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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Friday, 7 November 2025

The Sewing Machine, the Umbrella and the Operating Table; a rainy afternoon in Buffalo

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  I had few, if any, preconceived notions about Buffalo; in all honesty, until relatively recently I didn’t even know where it was. If I had...
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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