7-625: The Brady Street Cemetery is a historic Jewish cemetery on Brady Street in Whitechapel , located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets . The cemetery opened in 1761 as the burial ground for the New Synagogue and was subsequently used by the Great Synagogue . It was closed to further burials from 1857. Several notable people are buried there. The cemetery is 4 acres (1.6 ha) in size and
14-466: Is located a few hundred yards from Whitechapel Road. The cemetery reached maximum capacity in 1858. One famous occupant is Nathan Mayer Rothschild , one of the founders of the banking dynasty, and once the wealthiest man on earth. [REDACTED] Media related to Brady Street at Wikimedia Commons 51°31′18″N 0°03′34″W / 51.5216°N 0.0595°W / 51.5216; -0.0595 This London road or road transport-related article
21-472: Is surrounded by a wall topped with broken glass. The London: East edition of the Pevsner Architectural Guides describes the cemetery as "crowded with mainly later Victorian monuments" and highlights Miriam Levy's monument for its "considerable lavishness". The land the cemetery occupies was originally a brickfield on Ducking Pond Lane and was subsequently known as North Street . In 1761 it
28-577: The burial of Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild in the cemetery in 1990, the future of the Brady Street Cemetery was secured from building development until at least 2090. The cemetery is owned by the United Synagogue and open only by appointment. Brady Street Brady Street is a road located in Whitechapel , East London. It runs from Whitechapel Road in the south to Three Colts Lane, near Bethnal Green railway station , in
35-536: The burials in the Strangers Mound and the ones below are set back to back. The Great Synagogue subsequently buried people in the New Synagogue's Jewish cemetery at West Ham after forming a Conjoint Burial Board with the New Synagogue. In the 1980s the local council intended to redevelop the cemetery with the use of a compulsory purchase order as it had not been used for many years. If a cemetery has not had any interments for 100 years it may be redeveloped, but with
42-704: The north. It was formerly known as North Street . Until the 1970s the Brady Street Dwellings stood in Brady Street. They were demolished and Swanlea School now stands on the site. A Sainsbury's supermarket , opened in the 1990s, stands opposite Durward Street. At the head of the street is the Idea Store, a £12m development opened in 2006. Somerford Street and other roads on the Collingwood Estate are off Brady Street. The Brady Street Jewish cemetery
49-428: Was leased to the New Synagogue for an annual rent of 12 guineas . The cemetery was extended in 1795. The Brady Street Cemetery rapidly filled, and a solution was found with the addition of a four-foot layer of soil in the centre of the cemetery to allow additional burials. The raised area became known as the "Strangers Mound" as many of the new burials were not affiliated to any particular congregation. The headstones of
#206793