The London Dead
Stories from our cemeteries, crypts and churchyards
Monday, 26 March 2018
Cemetery in the snow - St Patrick's Catholic Cemetery, Leytonstone
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The weatherman said ‘thaw today’ and so, after several days of snow, I had to make a mad dash to capture some of the white stuff on film...
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Friday, 16 March 2018
The Lost Memorials of London; The Raymond Mausoleum, Ilford
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What was once Ilford’s best known monument was unceremoniously demolished in 1923 by the Port of London Authority because it was inconv...
Saturday, 10 March 2018
The Man who would be Cheops Part Three: Thomas Willson 1780-1866 St Mary's Acton
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The Donkin Memorial in Port Elizabeth with Fort Frederick in the background, before the building of the lighthouse Thomas Willson, hi...
Tuesday, 27 February 2018
The Man who would be Cheops Part Two; Thomas Willson and Port Elizabeth
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Most accounts agree that the putative pyramid builder Thomas Willson was born circa 1780. For most of his life he seemed slightly unsur...
Friday, 16 February 2018
The Man who would be Cheops Part One; Thomas Willson and the Pyramid of Death
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The Pyramid of Cheops (or the Great Pyramid of Giza as it is better known) in the ‘Description de l'Égypte’ One of the consequence...
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