Ruined chapel at Gorton Cemetery

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Ruined chapel at Gorton Cemetery

Image: © Geoff Royle Taken: 27 Mar 2009

This building has been used as a political football between conservationists and the local Council for years and years. Funeral mourners passing through the cemetery are bound to be shocked by the state of the place, and it is hardly a fitting background for the War Memorial.

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Image Location

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Latitude
53.455872
Longitude
-2.163056