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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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