Grave tales from underground friends
VEN Crane is promising sudden death to all those who follow her around Sheffield's General Cemetery this Sunday.
It contains some 87,000 souls but some of them popped their clogs in more dramatic ways than others and Ven, one of the Gen Cem's Friends, will be telling their stories.
"This is the Chat magazine of graveyard tales," she says.
"One of the best is the Matthew Street Disaster almost entirely forgotten. Twenty five yards of wall came down at Doncaster's steelworks in August 1886 and buried eight children playing in the street. Two of them, William Cullingworth and Gertrude Blanktin are in the cemetery."
Sudden death involving walls can run in the family. William's grandfather, another William Cullingworth, died in a stand collapse at Lincoln races.
Ven did her sudden death tour last year and promises the best of the old favourites with a lot more new ones.
Just turn up at the Cemetery Road gatehouse at 2pm. The tour is free but donations will be accepted.
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