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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Danny Rigg

'Beautiful' city park where 60,000 bodies are buried

Nearly 60,000 bodies are buried beneath a "beautiful" inner city park, now more a haven for the living than the dead.

Ryan, 27, slept rough in Liverpool for a few days while visiting from Wales to get a passport. Through the tunnel down from street level, he found found a "quiet" spot to rest in the shadow of Liverpool Cathedral, where he spent the daytime picking berries in the sun while dogs and squirrels ran around the "pretty" park.

Sleeping outside isn't so bad when it's warm, Ryan said, but the nights are getting cold. He was stretching next to graves beneath the trees as he told the ECHO: "I'd say I'm quite spiritual, that's why I like coming to any cathedral, but this is probably my favourite one. It's the nicest place I've been to in Liverpool."

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