Exploring the City of Lichfield, Staffordshire, England - 15 October, 2022

Just three memorial stones stand in the churchyard of Holy Cross Catholic Church. Father Time and Mother Nature have taken their toll and the names are barely legible but look closely and you’ll see each of them belongs to members of the Corfield family. You may also notice that the monument in the middle has a somewhat strange inscription, ‘Refused admission into St Michael’s Churchyard’. They tell of a tragedy which took place on Breadmarket Street in January 1873 when a fire ripped through th