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Photograph by Anna Shorten.
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.
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.”
Some beautiful graveside photography featuring unique gravestone folk art. Be sure to look through the ‘skulls’ set.
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.
Happy New Year. Thanks go to Full Moon Industries for sending a link to Among the Stones, a brilliant photographic cemetery archive.
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!
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.
Hello.
Favourite Graves is pretty self-explanatory as a blog concept. These are my favourite graves for you to look at.
Favourite graves are not restricted to cemeteries. They can be roadside shrines, memorials, marked land, burial sites and so on.
Memento mori dear folk, and please, enjoy your time here while it lasts.