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  • And so it created new cemeteries.

  • The dead going to have to find a new final resting place.

  • The records for the entire area.

  • Just around 60,000 people were interred in the cemetery.

  • They will be stored in a more.

  • And then after that, everyone will be re buried in consecrated ground.

  • Back in the 17 eighties, London was running out of space.

  • It had nowhere for the dead, and so it created new cemeteries.

  • One of them is here next to Euston station.

  • And now, more than 200 years later, that land is needed for another purpose.

  • The dead going to have to find a new final resting place.

  • And this is the reason why this is where London's high speed railway station is about to be built.

  • And so a small army of archaeologists have arrived to move thousands of bodies.

  • So the records for the entire areas just around 60,000 people were interred in the cemetery.

  • But what will happen to all the bodies?

  • Matthew Flinders, the first man to sail around Australia, is buried here.

  • So to his Bill Richmond, one of Britain's most celebrated boxes, initially they will be taken for archaeological analysis.

  • So laboratories they'll be stored in in a more again.

  • That's with the agreement of the church.

  • And then after that, everyone will be re buried in consecrated ground on This is just the beginning.

  • Overall, on the whole line.

  • During the peak, we're gonna have over 1000 archaeologists excavating over 60 side.

  • It's the biggest archaeological investigation, everyone to take him in the UK on probably Europe.

  • In this part of London, any development is always going to be building on history.

  • But this one has rather more ghosts than normal.

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And so it created new cemeteries.

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