constructed in an old sand quarry. Thousands of Brummies were buried there but it also became an air raid shelter during WW2.
The fallen of two world wars are remembered by a cenotaph near the lodge and a newer memorial to the Great War of 1914-1918.
The thousands of gravestones are being photographed and recorded by The Jewellery Quarter Research Trust.
Warstone Lane Cemetery is also cared for by a friends group.
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The haunted Catacombs of Warstone Cemetery
A site survey of Warstone Cemetery, also called Brookfield, opended 1847 in Birmingham. Now derelict and abandoned. The church which once stood was destroyed on 11th December 1940 during a bombing raid by the Luftwaffe.
The catacombs are said to be haunted by several Ghosts, being a site of mass hauntings. Dark spectral apparitions have been seen drifting out of their sepulchral resting places.
Notable Ghosts include a woman dressed in 1930's clothing, who leaves the smell of peardrops in her wake, a sign of arsenic poisoning. Also a young soldier dressed in a 2nd World War trenchcoat. Both of these Ghosts are rare in that they have been known to interact with the living and seem conscious of living peoples presence. The woman has been known to look at people and smile before vanishing, it has been reported that she once nearly caused a car to crash, and the soldier has been known to speak !
It is also reported that someone once actually had a small conversation with the soldier before he vanished. Most Ghosts do not act as such. . . .
The area used to be known as Dead Mans Lane - due to a gallows which existed nearby for public executions. This would have predated the opening of the cemetery but the many other hauntings could be linked to this, the dead being buried in unhallowed ground. Warstone Cemetery is very close to Key Hill Cemetery, opended in 1836 - which is another haunted Necropolis, being divided only by the Jewelry Quarter Railway Station.
Those who have witnessed these hauntings say they are always preceeded by a ghastly smell of rotting flesh.
See also :
The Haunted Necropolis of Key Hill Cemetery
Field of Remembrance in Birmingham
Pupils from Paganel Primary School explore our World War One Heritage in Birmingham visiting Lodge Hill Cemetery, The Hall of Memory, The Library of Birmingham and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
Victorian History Vaults & Catacombs....☠️....Birmingham ???????????????????????????? 2019
Join me as we search for history around Birmingham, England an old industrial city. The jewellery quarter of Birmingham has two very interesting Victorian cemeteries Warstone and Key Hill both with underground vaults & catacombs. there's an ex prime minster, a chap that is credited for inventing lawn Tennis, a Titanic victim the list goes on....... well worth your time visiting if your in the second city Birmingham, .
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The top of the catacombs sits the tomb of businessman John Baskervillle. While his name lends itself to the famous typeface, the story of his death, or rather the treatment of his corpse, is far more interesting. I’ll try to provide a short summary, however I urge you to follow the further reading links at the bottom of the post. When John Baskerville died in 1775, he was a very successful and wealthy man, but also a confirmed atheist. In his will, he provided strict instructions as to the treatment of his body. Baskerville was not only buried upright, but in an air-tight lead-lined coffin. Initially, these wishes were carried out and old Baskerville was interred in a small mausoleum in the grounds of his house Easy Hill, where he rested for many years. However, in 1821, workmen digging for gravel disinterred Baskerville’s coffin, where is subsequently laid unclaimed by relatives. As Baskerville was unwanted and an outspoken atheist, no cemetery would inter him and his decayed body created somewhat of a quandary. For several years, it rested in the warehouse of Thomas Gibson, the man whose business stood in the place of the old Baskerville House. Being an entrepreneurial sort, Gibson would occasionally open Baskerville’s coffin to curious visitors at the cost of 6d a peek. Oweing to Baskervilles method of burial, he was remarkably well preserved. A visitor, Thomas Underwood, sketched Baskerville’s body in August 1829 and recorded that –
“his body was, after forty-six years underground, in a singular state of preservation. It was wrapped in a white linen shroud with a branch of laurel, faded but firm in texture. The skin on the face was dry but perfect. The eyes were gone, but eye brows, the eye lashes, lips and teeth remained. The skin on the abdomen and body generally was in the same state with the face. An unpleasant smell strongly resembling decayed cheese arose from the body, and rendered it necessary to close the coffin quickly.”
Visitors notwithstanding, being stored in a warehouse didn’t suit the fast-putrifying businessman and Baskerville soon changed hands. Plumber John Marston soon found himself the new guardian of Baskerville and was decidedly less conscientious about opening the coffin. Soon, visitors to his corpse (oh yes, there were still visitors) were overcome by the smell of putrefaction and Baskerville had to go. At this stage, Baskerville’s state was less than pretty, but still, no-one would bury his remains. After a series of underhand machinations on the part of Marston, Baskerville was buried in the catacombs beneath Christ Church. However, Baskerville was denied his rest once more when Christ Church was demolished in 1899 and he – along with 600 other internees – was finally laid to rest at Warstone. His one wish of rejecting burial on consecrated ground was not to be. Today his manhandled remains have the best view of the cemetery, which, although pleasant. No doubt would have provided no small comfort.
Uk's largest abandoned factory with keys left in and backflips
spent more than 4 hours exploring this place. was absolutely insane and this video doesn't show how big it truly was as i didn't have time to explore it all.
its and abandoned joinery and i'm guessing has been derelict for some time.
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Warstone Cemetary, The Birmingham catacombs - Atmospheric Video
An atmospheric video based on the Birmingham catacombs for my Architecture course.
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Charlie Spring - Pier to Nowhere
The haunted Chapel of Brandwood End Cemetery
A site survey of the haunted chapel of Brandwood End Cemetery, near Druids Heath, Birmingham. The last of the great Victorian municipal cemeteries in the city - opened 13th April 1899. The first burial, that of a young girl, took place on 15th April 1899. The unique Chapel, in Victorian Gothic Revivalist style was designed by J Brewin Holmes.
Brandwood End Cemetery has the best collection of Victorian/Edwardian Angel Gravestones in the Midlands. Over 24 large Angels in a variety of poses - and as many medium and small statuets. Brandwood End Cemetery is a small oasis of tranquillity and serenity - with a beautiful Gothic Chapel and a beautiful collection of Angels to look at.
POSSIBLY THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CEMETERY IN THE WHOLE ENGLISH MIDLANDS - CERTAINLY THE MOST UNSPOILT.
Of all the great Victorian Cemeteries to be established in the city of Birmingham :
Key Hill (1836)
Warstone (1848)
Witton (1863)
Yardley (1883)
The Uplands (1890)
Lodge Hill (1895)
All of these have suffered from the effects of time, weather and vandalism. Most of the beautiful and Necromantic Victorian Angels and Memento Mori Gravestones have long since been removed or broken.
This is why Brandwood End Cemetery is so special and should be protected and cherished. It has not suffered as the other Victorian Cemeteries have. Its legacy needs to survive for future generations.
During Roman occupation, Brandwood End was a Roman farming settlement and Roman Cemetery, dedicated to Pagan Gods. The Victorian dead are buried upon Roman bones. The hauntings at Brandwood End are rare and seem to run to no routine or pattern, as other hauntings do. The Ghosts that haunt Brandwood End Chapel and Cemetery are the Roman dead - nearly 2000 years old - probably disturbed during the 1899 construction.
The Ghosts of Brandwood End are benign and do not seem to notice the living.
See also :
The forgotten graves of Uplands Cemetery
The haunted Necropolis of Key Hill Cemetery
The haunted catacombs of Warstone Cemetery
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New look for historic cemetery
Representatives from the Birmingham Ghost Tour joined Cllr Neville Summerfield as he unveiled the nearly refurbished Grade II listed entrance and gates to the Jewellery Quarter's 19th Century Key Hill Cemetery.
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Team BGH visited Key Hill Cemetery and warstone lane cemetery
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visiting all most haunted locations as they can!!
We are a caring team dedicated and passionate to the paranormal
im a medium and energy healer and have been working with energy a long time now
i have qualifications in parapsychology demonology Angel cards crystals
We are very dedicated & Gifted to the paranormal..
The main reason for making this channel is for you guys proving the exsistance of the after life started as a personal goal i needed to seek now it is proving it to you guys especially to the ones who do not believe it would hugely help us to go live on youtube instead on facebook at the minute we have to go live on fb then download it to youtube it takes a whole good few days to unload for you guys we cant do this until we reach 1,000 subscribers
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If you know of anyone haunted or maybe your someone that has a ghost or spirit in your home please do not hesitate drop us an email a member of the team will get straight back to you :)
Thanks for watching please subscribe and share this video out
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