engineering

Lodge Hill Cemetery

Lodge Hill Cemetery is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Lodge Hill Cemetery rather than just read about it. In short: Lodge Hill Cemetery is a municipal cemetery and crematorium in Selly Oak, Birmingham, England. The cemetery was first opened by King’s Norton Rural District Council in 1895, and during the 1930s became the site of Birmingham's first municipal crematorium.

Key takeaways

Lodge Hill Cemetery belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Lodge Hill Cemetery to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Lodge Hill Cemetery from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Lodge Hill Cemetery is a municipal cemetery and crematorium in Selly Oak, Birmingham, England. The cemetery was first opened by King’s Norton Rural District Council in 1895, and during the 1930s became the site of Birmingham's first municipal crematorium. Having its main entrance in Weoley Park Road, the cemetery is bounded by Weoley Avenue, Kemberton Road and Castle Road. It can be reached by bus route X21, 48 from Birmingham, Weoley Castle. Nearby is Weoley Castle, the ruin of a moated and fortified mediaeval manor house. Further down the hill the disused Selly Oak to Lapal Canal path runs at a tangent to the site. At the bottom of the hill runs the Bourn Brook.

History

The original cemetery site of 17 acres (69,000 m2) was laid out at a cost of £15,000, which included the construction of offices and two mortuary chapels designed by F. B. Andrews. Although it was opened in January 1895, it was not until the following year that it was consecrated by the then Bishop of Worcester and Coventry, the Right Reverend John Perowne. The cemetery passed to the care of Birmingham Corporation in 1911 with the absorption of King’s Norton and Northfield Urban District Council following the Greater Birmingham Act. It was extended in 1925 to cover just over 61 acres (250,000 m2), and in 1934 saw the building of Birmingham’s first municipal crematorium. The crematorium and chapel, which first opened for use in 1937, cost £9,000 and was designed by the Arts & Crafts architect Holland W. Hobbiss. The crematorium also has a waiting room and a special room containing a Book of Remembrance, as well as scattering lawns that were landscaped in an orchard setting with terraces. The terraces were later remodeled during the 1990s to accommodate newer kinds of memorials. Since the first cremation, which took place on 4 October 1937, the level of cremations has risen steadily and is currently running in excess of more than 2,200 per annum. As well as having sections for Church of England, Roman Catholic and Nonconformist denomination burials in general, the cemetery also has a specific Quaker section that includes graves of members of both the Lloyd and Cadbury families, together with a number removed from the burial ground of the Friends Meeting House at Bull Street in the city centre in 1966. Whilst the central crematorium building is still actively used, the cemetery itself has a limited number of graves available for new burials.

War graves

The cemetery also has a large number of war graves from both the First and Second World Wars, maintained and recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). This includes 498 graves of soldiers, who mostly died from their wounds at local hospitals during the First World War, and particularly those from when the University of Birmingham acted as the 1st Southern & General Military Hospital, most of whom are buried in the war graves plot in section B10, where a Screen Wall memorial running around three sides of the plot lists those buried in the plot and in graves elsewhere in the cemetery that could not be individually marked. The section is easily identifiable by the Cross of Sacrifice and stone plinth with the words Their name liveth for evermore. Each panel on the screen wall is represented by a number stone plaque set into the grass in the middle of the plot. In another small section nearby, enclosed by a golden privet hedge, are buried 14 German prisoners of war from the same War, each of their graves being marked by a flat memorial stone in the shape of an Iron Cross. There are 125 Commonwealth servicemen and women of the Second World War, most buried in scattered graves within the cemetery except a small plot in section 2E.

Notable burials Charles McCallon Alexander (1867–1920), gospel singer Helen Cadbury Alexander (1877–1969), wife of above, author and heir to the Cadbury's chocolate fortune Sir Gilbert Barling (1855–1940), surgeon Arthur Hedley (1905–1969), musician and scholar, biographer of Chopin Charles Lapworth (1842–1920), pioneering geologist and originator of the Ordovician geological period. James Lansdowne Norton (1869–1925), founder of the Norton Motorcycle Company Geoffrey Nuttall (1911–2007), congregational minister Alan Strode Campbell Ross (1907–1980), linguist F.H. Normansell, Chairman of Aston Villa

Notable cremations Simon Evans (writer) (1895–1940), ashes scattered at Abdon Burf, Shropshire. Alec Issigonis (1906–1988), designer of the Austin Mini Anthony John Miles (1955–2001), chess grandmaster Roger Tonge (1946–1981), actor who played Sandy Richardson in the television soap opera Crossroads Within the crematorium chapel is a tablet erected by the CWGC listing 48 servicemen of the Second World War who were cremated here.

References

Bibliography McKenna, Joseph (1992). In the Midst of Life: A History of the Burial Grounds of Birmingham. Birmingham Library Services, Birmingham. ISBN 070930188X.

External links Birmingham City Council page on the Cemetery

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Lodge Hill Cemetery

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Lodge Hill Cemetery claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Lodge Hill Cemetery before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Lodge Hill Cemetery ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Lodge Hill Cemetery

In research: Lodge Hill Cemetery appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Lodge Hill Cemetery in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Lodge Hill Cemetery is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1895 establishments in England, Buildings and structures completed in 1895, Cemeteries in Birmingham, West Midlands, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Lodge Hill Cemetery outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

Ask Teacher Smith questions about this articleOpens your AI tutor with a question about “Lodge Hill Cemetery” →

Affiliate

Preply — study more efficiently by working with a personal tutor. 50% off.

How to study Lodge Hill Cemetery in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Lodge Hill Cemetery means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Lodge Hill Cemetery out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Lodge Hill Cemetery in simple terms?

Why does Lodge Hill Cemetery matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Lodge Hill Cemetery?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Lodge Hill Cemetery.