Honor those laid to rest around Angel Meadow in Manchester

On a recent trip to Manchester for study my colleagues and I were taken on a public health tour of the City to learn about how cholera spread throughout the poorest parts of the City and wiped out whole families and communities. We came to a park called Angel Meadow which was used as a burial ground for many people in the 18th and 19th centuries and it is thought that over 40,000 men, women, and children were laid to rest in unmarked graves in the area. Upon reaching the entrance to Angel Meadow however the signs that were there did not mention the many lives that were lost and that the bodies of those souls lay in the ground beneath our feet. Watching people move throughout the park without knowing the significance of the grounds felt like an injustice to those souls laid to rest there. With all of the innovation and development in the area it seems essential to respect the past and mark the history of the area by providing people with signs to read and a place for people to come and remember, reflect, and pay homage to their ancestors and/or those less fortunate than themselves.