Comments on: Looking down on the cholera burial ground, 1832 http://yorkstories.co.uk/looking-down-on-the-cholera-burial-ground-1832/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Elizabeth Hardcastle http://yorkstories.co.uk/looking-down-on-the-cholera-burial-ground-1832/#comment-672709 Mon, 26 Feb 2018 18:52:09 +0000 #comment-672709 St Maurice’s church was on the corner of Lord Mayor’s Walk and Monkgate and the gravestones were in its churchyard. The church was demolished in the 1960s.

]]> By: Anita Carr http://yorkstories.co.uk/looking-down-on-the-cholera-burial-ground-1832/#comment-672674 Sat, 24 Feb 2018 14:42:53 +0000 #comment-672674 Is there a second cholera burial site outside Monk Bar? Several gravestones there – or is it an older churchyard from a church now lost?

]]> By: YorkStories http://yorkstories.co.uk/looking-down-on-the-cholera-burial-ground-1832/#comment-428 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:21:33 +0000 #comment-428 I don’t think you’re alone in that Drake – I didn’t know either until I did the page on the burial ground.

In recent years a plaque has been placed near John Snow’s birthplace in North Street – I meant to mention in the text. Have now added the link to the ‘Sources & links’ above.

]]> By: drake Richards http://yorkstories.co.uk/looking-down-on-the-cholera-burial-ground-1832/#comment-427 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:48:46 +0000 #comment-427 Indeed John Snow,the father of Epidemiology…didn’t know he was from York

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