Notable graves you've visited

[Sasaferrato]

Bergen Belsen ..

Does that count?

I've been a number of times, didn't take photographs.

 

[Sasaferrato]

I had a relative killed there no known grave.

The monument that had the most profound effect on me was the Menin Gate. 54,588 names of casualties whose remains were never identified.

 

[hash tag]

Not seeing any means for the answers to be returned

Very sweet idea to get a little comfort. Not sure replies were expected.

 

[Pickman's model]

Very sweet idea to get a little comfort. Not sure replies were expected.

Nor am I sure replies would assuage grief

 

[twistedAM]

Hank Williams (Montgomery, AL), Elvis Presley (Gracelands, TN) plus loads of Civil war battlefields - all of the fallen were notable.

 

[hash tag]

The Darlings grave

And Graces memorial. In the distance you can just make out the Farnes Islands where she lived. The memorial was built like this for passing sailors to pay tribute to her. She died on 20th October. Very moving.

 

[hash tag]

Harry Patch, the last fighting Tommy

 

[Maltin]

Some ones I saw in Hollywood Forever cemetery recently

 

[Maltin]

Greyfriars Bobby

 

[platinumsage]

Apparently people are always placing objects on it, tiny ladders, coins, stuff connected with his ideas...

 

[Superdupastupor]

cyberfairy PRINT * BE DAMNED

isle of rum, faux-doric grecian mausoleum


final resting place of the era ending bullock family.

arch capitalists, factory owners down in lancashire, 19th century- that's alot of capital.

it's a 5/6hr walk from where calmac dump you off.

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Apparently the 8 acres of soil have the greatest concentration of human remains to be found on earth (200k+)

and that aint the proper statue, fking edi council with their prim touri-focussed shite.

and am on the side of the kid s that dug up a skull apprehended playing fitba

 

[hash tag]

We happened upon this cheeky little one today...it's right outside our bedroom window

Tom Keating - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[domestos]

Memorial symbols meanings

 

[chainsawjob]

If you can find Arthur Conan Doyle's grave at Minstead, let me know I couldn't.

Found it!

 

[JimW]

Not visited but read about the other day, amazing 18th century tomb of a woman and her unborn child who died together during birth:

Swiss woman by name of Maria Magdalena Langhans, her husband was a pastor.

The tomb of Madame Langhans showing a young woman clutching her baby and breaking through the lid of the tomb rising upwards. Line engraving with etching after J.A. Nahl.

<p>The woman portrayed is likely to be Maria Magdalena Langhans (d. 1751) , her rise from the dead at the last judgment is symbolized by her breaking through a lid decorated with skulls</p>

wellcomecollection.org

 

[Sasaferrato]

The windows are Burne-Jones, the Pre-Raphaelite artist.

I sold Sky tv to his great grandson.

 

[tim]

Father Christmas in Bari; who the Barese pinched him during a Crusade; Napoleon; Jesus (allegedly) but he was out; Edward the Confessor; Elizabeth & Mary Tudor; Ralph Richardson; Two of the Heads of John the Baptist;Thatcher; St Lucy, Shakespeare; Saladin; and Giro the Nazi dog.

 

[chainsawjob]

Two of the Heads of John the Baptist

Thatcher

I hope you tramped the dirt down!

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Notable graves you haven’t visited:

The Titanic.

 

[tim]

Found it!

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You can still hear the great spiritualist from beyond the grave: sound film footage from 1927.

 

[StoneRoad]

The grave of the guy who invented the spirometer ... see wiki link in caption


In mem - spirometer par StoneRoad2013, on ipernity

 

[chainsawjob]

You can still hear the great spiritualist from beyond the grave: sound film footage from 1927.

Seems a genial guy. Thanks. I drive past Conan Doyle's old house, Bignell Wood, on a weekly basis, it was up for sale recently 'Truly magnificent' house with links to Sherlock Holmes goes on sale

 

[hash tag]

"The music is in the air, take as much as you want".
( A very out of the way, simple, unassuming grave.

 

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Who? Kit Lambert.

 

[hash tag]

People viewing this thread are probably familiar with the Necropolis railway Necropolis Railway: The railway trip where only some returned

I know some of the links from this are old but are interesting none the less

 

[hash tag]

Not necessarily for the fame, just the honest if unusual tomb ( slain by a cannonball )

 

[hash tag]

Stumbled across by accident today , perhaps not so famous but quite unique...upside down, on Box Hill.

Peter Labilliere - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[skyscraper101]

In Berlin a few months ago

 

[redcogs]

As a youngster i lived in tiny St Tudy on the edge of Cornwall's Bodmin Moor. A local semi aristo family were the Blighs. They became infamous when William Bligh's extreme cruelty provoked a mutiny on board the ship HMS Bounty. 'Mutiny on the Bounty' was a fine film (Fletcher Christian, the mutineers leader was depicted by Marlon Brando).. The image below is on St Tudy Parish church.

 

[redcogs]

As mentioned above, as a kid my home was in Cornwall. Our next door neighbour ( it was a small council estate in St Tudy) worked at the nearby De Lank Granite Quarry through the 1950/60s. He was a lovely bloke, and he took pride in being the very one who had responsibility for cutting and supplying the enormous cube of stone that ultimately came to support Karl Marx's head at Highgate! i've been amused by this fact on and off down the years - a piece of Cornwall, now in London, was hewed from the earth by my next door neighbour, and today celebrates the worlds foremost communist thinker! Surely this qualifies me for proletarian of the year?