On the same page that announced the opening of Sheffield's new Public Mortuary (see previous blog), The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent revealed that a new conservative club had opened in Walkley
The Opening of Walkley Working Men's Conservative Club - 12th April 1884
I have just posted an article to the site The Unknown Man in Sheffield's First Mortuary - April 1884
It is in a strange sort of way a sequel to an earlier article I posted in 2017 - it related to the deplorable scenes surrounding the inquest into the death of James Brady in 1880
There is a mystery attached to the first person to Be the subject of an inquest in Sheffield's new "dead house."
I have to find out is where the unknown man was interred. He would have been a charge to the local authorizes and so he would have been interred in a public grave. My own guess and it is that, is Sheffield's General Cemetery. Inmates of the Ecclesall Union were buried there in public graves and I feel that this is where he would be laid to rest.
