Monday, 31 March 2014

Henry Taylor, Pallbearer, killed by a coffin 1872, Kensal Green Cemetery

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 An artists recreation of the terrible accident from the Illustrated Police News of 9 November 1872  For the unfortunate Henry Taylor...
Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Jonathan Tyers, 1702-1767, St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey

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Jonathan Tyers - his entry in the burial register for St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey. The impatient parish clerk did not blot his entries on...
Friday, 14 March 2014

Reginald Alfred Alabaster, 1922-1944, Barkingside Cemetery

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In loving memory of our dear boy Reginald Alfred Alabaster  R.A.F.V.R. Killed in action 11 September 1944 aged 21 years   Had yo...
Thursday, 13 March 2014

Mae Amos, 1910-1937, Ilford Cemetery, Buckingham Road

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It doesn’t take much to stand out at the very dull Buckingham Road cemetery in Ilford. Mae Amo’s ballerina (a portrait of Mae herself?)...
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Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Richard Honey & George Francis, slain 14th August 1821, St Paul's Churchyard, Hammersmith

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Here lie interred the mortal remains of Richard Honey, Carpenter, aged 36 years, and of George Francis, Bricklayer, aged 43 ...
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Monday, 10 March 2014

Joseph Denison, c1726-1806, Bunhill Fields

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Non conformists in matters of religion were often conventional when it came to anything else. The desire not to stand out in a crowd is ...
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Sunday, 2 March 2014

William (1757-1827) and Catherine (1762-1831) Blake, Bunhill Fields

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William Blake in youth, drawn by Catherine   Blake died in such poverty and obscurity that his burial in Bunhill Fields was largel...
Thursday, 27 February 2014

Laurence Sterne, 1713 – 1768, St George’s Field Burial Ground

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Sterne's original headstones photographed in St George's Field around 1905 “He had boasted in "Tristram Shandy" tha...
Thursday, 20 February 2014

Joshua Compston, 1970-1996, Kensal Green

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“The funeral was his greatest production. Hundreds of people turned up. I think most of them were there just to make sure he was de...
Friday, 24 January 2014

Kensal Green Cemetery; after the rain.

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The Anglican Chapel, Kensal Green Colonnades Anglican Chapel