memorial – FAVOURITE GRAVES

Hello! Not posted in a while, have many other projects going on. This is an interesting picture as it’s taken at the burial ground in the now abandoned (apart from when in use for filming) St. Joseph’s Missionary College, London. You can read more about the place here.

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Lion, Abney Park Cemetery, London, UK.

I love receiving photos from people to add to this site…

Photograph by Anna Shorten.

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Dry, New Southgate Crematorium and Cemetery, London, UK.

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E. Baker, Walthamstow Cemetery (Queens Road), London, UK.

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Skullwing, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, UK.

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Happy Christmas, Torry, Aberdeen, UK.

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Black angel, St. Mary’s, Walthamstow, London.

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Orange, Hendon Crematorium, London.

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Nose chip, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Pinks, New Southgate Crematorium and Cemetery.

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Staircase, Alberobello Cemetery, Puglia, Italy.

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Brompton Cemetery Catacombs, London, UK.

Thanks to Pirate for these images, which you can find more of here.

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That stare, Dean Cemetery, Scotland, UK.

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Mr Gnome, Kensal Green Cemetery, London.

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My Madonna, Alberobello Cemetery, Puglia, Italy.

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1730, St. Cuthbert’s Cemetery, Edinburgh West End.

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In the stalks, Glasgow Necropolis.

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Horizontal, Friern Barnet Church Yard, London.

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Terry, St.Mary’s, Brent Pelham, Herts, UK.

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Peep through, St. Mary’s, Monken Hadley, UK.

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Peep through, St. Mary’s, Monken Hadley, UK.

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Bow down, Camden & Islington Cemetery, London, UK.

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Rainy Jesus, Hendon Crematorium, London, UK.

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Rainy Jesus, Hendon Crematorium, London, UK.

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Bright sash, Clapham Churchyard, Bedfordshire.

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Three of us, Glasgow Necropolis, Scotland.

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Horse, Glasgow Necropolis, Scotland.

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Deborah Harvey’s Favourite Graves

Deborah Harvey has some interesting photographs on her Myspace profile. With her kind permission I am able to add some of the photos below. Please make sure you visit her albums, and not just the graves either – she has some great images of Great Britain.

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Bluebells, Christ Church Cemetery, St.Alban’s Road, Herts, UK.

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Triage, Alberobello Cemetery, Puglia, Italy.

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Annette Ellis photography

Some beautiful graveside photography featuring unique gravestone folk art. Be sure to look through the ‘skulls’ set.

Annette Ellis Flickr photostream

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Soaring, Torry Battery, Aberdeen, UK.

The Torry Battery Memorial to Lost Seafarers. This memorial was erected to commemorate lives lost at sea from the city of Aberdeen. It is positioned behind the Torry Battery, an artillery battery built to defend the city of Aberdeen in the Great War and World War II. It was last used defensively in WWII.

Another Torry memorial picture.

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Anchor, Camden & Islington Cemetery, London, UK.

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Skull eyes, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Scaffolding, Kensal Green Cemetery, London.

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Wall, Alberobello Cemetery, Puglia, Italy.

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Spring, the true fairest of all seasons.

I took a wander back to St.Mary the Anglican churchyard in Monken Hadley. All of the photos below are from there. I finally found the pirate grave. More on that later.

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Daffodils at Udny Cemetery, Aberdeenshire.

One of the cemeteries mentioned in the brilliant ‘A Scottish Graveyard Miscellany’. Behind the lovely yellow spring time flowers you are viewing a mort house. A mort house was employed in times when resurrectionists were at their peak. The mort house housed corpses for time enough until the bodies would have deteriorated, no longer be of use to anatomists, and therefore resurrectionists would not come a-digging. This mort house had a carousel inside, which, on rotation for two to three weeks, would be turned daily, adding new bodies as and when. Unfortunately for the dead of Udny, this mort safe came into use just as the need for mort houses, mortsafes, watchtowers and the like lessened as a new legislation was passed making it a lot easier for anatomists to obtain bodies – legally.

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Yellow flower, Alberobello Cemetry, Puglia, Italy.

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Pirate’s graveyard, Peterhead, Scotland.

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"For those lost at sea", wall shrine, Torry Barracks, Aberdeen.

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Snow grave like home.

Possibly my favourite Favourite Grave ever. Can you see it?

And a bonus few from the snowy days we’ve just had:

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Rugged cross, St.Mary’s Churchyard, Hertfordshire.

Happy New Year. Thanks go to Full Moon Industries for sending a link to Among the Stones, a brilliant photographic cemetery archive.

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Christmas, St.Thomas Beckett Parish Church, Clapham, Bedfordshire.

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memorial at Basilica Sacre-Coeure, Paris, France.

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Couple, Alberobello Cemetery, Puglia, Italy.

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Blue Room at Verano Cemetery, Rome, Italy.

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Witch’s grave, St.Mary’s Churchyard, Brent Pelham, UK.

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Tree words, Kensal Green Cemetery, London, UK.

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Dia De Los Muertos

Thanks to Melanie for submitting these photos of a graveyard just outside of Sayulita, Mexico. You can read her blog regarding her travel experiences here.

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Small flower row at Alberobello Cemetery, Puglia, Italy.

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Alberobello Cemetery, Puglia, Italy.

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Kindred Spirits

The following have been so kind as to mention me in or link me from their blogs. It’s only right that I do the same in return, especially because all of the blogs below are excellent resources for grave minded folk.

Pumpkin Rot: What’s Brewing

The Dark Sublime

The Horrors of it All

Dark US

Madonna and Christ at Kensal Green Cemetery, London, UK.