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Description: | February 2007.
Image shows many of the 'Guinea Graves' that can be seen in Holbeck Cemetery in Fairfax Road. In contrast to the more ornate memorials these are simple stone slabs which have been inscribed with a long list of names and ages of people in the locality who died in poverty. The guinea or 21 shillings paid for up 36 letters of inscription. Some of the guinea graves in Holbeck Cemetery have as many as 46 names, the guinea graves date from 1857 to the 1940's | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Holbeck Cemetery fairfax Road Guinea Graves | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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