Visitors to Arnos Vale will soon be able to navigate around the cemetery with the help of a new smartphone app, which also gives snippets about the cemetery’s past, present and future.

The Future Cemetery is a collaboration between Arnos Vale, University of Bath’s Centre for Death and Society and Bristol-based digital agency Calling the Shots.

The app will officially launch in September but over the weekend, it was trialled by the public for the first time.

Dodging the rain, I learnt about some of the lesser known places in the Grade II listed cemetery, gaining an insight into the history and lives of some of the people who have lived and worked there.

20 of these small blue signs are dotted around the 45-acre site:

Each blue sign correspondents to a new titbit of information on the tour, which takes in the wooded areas:

As well as this lodge which used to be lived in by staff but is now a canvas for one of Inkie’s lesser-known Bristol pieces:

Keep an eye on www.arnosvale.org.uk for the latest news on the app.