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Title: Headstones
Post by: PaulR on 01 December, 2011, 10:41:40 pm
We recently visited a graveyard in Sussex which included this cheerful number.  I wonder who was the afflicted one out of the couple.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6438556089_5e9fb9a7fc_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62297839@N05/6438556089/)
grave (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62297839@N05/6438556089/) by PaulRide (http://www.flickr.com/people/62297839@N05/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: Riggers on 02 December, 2011, 09:51:18 am
Nice one Peewiters. I often find myself drawn to graveyards on rides, for the contemplation. Gazing at the memories of those who have passed on. You begin to wonder at the lives they led. Some leave you sad at the short time they had on this earth. Some had incredible names too. Others may find it maudlin, but I find it enervating.

Here's my Uncle Stan's grave, which I found by happenchance when trying to locate my Granny's in a graveyard near to Piddinghoe. He was only 44.

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Stan-KerrGrave.jpg)
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: Riggers on 02 December, 2011, 10:04:11 am
Taken a couple of years ago, but in Piddinghoe cemetery.

Says: (though I can't read the very top bit which may have given his rank. Doh! Memory! Where art thou?)

John Trevor Collingwood
of his Majesty's Royal Navy
who departed this late
29th September 1796
Aged 58 Years

Also of Mrs Sarah Collingwood
who departed this late
24th october 1823
Aged 71 Years

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Pid3.jpg)
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: Riggers on 02 December, 2011, 10:12:28 am
Sometimes, they can make you so sad.

'To the memory of their beloved children' from George and Mary Tate of Pope's farm in Herstmonceaux

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Herstmonceaux1.jpg)
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: Jaded on 02 December, 2011, 10:15:18 am
From the Oxford photoday

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/skull_candy.jpg)
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: Charlotte on 02 December, 2011, 10:32:49 am
Paris catacombs:

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-4yNfnBqM3NA/ToD1xNNgENI/AAAAAAAAEUE/_wx3o5W5bHI/s576/D7K_8250.jpg)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ojaUHpDVMnM/ToD1iqJBsdI/AAAAAAAAET8/f8SEZswh00E/s576/D7K_8242.jpg)
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: mike on 02 December, 2011, 10:37:00 am
American military cemetery, near Cambridge:
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/cambridge%20weekend%2025th%20feb/MRT_3333-03b.jpg)

(love that first one of yours, Ms C)
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: Salvatore on 03 December, 2011, 07:20:12 pm
At Monreith, SW Scotland.
(http://farm1.staticflickr.com/44/113434169_f345859d07_z.jpg?zz=1) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/113434169/)
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: bomber on 03 December, 2011, 11:33:55 pm
Lyndhurst, pretty much exactly this time last year;

(http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/166387_482662867079_512382079_5805685_7508033_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: rogerzilla on 04 December, 2011, 09:52:10 am
(http://www.peeble.com/mini3_2_7.jpg)
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: rogerzilla on 04 December, 2011, 09:55:14 am
Quote from: Riggers on 02 December, 2011, 10:04:11 am
Taken a couple of years ago, but in Piddinghoe cemetery.

Says: (though I can't read the very top bit which may have given his rank. Doh! Memory! Where art thou?)

John Trevor Collingwood
of his Majesty's Royal Navy
Not the famous one; he was Cuthbert and he's buried under St Paul's.
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: Riggers on 05 December, 2011, 08:11:56 am
Nice moody atmospheric pic Zillers.
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: Riggers on 05 December, 2011, 08:55:29 am
Frank Wootton headstone in Berwick graveyard. Who's FranK?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wootton

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/FrankWootten.jpg)
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: RJ on 08 December, 2011, 02:19:34 pm
Well-kent by some up here:
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m85/rjevans6/IMG_0058.jpg)
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: Riggers on 27 January, 2012, 08:33:04 am
Another one of Berwick, and yes, I have 'played' with it.

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/P1040960BerwickGrave.jpg)
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: eck on 27 January, 2012, 09:19:08 am
Here lies the body of Ezra Pound
Lost at sea
And never found
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: Riggers on 30 January, 2012, 08:39:17 am
Barcombe Sunday 29th January

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/P1040984Barcombe.jpg)
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: David Martin on 30 January, 2012, 09:14:10 am
(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4132/5038033949_c1352a6eb0_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/5038033949/)
Stone angel (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/5038033949/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: Riggers on 30 January, 2012, 09:17:20 am
Oooooooohhhh, spooky! And yours is more atmospherically spookier than mine too.

My little chap did have his right arm raised, but I got rid of that because it interfered with the pic (looked odd).
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: David Martin on 30 January, 2012, 11:31:17 am
It was a foggy day. That was the only decent pic I ever took on a Blackberry..
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 January, 2013, 11:19:13 pm
This phone photo hasn't come out too well, but you might be able to see what I see.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8227/8378621420_f100c3b41f_m.jpg)

Do you see the face? Or do you just see a coat of arms?
Kington St Michael, Wiltshire
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: David Martin on 14 January, 2013, 01:07:30 pm
Some from the local historic graveyard.. The light was great and I had some time to kill, but only the phone with me.

Somewhere here is the grave of the inventor of the self-adhesive postage stamp.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8048/8379475875_13cfa3b5a6_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/8379475875/)
howff (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/8379475875/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8324/8380557058_6534ea865b_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/8380557058/)
howff (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/8380557058/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8353/8379478345_e9323bbe4b_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/8379478345/)
howff (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/8379478345/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8051/8380558938_e0c2780548_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/8380558938/)
howff (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/8380558938/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: hulver on 14 January, 2013, 03:18:21 pm
Bit of a rubbish picture, but the Gravestone is from 1501.

Quote
Here lies intered dorathy tomson wife of Richard Tomson.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3133/3221319752_a1d88bf779_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/78317074@N00/3221319752/)
Very old gravestone (http://www.flickr.com/photos/78317074@N00/3221319752/) by hulver_uk (http://www.flickr.com/people/78317074@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: delthebike on 16 February, 2013, 02:08:58 pm
Cast iron or steel headstones in Barling Magna.

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-in0-lYMFPd0/UR-RnBPU99I/AAAAAAAAHf4/bGeJ63EEQZg/s640/p2160180.jpg)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-tJdJMykzu98/UR-Rmr569GI/AAAAAAAAHf0/6gIQ-xeOjio/s640/p2160181.jpg)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VJA1yiji-4w/UR-Rrd0KFkI/AAAAAAAAHgM/UK0yaiPlB64/s640/p2160183.jpg)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ETSuTrToSIg/UR-RsLNIQ3I/AAAAAAAAHgU/FxxbJktNoWA/s640/p2160184.jpg)
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: Jaded on 18 May, 2013, 05:25:34 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/gravestone_2.jpg)
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: woollypigs on 18 May, 2013, 06:20:05 pm
Ohh I didn't know we had a thread about this. Here is my favorite :


(http://photos.woollypigs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/killed-by-indians.jpg) (http://photos.woollypigs.com/2012/02/killed-by-indians)

In a cemetery Onaisin in Chile on Tierra del Fuego.

John Saldine
Who was killed by Indians
on 20th of July 1898

With no disrespect to the family, but I wonder if he was totally blame free. From what I read about the first white people to this island, lets just say they were not all that nice – Selknam Genocide where people were paid per dead.
Title: Re: Headstones
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 October, 2020, 04:16:26 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50408600026_3f27965567_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jNrfzy)20200929_193200 (https://flic.kr/p/2jNrfzy) by rogerzilla (https://www.flickr.com/photos/41286375@N07/), on Flickr

Lots here.  Taken on phone this week, while waiting for Miss Z's taekwondo lesson to finish.