Kensal Green Cemetery - London - Oct 2011

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The General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green, is one of England's oldest and most beautiful public burial grounds

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The plan for London's first garden cemetery was initiated by the barrister George Frederick Carden, who was inspired by a visit to Père-Lachaise in Paris in 1821. Alert both to the need for new burial grounds, and the commercial potential of the venture, Carden founded the General Cemetery Company in 1830, with influential supporters including Andrew Spottiswoode MP and the banker John Dean Paul of Rodburgh

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The cemetery was established by Act of Parliament which had its final reading in July 1832, during a cholera epidemic -- a coincidence that implicitly made the case for reform.

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The Bishop of London consecrated the first 48 acres in January 1833, and the first funeral was conducted a week later.

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From the funeral of HRH The Duke of Sussex in 1843 to that of his nephew HRH The Duke of Cambridge in 1904, Kensal Green was the most fashionable cemetery in England

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Its notable personalities include some 650 members of the titled nobility and over 550 individuals noted in the Dictionary of National Biography.

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Kensal Green is the resting place of the engineers Sir Marc Isambard Brunel and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the mathematician Charles Babbage, and the novelists Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope and William Makepeace Thackeray; Lord Byron's wife, Oscar Wilde's mother, Charles Dickens' in-laws and Winston Churchill's daughter; a cross-dressing Army doctor and the surgeon who attended Nelson at Trafalgar; the creator of Pears' Soap, and the original WH Smith; the funambulist Blondin and the Savoyard George Grossmith; the first man to cross Australia from south to north, and the last man to fight a duel in England; the Duke's nephew who ruined the richest heiress of the day, and the English adventuress who became a French baronne disgraced by the accusation of murder.

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Kensal Green boasts some 140 Grade I, II* and II Listed buildings and monuments, including the magnificent Anglican Chapel (Top 2 pano's)

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The Cemetery is cared for by "The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery" which is an independent registered charity

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Absolute beauty! Loving the panoramics as usual! Love the big gothic memorial too.
I suppose highgate has to be next? I've done the organised tour, which is quite interesting, especially the stuff with litvinyenkos grave!
 
Brilliant, I love old cemetery's and that is one best I have seen yet along with some great photo's of the place to do it justice. :)
 
Absolute beauty! Loving the panoramics as usual! Love the big gothic memorial too.
I suppose highgate has to be next? I've done the organised tour, which is quite interesting, especially the stuff with litvinyenkos grave!

Ah, SK and I have been yapping on about falling over the wall of Highgate one misty morning for ages, will have to get around to it :)
 
Lovely nelly. Top photos, particularly the black and whites and the one of the two headstones with the colourful leaves hanging down.

Not a big fan of religious sites but this is pucker mate. Thanks :)
 
That is exceptionally well captured Nelly, some of those Angels and Cherubs look downright miserable, but after standing in the same position for 150 years or so I suppose they have that right. Thanks
 
Oh, and if you're ever passing, warstone road cemetery in Birmingham is a hidden gem! Beautiful and really derelict!
 
I adore the black n whites Nelly..did you doctor em up?..you must do West Norwood now you have mastered the Nikon ok..Happy New Year fella
 
I adore the black n whites Nelly..did you doctor em up?..you must do West Norwood now you have mastered the Nikon ok..Happy New Year fella

Maybe a little bit of the dreaded Tone Mapping ;) and don't go using the 'N' word to me!!!!

:mrgreen:

Happy New Year to you to fella, lets have another meet up in 2012, I miss getting nearly run over by trains ;)
 
Gorgeous! Victorian Garden Cemetery AND a gas holder in the background. My idea of heaven.
 
I see a "quote" button, a "multi-quote" button, a "quick reply" button and a "thank" button. But no "drool" button. Where's the drool button? There ought to be a drool button.

Drool!
 
I fancy getting in the catacombs there but they aren't accesible apparently. I think there's four or five cemies around London where they buoilt huge catacombs and a railway et all. Great photos Nelly! Happy new year.
 
I see a "quote" button, a "multi-quote" button, a "quick reply" button and a "thank" button. But no "drool" button. Where's the drool button? There ought to be a drool button.

Drool!

Thats interesting... I can see the drool button perfectly fine. Perhaps you should take a trip to specsavers?

 
Ah, SK and I have been yapping on about falling over the wall of Highgate one misty morning for ages, will have to get around to it :)

Maybe falling over the wall isn't a good plan have you seen those spikes :) If you hit one of those Nelly you will do the old punctured balloon impression :)
 
Thats interesting... I can see the drool button perfectly fine. Perhaps you should take a trip to specsavers?


Ah, somebody has way too much time on their hands :mrgreen:

Cheers for the comments guys, I wasn't relay sure whether to put this report up as it;s not truly dere,

:)
 
Beautiful photos Nelly. I always wanted to visit the London cemetaries. Fantastic stuff.
Drool button? Hey, I'm a mod and I don't get a drool button? Where's my drool button??? ;):lol:
 

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