Tuesday, 31 May 2016

The Art of Memory; Sculpture in the Cemeteries of London by Richard Barnes (Frontier Publishing £44)

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Subscription publishing is making a comeback. I found out about this book from a flyer in the Kensal Green and Brompton Cemeteries Frie...
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Wednesday, 25 May 2016

The comfortable Estate of Widowhood, is the only Hope that keeps up a Wife's Spirits; Auguste Kettner (1833-1877) Brompton Cemetery

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As soon as I saw the inscription on this memorial I knew that I am spending far too much time in cemeteries. Not only did I know immedia...
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Sunday, 22 May 2016

¡Las lágrimas son agua y van al mar! - Frank Besson (1895-1915) Dardanelles

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I have previously written about Marthe Josephine Besson’s memorial in Highgate Cemetery, the French born business woman who ran the ...
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Saturday, 14 May 2016

Silence - A Figure For A Tomb: Harry Dwight Dillon Ripley (1864-1913) St Marylebone Cemetery, East Finchley

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DEATH OF MR. H. DILLON RIPLEY.—the death occurred at The Spinney (formerly known as  ‘Crelash’), Little London, Horeham Road, on Saturd...
Friday, 6 May 2016

'The Work of the Dead' by Thomas W. Laqueur (Princeton University Press £27.95)

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“The past is very present to me and has been for a very long time. I first became aware of this quite intensely when I was a teenager...
Saturday, 30 April 2016

A Melancholy History of Suicidal Leaps; the Monument, Fish Street Hill, EC3

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‘Certain spots in London have become popular with suicides, yet apparently without any special reason, except that even suicides are ...
Sunday, 10 April 2016

The Pall Mall Monkey and the Bengal Hospital; the Boodles and Mitfords of Chipping Ongar, Essex

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Essex is full of dead Londoners. Ongar used to the be the most easterly station on the Central Line until it closed in 1994 but long bef...
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...