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St James' Cemetery. Liverpool |
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As you will have read in the
Early Years section, St James Cemetery was a stone quarry dating
back to at least the 16th century. The oldest part of the cemetery is
the North Corner where the two
tunnels emerge. As well as the usual marks which can be associated
to quarrying, there is also a concentrated amount of graffiti, which by
the style of the lettering appears to be very old.
If you click on the picture to the left you will see, towards the top chisel marks which would have been made by the quarry workers while chipping |
the stone out. Below this there appears to be a worn section, as if some sort of vehicle had rubbed against the wall and worn away the chisel marks. Several of the initials bear dates.
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The photograph to the left shows the initials AS, and the date 1727. Note how the letter A is formed. To the right is some more initials, PD 1797 and HGS (I think) 1797 also. These were almost certainly quarry |
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workers, who carved their initials into the stone during a quiet moment during their working day.