The London Dead
Stories from our cemeteries, crypts and churchyards
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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Monday, 3 February 2025
Scenes of Clerical Life; the remarkable story of the Rev. Basil Claude Hudson Andrews (1867-1963? final resting place unknown)
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This kindly looking old cove is the Reverend Basil Andrews, for forty years the chaplain at Kensal Green Cemetery. The most famous funeral...
Friday, 17 January 2025
Glasgow Necropolis
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Seated under the massive proportions of a handsome mausoleum erected to the memory of a distinguished citizen of Glasgow, we write the notes...
Friday, 13 December 2024
The Messalina of the Suburbs; Edith Jessie Thompson (1893-1923) City of London Cemetery
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“Three soldiers of the Coldstream Guards were walking in Montgomery street. Onegavean opinion in which all concurred. It was the woman, th...
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