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Victoria Park Cemetery was a private enterprise started by a limited company, The Victoria Park Cemetery Company Ltd,.
It opened in 1845 to take advantage of the market for burials created by the inability of church graveyards to accept any more dead.
However, the cemetery went bankrupt in 1853, unable to attract wealthy customers. The business was bought out by one of the
directors and continued. The cemetery was not consecrated and closed in 1876. In 1885 it was turned into a recreation ground.
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