Friday, 13 March 2026

A short history of Suicide in Kensal Green Cemetery

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Cases of suicide in cemeteries are not unknown today, but they are very rare. Though they were still unusual events cemetery suicides occurr...
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Friday, 6 March 2026

In the dark, under the wires, I hear them call my name - two John Hardys and Jeffrey Lee Pierce

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  Walking to Paddington Station last November, after spending the morning in Kensal Green cemetery, I found myself with a sudden urge to lis...
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Thursday, 29 January 2026

Sunset, Kensal Green Cemetery 28.01.2026

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This anonymous article appeared in the New Court Gazette of Saturday 17 September 1842, when the cemetery was just 9 years old. The style i...
Friday, 23 January 2026

Central Cemetery Burges Assebroek, Belgium

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I think this was the first time that I have ever looked for a grave that I only knew from social media. This tomb. with skull and crossbones...
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Thursday, 15 January 2026

Thirty minutes from sundown; time travel in the Anglican Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery

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My friend Meriel and I were showing a visitor the catacombs at Kensal Green just before Christmas. When our visitor left, we went back down ...
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Friday, 5 December 2025

To the memory of the Maharani of the Punjab; Jind Kaur (1817-1863) Kensal Green Cemetery

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  It’s nice to see that, at the Dissenter’s Chapel in Kensal Green Cemetery, someone has left flowers for Maharani Jind Kaur (1817-1863) and...
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Friday, 21 November 2025

'I see the Four-fold man, Humanity in deadly sleep'; Ben Edge and the Children of Albion, Fitzrovia Chapel

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I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. I see the Past, Present an...
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