We paid a visit to St Thomas's Church, Pendleton today to see the progress being made on the uncovering of the gravestones in the church grounds, where almost 10,000 are buried and which was grassed over in the early 1970s The project funded by a £10,000 grant from Historic England, will help shed light on the regions working class heritage, research will be carried out on the names revealed by using census records and this promises to be an amazing insight into how Pendleton grew and it's role in the Industrial Revolution and throughout the following years. Work will be carry on for the next three weeks and then the real work will start as the names of the people interred there will be diligently researched by teams of volunteers, already they have found about a local character who used to frequent the nearby Church Inn, recently demolished who was in court for consuming poisoned beer... Salford Mayor, Paul Dennett called in and gave a rousing speech about the importance of the work being carried out there and thanked the volunteers and Historic England for their kindness in funding the project.
