British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

Over the next few days, Deceased Online will be adding records for the final three sites in its Calderdale Collection. In my latest post, I look further at these West Yorkshire cemeteries and their extensive records. Sowerby Bridge by Bolton Brow by Malcolm Street, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4026626ion As you may know from my first post on the Calderdale Collection and the recent update , so far records for the following cemeteries have been uploaded to the Deceased Online database : Brighouse Cemetery , Lightcliffe Road, Brighouse HD6 2HH (1874-1996) Elland Cemetery , Exley Lane, Elland HX5 0SW (1861-1996) Halifax General/ Lister Lane Cemetery , Lister Lane, Halifax (1842-1962) Luddenden Cemetery , Stocks Lane, Luddenden HX2 6PR (1860-1996) Rastrick Cemetery , Carr Green Lane, Rastrick HD6 3LT (1884-1994) The last three sites to be added are: Park Wood Crematorium , Park Road, Elland HX5 9HZ (1956-1997) Sowerby Bridg...

This week Deceased Online adds records from three more cemeteries in its Calderdale Collection. The latest cemeteries are all market towns in West Yorkshire. In this week's blog I explore further the history of the area, touching on the collapse of the textile industry and its effects regionally. View of Elland by Dave59 at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Mtaylor848 using CommonsHelper., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7497912 As I wrote in my introductory post on the Calderdale Collection , this borough of former mill towns, moorland and waterways lies at the foothills of the Pennine Hills. Until the late 20th century, its economic life was dominated by textile industries. Calderdale comprises small towns whose cotton, worsted and wool mills were powered across the centuries by the fast-running waters of the River Calder. The latest additions to the Deceased Online database are for the cemeteries of Elland, Ludden...

This week I look at the history of Calderdale in Yorkshire, and the long-standing contrast between the stunning countryside and difficult social conditions that continue to exist and which inspired the recent award-winning BBC television series, Happy Valley. Rooftops of Hebden Bridge (Wikimedia Commons) Deceased Online has today launched a new collection from Calderdale Council . Covering the old mill towns i n Halifax, Hebden Bridge and Brighouse in the South Pennines, Calderdale is one of the five metropolit an districts o f West Yorkshire. The area lies almost midway betwee n the northern powerhouses of Leeds a nd Manchester, on the opposite side of the Pennines from the Lancashire textile towns of Blackburn and Darwen .  When complete the new collection includes register scans , grave details and maps for burials and cre m ations at the following ·           Brighouse Cemetery, Lightcliffe Road, Brighouse, HD6 2HH (1874 to...