Tales of a Gravedigger

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...