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Old Calton Cemetery, looking towards Calton Hill. The villagers of Calton, a village at the western base of Calton Hill, buried their dead at South Leith Parish Church.This was so inconvenient that, in 1718, the Society of the Incorporated Trades of Calton bought a half acre of ground at a cost of £1013 from Lord Balmerino, the feudal superior of the land, for use as a burial ground for the ...
Calton (Scottish Gaelic: A' Challtainn, lit. 'the hazel wood', Scots: Caltoun), known locally as The Calton, is a district in Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde, and just to the east of the city centre. Calton's most famous landmark is the Barras street market and the Barrowland Ballroom, one of Glasgow's principal musical venues.
Lord President Inglis Bust of John Inglis, Lord Glencorse, by Charles McBride, 1893, Old College, University of Edinburgh Memorial to John Inglis, Lord Glencorse, St Giles Cathedral Lord Glencorse's vault, New Calton Cemetery. Rt Hon John Inglis, Lord Glencorse FRSE DCL LLD (21 August 1810 – 20 August 1891) was a Scottish politician and judge.
Monuments in New Calton Burial Ground with Arthur's Seat and the Scottish Parliament in the background. New Calton Burial Ground is a burial ground in Edinburgh.It was built as an overspill and functional replacement to Old Calton Burial Ground and lies half a mile to its east on Regent Road in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the south-east slopes of Calton Hill.
Memorial to Wendy Wood, Old Calton Burial Ground. Wood remained active into her late-eighties. [10] [11] She died in Edinburgh on 30 June 1981, aged 88. [12] A small memorial was placed in Old Calton Cemetery in 2021. It lies near the north parapet wall on Waterloo Place.
The nearby Glasgow Necropolis is a "garden" cemetery opened in 1833, ... The statue depicts Lobey Dosser, the Sheriff of Calton Creek, taking in his handcuffed arch ...
Glasgow Town Council reacquired the land in 1723, naming the area Calton, a name retained when Glasgow sold Calton to the Orr family in 1730. [5] The land lay on the east bank of the River Clyde just upstream of Glasgow. Although close to the center of modern Glasgow, Calton was an independent village, later a municipal burgh, that was not ...
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