Recommend a graveyard/grave

[summerdays]

Great thread - I find graveyards fascinating! Bristol's Arnos Vale is a lovely one, with a fascinating story of its own that's worth looking up. There are lots of interesting graves there as well, including this one of James Charles Alfred Sanders, a footballer who was also a travelling showman (he needs all his names as there are other newsworthy James Sanders around).

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I've been in Arnos Vale but never explored it properly.

 

[Slioch]

For some unknown reason, I've always remembered the inscription I read on a tombstone in Blythburgh churchyard (near Southwold, Suffolk) some 40 odd years ago.

By wood concealed, by earth confined, and to thy native dust consigned.
My grave is closed, no more I'm seen, and naught is said but "he has been".

I quite like that!

 

[Fnaar]

Beckenham Cemetery (I used to live nearby) has W.G Grace and Thomas Crapper (of toilet fame), amongst others. I raelly wish the latter's gravestone was shaped like a cistern, with a flush handle, but it isn't.

 

[ianrauk]

I saw that. Mine was from my own collection, when we went to see the chimneys demolished back in 2010. I can't remember if you were on that ride though.

Nope. Mine was taken on a ride in January with Ross and Tim. Almost exact same pic.

 

[Salad Dodger]

(Not my photo - a stock image as I cant locate my file of photos for this holiday).

During a camping trip to Brittany and Normandy a few years ago, we camped close to this WW2 cemetary near Dieppe, where soldiers who took part in the abortive Allied raid on Dieppe in 1942 are buried. I cycled over there, to pay my respects.

Most of the Allied soldiers were Canadians, and by dates on the headstones many were in their late 20's or 30's, so presumably they left behind a number of wives and children.

I remember thinking that it would be one thing for a Brit to give his life in the service of his country, even if it were in a hopelessly failed mission, but for these guys to be fighting thousands of miles from home, for a country other than their own, was a different thing altogether....

 

[Blue Hills]

Nice post salad dodger. I think the same with regard to the likes of farm boys from idaho dropped into the hell of d day beaches. Respect to them all.

 

[subaqua]

not specifically a graveyard but if you are ever in orkney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Chapel

 

[Blue Hills]

I think churches are allowed.

I do of course pop in them as well. Have done a quick change in one or two. Some even have toilets.

Their enclosed porches are much appreciated. And their lych gates, very handy in a rainstorm.

You discover some interesting stuff, by sheer chance on a ride birmingham to london (bivvy en route) i popped into a church where Shakespeare was most probably married.

 

[Yellow Fang]

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(Not my photo - a stock image as I cant locate my file of photos for this holiday).

During a camping trip to Brittany and Normandy a few years ago, we camped close to this WW2 cemetary near Dieppe, where soldiers who took part in the abortive Allied raid on Dieppe in 1942 are buried. I cycled over there, to pay my respects.

Most of the Allied soldiers were Canadians, and by dates on the headstones many were in their late 20's or 30's, so presumably they left behind a number of wives and children.

I remember thinking that it would be one thing for a Brit to give his life in the service of his country, even if it were in a hopelessly failed mission, but for these guys to be fighting thousands of miles from home, for a country other than their own, was a different thing altogether....

Off topic, but that looked like a suicide mission. What were they intending to do? Nevertheless, valuable lessons were learnt for D-Day.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

That can't be it, he wasn't allowed to have what he wanted and the family had to settle for Gaelic, I think. It was 'I told you I was ill.'

Yes indeed - I think you are correct. Short of time so quick Google lead me astray.....

 

[ianrauk]

Myself, @Trickedem & @rb58
visited the American WW1 memorial in Chateau Thierry and the American and German WW1 cemeteries in Belleau

 

[petek]

Nunhead cemetery in South London used to be worth a visit. Huge place with some amazing mausoleums and monuments. There's another huge one outside London , Brookwood in Surrey or "The London Necropolis". It used to have its own railway station with funeral trains running from a special depot at Waterloo.
Went into one of the chapels there and it was being used as a Russian Orthodox monastery.

 

[Ian H]

Fullneck graveyard.

 

[Blue Hills]

Fullneck graveyard.

Why?
And what's with the two Moravian places near there?

 

[gavroche]

Pere Lachaise in Paris. Many famous people buried there. Never been myself though.