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Welcome...
I am a 'fan' of cemeteries, for lack of a better word!
People think it's a bit weird, but I know it's not. Thousands upon thousands of people get pleasure from such places all over the country, and beyond. As is shown by the many 'Friends' groups, one of which I am a member of, connected to Nunhead Cemetery.
I also like looking at war memorials, and suchlike, not just in gardens, and squares, but inside buildings too. Often in churches, adjacent to little burial grounds.
I try to take photos not just of the big, famous cemeteries, but also of smaller ones. What I call the 'forgotten ones'. Often they have 'nothing of note' in them, but I still derive pleasure from recording them for posterity here, some possibly for the only time.
There is no rhyme or reason to which ones I choose, it is just random to be wherever I happen to be; often going somewhere when watching football & spotting something to photograph.
All of the ones that I will publish here have been snapped by myself since around March 2007, and I have started publishing them here commecing the end of May 2008. They won't be regularly updated, as it is very time consuming, and I am not particularly skilled with computers to say the least, and this is a very slow learning process for me.
The pictures are not top quality, they are taken with a very basic digital camera, and I am an 'amateur' amateur photographer! You may have to wade through quite a few 'boring' ones to find one that you really like. I make no apologies for this, the vast majority of these places I will never return to, so I'd rather have too many photos on display, rather than not enough!
All I ask, if you enjoy looking at them, is to spread the word, and tell others who enjoy cemeteries and memorials to look in. Even link to your own Cemetery sites.
And please don't be shy. You are welcome to use the comments facility, you don't have to be signed up to blogger to do or, or leave your real name if you choose not to.
Thank you!
People think it's a bit weird, but I know it's not. Thousands upon thousands of people get pleasure from such places all over the country, and beyond. As is shown by the many 'Friends' groups, one of which I am a member of, connected to Nunhead Cemetery.
I also like looking at war memorials, and suchlike, not just in gardens, and squares, but inside buildings too. Often in churches, adjacent to little burial grounds.
I try to take photos not just of the big, famous cemeteries, but also of smaller ones. What I call the 'forgotten ones'. Often they have 'nothing of note' in them, but I still derive pleasure from recording them for posterity here, some possibly for the only time.
There is no rhyme or reason to which ones I choose, it is just random to be wherever I happen to be; often going somewhere when watching football & spotting something to photograph.
All of the ones that I will publish here have been snapped by myself since around March 2007, and I have started publishing them here commecing the end of May 2008. They won't be regularly updated, as it is very time consuming, and I am not particularly skilled with computers to say the least, and this is a very slow learning process for me.
The pictures are not top quality, they are taken with a very basic digital camera, and I am an 'amateur' amateur photographer! You may have to wade through quite a few 'boring' ones to find one that you really like. I make no apologies for this, the vast majority of these places I will never return to, so I'd rather have too many photos on display, rather than not enough!
All I ask, if you enjoy looking at them, is to spread the word, and tell others who enjoy cemeteries and memorials to look in. Even link to your own Cemetery sites.
And please don't be shy. You are welcome to use the comments facility, you don't have to be signed up to blogger to do or, or leave your real name if you choose not to.
Thank you!
Cemeteries in England
- Amersham, Buckinghamshire-St. Mary's Cemetery
- Amersham, Buckinghamshire-The Platt Cemetery
- Bexley, Kent-St. Mary the Virgin Churchyard
- Chesham, Buckinghamshire-St. Mary's Churchyard
- Chesham,Buckinghamshire-Chesham Cemetery
- Crawley, West Sussex-St. John the Baptist Churchyard
- Crayford, Kent-St. Paulinus Churchyard
- Edgware, Middlesex-St. Margaret of Antioch Churchyard
- Mile End, London-Tower Hamlets Cemetery
Cemeteries abroad
Memorials in England
- Amersham, Buckinghamshire-Memorial Gardens
- Ashford, Kent-Memorial Gardens
- Chatham, Kent-Naval Memorial
- Chesham, Buckinghamshire-war memorial
- Crawley, West Sussex-Memorial Gardens
- Crawley, West Sussex-war memorial
- Dover, Kent-war memorial
- Eastbourne, East Sussex-war memorial
- Edgware, Middlesex-war memorial
- Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1-war memorial
- Horley, Surrey-Memorial Gardens
- Horsham, West Sussex-war memorial
- New Malden, Surrey-war memorial
- Victoria Station, London, SW1-war memorial
- West Brentford, Middlesex-war memorial
- Whitstable, Kent-war memorial
Memorials abroad
About Me
- The Fatalist
- There's nothing to know if you don't know me already! Read the whole blog if you want to find out more!
2 comments:
Lovely photos, I pass this on my way into work every day and say hello to the boys when I'm stopped at the lights (cyclist), they were laying wreaths on it today.
Hello,
The picture at the top and the fourth one down show the WWI Rifleman in the middle top of the Memorial for the Middlesex Regiment. My family makes sure to visit this Memorial each time we are in London. My Grandfather, Ephraim Alfred Dudley, was the model for the statue of the WWI soldier. The likeness is true and we feel we are truly visiting with him each time we come. He was a humble man who wasn't keen to do this duty of being a model for this memorial. He was also a hard working man who survived his WWI experience in the trenches with the mustard gas and as a POW who came home and continued to serve his country with a British Army career that lasted from about 1915 to 1935. He saw service in France, Belgium, India, Malta, and many other places. He earned many medals. Once retired with a family of two children he returned to London and continued to serve his country and his native city yet again as a Postman and an Air Raid Warden during WWII. He refused to leave the city that he loved in the midst of the bombings and my Grandmother refused to leave him. They sent my Mother and her brother away from the nightly terror along with many other London children on the railways to stay with strangers in the North during the war. They never knew if they would see each again. My Grandfather loved his family and his country and stood up for them in troubled times and continues to do so now for all time. Little did he know that the Memorial that he modeled for and stands on today, representing all the Riflemen who gallantly fought in WWI, would have such a significance in the international city of London, or become such a well known and familiar sight to many grateful and appreciative of their sacrifice. In my opinion the persons who planned this Memorial could not have pick a more appropriate man to represent the valor of the common WWI British Rifleman and fighting soldier. Yes, thank you, all you boys, who fought for freedom and the human right for self determination without dictatorial tyranny. God Bless all of you that have the freedom every morning to greet them on your way to work. Rest in Peace GrandDad....
Maria Hessman USA
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