The London Dead
Stories from our cemeteries, crypts and churchyards.
- By David Bingham
- Based in United Kingdom
- Roughly 12 posts per year
- First post on
Posts per year
| Year starting | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 27 |
| 2023 | 33 |
| 2024 | 10 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
How many times was Captain Erle Godfrey Elton of the Black Watch buried? Some sources say he was buried on the battlefield of Magersfontein in South Africa where he died on 11th December 1899. And …
At 43 acres St Patrick’s Catholic Cemetery is relatively big by London standards, bigger than Abney Park, bigger than Brompton, bigger than West Norwood, and, rather surprisingly, bigger than both sides of Highgate combined. It …
As a young man Collins probably had his romantic experiences those "intimacies" to which the Dictionary of National Biography rather ambiguously refers. But when he was thirty-five and seemingly a confirmed bachelor, he formed an …