What are we reading? 18/11/2024

[giveusaclue]

AB76 wrote: "I spent yesterday in London, visiting graves of relatives stretched in the north and east of the city from over 100 years ago

I was especially beguiled by Tower Hamlets Cemetery(once Mile End Ceme..."

That sounds like an interesting day AB. I am not religious but love looking round old churches and cathedrals for the architecture. That also includes looking round graveyards, which have some very sad stories. I also think it is very sad that in earlier, more religious, times people who could afford it had gravestones engraved so they would " not be forgotten" only for the inscriptions to have weathered away over the centuries and become unreadable.

[AB76]

giveusaclue wrote: "AB76 wrote: "I spent yesterday in London, visiting graves of relatives stretched in the north and east of the city from over 100 years ago

I was especially beguiled by Tower Hamlets Cemetery(once ..."

there were many in that state, almost unreadable. i have noticed in my local churchyard they are slowly restoring some of the older graves, so the names and dates are legible

i would say Mile End Cemetery has more in good nick than i expected, considering it was almost a sea of headstones, it reminded me of european graveyards like in Vienna.

Near the middle of the cemetery was a line of large graves with German names, standing there yesterday i imagined they could be tradesman who worked in the city of london (the corporation of london owned the cemetery till the mid 80s) but now i suspect they may have been jewish graves