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This website is dedicated to promoting the historical and educational assets of the Southern Necropolis (opened 1840).

Over 250,000 individuals are interred within the many lairs of the cemetery.

Welcome to Gorbals very own..”City Of The Dead”.

George Geddes of the Glasgow Humane Society was left an orphan as a baby and he was adopted by a family....

The Glasgow architect who designed the gatehouse (1848) entrance to the Southern Necropolis and many other fine buildings.....

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PHOTO GALLERIES...

• GATEHOUSE

• MONUMENTS

• AERIAL PHOTOS

• CENTRAL

• EASTERN

• WESTERN

• WINTER 2010

George Thomson

(1815-1866) was born on 25th March 1815 in Partick....