[Mairi]

Sticks, I hope you don't mind me asking but, why the fascination with cemeteries?

[Sticks]

A mixture of a reminder of our own mortality,

History

And the sacredness of the area

[Romantic Old Bird]

Actually, in part, I must agree with Sticks.

When my mum died, I went along the cemetery - very often initially, and I found it very comforting.

As I slowly recovered, I looked around and
found that I was surrounded by life.

Each visitor represented another story, each had their reasons for going. Duty, devotion, or habit. We rarely did more than exchange pleasantries, but
we each knew how the other
felt. There was an unspoken bond.

As time went on, I began to look at the very old stones, fom the 18th and 19th centuries. Fascinating!

Widows described as 'Relicts' of their spouses, children who did not survive infancy, and flurries of graves corresponding to the great influenza epidemic of 1919 and 1920.

The neat rows of Polish war graves, with unpronouceable name after name, all tragically young.

Nothing to be scared of in a cemetery. Just a reminder of the human condition.

If it reminds us to live whilst we can, and to count our blessings, it's not all bad, is it?

[Sticks]

Thank you ROB, I suppose the something similar can be said of gardens of rememberence and memorials. In Washington DC where I once went, the most profound places were Arlington Cemetery at the eternal flame where JFK is buried




In DC proper there is a black wall where all the names of the victims of the Vietnam war are engraved. It was one of the most moving places to visit.

Meanwhile I am slowly trying to recover my graveyard pictures. This one is of Karl Marx, the inspiration for communism, a now discredited political system. Karl Marx lies in Highgate Cemetery in London.

This image was originally supplied by ROB

[Sticks]

This cemetary is near where I work, and is the church yard of St Andrews Church in Newcastle upon Tyne which is thought to date from the twelth century. In 1650 15 people were buried here after being executed for witchcraft.

[Sticks]

The grave of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in Arlington National Cemetery. It is the only wooden cross in the entire cemetery, because that is what Robert had wanted

[Sticks]

This grave yard is around the church of St Marys, Brandesburton. A village in East Riding of Yorkshire on the Hull to Bridlington road. This is village where my parents live.

[Sticks]

This image is a reposting of a 12th Century church, St Mary the Virgin in Silchester Hampshire. It is quite near one of the few remaining Roman ampitheatres, for the old town of Caleva Atrebatum

[Sticks]

For those interested this is the Roman Ampitheatre

[Sticks]

During my visit to Lancashire, I visited Tottington where I went to school. I also visited the memorial to my physics teacher Dr K F Chew, who died in 1996.

This is the memorial seat outside the front reception.

[Sticks]

This image is from the church yard in Tottington

[Sticks]

Two grave stones of historical interest and a good example of the stone mason's craft.

[Sticks]

For some reason all my pictures of cemetaries have disappeared

These are some I took during my visit to the Cotswolds.

Before my first one, this is an image of the church notice board for the curiosity of the name of the place.

[Sticks]

Now its graveyard

[Sticks]

This one was at All Saints, Evesham

[Sticks]

Originally posted by Sticks
This image is a reposting of a 12th Century church, St Mary the Virgin in Silchester Hampshire. It is quite near one of the few remaining Roman ampitheatres, for the old town of Caleva Atrebatum

Reposted image from last year

[Sticks]

Originally posted by Sticks
For those interested this is the Roman Ampitheatre

Reposting

[Kaz]

Can I join in on this thread, please Sticks?

This is a photo I took on my recent holiday - it's the cemetary beside Melrose Abbey (where Robert the Bruce's heart is allegedly buried).

Enjoy!

[Sticks]

absolutely, lets have others posting away

These are places of History and Humanity

[Romantic Old Bird]

Well, OK then!

Self explanatory I think.......

[Sticks]

Arlington National Cemetary
Hillside overlooking Section 9 and walkway to the Tomb of the Unknowns. The Tourmobil, the popular tour buses that allow patrons unlimited reboarding for a single daily rate is in the left center.

[peachy]

I visited both Upper and Lower Slaughter last week, Sticks and saw the church. They are both very pretty Cotswold villages.

[Sticks]

I visited Whitley bay today, and went to the Parish Church of St Pauls.

[Sticks]

This grave is for a Royal Engineer who died in October 1917. Unfortunately the full scle image did not record his name properly. In the image above we see the otherside of this headstone.

[LEE]

For some reason all my pictures of cemetaries have disappeared

Yeah sorry Sticks, most of them were posted before we were hacked, and the attachments were one of the things we lost then.