Mike, I would love to see this photo as well. Perhaps you could put it up on google web albums or flickr or some other web page and send us a link? Vern in Ontario >> Hi >> I did this at Flaybrick Cemetery here in Wirral. Many stones had >> either been vandalised, >> not been put up (too poor) or hit during the bombing raid in the >> 1940's. However, on taking a photograph with my digital of the area >> I got more than I bargained for in the shape of a swirling mist that >> showed, on closer look several faces which appeared ghost -like. On >> giving this photo to a spiritualist fried of my mums confirmed it as >> a mother and daughter. >> When showing it to a friend he turned the photo upside down and it >> revealed what looked like a soldier (Roman?) with spear/sword sheild >> and helmet with plumage. >> >> Mike Hayes >> >> --- On Fri, 13/11/09, Carolyn Parker <ca.parker@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> From: Carolyn Parker <ca.parker@comcast.net> >> Subject: Re: [ENG-LIV] Toxteth Park cemetery .. >> To: eng-liverpool@rootsweb.com >> Date: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 20:21 >> >> Hi >> I'd like to chime in on this discussion to let you know that the same >> thing happened to me in New York City while searching for an 1873 >> grave! I arrived with my digital camera and great hope. At the >> cemetery's office I was directed to the location but there was only >> grass there. Upon questioning the staff I was told that not everyone >> could afford a stone or other marker or it could have been of poor >> quality and it decomposed; or buried by wind swept rain,dirt and >> leaves. Very disappointing!! >> Carolyn >> >> At 09:35 AM 11/13/2009, you wrote: >>> Mike, I had a similar experience in returning to Merseyside years >>> ago after >>> a then 38 year absence. I was disappointed to find that my Standish >>> kin had >>> no stonework etc to mark their resting places. Then I realized that >>> the >>> Toxteth Park had a large population of working class folks and many >>> of them >>> including my kin lived in the dreaded "Courts" and most likely >>> could not >>> afford any indication to their grave. Others died in the workhouse >>> and would >>> have been buried in a section reserved for that purpose so no >>> indications >>> existed in this area also. >>> One thing I must say is that an employee at the cemetery went to great >>> lengths to help me locate the burial plots, such courtesy, patience >>> and >>> helpfulness is rarely seen these days. >>> A belated hats off the the staff at Toxteth Park cemetery >>> >>> Dave D. >>> >>>> Last April, armed with the location of some 23 of my forebears, we >>>> set off >>>> to discover their resting places. Access to the cemetery was easy, >>>> and we >>>> were able to park conveniently within the grounds. Sadly, however, >>>> despite >>>> high expectations, we were unable to discover any stonework, >>>> vertical or >>>> flat, relating to any of my ancestors. In one instance, on an early >>>> unconsecrated section, where I had two ancestors buried, just a >>>> single >>>> solitary headstone showed through the well mown grass. 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