Ian Shipley

Ian Shipley (58) lives in Morton, near Swinderby, Lincolnshire. For 20 years he worked at Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire, and was foreman there between 1997-2003. In 2003, he started his own grave-digging business and to date he has now hand-dug over 4,620 graves. He has dug in over 155 cemeteries and churchyards across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

Ian Shipley (58) lives in Morton, near Swinderby, Lincolnshire. For 20 years he worked at Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire, and was foreman there between 1997-2003. In 2003, he started his own grave-digging business and to date he has now hand-dug over 4,620 graves. He has dug in over 155 cemeteries and churchyards across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. See less