Watch tower, East Preston Street Cemetery
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Watch tower, East Preston Street Cemetery
Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 15 Apr 2021
Built in response to the resurrectionists who stole newly interred corpses to sell to the University anatomists. The most infamous of course being Burke and Hare who cut out the middleman, but most "body snatching" was exhumation of the naturally deceased.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.938939
Longitude
-3.176129