Blogs about Death and graves
3 blogs about Death and graves.
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Cemetery Club
“Museums of People // Libraries of the Dead.” By Sheldon K. Goodman. 🇬🇧Updated
Let’s Go Outside Not on the official tour of Highgate Cemetery in respect to the family’s wishes, there is no ‘here lies George Michael’ at his gravesite. All there is is his real name (Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou) and …
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The Graveyard Detective
By Laurie Manton. 🇬🇧Updated
2022-04-13 10:47 A Grisly End to a Lancashire Policeman.A grisly end. Sergeant William James Bedwell of the Lancashire Mounted Police had tied his legs together, cut his throat and jumped in the River RIbble -buried at Preston …
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The London Dead
“Stories from our cemeteries, crypts and churchyards.” By David Bingham. 🇬🇧Updated
A fortune lost and a fortune found; Hanwell and the great Westminster Cemetery Scandal of 1986. As the dead don’t vote and they don’t pay rates they are generally of little interest to ambitious local politicians. But in 1986 the then leader of Westminster Council, Dame Shirley Porter, was much exercised …
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