blog task 5 - LEFEBVRE & SPACE

Morley Cemetery
Bruntcliffe Lane
Morley
Leeds
LS27 0LZ

Every morning I wake up to the view of this cemetery at the back of my house, so when it came to this task I thought I may as well try and write something about it.

Dead people are buried in this place and this is the practical reason why it was created. People come and go all the time to remember their loved ones that have passed away. They come to escape from the people who are alive in their lives and to reminisce, lay flowers and sometimes even talk to the grave stones. This space is also used as a short-cut by school children to get from their high school and into the town centre where their buses are. It is also used as a space for people to walk their dogs. This has been recognized by the people who run the graveyard and the council, as there are dog bins situated at the north and south side.

At night the graveyard is very dark, as no street lights are situated within the space. Only a few people come and go at this time during the evening. It is a perfect place for people to easily score and even take recreational drugs, because of the absence of light and CCTV. Nobody ever comes to visit the graves or to walk their dogs through it at night. Graveyards are also scary places at night, not just because of the people that might be lurking in the dark, but because of all the supernatural happening. Many ghost stories take place in graveyards and people assume that they could be haunted. It is also a place when in some cases people go to perform certain rituals for religious beliefs.

The graveyard is represented by this darker grey on the map that I grabbed from Google. This is to show it's distinctions from the places that surrounds it. It isn't a block of flat, or a street with houses on, or even an industrial estate. The use of grey shows it's importance.

One thing I noticed when walking through this graveyard that it is very well kept. There isn't litter lying about and there isn't graffiti everywhere. I think people have much respect for this place or the staff that work there are doing an exceptional job at keeping it in order.