Christine Bairstow is among those calling for St George's Field to be renamed by the University of Leeds. Photo: James Hardisty. “I actively help people locate their relatives’ plots using ...

Now hidden within the campus of the university the Leeds General Cemetery Company's site at St George's field is an important piece of Leeds' Victorian history. The site was planned because such ...

In 1965, the University of Leeds Act of Parliament was passed ... and the site reverted back to its pre-cemetery name of St George’s Field, a total of over 95,000 people had been laid to rest ...

Her sister, Christine Bairstow, said students treat the former cemetery, which is now part of the University of Leeds ... given its previous name of St George's Field. Most gravestones were ...

However, the green space - known as St. George’s Field and bounded by a hall of residence, the School of Design, and School of Mechanical Engineering - was originally Leeds General Cemetery, and ...