Edit Sighthill Cemetery
SIGHTHILL Cemetery was the second burial ground in Glasgow, after the Necropolis, which was not connected to any particular church.
It opened in 1840 and originally occupied 12 acres but later expanded to 46 acres on the west side of the steeply rising Springburn Road.
Its name derives from this location, standing 400ft above sea level with commanding views as far as the Perthshire hills.
Initially, the burial plots were located in the most bizarre fashion, by compass-bearing and distance from a central point. But this proved so complicated it was soon dropped.
Unlike the ''wealthier'' Necropolis, which opened seven years earlier, Sighthill was the last resting place for the middle-classes and was not adorned with huge tombs and monuments.
However, its most famous monument is the Martyr's Memorial, erected in honour of two men, John Baird and Andrew Hardie.
They were both hanged and, for good measure, beheaded at Stirling for leading the Radical Rising of 1820. Their bodies were re-interred secretly at Sighthill in 1847.
It opened in 1840 and originally occupied 12 acres but later expanded to 46 acres on the west side of the steeply rising Springburn Road.
Its name derives from this location, standing 400ft above sea level with commanding views as far as the Perthshire hills.
Initially, the burial plots were located in the most bizarre fashion, by compass-bearing and distance from a central point. But this proved so complicated it was soon dropped.
Unlike the ''wealthier'' Necropolis, which opened seven years earlier, Sighthill was the last resting place for the middle-classes and was not adorned with huge tombs and monuments.
However, its most famous monument is the Martyr's Memorial, erected in honour of two men, John Baird and Andrew Hardie.
They were both hanged and, for good measure, beheaded at Stirling for leading the Radical Rising of 1820. Their bodies were re-interred secretly at Sighthill in 1847.
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