Barton Road Cemetery, Torquay, Devon, UK. A walk among the fascinating memorials.

Torquay's main burial ground on Barton Road. A well-cared cemetery with neat paths and interesting memorials. Includes a very special section for children who died. Includes the massive memorial to Isaac Merritt Singer, the sewing machine maker and other members of his family.

[@philipbailey7172]

A fantastic job you done and really interesting, especially about the war graves, and the Singer Family, too..

[@garyrochester9595]

I used to clean the singer Memorial each year for 19 years. Worked for Williams and triggs memorials

[@darlalong1957]

Enjoyed this so much..thank you.

[@shadowwolf27]

I live close to that cemetery it is a really beautiful cemetery to visit I go past it every on the way to school :)

[@dianemac3768]

This was an amazingly done video......one of the best on cemeteries on UTube.....thanks for your care and tour doing this.

[@asa1973100]

Beautiful

[@dollyjrt8920]

I done a quick search on Disney Robinson. Found a Reverend Disney Robinson who also d.1869. He was also an author and poet! There are portraits of him and his wife in the Hepworth Gallery ( If its the same man that is!?)

[@tylerjones2695]

Another very nice one

[@peterwimsey5904]

August Wilhelm Hofmann was a German organic chemist. Rosamond Margaret Jane Wilson was the second of his four wives.
Susanne Catherine (Kitty) Elizabeth Earle, Baroness de Reede de Ter (born Utrecht), wife of George Hudson Earle .
Bernard Perceval de Watteville's wife was Florence Emily Beddoes. Bernard was a Swiss-French naturalist and artist.
Henry Tozer Jenkins, stonemason, quarry owner and marble merchant.

[@d.l.l.6578]

Look at all the tumbled over monuments.

[@beanthefish]

Thank you sir.

[@dm607]

I loved this, wish it had been longer and would have liked to hear more dates. Old cemeteries, graveyards and mausoleums are my favourite video walkabouts to watch. The Singer tomb was a masterpiece in stonework which I doubt could be matched today. Seeing the children's section made me sad, as usual, as did all those fallen stones. But the absolute breath takers for me were those Celtic Crosses. Nothing beats them in my little opinion, lol. Thank you for sharing with us sir.

[@lindaosborne1617]

Thought of interest was that I lived in Stretford in Manchester near a Barton road. And also just reading sense and sensibility book by Jane Austen set in Devonshire.

[@bcoldgoalie]

Henry Tozer Jenkins was a stonemason, quarry owner and marble merchant who ran H.T.Jenkins and Son.They did commissions for memorials to Queen Victoria and the Marquis of Salisbury in Westminster Abbey. They were an internationally respected company. The graves of the children are always the saddest. So much lost humanity.

[@strabefie1977]

I visit this Cemetary when I was in Torquay . It's sad in which kondition some Graves are. But it's a beautiful Place.

[@bettytordoff8920]

Just had your channel pop up into my TH-cam feed and I am so glad it did. Always sad to see so many children's graves but, so well kept. Seeing the military graves tells much history of their own. Thank you for sharing your walks. I did subscribe. Look forward to seeing more.

[@ChurchyardsandCemeteries]

Wow never heard of that one mate

[@sylviaburns2995]

35 weeks is premie (crib death) or still birth. 40 weeks is a normal gestation for humans at 35 weeks the lungs may struggle after birth.

[@raimondvanwezel1041]

very nice

[@annetteturner5954]

Hello UK cousins .

[@dianebree774]

Born sleeping is a stillborn. 🕊

[@Mike232-j2p]

The road having my last name brought me here

[@johnbastien3872]

Is it my immagination. But are the windows walled up on the chapels?

[@d.l.l.6578]

Yes.

[@johnbastien3872]

@@d.l.l.6578 That is rather sad,

[@TJ-eq6dl]

Some scum bags went in there and vandalized the stones by pulling pushing them over!

[@sylviaking6796]

No, apparently its ant damage, the large colonies loosen the soil and the headstones become unstable.

[@bowlingbill9633]

A few years back some local councils took it on themselves to do what they called topple testing using some kind of pressure tool ( heath and safety was the excuse used) if the head stone moved then it was laid flat and family had to put it right then it was found that they were using to much pressure on the stones so it was stopped but the council's didn't put right what they had done! My boss took our local council to small claimed court after they did this to his grandmother's head stone which had only been on for six months happy to say he won and the council had to repair it.