Sadly, in all our cemeteries there are broken memorial stones. Here are just a few.

Well, Loughborough can certainly say there are some grand memorials in our cemeteries! Here's just a few.

Loughborough doesn't have many stone buildings, but there are some left, mostly associated with religion. They have been built from a variety of stone

For the most part, memroail headstones dating between 1900 and 1999 can be found in the newer part of the Leicester Road cemetery, Loughborough.

A selection of military memorial stones from across our local cemeteries.

There are oh so many different shaped memorials in our local cemeteries! Here's a selection of those that caught my eye!

No words, just photographs of the memorial stones, and a transcription of the inscription.

There were so many flowers to choose from! I have selected a small bunch to share with you.

Some photographs taken recently in our local cemeteries.

A few harrowing stories of deaths caused by accidents.

Some memorial headstones reveal the tragedy of life in the ninetheenth century.

This year we’ll be helping you to put your ancestors into the context of both their time and place. We’re widening our definition of ‘place’ and we’ll be helping you to delve into your ancestors’ lives by exploring their ‘place’ in history. Learn about everything from health and medicine to genealogy research techniques. Discover new tools, and alternative ways of sharing your findings. Join us for this social history and genealogy extravaganza!

Using examples from the market town of Loughborough, Lynne will briefly describe her process for researching the industrial history of any place.

There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of memorial stones dating from 1800 and 1899 to be found in our local cemeteries. Here's some examples

Memorials to Freemasons are out there for the finding if you know what to look for.

Hunting around the local cemeteries, and lots of different types of metalwork became apparent ...

This memorial headstone has badly weathered: the person commemorated here is unknown.

A whole bunch of animals to be found in our local cemeteries!

You probably can't imagine how difficult it was tracking down saints!!

I was surprised to find such old gravestones still around in the churchyard of All Saints with Holy Trinity.

Regardless of what is classified as famous, here are four memorials of people who might be considered as such.

It might sometimes be easy to spot mistakes in engravings, but are these real mistakes? And what might be done to prevent this from happening?

Here's just a selection of the interesting epitaphs that can be found in our local cemeteries.

Oh so many occupations and professions are commemorated in our local churchyards! How to choose which to share with you?!