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Life, death and strange goings on: Secrets of the gravedigger who lived in Stockport Cemetery for 35 years
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukIan Stokes called Stockport Cemetery home for 35 years. The 65-year-old gravedigger, who retired at Easter, moved into the cemetery’s lodge in 1985, with his wife Gillian.He hadn’t always planned to work in a graveyard, but after he was made redundant from his job at a furniture shop in Portwood in July 1983, it was an opportunity he felt he couldn't turn down.He said: "A lad who worked at the crematorium, he said 'There’s a job going at the cemetery if you’re interested.’ The kids were only young and it’s a job, so I said ‘I’ll give it a go’.
That was all them years ago.”After taking his reference along, Ian was offered the job. Two years later he moved into the lodge and spent the best part of the next four decades digging graves by.
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