Headstones and Worms...

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Briefly: this site has run from September 2005 to June 2006, and includes sets of pictures from 32 different cemeteries/resting places.
Unfortunately I am unable to continue (explanation given in my main photo blog)
I hope to be back posting by early to mid 2007.
In the meantime please delve in to what I have published already, and if you wish to be notified when I am up and running again please leave me a contact email at:
dulwichrabbler@hotmail.com
Thank you.
In the meantime tell any interested people you know about the work I have done so far.

Welcome to my little photoblog site of cemeteries:

There's no rhyme nor reason which ones I pick: just where I happen to come across one when I have my camera.

If you want to read a little more on why please click HERE

And though I'm NOT very technical to say the least, feel free to look through this list HERE, in date order, of all the cemeteries I've covered so far. There is the start of an index on this front page, but it is very muich in the construction stage, so please click above, or just dip into the monthly archives. There really is a lot more to see.

Thank you for looking in, and if you have an interest in cemeteries comments are welcomed, & please look back for updates. Thank you. (And tell your friends in your local 'Friends of Cemetery' group as well!).

Monmartre Cemetery, Paris, France

Set off the main road, and not the easiest place to find.
You can see into it from the road that crosses above it,
which makes it so tantalising and frustrating, as you hunt for
the entrance!

The bridge

Most people, when in Paris, head for the Pere-Lachaise
Cemetery, famous for being the last resting place for
Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison & Edith Piaf among others.
But, for me, much more beautiful is the Monmartre Cemetery.
The strangest thing about it is the the road that runs above
it, but to me that adds to its appeal.
Once you get over that it is crammed full of amazing
monuments old and new. It's certainly the favourite
out of all the cemeteries I've ever visited...anywhere!

An overview

Such a strange cemetery. Sloping, hemmed in, with
a road bridge above dissecting it,as you've already
seen.. The higher part of it allows you to look
the rest of it.
Monuments galore crammed in. Breath taking.

Amazing

The individuality of the graves was breath taking.
I make no apologies for taking so many snaps.
Such openness, variety, so vidid, & not conforming at
all to how we might see what the stereotypical final
resting place should be. Oh if only there could be such
originality in English cemeteries!
If you really do love burial grounds then come back and
look at these photographs again, you are sure to have
missed something.

A few military ones to end

Sadly I don't understand French, so can't trnaslate.

Brompton Cemetery, West Brompton, SW5

Brompton really is a jewel in the crown of London
cemeteries, a rather apt description of it, as it
is the only one managed by the Royal Parks.
I had never been here before, snd it took me a
while to aclimatise and appreciate the magnitude
of the place. If ever you are in London it is
only a few minutes walk from West Brompton tube
station and well worth a visit.

General snaps

There were squirrels everywhere! Plenty of notices
saying not to feed them, as they damage monuments,
but still there were visitors with big bags of nuts!

Only the tube line between the graves and Stamford
Bridge: home of Chelsea Football Club.

Many of the graves above were taped off for
safety reasons, and you couldn't actually wander along
them to look at up close.

So much to see

This was one of my favourites.

These were on the walls, under the
brick walkways.

I just felt there was so much missing here.

So simple, but elegant.

Words from a bygone era.

This one is for a very famous person...

Military memorials

This cemetery is choc-a-block with
military graves. Not surprising with
the military heritage of Chelsea, and a large
number of VC reciprients laid to rest here.

The Pantheon, Paris, France

Again not a burial ground from my trip
to Paris, but a final resting place for
their great and good.
A splendid building, and well worth
a visit if ever you go there.

There are many tombs down in the crypt.

Tomb of Napoleon, Paris, France

A bit of a departure from my usual
posts, but I thought this was
worthy of inclusion on its own.

This is his actual casket.

I thought this was superb.

St. Leonard's Churchyard, Streatham, SW16.

From these photos it's hard to believe this church
right on the busy Streatham High Road, one
of the main traffic arteries through this part
of South London.

Looking at this snap you could be in a Middle England
village parish church almost anywhere.

A few shots...

which is all I could take really. Not sure how big
it is, but if you base an acre on the size of an average
football pitch, then this one isn't more than 3 or 4
acres in total.