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Gartside
Gardens
 Gartside Gardens is a
small urban park seen above from Kincardine Road.
Today the park is bound on three sides by houses on the
Brunswick Estate.
   The park has a history that goes back to 1821 when it was created as the Rusholme Road Cemetery.  As you can see from the
map above, dated 1844, the cemetery had an avenue of
trees along its western margin and vaults on the
south-east and south-west. It also had a chapel
which faced onto Rusholme Road. Below is the
cemetery again in 1935.
 The map above is shown with the permission of Eric Rowland of Artus Genealogy Resources The cemetery opened in
1821 and was known as the Dissenters Burial Ground since
it was used by various non-conformist groups. By
the time the map above was published the cemetery had
actually closed. Records indicate that the last
burial was held there in 1933.
The aerial photograoh
below dates from 1953, some 20 years after the cemetery
closed. You can still see evidence of the parallel
rows of trees shown in the 19th century map. The
walls of the chapel are still there but it appears to
have no roof.
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