Friends of Brandwood End Cemetery

Brandwood End Cemetery was opened on 13th April 1899 by Mr George Talliss, the Chairman of the local Cemetery Committee, with the first burial, that of a young child, taking place on Saturday 15 April 1899.

As a typical Victorian Cemetery it was beautifully landscaped, and set out with a main tree lined central avenue which was intersected by smaller tree lined cross-drives, creating a grid pattern.

At its highest point stood the twin terracotta brick built Mortuary Chapels; one for Non-Conformists and the other consecrated for the Anglican Church. The central avenue passes directly between the two identical mortuary chapels and beneath the bell tower archway that connects the two buildings.

Brandwood End remains a beautiful example of the Victorian and Edwardian 'culture of commemoration' and one of the main objectives of The Friends is to assist in maintaining those old values and preserving the commemorative inheritance passed down to us by our 19th century predecessors on into the 21st Century