article_snippet: Surveying the scene: Looking out into the overgrown cemetery from the abandoned Loxley Chapel in Sheffield .
article_snippet: Many of the 240 victims of the 1864 Great Sheffield Flood, one of Britain’s worst man-made disasters, are buried in the overgrown cemetery from the abandoned Loxley Chapel in Sheffield.
article_snippet: Shropshire resident Iain Kelly has relatives buried in the chapel’s graveyard, and said Shropshire resident Iain Kelly was ‘shocked’ at Loxley Chapel in Sheffield state after visiting there in 2010.
article_snippet: Shropshire resident Iain Kelly Shropshire resident Iain Kelly said: ‘After a long search I was unable to identify the family graves and came away quite distressed at the total and utter neglect.
article_snippet: Writing on Sheffield Forum, Shropshire resident Iain Kelly added: ‘My horror was increased on the discovery that the burial ground is still accepting new customers, as the burial ground were.
article_snippet: ‘Sheffield people laid to rest in originally quite beautiful surroundings but now ignored and forgotten.
article_snippet: But historians claim that one of Britain's worst disasters has been largely forgotten because the dead were northern and working-class.
article_snippet: For years there was no full-scale memorial to those who died in Sheffield, with only a small memorial stone near Bradfield, where the reservoir stood.
article_snippet: The floodwater then moved down to meet the River Don and laid waste to large areas of the centre of Sheffield.
highlights_snippet: Many of 240 victims of 1864 Great Sheffield Flood are buried in cemetery which is now overgrown .
  