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Brady Street Cemetery

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The Brady Street Cemetery rapidly filled, and a solution was found with the addition of a four-foot layer of soil in the centre of the cemetery to allow additional burials. The raised area became known as the "Strangers Mound" as many of the new burials were not affiliated to any particular
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congregation. The headstones of the burials in the Strangers Mound and the ones below are set back to back. The Great Synagogue subsequently buried people in the New Synagogue's
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describes the cemetery as "crowded with mainly later Victorian monuments" and highlights Miriam Levy's monument for its "considerable lavishness".
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as it had not been used for many years. If a cemetery has not had any interments for 100 years it may be redeveloped, but with the burial of
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in the cemetery in 1990, the future of the Brady Street Cemetery was secured from building development until at least 2090.
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The cemetery is 4 acres (1.6 ha) in size and is surrounded by a wall topped with broken glass. The
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Complete photographic record of headstones at the Brady Street Cemetery at CemeteryScribes
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Modern map showing Brady Street including the cemetery, shown as "Jewish burial ground"
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In the 1980s the local council intended to redevelop the cemetery with the use of a
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on an 1870s Ordnance Survey map when Brady Street was known as North Street
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after forming a Conjoint Burial Board with the New Synagogue.
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The land the cemetery occupies was originally a brickfield on
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Benjamin (c. 1753–1808) and Abraham (c. 1756–1810) Goldsmid
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London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide & Gazetteer
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Whitechapel
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Coordinates
51°31′19″N 0°03′39″W / 51.5219°N 0.0608°W / 51.5219; -0.0608
Orthodox Jewish
United Synagogue
Brady Street Cemetery
Find a Grave
Brady Street Cemetery

Brady Street
Whitechapel
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Great Synagogue

Pevsner Architectural Guides
guineas
Jewish cemetery at West Ham
compulsory purchase order
Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
United Synagogue
Benjamin (c. 1753–1808) and Abraham (c. 1756–1810) Goldsmid
Solomon Hirschell
Hyman Hurwitz
University College, London
Miriam Levy
Nathan Meyer Rothschild
Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
Judah Cohen

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