Tales of a Gravedigger EPUB

Ian Shipley has now been traditionally hand-digging graves for 40 years.

He was taught to dig the old-fashioned way. Four decades on, averaging 114 graves per year, Ian can still be found habitually toiling away in one of any number of locations across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. In `Tales of a Gravedigger`, the author's first book,he recalls true tales from his early years whilst working at Newark's London Road Cemetery in Nottinghamshire.

It is a light-hearted and occasional amusing look into the life of a gravedigger.

From coffins getting stuck to stomach churning exhumations.

From unexpected cave-ins to practical jokes and various other ghostly goings-on.

It's an interesting glimpse into a profession that most of us know very little about. Ian has always believed that a grave should be hand-dug.

It's more personal that way. For years he has declined to use mechanical digging, preferring instead to keep alive the old ways.

In Newark-on-Trent and throughout the surrounding villages of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, Ian will possibly be the last of the traditional gravediggers.