Yorkshire: Cemeteries and Graves 1600- 1850 pt 2

Ornate tombs, despite being declared 'popish', returmned to the churches. We see the supposed site of Oliver Cromwell's burial; film of a tour of the tombs in Knaresborough Parish Church; Henry Jenkins - supposedly the oldest man to have lived; the execution of Dick Turpin and a tale of body snatching; Quaker and Moravian burials; the meorial to William Bradley, the tallest man of Market Weighton; the overcrowded graveyard at Heptonstall; masoleums and ending with the pauper graves at Beckett Street Cemetery, Leeds Yorkshire Cemeteries and Graves pt 1 starts with Neolithic burial mounds to the 1530s and the creation of the Church of England. Part 3 Flood and Industrial monuments; deaths in the Bronte family and film of the overcrowded graveyard at Haworth; the death of Prince Albert led to a rise in the Whitby jet industry; the unusual memorials to the wealthy - a look at Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford; up to the modern green burials of today.