Preston Cemetery, Lancashire, UK: Some fascinating memorials in the graveyard.

[@debbiepitcher9806]

Very much enjoyed this one thank you. ❤

[@janetslicer3637]

This cemetery is astounding! You are absolutely correct. I have never seen anything like it. And you stood there and read them like I have never seen you do it before. Your enthusiasm was infectious and I enjoyed every minute of it! Thank you, thank you, thank you. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@bootsmctee]

Thanks Janet - glad to hear you are enjoying them.

[@bcoldgoalie]

Enjoyed seeing all the family history on the markers. Nicely done.

[@bootsmctee]

Thanks for watching

[@dm607]

I felt like I was walking around a forest of mini family trees Mr Boots. Incredible headstones. The little trees on the Muslim graves look like a type of Cypress. Thank you for another enjoyable walkabout. Deb of Oz.

[@bootsmctee]

The Muslim graves are special - mini gardens in many cases.

[@poppasmurf]

A very interesting video which takes me back in time. We owned a house which backed onto this cemetery in the 1990's and I spent many hours taking my two children all through the cemetery. They loved visiting what they called 'the baby graves' and used to take some flowers to put on the graves. I liked the military section where they actually had the graves of brave men who fell at Rork's Drift during the Zulu wars.

[@JudithReid-s3k]

Hi, this video is very interesting. My father grew up across the street from here, it was their playground. There was a church in the middle of the cemetery but it’s not there anymore. Plus there is a headstone that says that this grave is never to be opened ever again. Last summer I found 3 great aunts of ours that nobody knew where they were laid to rest. The graves here are about 12 feet deep. Back then that’s how they did it , you could get 7-8 people in these graves, plus they had to be very well off to afford them. Many people are buried in graves but there is no evidence on the grave stone because many people couldn’t afford to pay for it.

[@K-a-n-d-i-s]

I walk through this graveyard regularly as a short cut, its interesting to see on youtube

[@martinkirby3100]

To lose 1 child would be devastating for anyone but to lose multiple children I can't imagine what these people went through I can assure they suffered the pain all the rest of their lives and it would be a pain that would never go away

[@martinkirby3100]

It's so sad when you see these graves of babies and young children when what we have now could have probably saved them thank god for progress and modern medical practices

[@tylerjones2695]

I've never seen so many family members on single markers either

[@martinkirby3100]

I guess that in the 1800s child mortality rates were bad because of diseases and other things we have now antibiotics which would maybe have saved most if not all of these poor children etc being a father myself it hits home that if not for modern medicine my children could have gone the same way as these god bless them all it must have been devastating for all these parents to lose their children not once but many times that would be hard to handle for anyone even today but back then no samaritans to talk with to help depression and noone in help with their loss