Notable graves you've visited

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Chiswick. Big fan of Hogarth. Hitch died and Rourke's drift and Whistler. Henry Joy, the trumpeter at the charge of the light brigade is also here.

 

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I've just bought and started reading a tomb with a view. It's a good read, well written with many worm holes. A Tomb With a View by Peter Ross review – the glory of graveyards
Eh. I've discovered the Enon Chapel Enon Chapel: death, horror and dancing in Victorian London
The recent memorial to an 11 year old boy in Kensal Green, Medi Mehra

 

[hitmouse]

Got to visit one of the really big ones recently:

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continued:

Spoiler: even more

 

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And a few more:

Spoiler: even more photos

Definitely a few I missed while I was there as well, looking it up I see I failed to find Raya Dunayevskaya or Franklin Rosemont. Also I have no real idea who a lot of those are, but there's something quite nice about seeing big names mixed in with relatively anonymous ones.

 

[smmudge]

I bet that was a very interesting cemetery to walk around hitmouse

Today I waited for the tide to go down to visit this one, Chateaubriand a writer who was famous for his steaks I think

 

[krtek a houby]

Alas, no pics but the mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu in Nikko.

(Shogun's Toranaga)

 

[marty21]

One for the kids here , Mike Winters , once a double act with his brother Bernie . They were huge in the 70s , then fell out & didn't speak for years. Just came across it when we visited a lovely old church in Gloucestershire.

 

[surreybrowncap]

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One for the kids here , Mike Winters , once a double act with his brother Bernie . They were huge in the 70s , then fell out & didn't speak for years. Just came across it when we visited a lovely old church in Gloucestershire.

Morecambe and Wise were asked - If you hadn't been comedians, what would you have been?
Eric quickly replied - Mike and Bernie Winters...!

 

[tim]

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One for the kids here , Mike Winters , once a double act with his brother Bernie . They were huge in the 70s , then fell out & didn't speak for years. Just came across it when we visited a lovely old church in Gloucestershire.

I once stayed in the same hotel as them on the Isle of Man. In my vague memories they gurn round doorframes a lot, but they probably didnt.

 

[marty21]

Morecambe and Wise were asked - If you hadn't been comedians, what would you have been?
Eric quickly replied - Mike and Bernie Winters...!

Eric & Ernie wiped the floor with the Winters Bros tbf.

 

[marty21]

I once stayed in the same hotel as them on the Isle of Man. In my vague memories they gurn round doorframes a lot, but they probably didnt.

Bernie was a notable gurner

 

[Skinny Ethel]

Here's Sylvia Plath's grave in Heptonstall. I love it there - it's high up in the moors above Hebden Bridge next to the ruin of an old church that was struck by lightning.
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That is beautiful and heartbreaking.

 

[surreybrowncap]

Eric & Ernie wiped the floor with the Winters Bros tbf.

As did Schnorbitz...!

 

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A very modest, unassuming grave considering

 

[smmudge]

A very modest, unassuming grave considering
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Montparnasse I'm guessing.

I don't think it's good that I recognise graveyards now

 

[krtek a houby]

 

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Also nearby was the artist Cesar who did a superb sculpture of Le Pouce. We looked for Man Ray but couldn't find Him.

 

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A french scientist apparently, but a lovely grave

 

[hitmouse]

Also nearby was the artist Cesar who did a superb sculpture of Le Pouce. We looked for Man Ray but couldn't find Him.
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Ah, I did see Man Ray's when I was there, it's a really sweet grave actually:

 

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Ah, I did see Man Ray's when I was there, it's a really sweet grave actually:
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We did look and look and look. Having just been to the surrealist thing as well, but hey

 

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