the Cemetery image thread....

[rayvonn]

Would love to see more from your visit if possible please Tim.
It's mentioned quite often but I can't really imagine what it looks like.
Is there a plan on site, to locate all the famous people buried there?

I hope this is the right one. There should be only one. It's not an photo from Tim. Perhaps he'll add a couple later

karl marx grave - Google Search

Thanks. The Cemetery is split into East and West sides, we've only been to the East side, but will be visiting the West side in the not too distant future, it's easily possible to spend over a day there and as we only spent an hour or two, the surface has barely been scratched. The link that Lucien posted references the tomb, that's what the majority of people basically pay to go in to see. The tomb has been used to targeted vandalism for many decades; the cemetery is used to that too and 24 hour camera surveillance has been on the tomb for some time. As I said, the pictures I took aren't really any different to that seen thousands of times before and in Lucien's link, but I did come across Marx's "original" grave which is pretty much the same as everyone else's from 1883 when he died.

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In the meantime, I'll be posting more snaps of the place generally in the Cemetery thread here. Yes Brian, there is a map and plan given to all visitors, I think the staff would go nuts if that wasn't the case.

 

[Panolyman]

Thanks. The Cemetery is split into East and West sides, we've only been to the East side, but will be visiting the West side in the not too distant future, it's easily possible to spend over a day there and as we only spent an hour or two, the surface has barely been scratched. The link that Lucien posted references the tomb, that's what the majority of people basically pay to go in to see. The tomb has been used to targeted vandalism for many decades; the cemetery is used to that too and 24 hour camera surveillance has been on the tomb for some time. As I said, the pictures I took aren't really any different to that seen thousands of times before and in Lucien's link, but I did come across Marx's "original" grave which is pretty much the same as everyone else's from 1883 when he died.
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In the meantime, I'll be posting more snaps of the place generally in the Cemetery thread here. Yes Brian, there is a map and plan given to all visitors, I think the staff would go nuts if that wasn't the case.

This is a bit of a coincidence.
I've just been scrolling through the Oxfam online shop looking at books (I'm addicted) and this one came up:

https://onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk/london-cemeteries-an-illustrated-guide-gazetteer/product/HD_301600903?sku=HD_301600903

Or are there dark spirits at work?

 

[rayvonn]

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[Mr_Flibble]

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St.Mihiel and Romagne American Cemeteries, November 11th 2022,
Olympus PEN-F, 38mm f/1.8, expired Agfa film.

 

[gryphon1911]

More from Green Hill Cemetery, Johnstown, Ohio

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[Panolyman]

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I'm intrigued by number 4.
Can you enlighten us please?

 

[rayvonn]

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[gryphon1911]

I'm intrigued by number 4.
Can you enlighten us please?

This was a military veteran’s grave. Some items left are dog tag like markers. The coins are to signify the following:

A penny: This means someone has visited the grave.

A nickel: This signifies that the visitor served with the deceased service member at boot camp.

A dime: A dime means the visitor and deceased service member served together at some point.

A quarter: Be prepared to have some tissue on hand when you see this denomination on a headstone. This coin is left by someone who was physically with the service member when they died.

This is said to be a tradition that draws back to the Roman Empire.

 

[Panolyman]

This was a military veteran’s grave. Some items left are dog tag like markers. The coins are to signify the following:

A penny: This means someone has visited the grave.

A nickel: This signifies that the visitor served with the deceased service member at boot camp.

A dime: A dime means the visitor and deceased service member served together at some point.

A quarter: Be prepared to have some tissue on hand when you see this denomination on a headstone. This coin is left by someone who was physically with the service member when they died.

This is said to be a tradition that draws back to the Roman Empire.

Thank you so much Andrew.
It's wonderful to see that the tradition lives on; not only for its historic value, but that people still take the trouble to share their connection with the deceased.

 

[John King]

This was a military veteran’s grave. Some items left are dog tag like markers. The coins are to signify the following:

A penny: This means someone has visited the grave.

A nickel: This signifies that the visitor served with the deceased service member at boot camp.

A dime: A dime means the visitor and deceased service member served together at some point.

A quarter: Be prepared to have some tissue on hand when you see this denomination on a headstone. This coin is left by someone who was physically with the service member when they died.

This is said to be a tradition that draws back to the Roman Empire.

It is good to honour those who serve so that the rest of us may live in peace.

It is not, in any way, a glorification of war, as some would have it, but a recognition of the sacrifice made by the few for the many.

As Churchill said of the mostly young pilots in the Battle of Britain:

'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few'

https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/yourcountry/collections/churchillexhibition/churchill-the-orator/human-conflict/

Lest we forget.

 

[doobs]

That explains this at Yorktown:

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Thanks for the info.

 

[rayvonn]

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[lucien]

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[gryphon1911]

Maple Grove Cemetery
Granville, Ohio

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[Panolyman]

As I've said in a previous post, I'm fascinated by local names in cemeteries.

This one is my all-time favourite, from a Kirmichael cemetery.

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This one is from the same cemetery and I'm mystified by the depiction.

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And from Kirkoswald there are these.

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Apparently, skeletons and skulls and crossbones are what are known as 'memento mori' signifying that death in absolute certainty.
The winged 'death skull' on the right indicates that life is nothing solid, just a fleeting experience.

 

[gryphon1911]

Lithopolis Cemetery
Lithopolis, Ohio

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[rayvonn]

I posted on some images on this thread on London’s Highgate Cemetery earlier this month. That was the east side, which seems to be far more popular due to a certain inhabitant there. This week we visited the west side which I found far more thoughtfully designed and laid out, primarily due to the circled catacombs there on which I will post separately after this post. In the meantime, this is the modest gravestone of Alexander Litvinenko which was sad to me as it seems likely he knew quite well that he was going to arrive here.

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[rayvonn]

Circled catacombs at Highgate Cemetery, London.

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Seeing a real life "pushing up daisies" scenario is a bit unsettling if I'm telling the truth!

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I really am cemeteried out, it's going to be a while before the next visit to one.

 

[gryphon1911]

St. Mary's Cemetery
Delaware, OH

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