Memorial Garden – Menston

Friends Of  High Royd’s Memorial Garden

“HAPPY BEES“

In 2015 Yorkshire in Bloom judges said “ High Royds Memorial Garden is a real gem. The raised beds around the entrance looked impressive packed with nectar-rich herbaceous perennials”. They went on to say it was capable of further development and in 2016 with the help of a grant from Tesco’s “Bag of Help” appeal and willing volunteers further work has been carried out in the garden and adjoining wood.In 2015 Yorkshire in Bloom judges said “ High Royds Memorial Garden is a real gem. The raised beds around the entrance looked impressive packed with nectar-rich herbaceous perennials”. They went on to say it was capable of further development and in 2016 with the help of a grant from Tesco’s “Bag of Help” appeal and willing volunteers further work has been carried out in the garden and adjoining wood.In 2015 Yorkshire in Bloom judges said “ High Royds Memorial Garden is a real gem. The raised beds around the entrance looked impressive packed with nectar-rich herbaceous perennials”. They went on to say it was capable of further development and in 2016 with the help of a grant from Tesco’s “Bag of Help” appeal and willing volunteers further work has been carried out in the garden and adjoining wood.In 2015 Yorkshire in Bloom judges said “ High Royds Memorial Garden is a real gem. The raised beds around the entrance looked impressive packed with nectar-rich herbaceous perennials”. They went on to say it was capable of further development and in 2016 with the help of a grant from Tesco’s “Bag of Help” appeal and willing volunteers further work has been carried out in the garden and adjoining wood.In 2015 Yorkshire in Bloom judges said “ High Royds Memorial Garden is a real gem. The raised beds around the entrance looked impressive packed with nectar-rich herbaceous perennials”. They went on to say it was capable of further development and in 2016 with the help of a grant from Tesco’s “Bag of Help” appeal and willing volunteers further work has been carried out in the garden and adjoining wood.In 2015 Yorkshire in Bloom judges said “ High Royds Memorial Garden is a real gem. The raised beds around the entrance looked impressive packed with nectar-rich herbaceous perennials”. They went on to say it was capable of further development and in 2016 with the help of a grant from Tesco’s “Bag of Help” appeal and willing volunteers further work has been carried out in the garden and adjoining wood.In 2015 Yorkshire in Bloom judges said “ High Royds Memorial Garden is a real gem. The raised beds around the entrance looked impressive packed with nectar-rich herbaceous perennials”. They went on to say it was capable of further development and in 2016 with the help of a grant from Tesco’s “Bag of Help” appeal and willing volunteers further work has been carried out in the garden and adjoining wood.In 2015 Yorkshire in Bloom judges said “ High Royds Memorial Garden is a real gem. The raised beds around the entrance looked impressive packed with nectar-rich herbaceous perennials”. They went on to say it was capable of further development and in 2016 with the help of a grant from Tesco’s “Bag of Help” appeal and willing volunteers further work has been carried out in the garden and adjoining wood.In 2015 Yorkshire in Bloom judges said “ High Royds Memorial Garden is a real gem. The raised beds around the entrance looked impressive packed with nectar-rich herbaceous perennials”. They went on to say it was capable of further development and in 2016 with the help of a grant from Tesco’s “Bag of Help” appeal and willing volunteers further work has been carried out in the garden and adjoining wood.In 2015 Yorkshire in Bloom judges said “ High Royds Memorial Garden is a real gem. The raised beds around the entrance looked impressive packed with nectar-rich herbaceous perennials”. They went on to say it was capable of further development and in 2016 with the help of a grant from Tesco’s “Bag of Help” appeal and willing volunteers further work has been carried out in the garden and adjoining wood.In 2015 Yorkshire in Bloom judges said “ High Royds Memorial Garden is a real gem. The raised beds around the entrance looked impressive packed with nectar-rich herbaceous perennials”. They went on to say it was capable of further development and in 2016 with the help of a grant from Tesco’s “Bag of Help” appeal and willing volunteers further work has been carried out in the garden and adjoining wood.In 2015 Yorkshire in Bloom judges said “ High Royds Memorial Garden is a real gem. The raised beds around the entrance looked impressive packed with nectar-rich herbaceous perennials”. They went on to say it was capable of further development and in 2016 with the help of a grant from Tesco’s “Bag of Help” appeal and willing volunteers further work has been carried out in the garden and adjoining wood.

Packed with nectar-rich herbaceous perennials and swarming with happy bees.

The Heritage Weekend September 2016

 

The Memorial Chapel - October 17, 2012

 

Friends Of  High Royds Memorial Garden

The Hospital Burial Ground.

 From December 1890 the unclaimed asylum dead were buried at Buckle Lane to the right of the former Hospital Railway.

‘It was reported to the committee that the Lord Bishop of the Diocese Dr William Boyd Carpenter had attended at the Asylum on Thursday 1st June 1893 and dedicated the Cemetry for Burial purposes.’

The Asylum having their own burial ground for the unclaimed Pauper Patients was a cost effective solution for an ever increasing problem, back in those days it was most unwise to make it public that you had a relative in the Asylum, insanity was considered hereditary and on that basis many people were simply left there in may cases for decades.

 

The last burial took place in 1969, the population of the Cemetery stands at 2861.

The plaque on the gate is incorrect as it does not take into account three of the babies born into the asylum.

All images of the former patients/inmates were sourced from the West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield, collection C488

 

 

FRIENDS OF

HIGH ROYDS MEMORIAL GARDEN

 Thank You

 

The project to restore the graveyard began in September 2007 and sincere thanks are given to all the many volunteers who gave so freely in terms of money and practical help.

 

Financially the project would not have been possible without the help of the following organisations:

 

Bradford Metropolitan District Council

CNET – Grassroots Fast Track Scheme

Churches Together in Burley and Menston

Community Spaces GroundworkUK

Coronation Lodge – R.A.O.B

Guiseley with Esholt PCC

Heritage Lottery Fund

Ladies  Please Choir

LeedsCity Council (Guiseley & Rawdon ward)

LeedsCollegeof Building

LeedsInvolvement Project

LeedsMental Health Teaching NHS Trust

Shipley & Bingley Voluntary Services

St. Wilfred’s Church, Calverley

St. John theDivineChurch, Thorpe Edge

SwarthmoreCollege(David Lynch and friends)

Leeds Primary Care Trust (NHS –Leeds)

Menston Parish Council

MenstonMethodistChurch

North ofEnglandHorticultural Society

Q Equality of Queensbury, Bradford

 

Our apologies for any omissions.  So many organisations and individuals gave so generously and freely that it is not practicable to list them all.

 

Founding Management Committee Members

 

Derek Hutchinson – Chairman

Ron Sweeney – Vice Chairman & Treasurer

John Steel OBE, Secretary

Mark Davis,

David Lynch

Quentin Mackenzie

Andrea Pride

Ryan Pride

Sylvia Robertshaw

Alan Storey

Committee as at July 2012

 Ron Sweeney – Chairman

Quentin Mackenzie – Secretary

Mark Davis

David Lynch

Elizabeth Sharp

Niccola Swan

Tricia Thorpe

Registered Office: 50,Cleasby Road, Menston, Ilkley, WestYorkshire,LS29 6JA

Registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act (no. 30846R)

HMRC recognised charity – reference XT224968

 

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Please take a little time to watch the slide shows I have created.

 

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Much appreciation to Gladedale, Ben Bailey Homes for gifting us this important historical Chapel and land.

It is here that 2861 people from the hospital  found their final resting place. 

The majority of the people interred at Buckle Lane were former patients, many of them spending decades of their lives resident in the hospital.

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