St. George's Field

During the day, I sometimes walk from Mechanical Engineering towards the lab; I have a workstation at both places :) One way to get from one to the other is through St. George's Field. I still tend to forget this name.. so I just looked it up in my "Do-it-yourself Campus Tour". After googling it I found this 'nice' history:

"Now hidden within the campus of the university the Leeds General Cemetery Company's site at St George's field is an important piece of Leeds' Victorian history.

The site was planned because such was the state of Leeds' Parish Church graveyard in the 1830s that heavy rain would wash away the earth and expose pieces of shattered human bone.

The Parish Church graveyard was literally full up and in order for bodies to be placed in family plots the gravediggers would remove previous burials, smash the remains and re-inter them alongside the new coffin.

It was these smashed human remains that would sometimes be uncovered by bad weather. The appalling sight upset the sensibilities of the newly rich middle-classes and led to the formation of the Leeds General Cemetery Company in 1833 and the purchase of the site."