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The cemetery is an amazing place to visit, with more than sixty Grade II and II* listed monuments inside, and memorials to many London greats, including underground engineer James Henry Greathead, Sir Henry Tate - the sugar magnate whose collection of art began the Tate galleries - and famous Household Management writer Mrs Beeton. Your author also understands it has some remarkable catacombs, which will have to be saved for another visit.
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When did that blue sky appear?
ReplyDeleteLooks like a great cemetery. I like to visit these places, i love the grandeur of the head stones etc.
ReplyDeletehaven't been to Norwood though yet.
I'm not usually a fan of Gothic Revival architecture - it is usually too weighty and deadly serious. But here it seems appropriate, especially with all those weighty doctors, engineers, architects and magnates. My favourite moment was finding Sir Henry Tate's tomb - anyone who could fund the Tate Gallery must have been ok.
ReplyDeleteOk now I know where you get your ideas for posts... gives slight Paddington hard stare ;)
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