BUTLER, COOK, CHOPHOUSE OWNERS. MYSTERIOUS HOUSE NAME. Situated in the Consecrated/West Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery This monument is one of those ones where additional details, such as the name of the house, grabs the attention, rather than the names of the people commemorated on the monument. Having removed this monument of its ‘overcoat’ of […]

Situated in the Consecrated/West Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery. R.J. Charleton, in his seminal series on Jesmond Old Cemetery, published in The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle in 1886, highlights the most curious monument in the cemetery, describing it thus; “It is a plain, square free-stone pedestal about four feet high. The top is flat, and on […]