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St Michael, Shap, Cumbria, NY56381534 -- Gravestone:-
"Sacred TO THE Memory OF the / Workmen who lost their lives by accidents / during the progress of the Work on the / Shap District of the Lancaster / and Carlisle Railway / and whose names are to be / found in the Parish register Books" "Like crowded forest trees we stand / And some are marked to fall / The axe will smite at God's Command / And soon shall smite us all" "No present health can life ensure / For yet an hour to come / No human power our life secure / And save us from the tomb/" "Sept. 1846" (photo 14.3.2014)