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Tombs of Polish soldiers who fell in the city during the Polish–Soviet War and Polish–Lithuanian War.
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Brompton cemetery was one of the seven cemeteries created in the middle of the 19th century when the growing population of London made it evident there was much need for that. Brompton, originally known as the West of London and Westminster Cemetery, was opened for use in 1840 - the cemetery is still used up to this day as a burial place, but much more rarely nowadays, now it is much more commonly used as a public park to jog in or walk the dog (though preferably only using the paths where signs say it's allowed to walk your dog).
The plot of land was bought from Lord Kensington and prior it had been market gardens in the area, an area of 160 000 m2. The cemetery was designed by Benjamin Baud, which includes a domed chapel at one end, modelled after St Peter's in Rome, which is reached through long colonnades, with catacombs underneath. The catacombs were built to offer a cheaper way of burial, but it was not a success at all - only about 500 of the thousands of burial-spots in them were sold.
The writer Beatrix Potter grew up not far from the cemetery and she spent quite a lot of time at this place. It would inspire her in her writings, the colonnade is the walled gardens of Mr. McGregor and several of the names she used can be found on tomb-stones.
The place has also been the setting of several films, including The Wisdom of Crocodiles (also known as Immortality - starring Jude Law), Crush and Johnny English.
The General Cemetery in Spring Bank West the Western Cemetery now belongs to Kingston upon Hull City Council for its upkeep. The Council is also responsible for the General Cemetery but as you will see later it is very badly kept yet still visited by families to leave flowers.
My photos of General Cemetery will follow over the next few days.
The General Cemetery was opened in 1847. The cemetery was closed in 1972, and went into the hands of the Council. Some maintenance work has been undertaken more recently. But I could not see any on my visit on March 1st 2019.
There is so much history in here and I shall be going back!
Borough Cemetery, Eye, Suffolk
I was making a return visit to this cemetery just a couple of weeks after my first, because I was on the hunt for a memorial designed by Ninian Comper.
Comper was a close friend of the Tacon family of Brome Hall, and Maude Tacon was the patroness of Eye church. She bankrolled the fabulous Anglo-Catholic makeover of the church in the 1920s and 1930s, mostly the work of Comper, in cooperation with the parish priest John Polycarp Oakey. It so happened that Oakey was also Tacon's lover, and the east window by Comper in Eye church is her tribute to him, depicting him kneeling at the feet of his patron saint.
My visit the previous fortnight had been in the afternoon, so I came back in the morning with the sun shining on the other side of the headstones.
On my first visit I had been put off exploring the conservation area because it was so overgrown, but in only two weeks much of the vegetation had already died back. I was able to get closer to four large memorials huddled behind a clump of yews, and was excited to discover that they were to members of the Tacon family. Among them I quickly found Comper's headstone to Maude Tacon, a typical Comper crucifixion with Christ's young head lolling, and at the foot of the cross a delightful Madonna and child. Tacon died in 1953, by which time Comper was 89 (he lived to be 96), but I expect it was actually based on earlier designs by Comper, who had a fair few crucifixions to his name over the years.
Eye Cemetery is a small and delicious cemetery on the road to the Thornhams. The twin chapels, both simple, even prosaic, sit to east and west of each other, that to the west now closed and used for storage, the east chapel maintained in the High Anglican tradition and open every day. The cemetery was opened in response to the closure of urban churchyards legislation in the 1860s, a mark that until fairly recently Eye was considered on a par with the county's larger towns.
MRS. J. SAMUEL.
Mrs. Jenny Samuel, whose death occurred in Auckland yesterday, was the widow of the late Mr. M. K. Samuel, of Wellington, and mother of a family of soldiers. One son, Major Albert Samuel, left New Zealand in command of a reinforcement draft; another, Private Fred Samuel, has been at the front and been invalided, and is again in camp; Sergt. Victor Saimel was at Gallipoli and is now in France; and Private J. Samuel, also in France, has been wounded, but is again in the trenches. Mrs. C. S. Phillips, of Auckland, is her only daughter.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19160916.2.129
Plot 6: Jenny Samuel
(Hebrew inscription)
In Loving Memory of
JENNY SAMUEL,
relict of
Maurice Kaufmann Samuel.
who departed this life 15th Sept. 1916.
17th Ellul 5676.
aged 68 years.
“May her soul rest in peace.”
DEATHS
SAMUEL.—On September 15, 1916, at "Huia" Private Hospital, Jenny, dearly beloved wife of the late Maurice K. Samuel, of Wellington: aged 68 years.
Funeral this day.
Plot 89: Isabella Hirst (53) 1939
Thomas Farrar Hirst (87) 1966 – Carpenter
RIP
BELL
beloved wife of
T. F. HIRST,
and mother of
Gertrude, Bill and Lorna.
Died 29. May 1930 aged 52.
At Rest
Also THOMAS FARRAR HIRST
died 18th July 1966
aged 86 years.
HIRST.—On May 29 at the Auckland Hospital, Bell, the beloved wife of Thomas Hirst and dear mother of Gertrude, Bill and Lorna Hirst, of 21. Bannerman Road, Western Springs: aged 53. Funeral will leave her late residence at 10.30 a.m. Saturday, for Waikumete Cemetery. Friends please accept this intimation.
Pepacton Cemetery. Cannonsville Reservoir reinterments. Board of Water Supply force placing memorials and concrete markers at graves, and resurfacing the cemetery by placing topsoil, seed and fertilizer. Camera located at north end of Section 62 looking southeasterly. View shows a portion of the cemetery, including Section 63 to 76 and 102 to 107, in 3 different stages of the topsoiling and seeding operations. In the foreground is shown the condition of the area prior to any topsoiling operation; in the upper middle a section which has been topsoiled, graded and raked; in the top rear an area which has been topsoiled and graded only. In the foreground also are seen concrete grave markers each with a copper strip, on the top surface, on which identification numbers are to be stamped. Note also at the lower right the concrete base on which no memorial has yet been placed. At the lower left is seen the very old slab memorial to the Cannon family, which has been embedded in concrete. Storage piles of topsoil stripped from the area are shown at upper right. May 10, 1965. (Digital Image ID: CRP103)
This cemetery will forever be associated with the epic attempt in 1944 by the British 1st Airborne Division of which the Polish Parachute Brigade was part, to seize the bridge across the Lower Rhine at Arnhem ahead of the main advance of the land forces. Most of the casualties suffered by the Division are buried here. A small number are in Jonkerbos War Cemetery at Nijmegen. The graves here are those of 1 sailor, 1.633 soldiers and 113 airmen of whom 1.625 are British, 33 Canadian, 4 Australian, 4 New Zealand, 2 Dutch and 79 Polish.
"Enlisted in Co. C, 34 Ia. Inft.
Died in the service Jan. 20, 1863.
He sleeps in an unknown grave
in the National Cemetery
Memphis, Tenn"