Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of a Summer drive around Balgay Hill Cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, visit to the Western Necropolis in Dundee, Tayside. In 1870 Balgay Hill was acquired and a portion of it laid out as a cemetery. William McKelvie was responsible for the layout of the cemetery, which is inspired by Pere La Chaise' garden cemetery in Paris, France. The cemetery was laid out such that the natural landscape of the hill was retained and it was opened by the Earl Of Dalhousie on 20th September 1871. Known initially as the Western Necropolis, its name was later changed to avoid confusion with the Western Cemetery on the Perth Road. It was extended to the southwest in the 1970s, abutting Glamis Road, but all of the plots were allocated by the late 1980s and a new cemetery opened at Birkhill in 1989.
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