Friday, 10 July 2020

"History can recall the days of slavery": Henry Adderley (1803-1875) Kensal Green Cemetery

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It is one of Kensal Green’s more mysterious mausoleums, a forbidding Egyptian revival fortress built of massive purple-black granite blo...
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Tuesday, 30 June 2020

To hatch a crow, a black rainbow.... cemetery wildlife

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For places dedicated to the dead cemeteries are surprisingly full of life. This is particularly true of the neglected ones which are rev...
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Thursday, 25 June 2020

'Earth to Earth: A Natural History of Churchyards' by Stefan Buczaki (Unicorn £15.00)

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Few spaces are as enchanting and romantic--with a touch of the tantalizingly morbid--as a churchyard. From the earliest pagan sites to ...
Friday, 19 June 2020

Gypsies, tramps and thieves; St Mary & All Saints Churchyard, Lambourne End

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The hamlet of Lambourne End sits on the valley slopes below below Hainault Forest and above the river Roding, a mile or so away from the...
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Thursday, 4 June 2020

'So full of beauty, so empty of brains!'; the mummified head of Holy Trinity Minories

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In October 1879 Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were upsetting the balance of power in Europe by entering into the Dual Allian...
Friday, 29 May 2020

The crème de la crème; St Mary's Churchyard, Wimbledon

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The tomb of William Mansel Phillips of Coedgair in Carmarthenshire, second son of Sir Wm Mansel baronet of Iscoed in the same county, and ...