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Default Wharton Lane Cemetery, Little Hulton June 2011 - 25-06-2011, 07:54

Wharton Lane Presbyterian Church was founded around 1850 and closed around 1970. The building was at risk of mining subsidence from the local pits, so the members began to worship in a different venue and the old church (in the first pic) was demolished. The small ramshackle graveyard is all that remains now, and shows signs of subsidence from the surrounding coal mining activity.



















I know it's non-urbex but it was such an odd little site I had to take pics!
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Default 25-06-2011, 15:58

can you imagine mining and having a coffin fall on your head?
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Default 25-06-2011, 19:42

It wouldn't be the best day at work would it?!
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Default 26-06-2011, 14:37

it would certainly be considered a bit of a shitter. One of my brothers used ot be a grave digger for the council when he was younger and he was telling me about a couple of times they were digging down in family graves preparing for a new addition and the spade would go straight through the rotted coffin and into the skeleton of the body
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Default 26-06-2011, 16:45

It wouldnt be the nicest of experiences


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Default local lady - 31-03-2013, 15:25

Hi most of my mothers family have links with Wharton Church,
My grandmother was church warden and my grandad and his brothers were grave diggers.
They lived in church cottages on church land,
Both my grandparents are buried there as is their daughter who was murdered by strangulation, by a Mr Jack Wright who was hanged at strangeways.
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Default 27-07-2011, 16:36

I visited this little graveyard myself a couple of weeks ago - and in trying to find out which church the graveyard belonged to - I came across NWEX. I had gone taking photos of the Bluebell (the huge coal-tip nearby) that has been flattened.
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Default 28-07-2011, 12:45

Hi Tyldesley girl, the graveyard is an odd place isn't it? Has Bluebell completely gone now then? My husband and I found the graveyard by accident too while we were going for a mooch around the coal tip. If you ever want to team up for any explores, Whittingham Asylum is a good one to visit. xx
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Default 02-08-2011, 12:05

Hi Jill, the last time I went it was virtually flattened. Not happy about latest reports in the press though about what is happening with the land. Thanks for the tip on the Whittingham Asylym.
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Default 05-08-2011, 20:19

Nice little graveyard. Whittingham Asylym looks like a worthwile trip.
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