Thursday, 24 March 2016

"Immortal Rich! how calm he sits at ease, mid snows of paper, and fierce hail of pease"; John Rich (1692-1761), St John the Baptist, Hillingdon

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The entries for December 1761 in the burial register for St John the Baptist, Hillingdon Mr Aldridge, the parish clerk at St John...
Friday, 18 March 2016

The Place of Skulls; St John the Baptist, Hillingdon

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Thomas Smith, late of this parish Like many other churchyards which had for 500 years or more been plenty big enough to contain the bod...
Saturday, 12 March 2016

He sent forth his angel with a great trumpet; Marthe Josephine Besson (1852-1908), Highgate East Cemetery

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Up a steep and neglected muddy side path in Highgate East Cemetery, hidden amongst the undergrowth and surrounded by toppled and lean...
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Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Secret Portuguese Jews, floating coffins, Edgar Allan Poe, a Victorian masterpiece and a pair of Australopithecines - Old St Mary's Churchyard,Stoke Newington

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It was the unexpected pairing of a Portuguese surname on a 19th century chest tomb in a north London churchyard that ignited my obsessi...
Friday, 4 March 2016

Presenting the Flemish Hercules; Peter Ducrow (1765-1815), St Mary-at-Lambeth

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THE BENEFIT OF MR Ducrow & FAMILY ON THURSDAY Evening, Oct. 23 rd 1806. MR DUCROW begs leave to inform friends and the public, tha...
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Saturday, 27 February 2016

Extract of Sunbeam and Beetle Wing, the Medical Miracles of Lionel Lockyer (1599?-1672), Southwark Cathedral

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“In the north transept of Southwark Cathedral, close to the Harvard Chapel, are the monument and grave of Lionel Lockyer, a seventeen...
Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Felo de se Part 2, suicide by arsenic: William George Williams (1829-1866), West Norwood Cemetery

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Guy's Hospital In December 1866 Sarjeant Payne, the City of London and Southwark Coroner assembled a jury At Guys Hospital to deli...