Curator, researcher and archivist of the graveyard at Wainsgate Chapel, a redundant Baptist chapel on the hillside above Hebden Bridge. There are around 3,500 people interred or commemorated at Wainsgate: the first burial was in 1762, and it is still a working graveyard. I started the Wainsgate Graveyard Project in 2022. The project has two main aims: firstly to tell the story of the graveyard – describe its history and development, transcribe the memorial inscriptions, plot the position of the graves, photograph headstones and other memorials, and record the names of everyone interred or commemorated there. The other aim is to tell some of the stories of the people interred there: where did they live, where did they work, what did they do in their leisure time? How did they live and how did they die? The story of a community told through its burial ground. The website also has many diversions and sidetracks related to burial grounds, memorials, funerary practices and other death-related subjects: local history, social history, natural history, military history, politics, philosophy, theology, art, literature, poetry and music.

The Wainsgate Graveyard Project website: wainsgategraveyardproject.co.uk