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Welcome to The Friends of Key Hill Cemetery & Warstone Lane Cemetery
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October Events: Cemetery Tours, Catacomb Tours, Underground Tunnel Tours, Twilight Tours, & Burial Index Stall.
Welcome to our Autumn Events Sunday 12 Oct Birmingham Tour, A Journey through time in Warstone Lane Cemetery Time: 12noon-1.45pm...
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Sep 292 min read


Friends Events for September 2025
including Cemetery Tours, Catacomb Tours, Tunnel Tours & an Early Evening Tour. Birmingham Heritage Week We advise that you view “ About...
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Aug 3010 min read


Friends Events for August 2025
We advise that you view “ About this Event ” and the “ Frequently Asked Questions” on each booking page before reserving/ purchasing...
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Jul 295 min read


Hidden Birmingham, Catacombs Tours, Sat 17 May 2025
Location: Warstone Lane cemetery, Vyse Street For those with an adventurous spirit and a keen interest in history, these tours offer a...
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May 143 min read


Birmingham Local History and Family History Fair Saturday 13 July 2024
The Friends of Key Hill cemetery & Warstone Lane cemetery will be attending the Midland Ancestors event and look forward to welcoming you....
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Jul 12, 20241 min read


Police Inspector John Parry
John was born in Herefordshire to Sophie Gilbert & John Parry in 1860 and was christened 26 August 1860 at St John the Baptist,...
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Apr 15, 20222 min read


Midnight burials with lanterns.
One would think from the image below that this family are still resting in the catacombs at Key Hill Cemetery in Birmingham Jewellery...
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Apr 10, 20221 min read


Samuel Beale 1803-1874, Mayor of Birmingham 1841
Samuel Beale was born in Birmingham on 4th of June 1803 the eldest son of Sarah and William Beale. Samuel’s younger brother, William...
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Apr 1, 20222 min read


Walter Abbott, Professional Footballer
Walter Abbott was born 7 December 1877 in Small Heath, Birmingham to Mary Ann Wheelwright & George Abbott a Gun Barrel Borer. Walter was...
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Mar 31, 20222 min read


Robert Thomas & Galton House, Smethwick
The buried grave was found of Robert Thomas and his wife Jane Ward Earp and some of their children. This grave that was buried deep...
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Mar 28, 20221 min read


Sudden death of Birmingham’s smallest person in 1884
The nineteenth century was a period for such forms of entertainment for disabled people being exhibited at traveling fairs and circuses....
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Mar 23, 20227 min read


Alan Andrew Lamb Hickman (The Railway Man)
Alan Andrew Lamb Hickman was born in Southampton in 1884 the son Mary Elizabeth Lamb and William Hickman whose occupation was a...
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Mar 22, 20222 min read


Constance Naden, famous female poet
Constance Naden was an artist, philosopher, scientist and poet, very famous in her lifetime and considered to be one of the foremost...
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Mar 22, 20221 min read


The famous Warstone or Hoarstone
The Warstone / Hoarstone is a glacial made from the volcanic rock which was carried here from Wales by glacial ice. The Warstone was...
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Mar 8, 20221 min read


Birmingham Blitz, Mary A Greenhill & Mary White, mother & sister of author Kathleen Dayus.
The family of Author Kathleen DAYUS Mary Ann GREENHILL nee SMITH born 20 June 1867 died Thursday 10 April 1941 at 26 Camden Grove,...
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Feb 22, 20222 min read


The Birmingham Blitz and the"Sand Bag" deaths
A survivors story at the Inquest from the Birmingham Mail 6th November 1940 An inquest was held in Birmingham on 6 November 1940 of three...
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Feb 22, 20222 min read


The Blitz in Hockley, and the unknown lady victim
Bombing of The Vine Pub Alfred James WAKELING was born 1885 in Hockley, Birmingham to Alfred WAKELING & Mary Ann KENDALL . He had...
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Feb 22, 20225 min read


Frederick WAKELING, Suffragette supporter
Photograph of Frederick WAKELING, Suffragette supporter
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Feb 8, 20221 min read
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