Mystery of Liverpool's MASS GRAVES!

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@amandastanley2781 18 күн бұрын

There are also what was known as pauper’s graves. Families that were so poor they couldn’t afford a burial. My great aunt who died at the age of 11 from Tuberculosis, was buried in a pauper’s grave in Bootle Cemetery. That was in the 1950’s. So sad 😢

@ScouseFarm 18 күн бұрын

Seems to be lots of places where unmarked graves have been left in Liverpool. Thanks for watching Amanda, there's a video about the Liverpool Necropolis on the channel too, that has over 80 thousand bodies with no headstones left to mark the graves.

@mooglesmodelrailways 22 күн бұрын

There are many old and forgotten graveyards in Liverpool that have been built over or landscaped. Some are parks like the former Liverpool necropolis on Everton Road. The Art college and student flats behind it on Myrtle Road near the Philamonic Halls is a good example. It was St Mary's Cemetery in 1848, the college site being empty on the map. By 1890 the cemetery had been landscaped over and a children's infirmary, later known as The Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, was where the college now is. I believe the hospital closed in the mid 1990's then demolished.

@ScouseFarm 22 күн бұрын

Yes, I did a video on the Necropolis so have a look on the channel and see what you think my friend. There's a few dotted about as you say, if they aren't in town I'll go and visit a few in the future. I don't go into the Town Centre, way too busy for me and I refuse to pay for parking. Thanks for watching.

@Redfox_UK Ай бұрын

Just subbed mate. Enjoyed your video, great research. Always interesting to find out more about this city 👍🏻.

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

Thank You kind Sir, welcome to Scouse Farm, I appreciate the Sub.

@Redfox_UK Ай бұрын

@ no worries, not long on my own channel so trying to learn from different KZbinrs 👍🏻

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

@@Redfox_UK I'll give you a sub in 5 mins mate. Good luck with it, hopefully we both get there 🤝

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

@@Redfox_UK Done. 393 now mate 👍

@JoannecTaylor-hu8yh Ай бұрын

Just subscribed I'm from Manchester love watching walkabouts

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

Brilliant! Welcome to Scouse Farm. There's a warehouse in Salford by the ground of that football team I shall not name. It says LIVERPOOL right across the top in massive lettering. Always makes me smile :)

@johnmulligan912 Ай бұрын

There’s mass graves all over the city from WW2. If the coffins stacks were so high it would have caused a huge depression in the ground,effectively making the ground unstable,due to the huge void when the coffin rots and collapses. Thats one of the reasons old grave stones are seldom totally upright in grave yards. Regardless of the number I think it’s very likely to do with WW2 .As Liverpool was the 2nd most bombed city in the country. Beautiful buildings great vid 👍🏼

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

Nice one John, The coffins and contents in this particular site are way too old for it to have been from the late 1940s mate. The area of Old Swan in question was an untouched Meadow for many years, which in itself was always strange because it was never built on. All around it houses were built and blocks of flats that have now been knocked down for a hideous Tesco. Whoever they are in those coffins, they were placed there a long time ago. Thanks for watching.

@paulaol248 Ай бұрын

Very interesting history. Good video 👍

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

Thanks Paul, it was surprising to hear about it that's for sure. Love a good mystery. Thanks for watching.

@paulaol248 Ай бұрын

@@ScouseFarm I look forward to the next one 👍

@BusDriverWalking Ай бұрын

Great vid mate .. Wow . What a mystery that is .. I’ve never heard about this either.. Mindblowing stuff 😮

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

Mad mate, The Nun's never told me either, they just clipped me around the head, punched me in the back with their knuckles and made me do Lines at playtime. They Loved me really :)

@BusDriverWalking Ай бұрын

Haha , yeah I’d heard about the nasty nuns 😬

@sezwho8561 Ай бұрын

I grew up in the Swan. I remember the bodies being cholera victims although there was talk of some of the coffins being metal and sealed apparently these were taken away. When I go back to the Swan it always feels like going home

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. Lots of speculation around the discovery but no answers from the officials leaves us with nothing but rumours unfortunately. It was nice to be back at my old school, still think I have a few text books I forget to take back :)

@JoannecTaylor-hu8yh Ай бұрын

Beautiful buildings and beautiful houses round there

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

Indeed. Those old houses on Mill Lane are wonderful. The church is incredible too, as are the outbuildings associated with the Church. Takes me back to my school days. The school chips were lovely, that's my fondest memory haha :) Thanks for watching.

@babsfryer1718 Ай бұрын

I remember my Nan talking about this at the time, she said it was where the victims of the Cholera were buried.

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

Lots of speculations about who they were and why they were buried there in a completely unrecorded Mass Grave. The fact there are no written records in a country (and Church) that keeps extensive records 'suggests' there's something they would rather the public did not know. Oh for a Time Machine :) Thanks for watching!

@babsfryer1718 Ай бұрын

@@ScouseFarmFrom what I remember, my Nan had an Uncle that had died from Cholera and her Mother believed that he was buried in a mass grave in Old Swan. Like you say, we'll never know.

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

@@babsfryer1718 The Cholera story seems to be the one most remembered that's for sure. Maybe one day a proper investigation will happen. Thanks again for watching.

@Lisa-Peter7875 4 күн бұрын

Two of our kids attended this school also. Brilliant video

@ScouseFarm 4 күн бұрын

You're following me!! Haha. I LOVED being in that school, it was a great place to 'learn' (mess around with my mates). Mr Coyne was an exceptional Teacher and was well respected by all of us in his class. I hope it's still a good school. Thanks for watching.

@Lisa-Peter7875 3 күн бұрын

@ScouseFarm From @AdikiaMedia. Good teachers left! Was a lady called Miss Walsh that took over not very liked. Heard she left now. The two that went there are 22 and 16 now. Our older kids all went to St. Cecilias. Their head was called MR Coyne! Hair like snow, exceptional Man! Wonder if same one... Really lovely man. Great content! 👍

@ScouseFarm 3 күн бұрын

@@Lisa-Peter7875 'My' Mr Coyne had snow white hair but I was in his class in the late 80s so I doubt it's the same fella but it might be. He was brilliant though.

@Lisa-Peter7875 3 күн бұрын

Could have been the same he was getting on when our oldest went there she was born 1996 so 2001/2 in juniors. He was gay. But no one new till he left. Very tall good build. @ScouseFarm

@ScouseFarm 3 күн бұрын

@@Lisa-Peter7875 Think that's him but can't be sure. 👍

@stevenbanowich8089 Ай бұрын

I heard the coffins were moved from where georges hall is built plus they may have been plague bodies and you can still catch the plague from the bones brillant video thanks

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

It's a proper mystery mate, very disturbing the way the bodies were unrecorded and stacked in coffins so high. No reason not to investigate why there was a Mass Grave on Sacred Ground, but they decided to burn everything instead and close the site from public view. Nothing changes. Thanks for watching!

@robertmcgivern6585 Ай бұрын

Did you know there are massive empty catacombs below St George's hall ? we are officially told (unconvincingly) they were built to house future victims of a plague that never came.

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

@@robertmcgivern6585 The more we look into our past in this City, the more we find questions and not answers. So many unusual tunnels throught the City too. Shame I have to go back to work soon or I would be out every day looking for mysteries 👀. Thanks for the comment mate.

@misspurrr-fect3684 Ай бұрын

I remember reading they couldn't have been plague pits because there were a few thousand bodies neatly stacked & the population of the area at that time (1600s) was sparse .Think bodies were relocated to the Anfield area.

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

Yes, Any 'plague' would result in lime pits, mass cremations and no need for actual coffins. The logistics of such an operation and the planning involved 'suggests' military involvement. However that's just speculation on my part. Very much a strange event though. Thanks for watching, welcome to Scouse Farm :) Have a look at my Carrot Harvest video, you can see my Cat at the end, she looks like the Cat in your profile picture.

@janetmoore1441 Ай бұрын

Very interesting, I lived most of my child hood in Old Swan, Southgate Road and Aberdale Road.

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

@@janetmoore1441 Thanks for watching Janet, yep, I can't believe I went to St Oswald's and didn't know about it officially. Now that I've done the video, I do remember some stories about the school being 'Haunted' because of a Graveyard when I was a kid, now it makes sense 👻

@Lisa-Peter7875 3 күн бұрын

All my mates went to that club, i never went as i never lived in the area bit far at the time for me. I did go to the social club next door though when i was 19/20. My kids went the Joseph Lappin. Brilliant place 8:26

@ScouseFarm 3 күн бұрын

Yep, great times at the Montini, run by great people, Joanne & Tony (and all the other Youth workers).

@ScouseTimes Ай бұрын

I remember this .. was a very dark area too 👍

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

Nice one Scouse Times, Great channel name my friend :)

@Delred1 Ай бұрын

I KNEW yrs ago of stories of mass- graves, but under or behind those flats opposite the Omnibus pub on Oswald st, said to be bodies from the Napolionic wars !

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

That's just over the road from here, so there definitely seems to be a lot of mystery about Old Swan. I miss those flats, much better than a Tesco. Thanks for watching.

@tj..aworkinprogress1102 Ай бұрын

great vid Scouse, done better than i would have done 😉

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

Thanks TJ, see you on your next Quiz night if I'm awake :)

@JohnMon72 Ай бұрын

That’s brilliant mate, fascinating. I grew up there and my great grandparents told me about it but didn’t say there was that many bodies there. I later heard that they’re possibly Irish immigrants that fled the potato famine and fell foul to what can only be described as genocide. The D notices, injunctions and the fact it’s shrouded in secrecy would obviously support this. I’m surprised the government didn’t try and capitalise on this in 2020 and say it was covid…… Loved that video mate. Check Grant Gardens in Everton, that’s fascinating too.

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

Nice one mate, thanks for the rip off, can't believe my old school is on the site of a Mass Grave. The Nuns who were my teachers never told me :)

@JohnMon72 Ай бұрын

@@ScouseFarm is that tip off or rip off? 🤣 great video mate. Those teachers knew exactly what the story was.

@jameswhitfield1375 Ай бұрын

Great story. Pandemic seems most likely. Liverpool was the epicentre of Britain's cholera outbreak in the 1840s. Could you talk to some enterprising History Channel to see if they'd be interested in pursuing it with you?

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

It's likely to remain a mystery James but some form of sickness or poisoning could be at the root of it. A few intrepid journalists have had a go at unravelling the mystery, but when you come up against Government locked doors it's unlikely you'll ever find the correct key. Thanks for watching, hope you stick around.

@AnneRoberts-m3v Ай бұрын

I remember it well they put a big fence up so u couldn’t see yes it was fr macathey then

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

Brilliant! Scouse Farm Comments section has an actual eye witness. Thanks for the info Ann, my Dad said he used to play on the Meadow where no building ever took place, now we know why. Thanks for watching.

@ScouseFarm Ай бұрын

If you would be up for a chat about what you remember from that time Anne, let me know in a comment here and I'll leave an email address for you to contact me and I'll come and have a chat with you when you're free. Thanks.