A team of volunteers is helping to track down records of hundreds of skeletons dug up under Liverpool Street station during work on Crossrail.Crossrail estimates the site holds about 3,000 skeletons, some belonging to victims of the plague.The victims were buried at the notorious Bethlem, or Bedlam, burial ground.The burial site, also known as the New Churchyard, was opened in response to the plague.

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