Thursday, 22 June 2017

Sleeping with the alien Portuguese: Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Cemitério dos Ingleses, Lisbon

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…… ‘neath the green Estrella trees No Artist merely but a MAN Wrought on our noblest island-plan Sleeps with the alien Portuguese ...
Thursday, 8 June 2017

The King of Little Italy: Luigi Fraulo (1857-1914), St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green

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British imperial servants serving in the distant scattered territories of the empire must have been avid for even the most trivial scra...
Monday, 5 June 2017

To the crow, the spoils; to the maggot the fat pickings

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Taken in Valentines Park in Ilford, a short distance from where the fox skull was dug up.  The skull was dirty but had all its teeth when ...
Thursday, 25 May 2017

Quite Decent, Mr Kozderka - the astonishing life of Ivan Blatný (1919-1990)

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In the observation ward of Claybury Hospital   I read the Coming of the Bill.                           Ivan Blatný - Nastoupit v rad ...
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Thursday, 18 May 2017

Victory over Blindness - the funeral of Sir Arthur Pearson, 13 December 1921, Hampstead Cemetery

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The choristers from the Royal Normal School for the Blind at Sir Arthur's graveside Sir Arthur Pearson died on Thursday 9 December ...
Wednesday, 17 May 2017

The final resting place of the great and the good; Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Road, NW6

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"Ever hear about the aviation pioneer kidnapped (and then worshipped) by cannibals?" Me neither but on the 24 June I will find...
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