A Tour of Manchester's Southern Cemetery - PART 2

Famous graves in Manchester's Southern Cemetery.
The tour of the great Southern Cemetery continues and this time I find the grave of one of the city's most famous sons - the artist LS Lowry. Lowry is synonymous with the city of Manchester, despite being from Salford. Mocked and derided by some critics, Lowry went on to become a rare example of an artist who found great fame during their own lifetime. His famous 'matchstick men' paintings of grim industrial landscapes and street scenes on the early 20th century were actually revolutionary. Not just because of their style, which was quite unique, but because they captured working class life in all of its complex, rich and tragic detail. Lowry's paintings speak to ordinary folk the way other artists didn't even try to do. They even say a lot about the history of northern England.
Before that, I'll show you the grave of Charles Sacre and the dramatic tale of a huge rail crash and suicide.
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[@amandaleeborchert3745]

Still enjoying taking this video tour with you. Bless you for sharing this with us. 😇😇😇

[@neonskyline1]

Now Lowry's painting i really like, they are creative

[@EnglishGrave]

Good work again!

[@Sanddancer1]

thankyou for the aerial photo and numbering where the graves are itll save me somw time

[@GenealogybySamGilsenan]

Interesting Video. My 2x Great Grandmother is buried in this cemetery. I am bunge watching this series 😊

[@Nathan.Manchester]

Very interesting well done 👍

[@1400ted]

I live just off Nell Lane. I have lived in Chorlton for 75 yrs and went to Chorlton Grammar School. Talking of Charles Sacre, there is another railway engineer close by. This is Henry Albert Hoy, cheif engineer of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Co. and later managing directer of Beyer Peacocks of Gorton. Henry lived at Herne Hill on Wilmslow Road roughly where the Toastrack is. He and his family are in a vault A17 just off the circle. He lived from 1855 to 1910. I have relatives here in A797.

[@cubicinches18]

I was born and grew up in Chorlton not far from Southern Cemetery. Manchester has a history that cannot be told in the traditional way of documentary style. Yourself and Martin Zero tell the history the way it should be told, that is; from a real life perspective whose blood stock is from the industrial working classes. Well done and I hope one day yourself and Martin as well as others like Curbex, get the recognition and applause that you all deserve in the way you deliver the important history of the ordinary working people of the industrial era

[@BeeHereNowuk]

Thanks that's very kind of you. Most of history is lived and experienced by working class people and I think we tend to forget that. Thanks for the great comment.

[@steveandthedogs]

I wonder if Lowry painted the legless man at 4:17 from life. Back in the fifties there was a man who used to spend his days on Oldham market and who travelled on a small flat bogie, pushing himself along with two wooden blocks, exactly like the man in the picture.

[@danny2me70]

come across you channel tonight and subscribed ,im a manc born and bred in newton heath but who inspired you to do these vlogs ?

[@BeeHereNowuk]

Hey thanks for the subscribing!! I'm just a proud northerner who likes history and getting out of the house on my days off!

[@frankfitzgerald5832]

Great video...heading through the main gate from barlow moor road is the grave on your right off the main drag please .... lowerys grave i mean .. thanks in advance ....Frank...

[@BeeHereNowuk]

Sorry no, the nearest gates are on Nell Lane. So if you're heading in from Barlow Moor Rd head to the back and it's on the left hand side, just off the thoroughfare

[@socklesslad]

I was half expecting you to go out with "Matchstalk Men" by Brian & Michael - but there's probably a rights issue to that!

[@carlwilliams9306]

My grandad told me a story about a train crash and he helped get people off the the crahed train, he told me it was a bad crash so I'm assuming this was the one..

[@vonmatthews586]

the obelisks are from freemasons not christains