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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Wesley Holmes

Exploring Liverpool's forgotten cemetery 'reclaimed by nature'

A pair of urban explorers stepped into a forgotten cemetery where the marble graves of people who died more than a century ago have been "reclaimed by nature".

Eric Kayes and George Toohey captured their exploration of the abandoned Jewish cemetery on Green Lane, Tuebrook, on camera. Their video, which they shared on social media, shows the friends venturing into the undergrowth between St Cecilia's Catholic Church and Lister Drive Infant School and discovering the many graves covered in masses of tangled ivy.

Eric, 55, from Knowsley, said: "We had been told about the cemetery and thought we would go and have a look, and lo and behold it turned out to be something special.

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