God know's best or God knows best?

St Mary, Abberley, Worcestershire

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A lovely rural location and an unusual find. What more could we ask for?

 

 

God know's best or God knows best?

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"We deeply deplore her .."

St Michael and All Angels, Lilleshall, Shropshire

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All the gravestones from the churchyard have been removed and placed around the perimeter walls of the churchyard and along one of the walls of the new cemetery across the road. I assume that this was to make grounds maintenance easier but nevertheless is a policy of which I strongly disapprove.

 

 

On first sight the words "While on earth she was loved and we deeply deplore her ..." seem a strange thing to have said but "deplore" is being used in the old-fashioned sense of the word meaning mourn.

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This couple were married for 69 years.

Holy Trinity, Leaton, Shropshire

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All the fog had vanished and a crystal clear blue sky had appeared by the time we reached Leaton. This was a great contrast to when we left home 3 hours earlier.

 

 

This couple were married for 69 years.

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"Fatally" has been engraved as "Fataly".

 

Stourport-on-Severn Cemetery, Worcestershire

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Although we had a detailed street map of the town the cemetery was not marked and we only discovered it by accident.

 

 

It is shame that this memorial doesn't give the surname of the person and that "fatally" has been engraved as "fataly".

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Don't believe everything you read on a memorial!

St Mary's Cemetery, Dunvegan, Isle of Skye

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This two-part cemetery is probably the best located cemetery I can remember. Wonderful views and so peaceful with just the sound of the wind and the birds. I would love to have my ashes scattered here.

 



 

A lady who died at age 105 - in 1674 - and so perhaps not the most reliable of records.

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This memorial is designed to look like a bank vault.

Chingford Mount Cemetery, Greater London

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We were on a family trip to London so we decided to spend a sunny afternoon walking around this cemetery. Unfortunately we ran out of time and two section remain unsurveyed. These were the block of new graves closest to the entrance and the oldest graves right at the far end of the site.

 

 

This memorial is designed to look like a bank vault.

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A beautiful grave to remember Dorothy who died serving her country in 1942

 

St Faith, Hexton, Bedfordshire

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It is curious how two of the windows in the church have been blocked up.

 

 

Information available on the internet would indicate that

Dorothy Winifred Oliver died in Shropshire.

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One of only a handful of stainless steel graves we have ever seen.

 

The Vale Cemetery and Crematorium, Luton, Bedfordshire

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A very large site but well maintained and with the graves in straight lines which made searching much quicker and easier.

 

 

One of only a handful of stainless steel graves we have ever seen.

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Remembering Larry and George

Southam Road Cemetery, Banbury, Oxfordshire

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The blossom was spectacular - we must have timed our visit just right!

 

 

I am sure there is an interesting story to be told about this grave.

 

 

Isn't it both strange and sad that nobody seems to have known his

full name or when he was born or died.

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It seems curious to describe somebody as "late" and also as "deceased".

Buckingham Cemetery, Buckinghamshire

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There were two disused chapels and a house that seemed to be subsiding near the entrance to the cemetery.

 

 

It seems curious to describe somebody as "late" and also as "deceased".

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11 crew from the Holmrook drowned near Holy Island.

St Mary the Virgin, Holy Island, Northumberland

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We visited Holy Island on our way up to Scotland while on our annual holiday. We expected to find evidence of sailors being drowned and we were not disappointed.

 

 

11 crew from the SS Holmrook died in a single accident off False Emannuel close by Holy Island in March1892. The stone was hard to read, being both worn and having the sun at a difficult angle. The photo is marginally easier to read than the orginal!

 

ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF ELEVEN OF THE CREW OF THE HOLMROOK S.S. WHO LOST THEIR LIVES THROUGH THE VESSEL BEING WRECKED ON THE FALSE EMANNUEL NEAR HOLY ISLAND 26TH MARCH 1892 OF WHOM ARE BURIED HERE W. B. BAINES, MASTER - JAMES SKINNER - JOHN JAMES - A. WILKINSON - WM. TAYLOR - W. M. ROBSON - S. HAGGERSTON - H. R. GUTHRIE AND ANOTHER UNIDENTIFIED - JOHN NYE

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A very unusual design in the form of a record.

 

Crownhill Crematorium, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

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We were rather disappointed at the small number of discoveries we made in this large site. Our daughter Sally kindly came along to speed up the search process.

 

 

A very unusual design in the form of a record and quite

unlike anything we have seen before.

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No cheating - what was Bazalgette famous for doing?

St Peter, Monk Soham, Suffolk

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It was a long walk across a field to reach the church. There were a number of vegetable patches in the churchyard and lots of evidence of rabbits having visited them.

 

 

Sir Joseph William Bazalgette, was a 19th-century English civil engineer most famous for his work on the sewer network for central London. His son and his grandson both died young and are commemorated in the church.

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Oh dear, I'm going to have to miss a word out!

 

St Andrew, Great Finborough, Suffolk

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There were some lovely chestnut trees in the churchyard.

The church itself had some attractive flint rendering.

 

 

It isn't clear why the word "HER" wasn't written out in full in the last line of the inscription.

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"Received" has been engraved as "Recieved".

St Mary, Brewood, Staffordshire

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Although the church looks as if it is Church of England from the outside it is in fact Catholic.

 

 

"Received" has been engraved as "Recieved".

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Quite possibly the worst designed gravestone we have seen.

 

St Michael and All Angels, Cofton Hackett, Worcestershire

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The church was in a peaceful location except when trains were ascending or descending the infamous "Lickey Incline" which ran alongside the graveyard.

 

 

Quite possibly the worst designed gravestone we have seen - there was no room for the names because of the space taken up by the dates!

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A superb alabaster wall monument with two tiers of kneeling figures.

 

St Mary the Virgin and St Chad, Brewood, Staffordshire

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A large church with a large churchyard around it. We were pleased to find

such splendid tombs inside the building.

 

 

At the west end of the south aisle, removed from one of the piers of the nave, is an alabaster wall monument with two tiers of kneeling figures. The lower section shows Edward Moreton (d. 1630), his wife (d. 1633), three sons, three daughters and a child in a burial shroud. The upper section shows Matthew Moreton (d. 1669), his wife (d. 1672), a son, six daughters and a child in a burial shroud.

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George and Elizabeth Brown lost 10 children in less than 14 years.

 

St Giles, Northampton, Northamptonshire

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Another church where most of the gravestones have

been moved to the perimeter of the site.

 

 

George and Elizabeth Brown lost 10 children in less than 14 years.

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