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Hartshill Cemetery
The decision to provide a new municipal cemetery for the borough of Stoke-upon-Trent was made in 1881.
At a meeting of a special committee appointed by the Borough Council to consider the advisability of taking steps to provide a public cemetery held at the Town Hall, Stoke, on Monday, 30 May 1881.
It took 3½ years to select a site and to build the new cemetery. The site chosen was not a popular one because it was so far away from the town between the villages of Hartshill and Penkhull There was also public disquiet about the choice of architect and the number of chapels built.
In spite of these problems the project was successfully completed because it was supported by Colin Minton Campbell, mayor of the borough between 1880 and 1883, and the largest pottery manufacturer in the town. He made his support for the project clear at a banquet held in his honour at the North Stafford Hotel in November 1881.
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There is a lodge at each entrance to the cemetery from Queens Road - the southern lodge for the cemetery sexton, the northern lodge for the cemetery registrar. The registrar’s lodge also contained the cemetery office which was fitted with a large safe for the registers and deed books. When the cemetery committee advertised for a registrar in May 1884 there were 99 applicants for the position.
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