St James' Cooling, with twelve infant graves which inspired the opening bit of Great Expectations. Hat tip to @User10571 who first alerted me to the place.
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St James' Cooling, with twelve infant graves which inspired the opening bit of Great Expectations. Hat tip to @User10571 who first alerted me to the place.
Yellow Fang
Legendary Member
- Location
- Reading
How many famous people are there in Highgate Cemetery other than George Eliot and Karl Marx?
G.K. Chesterton wrote a poem that referenced a cemetery called Kensal Green, which presumably was well known about at the time, although I'd never heard of it.
There's a cemetery in Reading located at a point of a triangle between two busy roads called Cemetery Junction. I always thought that was a great name. In fact it was actually used as a title for a Ricky Gervais film.
G.K. Chesterton wrote a poem that referenced a cemetery called Kensal Green, which presumably was well known about at the time, although I'd never heard of it.
There's a cemetery in Reading located at a point of a triangle between two busy roads called Cemetery Junction. I always thought that was a great name. In fact it was actually used as a title for a Ricky Gervais film.
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summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
I didn't realise what it was at first and then your words sank in
Globalti
Legendary Member
A romantic subject but spare a thought for the graveyard on Mitton Road out of Whalley, which contains the graves of WW1 servicemen who died at Calderstones hospital opposite and a number of the inmates of the asylum, forgotten, unwanted and recently vandalised. The hospital even had its own railway siding so that maimed soldiers could be brought in, out of sight of the public.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
It is bad enough forgetting those poor ex-servicemen and inmates, but vandalising them too is unforgivable! 
classic33
Leg End Member
Round these parts it was witches that were buried at crossroads. In a kneeling position, pinned with a stake to the ground.
Plays hell with any roadworks being carried out, if they find one.
classic33
Leg End Member
Pinching the stone, later bronze rifle from a memorial to them.It is bad enough forgetting those poor ex-servicemen and inmates, but vandalising them too is unforgivable!
Globalti
Legendary Member
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
Grave desecration reminds me: This was something that happened to me when I lived in Africa whilst on duty as a manager in a hotel one Sunday:
We had a Scottish guest who, many years before, had been working as an expat. Sadly his wife and son died from a blood disease and were cremated out there. The memorial section where their urns were has been robbed of their brass plaques several times. He had returned to collect their ashes from the local crematorium and take them home to Scotland.
The African caretaker who was very superstitious warned the man about disturbing their resting spirits, siting he would come to harm from the spirits that protected the graves and crematorium.
The elderly Scottish man went ahead despite the advice and proceeded to open the wall and remove the remains of his wife and son. From the tree sheltering the wall, a vervet monkey launched himself at the man, knocking him to the ground. Whilst prostrate on the ground, a swarm of bees descended on the man and began an aggressive attack.
The caretaker ran out and bundled the old man and himself into an office. The caretaker rang the hotel and I took the call. Incredible as it was, I rang for an ambulance and I also drove out to the crematorium. The Scottish man gave me a bag containing the urns and asked me to look after them until he came back to the hotel. I locked the remains in the hotel safe and filled in the Duty Manager’s log book. I spent the rest of the day in shock.
When I returned to work on Monday there was a message waiting for me to report to the personnel department. Expecting to be showered in praise I was angered to find I was given a verbal warning for putting the human remains in the hotel safe. Not something I should have done in a hotel in superstitious country in Africa.
It has been a while since I have thought about this day.
My favourite, just down the road from me. @ianrauk and I will be visiting tomorrow.
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
I wish I knew if he is ok now I have lived in the UK the past couple of decades. The man did go back to Scotland with the ashes, but that’s all I know.
Where I worked, African spiritualism and the use of Tockolshi magic was strongly believed in. And as you say, by educated and powerful people too. I loved that Africans hold onto traditional, ancestral belief systems. Totems and tribalism especially. Fascinating.
OP
OP
- Location
- London
The late barry mason used to do trips there.
He had some plan at one point i seem to remember to camp out there after a performance (opera?) In the church. Some great pics here folks. Used to take lots of pics but no more. Praps i'll start taking the small tab on my graveyard wanderings.
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