Category: Events
Happy Birthday Shadowsflyaway!
copyright Carole Tyrrell
Yes shadowsflyaway is one year old this month!
I’ve really enjoyed researching, writing and posting my entries – it’s been wonderful to have an opportunity to immerse myself in history again and to meet other interesting cemetery enthusiasts via cyberspace. Please keep sending your comments.
So let’s raise a glass, cup or mug and celebrate and revel in being taphophiles. After all everyone has to have a hobby….without cemeteries where would all those eager Pokemon Go enthusiasts go?
This photo was taken in West Norwood Cemetery near the Columbarium – every time I visit there is is always a glass jar or vase containing fresh flowers placed on the shelf. I thought it looked appropriate.
Here’s to another year!
A Christmas message
copyright Carole Tyrrell
This angel is in Elmers End cemetery which is in Beckenham, Kent, UK. It’ s very close to my home and is the last resting place for several well-known figures. These include the renowned cricketer, W. G. Grace and Thomas Crapper who invented the flushing toilet. There is also a life-size figure of a First World War soldier and a small pond in the remembrance gardens which attracts dragonflies and has beautiful water lilies in the summer.
Thank you for your comments and observations on the blog and I hope you’ll visit in 2016
Have a happy and peaceful New Year
The Cemetery that changed my life
I submitted a short piece on The Cemetery that changed my life to Loren Rhoads’ excellent blog ‘Graveyard Travels’ and here is the link.
Please let me know what you think and check out Loren’s blog as well.
My involvement with cemeteries changed my life for the better – I made new friends, got involved with heritage and conservation and came to appreciate the beauty of many of the memorials and the poignancy of their epitaphs. These people had lived and loved and their friends and family wanted to remember them forever. My involvement with Nunhead Cemetery has been over 25 years no wand I still find new things to see.
Text and photo copyright Carole Tyrrell
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