Back in London, I was in this area to watch football,
so just picked this from the old A to Z, as it was quite
near to the tube station. It's run by the London Borough
of
Waltham Forest. Hemmed in on three sides by housing,
sods law, I walked the 'wrong way' round from my
approach, going almost full circle before going through
these gates.
The chapel was in the middle of the cemetery,
it was closed, as they always are nowadays, unless
there's an actual burial taking place. I wonder if they
were ever kept open in the 'old days'?
There was no real military plot here, this was
the nearest to it.
No reason to snap this one, I just fancied a close up
of an old Victorian headstone.
It's a rather dangerous place to walk across, clearly
suffering from major subsidence.
There must be a great local story behind this
headstone.
An old water pump.
A 'd0-it-yourself' plot by the look of it.
I wonder how tiny this 'little bush' was
when first planted by the graveside?
I'm not sure what this memorial was about, dating
from the Winter of 1946/47. I must try and find
out one day...
This was the only mausoleum type erection in the
entire cemetery, the writing on the side reads:
In memory of Harriet Hooke, who died on the
28th June 1913, aged 74 years.
She must have come from a very grand family for
a memorial like this.
Just over the tops of the houses you can see how the
area has changed over the generations, with the
minaret from the local mosque in view.
And finally this was one of the few that was a bit
different
