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#31DaysofGraves Day 27: Portrait Not exactly a portrait… supreme #Ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky famous for The Rite of Spring & the debut "near-riot" Here he is preserved as Petrushka the puppet with a soul, similar to (but not the same as) Mr Punch or Pulcinella #Montmartre #Cemetery #Walkingtours

Time for a round of ‘you can only pick one’. Which will it be? (Would you ‘like’ or rt this one please, so it doesn’t get buried 🙏)

#31DaysofGraves Day 27 Portrait Josiah Wedgwood, Stoke Minister, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. As Josiah was a non-conformists he could not b buried inside the Minster. His grave marked with a small plain slab is outside in the Minster grounds.

#31DaysOfGraves Day26: Accident John and daughter, Betty (Btty), Duerden lived and worked at Block Hall, then a hamlet for the workforce of the Walton Estate. The two died days apart, it was rumoured to be an accident, but no evidence exists. In the very least, the spelling of Betty's name was one.

Today's #31daysofgraves theme is accident. This gravestone is in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, #Hanbury, #Worcestershire. It is for Henry #Parry who died in 1847 as a result of an accident with a horse-drawn #railway waggon. He was working in the local #salt industry.

#31DaysOfGraves #Accident In High Blantyre Cemetery, Lanarkshire, stands an impressive obelisk monument to 240 coal miners who died in 2 separate accidents. This community suffered many more such losses over the years. A history of these is at buff.ly/Lzbf6gd Transcript of MI is in alt txt.

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The theme of today's #31DaysofGraves is Tree and this stunted Spaghetti tree at St Peter's, Gaulby, Leicestershire is one of my favourites.

#31DaysofGraves Day 26 Accident. In 1868 Irish Mail train had left London en route to Holyhead. Just outside Abergele, 6 wagons filled with paraffin, came loose from another train & hurtled down an incline into the path of the Irish Mail. 33 were killed and were interred at St. Michael's, Abergele.

First time I’ve seen the word “engineer” carved on a woman’s gravestone 🪦. Helen Scott (1955-1994) buried in Deerhurst church @ninabake2.bsky.social #31DaysOfGraves

#31DaysofGraves Day 25: tree. The memorial for Elizabeth Benson, d. 1710, showing two skeletons ripping apart the Tree of Life. St Leonard Shoreditch. "the most interesting monument in the church and thus placed up in the gallery where it is hardest to see." www.speel.me.uk/chlondon/stl...

So thrilled that after two years this zine collaboration with some of my favourite taphophiles, @allisoncmeier.bsky.social, @besslovejoy.bsky.social, and Louise Hung is finally a reality! #CemeterySaturday ▪️ I have a limited number of copies. Stay tuned if you would like one...

#31DaysOfGraves Day25: Tree My eyes go to this Hawthorn Tree every time I'm at St John's Church Graveyard, #Nelson. It reaches out to Hannah Demain's grave covered in Ivy and the Ivy reaches back, creating my assumption that Hannah loved nature? But in the very least nature flourishes all around her

#31daysofgraves - Day 25 - tree. I spotted this headstone of potential Forbes ancestors in KincardineO'Neil, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Made to look like tree trunks. I hadn't seen one like it before, but then saw another similar one in Toxteth Park cemetery a few weeks back!

#31DaysOfGraves Day 25. Tree The tree of life. Stunning and really unusual headstone Rev John Wesley Hetherington 1878 -1964 Brampton old church. We couldn’t work out what it was made of! It looks like metal but isn’t. Also wondered if it was made with a mould?

#31DaysofGraves Day 25 Trees St. Digan's, Llangernyw, Wales. The yew is estimated to be over 4,000 years old.

#31DaysofGraves - Day 24 - Contrast Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Connecticut, USA The original headstone and footstone for Dr. Timothy Mather (d. 1788) and a later marker recognizing military veterans show a contrast in material, style, and content.

#31DaysofGraves Day 24 Contrast. 4 gravestones, one plot. Roscrea, Co. Tipperary Ireland

When an article for the Football Pink led to an appearance in Walthamstow FC's matchday programme, and ultimately #WorkandPlay www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/work-an...

Today's #31daysofgraves theme is "wings". This dramatic monument is for Marcin Pasynkiewicz and is in the Cmentarz Powązkowski, #Warsaw, #Poland. For those that care the photo was taken using a #Pentax MZ-S loaded with #Rollei Retro 100 film.

Olivia: Next in my "it's okay to..." series. "Your feelings of grief, loss, anger, frustration and sadness are all valid. It's okay if you're struggling right now, these are difficult times we're living in 🩵" H/T: @o-bel.bsky.social

#31DaysOfGraves: Mourning My Irish Traveller gGrandma settled in booming #Nelson with her husband, drayman for Astley's Brewery, and family. He fought in the 2nd Boer War, caught Malaria and died in 1929 at 49 from it. She's in mourning. Harsh times; they're in unmarked #Graves St John's Graveyard.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 22 - Mourning: I feel like depictions of men in mourning (esp. in the C19th) are pretty rare? William & Hannah Nicholson mourn their children William, Christopher, Hannah, Ralph, John Ralph, & Eliza. At the Oratory, St James' Cemetery (Sir Francis Chantrey, 1834).

#31DaysOfGraves Day21: Mourning Great Grandma Annie, I only know her from pictures in Mourning attire. She lost one of her twins, Frank (5mths), then her husband, when my Grandad was 2, then her daughter, Lily (20). I felt her near when I was mourning the loss of my own child. Read more below.

#31DaysofGraves Day 22 Mourning. Michael and his Mother, Philomena have through sharing their story, allowed many, many others to mourn and share collectively the terrible losses they have experienced. Sean Ross Abbey, Roscrea, Co Tipperary, Ireland.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 21 - Air: Margaret Agnes Miller of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force died 1943, aged 18. Buried at Dyce Churchyard, Aberdeen.

Day 21, air. The memorial is in fact the whole church of the Holy Family and, critically, St Michael RC in Kesgrave, #Suffolk, erected in the memory of Michael Rope, who died in the R.101 airship disaster of 1930. The glass by his sister Margaret Agnes Rope #31DaysOfGraves

Back to Abney Park for ‘air’, day 21 of #31DaysOfGraves. - In 1826, Margaret Graham became the first British woman to make a solo hot air balloon flight. - This memorial was created in 2022 thanks to the efforts of the Abney Park Trust.

The Covid Inquiry’s Module 6 report is devastating. Its central conclusion: adult social care was treated as “something of an afterthought”, while “protecting the NHS” sometimes came at the expense of people receiving and providing care. 1/10

Everyone of a certain age remembers where they were on the day this happened #Aberfan

#31DaysofGraves Day 21 Air My Aunt's in-laws, Hanley Cemetery, Staffordshire, England. Died in 1941 when holidaying in Blackpool. 2 RAF planes collided and one crashed into the train station, killing 18 people.

1/2 This memorial to John Johnson repeatedly uses the imagery of #Fire. "He who would build a pyramid to his name Must act as he did: fuel makes a flame. Who from his good deeds did so bright aspire That all were cherished with its quickening fire ...." /cntd #31DaysofGraves Day 20 Fire

#31daysofgraves No 20 fire epigraph in memory of a blacksmith's life. My sledge and hammer both declined, My bellows they have lost the wind, My fire extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coals have spent, my iron gone, Luke Ralph, Blacksmith who died aged 49 Settle

Ladybird wisdom "Sometimes it can be hard to choose" ‘Chocolate and Cocoa’ (1977) Artist BH Robinson

#31DaysOfGraves day 19 is Water: here's the Fishermen's Chapel of St Anthony in Angle, Pembs, later used as a charnel house and now home to the rather battered effigy of a priest

#31DaysOfGraves — Day 20 - Fire Fireman's helmets prominent at St Catherine's Cemetery, Kilcully, #Cork and Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin #Spéirghorm

#31DaysofGraves Day 20 Fire. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, All Saints Church, Birchington on Sea, Kent, England. Rossetti often used 'Fire' as a symbol in his poetry and art, see 'The Woman of the Flame', 'First Flame' etc.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 19: Water The grave of Dame Mary Page, relict of Sir Gregory Page Bart, 1728, Bunhill Fields, London. "IN 67 MONTHS SHE WAS TAPD 66 TIMES. HAD TAKEN AWAY 240 GALLONS OF WATER WITHOUT EVER REPINING AT HER CASE OR EVER FEARING THE OPERATION" Info: londonist.com/london/histo...

In between helping clients trace their family history, I'm always busy tracing my own. I write stories about the research I have done every week or two on my Substack blog, which you can subscribe to for free. In my latest piece I wander Liverpool docks pondering the life of a master mariner!

This story is not so much about the care sector, but carers more generally. Those who tried to keep families safe due to health risks. This was a different kind of caring (particularly difficult for young people) and we HOPE it will be recognised in the module 6 report. 💔

#31DaysofGraves Day 19 Water Mausoleum for Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis 1735-1823. 1st Earl of St. Vincent, awarded after his victory at the Battle of Cape of St. Vincent 1797. Located at Stone, Staffordshire, England.

#31DaysofGraves Day 18 Earth. The earth moulding, moving and shaping, Glendalough, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 18: Earth. My absolute favorite niche image on graves: Pilot Mountain.

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#31DaysOfGraves #Earth An unfortunate accident with earthmoving equipment. This grave of one of my Wemyss rellies is in Kincardine Cemetery, Ross-shire. They were not a lucky family. His cousin Donald d. in a similar crash in 1903, and great-grandfather Peter was killed on a level crossing in 1888.