Sunday Seasoning #158
A sunshine-dappled stroll through a cemetery. Can you identify which one?
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The Friday Photos: London Cemeteries
Autumn colours in London graveyards.
East Smithfield Burial Pit Reveals Plague Genome
Researchers extract DNA from skeletons buried in 14th century plague cemetery.
Book Review: The Hardy Tree by Iphgenia Baal
A new novella about St Pancras, Thomas Hardy and 10,000 skeletons.
Honor Oak Park To Become Cemetery?
Local residents fight to keep out the corpses.
Bunhill Fields Gets Grade 1 Listing
Everyone’s favourite bit of ‘secret London’ gets protected status.
Fortean London: The Walking Nunhead Dead
Nunhead spook caught by Tyla’75. Nunhead Cemetery Open Day is this Saturday which got us thinking about a tall, undead banker with a sad story. William Daniel Jenkins was a six foot, seven and a half inch tall clerk who worked at the Bank of …
Nature-ist: Brompton Cemetery
40 acres worth of green space sandwiched between Brompton Road, Fulham Road and Stamford Bridge football ground.
Nature-ist: Highgate West Cemetery
A natural woodland park jam packed with graves and riddled with ivy.
Nature-ist: West Norwood Cemetery
Cemetery built on the site of the ancient Great North Wood.
Preview: City Of London Cemetery Open Day
This Sunday, the City of London Cemetery will hold its first Open Day since 2006. The cemetery, out near Wanstead Flats, will put on displays of a more sepulchral nature than your typical garden fete. We’re promised demonstrations of stone masonry and urn design, a …
