morbid – FAVOURITE GRAVES

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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.

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

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

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Happy Christmas, Torry, Aberdeen, UK.

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Griffin, Postman’s Park, London.

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Orange, Hendon Crematorium, London.

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Autumn, Udny Cemetery, Aberdeenshire, UK.

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Nose chip, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Cross, Rectangle, Circle at St. Peter’s Churchyard, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire.

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Pinks, New Southgate Crematorium and Cemetery.

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Staircase, Alberobello Cemetery, Puglia, Italy.

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

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Hendon Crematorium, North London, UK.

What better way to spend a rain sloshed Sunday than slithering about Hendon Crematorium with my macro lens? I haven’t got a good collection of graveside detail so far, I mean a real ‘close-up’. So today I concentrated on taking tight shots and spent time looking for details that really stood out – ornaments, flowers (both real and not), cracks, chips, growths and grooves. Here follows an establishing shot of the lovely gothic Old English signage, plus a few of my favourites from today…

This is the last photo I took and my lens was pretty smudged up by that point.

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Wonky, Dalry Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland

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War Graves at Ypres, Flanders Fields, Belgium.

Listen to ‘Ypres, The City of the Dead’ while you look through the many war graves at the various cemeteries of Ypres.

Thanks to Simon Farr for his extensive Ypres archive.

“Locre Churchyard. The graves are in two plots either side of the church, graveyard contains the bodies of three shot at dawn soldiers.”

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Face, St. Paul’s Churchyard, Covent Garden, UK.

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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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Anchor, Camden & Islington Cemetery, London, UK.

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Wonky, New Southgate Crematorium and Cemetery, London.

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Skull eyes, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Wall, Alberobello Cemetery, Puglia, Italy.

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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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Cracked Christ, Kensal Green Cemetery, London.

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Yellow flower, Alberobello Cemetry, Puglia, Italy.

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Pirate’s graveyard, Peterhead, Scotland.

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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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Decorative hands, St. Thomas Beckett Parish Church, Clapham, Bedfordshire.

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Simple grave, St. Thomas Beckett Parish Church, Clapham, Bedfordshire.

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Couple, Alberobello Cemetery, Puglia, Italy.

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Halloween Tours Graveyard

Fancy an online scare? Visit Halloween Tours Graveyard! Take a peep round the authors favourite graves, have a read of some intriguing English epitaphs or get lost in the totally baffling ‘Castle of Death’. It’s fun all the way with this sombre sideshow!

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

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

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Tree words, Kensal Green Cemetery, London, UK.

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Alberobello Cemetery, Puglia, Italy.

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graveside wares, New Southgate Crematorium and Cemetery, London, UK.

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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.