- My Satellite Setup
- A little less analogue, and a lot more crap.
- My Location
- UK
Next to Liverpool Street station.
This was apparently the grounds of the Bethlem Hospice, one of the first asylums, however this, and a number of nearby places were used to bury those that died from the various plagues before (and after) the building was relocated around 1675.
Though the immediate incentive was the fear of an excessive number of plague dead, and the New Churchyard was certainly used for many burials in later epidemics, it was also used extensively in non-plague years by a number of parishes with limited local accommodation, and remained in use to the mid-eighteenth century.
Over-use of the New Churchyard in 1665 produced a new crisis. The 'noisome stenches arising from the great number of dead' buried there, together with the plea from many parishes that their own churchyards were now full, forced the Mayor and Aldermen to seek new accommodation
_http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/epiharding.html
A blog on the current work
_http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/mindthegap/2011/04/unearthing_the_crossrail_skele.html]BBC - Mind The Gap: Unearthing the Crossrail skeletons
This was apparently the grounds of the Bethlem Hospice, one of the first asylums, however this, and a number of nearby places were used to bury those that died from the various plagues before (and after) the building was relocated around 1675.
Though the immediate incentive was the fear of an excessive number of plague dead, and the New Churchyard was certainly used for many burials in later epidemics, it was also used extensively in non-plague years by a number of parishes with limited local accommodation, and remained in use to the mid-eighteenth century.
Over-use of the New Churchyard in 1665 produced a new crisis. The 'noisome stenches arising from the great number of dead' buried there, together with the plea from many parishes that their own churchyards were now full, forced the Mayor and Aldermen to seek new accommodation
_http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/epiharding.html
A blog on the current work
_http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/mindthegap/2011/04/unearthing_the_crossrail_skele.html]BBC - Mind The Gap: Unearthing the Crossrail skeletons