Memorial stone to the victims of the 1941 Blitz at the Shankill Graveyard
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Memorial stone to the victims of the 1941 Blitz at the Shankill Graveyard
Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 21 Jul 2014
The Shankill Graveyard is the oldest of Belfast's cemeteries. Closed in the 1960s it had been used as burial ground for a thousand years. The Blitz of May 1941 cost some 900 lives. http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/community/cemeteries/shankillgraveyard.aspx
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