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Woking Crematorium was founded in 1878, when a piece of land close to St John's Village was bought by Sir Henry Thompson. He was a surgeon and Physician to the Queen . In 1874, he was a founder and first president of the Cremation Society of Great Britain .
In 1888, 28 cremations took place at the venue. In 1891, Woking Crematorium added a chapel, pioneering the concept of a crematorium being a venue for funerals as well as cremation. The Cremation Society of Great Britain drew up the original forms of certification for cremation which were to be adopted as the basis for the first Cremation Act in ...
Woking Crematorium, the oldest in the United Kingdom. Guildford Crematorium; Randalls Park Crematorium, Leatherhead; Woking Crematorium; Tyne and Wear.
The first purpose-built crematorium in England was Woking Crematorium, which was built in 1878 and is still in use. In Scandinavia , approximately 30 to 70 percent (in large cities up to 90 percent) of the dead were cremated around the mid-1980s.
In 1924 'Woking Offers' free paper advertising local traders started. By 1928 'Woking Offers' was renamed 'Woking Outlook' to be renamed 'Woking Review' in 1933. It is believed to be the oldest free newspaper in Britain. In 1924 Waterer's Park was left to Woking U.D.C. by Anthony Waterer of Knaphill Nursery. Knaphill Football Club started ...
The cremator at Woking Crematorium in the 1870s, before the chapel and buildings were constructed. Pickersgill was cremated six days after her death. The great concern at the time was that the person may not be actually dead, and the thought of being burned alive was too shocking for the Victorians to contemplate. Due to this concern, two ...
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The Cremation Society were keen to prevent a competitor to Woking Crematorium, and sought to cooperate with the LNC. [83] The fares for the transport of mourners and coffins on the London Necropolis Railway had been fixed by Parliament in 1852 at 6s for a living first class passenger and £1 for a first class coffin (in 1891 worth about £41 ...