Wednesday, 27 November 2019

The four dead sisters and the photographer; Alexander Julius Henry Friedmann (1836?-1904) burial place unknown

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'Four nuns laid out in caskets' courtesy of the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY14607 The spectacle of four dead nuns neat...
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Sunday, 17 November 2019

The Boy from Bagwash City; Patrick Caulfield (1936-2005) Highgate East Cemetery

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Late one evening a few years ago the talk got round to famous artists' epitaphs, and someone asked Patrick Caulfield what he would p...
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Thursday, 7 November 2019

Birth, death and the dissection of Joanna Southcott (1750-1814), St John's Wood Burial Ground

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Joanna Southcott was a West Country prophetess, born in the Devonshire village of Taleford in 1750. She lived a quiet and uneventful lif...
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Friday, 1 November 2019

The Stevedore who saved the crew of an Ironclad; Maurice Wagg (1840-1926), East London Cemetery, Plaistow

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On Monday 08 September 1913, 50 old men (their average age was 83), all members of the London branch of the United States Civil War Vete...
Sunday, 4 August 2019

Bricked up alive?; the boy mummy of St Botolph's Without Aldgate

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A Saxon saint, very popular in the early medieval period, St. Botolph had four churches dedicated to him in London, all close to th...
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Monday, 29 July 2019

The Death Posture - Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956) Buckingham Road Cemetery, Ilford

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Artist Who Refused to Paint Hitler   Mr. Austin Osman Spare, an artist who refused a commission from Hitler in 1938 to paint a portrait ...
Friday, 19 July 2019

On Murder Mile - Buckingham Road Cemetery, Ilford

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Buckingham Road cemetery is unkempt and dilapidated though not, as many disused London cemeteries are, wildly overgrown and returning to...