Friday, 10 October 2025

The Lost Memorials of London; the shrine of St Erkenwald, Old St Pauls Cathedral

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St. Erkenwald (c630-693) founder of Barking abbey, Abbott of Chertsey and Bishop of London, once a great English saint, is now almost forgot...
Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Remembering the dead, post-mortem photography; the Rosi memorial, Kensal Green Cemetery

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  It doesn’t matter how much time you spend in a particular cemetery, there is always something that you haven’t seen, that you have somehow...
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Friday, 19 September 2025

Friend of China, Enemy of Oppression; Augustus Frederick Lindley (1840-1871) Kensal Green Cemetery

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The epitaph on the grave of  Augustus Frederick Lindley, in Kensal Green Cemetery, notes that he was a friend of China and an enemy of oppre...
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Thursday, 19 June 2025

Whatever happened to the heroes? Monuments to the war dead in St Paul's Cathedral

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Like Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral is not a place you pop into casually. Unless you have an invitation to a Royal Wedding, are atte...
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Thursday, 5 June 2025

Tempus fugit; Sally Mann 'What Remains' (Bulfinch Press, 2003, out of print) & 'Hold Still; A Memoir with Photographs' (Penguin Modern Classics, 2024 £14.99)

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As for me, I see both the beauty and the dark side of the things; the loveliness of cornfields and full sails, but the ruin as well. And I s...
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Friday, 28 February 2025

The Tomb of General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) Riverside Drive, New York

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It was a freezing February visit to NYC; nighttime temperatures down to -8C and daytime only up to -1C in the sun, -10 with windchill taken ...
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