The Haunting Grave Of Sam Wilson Lawnswood Cemetery Virtual Exploring Tour Leeds Yorkshire 4K 🇬🇧

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Lawnswood Cemetery:
Lawnswood Cemetery, in Leeds England, has a rich history. This includes the design of the cemetery, the opening of the crematorium and the burials of famous people:

Design:
The cemetery was designed by George Corson, a prominent Leeds architect, and opened in 1875. Corson's design was intended to be simple and blend in with the surrounding scenery. The cemetery also features a tree border and permanent ornaments.

Crematorium:
The first crematorium in Leeds opened in 1905 and was the first in Britain to use a gas cremator. The crematorium is still in use today and its chimney has been disguised as a clock tower.

War graves:
The cemetery commemorates over 300 Commonwealth servicemen and women from the two world wars. There is an 88-grave war graves plot, and the rest of the First World War burials and all of the Second World War burials are scattered throughout the cemetery.

Famous people:
The cemetery is the resting place of many famous people, including architect George Corson, who was buried there in 1910.

Friends of Lawnswood Cemetery:
A community organization was formed in 2011 to enhance, protect, and promote the cemetery for future generations.

The Grave Of Ethel Preston (1861-1911)
Grade II Listed Memorial 1911. Italian marble life-sized statue standing under a classical porch with composite columns supporting entablature, cornice and balustraded parapet; black marble panelled doors slightly ajar, reputed to be a replica of the entrance to her home, The Grange, Beeston (now demolished)

Inscription on right plinth: ‘TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF/ ETHEL/ WIFE OF WALTER PRESTON/OF THE GRANGE BEESTON/ DIED MARCH 24th 1911 AGED 50 YEARS’

And on left plinth: ‘TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF/ WALTER/ HUSBAND OF EMILY AND THE LATE ETHEL PRESTON/ DIED OCT 24th 1930’.

Walter Preston was a manufacturing chemist. He married Ethel West in 1882. They had no children. When she died aged 50 in 1911, he erected this elaborate monument to her. It is said that Ethel is standing waiting at the open door to be reunited with her husband and that the door would finally be closed when he joined her. However, Walter Preston married his 22-year-old house keeper Emily Florence Richardson just a year after Ethel’s demise.

The monument caused quite a stir when it was erected. Extra trams were laid on for the thousands of visitors who flocked to see it and a police presence was needed to keep order among the queues. I believe that there was a charge of 3d to view Ethel’s memorial and that postcards of it were also on sale.

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