Inconvenient Dead

Kensal Green Cemetery in London is the burial place of hundreds of famous Victorian figures including Isambard Kingdom Brunel, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins and Harold Pinter. It is under threat from developers bit.ly/4rtv0ZE say local campaigners

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@UnusualGraves Very interesting lead wrapping around the edges & carving/spelling of her "BETER" life

The Five Ashes Baptist Burial Ground at Odcombe in Somerset is up for sale... Have the Baptists given up their responsibilities? somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/25628801.…

@annaandthedead Similar IHS tile to one used in Derby's Uttoxeter Rd cemetery. Credit to @RogerBowdler who first pointed this out

#31DaysOfGraves Day 30 - Colour: Coloured tiles on the monument to Daniel McCoy of Carrickmacross, d.1868, buried at Ford Cemetery, Liverpool.

#31DaysOfGraves 16 Obelisk Robert Owen's cenotaph at Kensal Green @Magnificent1of7. He established New Lanark mill (now a World Heritage Site). Next to the Reformers' Memorial "to the memory of the men & women who ... improve the conditions & enlarge the happiness of all classes"

@FOWCemetery This is not stone but a glazed fireclay monument, one proprietary name was "grancotta". They last well, unless they are chipped by lawn mowers or, as here, a heavy impact.

Day 15: Damaged. #31DaysOfGraves Due to the hollow stone, this looks to have been damaged quite easily by something falling on it, such as a tree branch. Maybe this is something we can fix in the future.

#31DaysOfGraves 15 Damaged It was a dark & stormy night in the 1980s when a lightning strike blasted away the canopy of the Moffat tomb at Norwood @fownc1837

#31DaysOfGraves 14 Inside Birmingham's Picadilly Arcade has some amazing ceilings: views out from inside the grave!

@hellohistoria I'd feel quite intimidated if that angel met me at the Pearly Gates!

#31daysofgraves • Angel 👼🏻 A bare-breasted angel 🪦 📍Forrabury Church ⛪ #Cornwall #History

It's finally October and time for #31DaysofGraves 🪦💀 ⚰️ A huge thank you to @annaandthedead for putting this together 🪦 #History

#31DaysOfGraves 13 Skeleton The business card of Nathaniel Longbottom of Southwark, dealer in "skeletons of different sizes & both sexes". Makes you wonder where he got a reliable supply of cadavers from? [Wellcome collection]

#31daysofgraves 12 Woman Emma Soyer, artist & recent subject of BBC's @FakeorFortune1. She was the wife of celebrity chef Alexis Soyer. Her monument stands tall & proud inside Kensal Green Cemetery @Magnificent1of7, looking out at the traffic on Harrow Road

#31daysofgraves 11 Military The catcomb of Admiral Young in @fownc1837. He lays opposite the catafalque (the lift to the demolished chapel above.) Vice Admiral of the Blue, he was "distinguished not less for zeal, ability & courteousness in the discharge of his public duties"

#31DaysOfGraves 10 urn At @fownc1837 is the grave of Capt Lindow, 17th Lancers "Death or Glory boys". His cremation was the 16th in England & flames erupt from his memorial urn. The plinth states "cremated by his own desire", underscoring his innovative funeral.

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#31DaysOfGraves Day 9, Hand I’ve not seen anything like this before….

#31DaysOfGraves 9: hand Battersea cemetery has a painted headstone with an unusual variation on the typical handshake, "well met in death": here the hand is pulled away, leaving her widower behind.

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@Friends_StJohns Obsidian glass is not a material I recall seeing in other burial grounds. My studies include ceramic memorials, there's a similar use of decorative tiles to "enliven" a plain headstone.

#31DaysofGraves Day 8 Glass... maybe This is what I think is Victorian etched black glass-front on the grave of William Bannister of Trafford House, #Burnley, his wife Sarah, Bertha, their daughter Mary Alice Wormwell Smith, and her son Alex Stewart Wormwell. Thoughts, anyone?

@crewedave1 There's an archive from Chance Bros over at Smethwick, I hope to visit @sandwellcouncil one day

@DedInconvenient Both my grandad and grandmother worked at Chances. IIRC Birmingham Science Museum has (or had) a lighthouse fesnel lens assembly that Chances had made

#31DaysOfGraves, 8 Glass The toppled memorial at Malvern of Edward Chance of Chance Brothers, the great Victorian glass manufacturer. They made Crystal Palace's glass & Big Ben's clockface. Edward ran the alkaline works, a horrendous process. Like his workers, he too died early.