Category: Cemeteries
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A Sombre Trip to Ypres.
When I was a teenager my father told me a story. I must have been around 13 and learning about the First World war at school. I couldn’t quite grasp how devastating the war must have been on the families of England and how so many young men lost their lives in a needless war…
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Fiume Road Cemetery, Budapest.
Regular readers willl know that whenever I visit a new city the two things I seek out are Old Cinemas or Cemeteries. Budapest, oddly, has no old, abandoned, repurposed or derelict cinemas. All of the cinemas in the city are either newish and operated by the Cinema City comany or still standing from the 80’s.…
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Montmartre Cemetery, Paris.
In the mid 18th Century in Paris burial space was running out. Several large cemeteries were opened to create more burial space and Montmartre Cemetery was the third largest of these after Père Lachaise Cemetery and the Montparnasse Cemetery. Montmartre Cemetery was opened on 1 January 1825. It was initially known as le Cimetière des Grandes Carrières (Cemetery of…
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Grave Markers
In my last post I shared some photos that I had take in Abney Park cemetery in North London that I had saved in my Flickr. Whilst looking through those photos I found some great markers and some wonderful pieces of stonemasonry. I’m sharing some of those photos here. I’ve added the location of the…
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Abney Park Cemetery. 2006
During the mid to late 2000’s I set upon the idea of photographing all of the cemeteries in London. That’s nearly a hundred. I almost made it, at last count I’d visited around 60 different cemeteries in London but nowhere near all of them. Unfortunately, my computer on which I’d stored all the photos I’d…
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Charlton Cemetery under snow.
I did promise a few days ago a follow up post to my Charlton Cemetery post. Here it is. These photos were taken in January 2007. It had been snowing through the night and I just happened to be passing Charlton Cemetery. My camera was quite small so I had it in my jacket pocket…
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Charlton Cemetery. 2006
Charlton Cemetery opened in 1855, originally as “The Gentleman’s Cemetery”. The cemetery itself covers 15 acres and the layout is still the same as when first laid out. There are some wonderful monuments in the cemetery, I’ve posted a few below. There are also a couple of graves that have a story to tell. The…
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Highgate Cemetery 2005
I recently came across a cache of old photos, mostly taken in the mid 2000’s. These photos were taken on my first visit to Highgate Cemetery in May 2005. I started volunteering there pretty soon after as it awestruck me so much and I needed to see and know more. When I took these photos…
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