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Graveyards & Cemeteries

titch said:
I went on a hampstead and highgate ghost walk with spooky london and then a visit to highgate cemetery, on the way to the cemetery the guide gave me her (very one sided) views on the main protagonists of the vampire affair, but i wont say what she told me because i am scared of the ban stick.


The cemetery is very interesting, my favorite story was when we came to a grave that had a stone lion guarding it, the deceased had two lions, a friendly one that he made a bit of money on by letting children ride on its back, and an extra vicious one (it once escaped and killed four people) that he made a fortune with by entering it in dog fights. apparently the dogs where always ripped to shreds
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Spill the beans, Punk.
 
Bad Bungle said:
Walking back from a seminar today I got lost (!?) - 40 minute detour through Somers Town (Camden, London), leading to Old St Pancras Church and the Hardy Tree. In the 1860's the Midlands Railway was being built over part of the St. Pancras churchyard. A young Thomas Hardy (the Novelist) helped in the exhumation of human remains and the dismantling of tombs around 1865. The headstones were placed under an Ash tree (which is now called the Hardy tree) and there they remain.


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The tree fell down last week!
 
escargot said:
The tree fell down last week!
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That was really sad - didn't realise the gravestones were stacked in a mount and the tree grew up in the middle some years later.
Seen a photo somewhere pre-Hardy Tree but can't now find it.
 
ramonmercado said:
Appalling.

The Anglican Church and United Kingdom have expressed "dismay" at an attack on a historic cemetery close to Jerusalem's walled Old City.

More than 30 graves at the Protestant Cemetery on Mount Zion were desecrated on Sunday. Crosses were broken and headstones toppled and smashed.

Jewish extremists have been blamed for the vandalism.

"We have noticed that hatred speech and hatred crimes are on the rise," Anglican Archbishop Hosam Naoum said.

Standing next to the vandalised grave of the second Anglican bishop of Jerusalem, Samuel Gobat, he said there had been a recent increase in spitting at Christians and attacks on their holy sites.

"This is only an indication that we are not in a place where people can tolerate each other or accept each other," Archbishop Naoum added. "We see more exclusion, more segregation and that is what really grieves us in this city of Jerusalem."

In a tweet, the British consulate in Jerusalem said: "This is the latest in a string of attacks against Christians and their property in and around the Old City. The perpetrators of religiously motivated attacks should be held accountable."

Security camera footage shows two young men carrying out the attack. They are wearing kippahs, or skullcaps, and knotted fringes known as tzitzit on their clothes, indicating they are religious Jews.

Three Commonwealth war graves of Palestinian police officers were among those attacked, while several stone crosses were seen lying broken on the ground.

The Anglican Church said the targeting of the crosses clearly suggests "these criminal acts were motivated by religious bigotry and hatred against Christians".

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) told the BBC it was "appalled" by the vandalism.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64163185
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Update.

Two teenagers have been arrested by Israeli police investigating an attack on a Christian cemetery in Jerusalem.

Police said the pair were aged 14 and 18 and came from central Israel.

They said gravestones at the historic Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery had suffered extensive damage from an "act of intentional vandalism".

Other than giving their ages and a rough location of where they were from, Israeli police did not say any more about the suspects.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64190806
 
I was reading some stories told to the owner of the

Weird Wiltshire blog. The man had lived in Swindon when he was young and talked about the big Whitworth Road cemetery. When I was very young, my dad’s parents lived very close to it and a few years later, we lived in a house which meant that generally we’d pass it in a car.

I tend to like graveyards, but small ones, not these big ones. My main memory is seeing it from the car on gloomy, rainy winter days and feeling so heavy. It doesn’t look too bad on Google maps but back then it seemed a dull, dark place.

When one of my aunts still loved with my grandparents nearby she said she’d never walk that side of the road especially in the winter when it was dark early as she thought it was haunted. It certainly does have an atmosphere of depression.
 
Fanari_Lloyd said:
When one of my aunts still loved with my grandparents nearby she said she’d never walk that side of the road especially in the winter when it was dark early as she thought it was haunted.
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Someone I knew wouldn't go near the local cemetery in bright daylight if he noticed in time.
He had severe epilepsy and the sun shining on the white railings as he walked past gave a Strobe effect, inducing a minor event.

No fainting or falling, but ten minutes later he'd arrive home with no memory of the journey.
Family would say 'Oho, walked past the boneyard, did we?' when they smelled his severely cacked pants.

They all found this highly amusing and he told me about it himself with no embarrassment. :)
 
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My local council chickened out of introducing promession some years ago.

Here's another version of it: 'water cremation'.

(Safe Guardian link)
‘Boil in the bag’ environmentally friendly funerals arrive in the UK

With a lower carbon footprint than gas-fired cremation, the process is described as ‘gentler on the body and kinder on the environment’

The process of dissolving a body in a bag in 160C water treated with an alkali will become available in the UK later this year and is the first new legal method of disposing of cadavers since the Cremation Act of 1902. It has been described as a “boil in the bag” funeral.

The practice is legal in the majority of US states, Canada and South Africa, where it was chosen for Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died last year. It is also legal in the UK, but has only been used only in limited trials aimed at testing if the resulting solution was safe to release into the drainage system.

With a carbon footprint that is claimed to be about half of that of gas-fired cremation, the process leaves only bones, which are then powdered and returned to the family in the same way as cremated ash.
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I turn to the You Tube channel Ask A Mortician for easy-to-understand 'disposal methods'. :D
 
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