Between river and railway: Wardsend Cemetery

Our speaker Hugh Waterhouse was formerly an archaeologist who once excavated a cemetery. He now stays above ground to explore Sheffield burial grounds, revealing their history and the lives of those at rest within them.

Wardsend Cemetery is the resting place of 30,000 Sheffielders. Their lives illuminate stories of conflict, craftmanship, tragedy, union agitation, and, as a finale, riot in the cemetery itself, and the imprisonment of the vicar and sexton.

This is our final lecture of the 2025 so don’t miss it!

Portland Works
Randall Street
Highfields
Sheffield
S2 4SJ