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Eldritch @azimuthimages.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Is the lamp working yet? Last time I went I had to photoshop it in.

🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Anyone else enjoying watching spring watch? This show gives me hope and joy. Plus me and the cat love watching the birds !

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

#Elswick #NewcatleUponTyne On this day 6th June 1926 the Montague Pit Disaster Memorial was unveiled in St John's Elswick Cemetery Newcastle upon Tyne. Piece from the Sunday Sun 6th June 1926 and images taken 30th January 2022.

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Ian Ebbage @ianebbage.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Corfe Castle in Dorset, built after the Norman Conquest and destroyed in the Civil War #castlesaturday

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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Remembering Private John Edgar Pulman, 28th Bn., Canadian Infantry, who died #OTD in 1916. Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium & on the family gravestone at Lister Lane Cemetery, along with his brother Cuthbert killed in 1918. www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk/johnpulman

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Another shot of the door at St Edward’s, Stow-on-the-wold.

The church door at St Edward’s, Stow-on-The-Wold.

Supposedly inspired Tolkien’s writing of the “Door of Durin” from the Lord of the rings (although this is not authenticated, but he was known to visit stow in particular)

The church resides on the site of a Saxon church and these two ancient yew have grown against the doors for centuries, their roots embedding themselves naturally framing the arched stone door frame. Above, Are stained glass windows with ornate tracery, in reds and blue. A wrought iron lantern hangs above the door which lights up the Cotswold stone in the evenings .

This door is highly popular in stow and heavily photographed by Tolkien fans in the summertime, so I visited on a early morning during a rain shower, and got a good few moments to appreciate the church and the churchyard on my own. Highly recommended a visit to stow if you are ever in the Cotswolds!

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

St Edward’s Church, Stow-On-The-Wold

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Hello again friends. I’m back. Went and did the Tolkien door thing, it did not disappoint.

The ancient doorway in St Edward’s Church, Stow-On-The-Wold. A gravestone leans to the left of a pathway, where cow parsley grows wild against the church wall. The ground is littered with yew needles. Further along the path is the church door, framed with gnarled yew trees. The trees seem to be almost as if they are growing into the walls. Above the church door is a lantern light. beyond the path, a lush green lawn can be seen and some leafy green trees.

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

A robin comes bearing Christmas greetings on this #Caturday. The kittens seem dubious. New York Public Library digital collections, 1911 Christmas card.

Two kittens look through a window/fence at a robin perched on holly branches, holding a "Merry Christmas" card in its beak.

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Gofod Gwag (empty space) 📸 @gofodgwag.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Loved this gnarly old tree I saw on my wintery walk from Bangor to Bethesda today #photography #photo

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Sorry I’ve been absent. Winter blues I think. Hope everyone is well and enjoying the run up to Christmas celebrations! The dark mornings are taking it out on me I fear !

A narrow, wet footpath runs through a small wooded footpath, leafless trees arch overhead, their dark branches tangled against a grey, misty sky. Fallen brown leaves cover the ground on either side of the path. A row of streetlamps lines the walkway, casting a warm yellow glow that reflects off the damp path and fades into fog in the distance.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

A little Crowley compilation 💜

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead "Crape Pullers" - members of a somewhat suspect mortuary profession. thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/c...

Funeral flowers catalog showing made-up arrangements and wire frames on which to build funeral flowers.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I did not see the aurora unfortunately, but I did see a shooting star in London tonight. A win is a win.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Crows truly are gorgeous aren’t they.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Brought Crowley some scraps from last nights dinner (Roast chicken. he was so cute today

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

St Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, London, Uk.

A weathered stone memorial in St Mary’s Cemetery, Kensal Green. The monument features a sculpture of an angel kneeling in prayer, her head bowed and wings folded gently behind her. She holds a small bouquet of flowers in her hands. The angel is framed by two carved stone pillars supporting a triangular pediment engraved with the name GANDOLFI. Beneath the angel, a dark marble plaque bears an oval ceramic portrait of a man, now faded with time. The surrounding graves and greenery, along with a cloudy sky, lend a peaceful atmosphere to the scene.

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Allerseelenetag Hedwigskirchhof / All Souls’ Day, Franz Skarbina, 1896 Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin #TheVIctorianBookoftheDead #AllSoulsDay #AllSouls

A little girl in black lights candles on a grave headed by a silver-grey cross with a veiled woman in black standing beside her. There are other people in black and other silvery tombstones in the background.

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Remember It - Recuérdalo @recuerdalo.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Interior of the #monument to the fallen in #WWI in Narni, Italy (1927). Their names are inscribed in red. #memorial #art #funeraryart #funeraryarchitecture #1GM #warmemorial #lestweforget #photography #warhistory

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@dianeechambers @dianeechambers.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

#31daysofgraves Day 31 Memento mori Holy Trinity Church, Old Bewick, Northumberland.

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

For the 1st day of all hallows tide & last day of #31DaysOfGraves here is my final October grave Beautifully symbolic graveyard sculpture in St Cuthbert's Kirkyard, Edinburgh with #MementoMori & 'vive memor leti' on either side of doorway, reminding us that life is finite #Halloween #skystorians

Photo of the entrance to a grave in St Cuthbert's, #Edinburgh
Photo credit: Lorraine Murray, 2024

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rozanderson.bsky.social @rozanderson.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

#31daysofgraves day 31 Memento Mori. Sadly the headstones at Dunblane Cathedral graveyard, with memento mori, are now mostly worn away. These images are all from Dunblane Museum. Staff & volunteers there are helping with a new graveyard audio tour, hopefully out soon. 🤞 Cheeky wee plug! 😀

Headstone, now flat showing memento mori symbols of skull, sand timer and crossed bones. Also an heraldic shield.

Small headstone showing skull, with teeth, and crossed bones also date 1740 and initials H P A I.

Old photograph of headstone showing winged soul, and sand timer also cordwainer tools of measure and cutter, a crown and date 1738 and initials R C M & M.

Old photograph showing headstone with winged soul skull, sand timer and crossed bones. Also farmer symbols of sock a and coulter, in centre the date 1751 on either side and initials I W and A L above split date.

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Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

#31DaysOfGraves Day 31: Memento mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die"); symbols or tropes acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death.The most common motif is a skull, but other motifs include a coffin, hourglass or wilting flowers to signify the impermanence of life. #Edinburgh

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The last day of #31DaysOfGraves 31: memento mori. These symbols seem to be very common here in Scotland. Here are just a few from Stirling and Northumberland. Thanks so much for sharing all your pictures. I've really enjoyed seeing them. Thanks too to @annaandthedead.bsky.social for organising! 🎃👻🎃👻

Gravestone dated 1696 featuring a skull and crossbones and an hourglass

The top of an old gravestone, carved with the words 'memento mori'

A skull and crossbones carved on an old gravestone

An old gravestone featuring some typical memento mori symbols: a skull, compasses, an hourglass and crossed bones. St Aidan's, Bamburgh

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

#31daysofgraves is over now what else am I supposed to do now 😩🤣

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Day 31 of #31DaysOfGraves - #MementoMori We're ending this year's annual celebration of the art and heritage of grave memorials with this absolutely stunning 18thC stone from Garvald, East Lothian Thanks to @annaandthedead.bsky.social for curating the themes again this year. Happy Halloween all! 🎃

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

#31DaysOfGraves Day 30 is #Colour It has to be this fabulous cast iron monument by the Sun Foundry to commemorate the Mackenzie family in the Upsilon compartment of the #Glasgow #Necropolis It has been restored recently, and I think it looks great! #Gothic #DarkTourist #Cemetery #Taphophile

The stone tablet reads:
In loving memory of Alexander Mackenzie, merchant, Glasgow, died 31st January 1875, aged 62 years
Alice Melrose his wife, died 4th January 1900, aged 82 years
Four other (presumably) family members are interred and listed, James, Agnes Nelson, Alexander Whitson, and James.
Photo credit: Lorraine Murray, 2025

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Day 30: Colour I am a huge green moss and blue patina enjoyer. York cemetery, North Yorkshire, UK. #31daysofgraves

A cluster of Victorian gravestones in York Cemetery, in different colours surrounded by bare trees and a carpet of damp leaves. In the foreground stands a moss-covered headstone in a pale green, and the other white stone headstone has moss on the edges that almost looks neon. Other older, darker gravestones fill the background, giving the scene a quiet, reflective atmosphere typical of historic English cemeteries.

A weathered 19th-century gravestone in York Cemetery, made of stone with a green-blue patina and ornate Gothic detailing at the top. The monument bears multiple inscriptions, divided by a central stone ridge.
The stone stands among many other old gravestones, with fallen leaves on the ground and bare trees behind, a peaceful, autumn scene.

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Dave Annal Lifelines Research @davelifelines.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

#31DaysOfGraves - Day #30 Colour The municipal cemetery in Landau-in-der-Pfalz is also home to the historical Jewish Cemetery. The oldest stones are made from the local red sandstone which, unfortunately, isn't the most durable material for a gravestone. But there's a quiet beauty to them...

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Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

#31DaysOfGraves Day 30 Colour. Changing colours and crunchy leaves make for a perfect Autumn walk in Warriston. #Edinburgh #Autumn #WarristonCemetery

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Finding an accused - and executed witch in my ancestral line on my father’s side wasn’t on my genealogy bingo card but exciting find nonetheless.

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CathyLoweBerkshire @cathylowe.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

#31DaysOfGraves - Occupation Wife, widow, daughter, mother; women are often memorialised in terms of their relationships. Most tragically as the wife and would-be mother, who perished in childbirth. This example seen in St Edmund's Hall Library, housed in the C12th church of St Peter-in-the-East.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My friend has a family heirloom mourning locket, made of black Whitby jet. On the inside, is braided hair. A gorgeous art form which I seriously hope comes back into fashion one day.

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Unboxing Victorian Mourning: Dress, Human Hair Jewellery & Postmortem Photos

YouTube video by Victoria and Albert Museum

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Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

#31DaysofGraves Day 29: Occupation. One of my favourite things in Warriston is the multitude of interesting (& some now obselete) occupations listed on stones. If you would like to see more & are on Facebook, we have a photo album of about 180 different professions. www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I'm delighted to be presenting on mourning crape as a token of death at the Symbols of Mortality online conference in February 2026. And I'm honored to be among such an absolutely stellar roster of death scholars. Take a look. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symbols-of... #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

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Symbols of Mortality Online Conference

FREE Online Conference exploring the world of mortality symbolism, by some of the subjects leading historians and researchers.

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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Good day all. 📷 Autumn 2022 at Lister Lane Cemetery.

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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The final resting place of former Halifax watchmaker & jeweller Adam Otty, who died on this day in 1887, at ther age of 55. Buried with both wives. First wife Mary (née Greenwood) died in 1857. Adam then married widow Mary Brierley (née Eastwood) in 1868. Mary no. 2 predeceased him by 20 months.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Day 29: Occupation Joseph Bonomi (1796–1878) sculptor, traveller, and pioneer Egyptologist. #31daysofgraves

A tall, upright sandstone monument with a gently rounded top, standing in a quiet path of Brompton cemetery. Across the upper region is the Christogram “☧” (Chi-Rho) flanked by the Greek letters Alpha and Omega. Beneath, in shallow-relief capital letters, the inscription reads:

IN MEMORY OF FOUR CHILDREN WHO WERE CALLED OUT OF THIS LIFE INTO A BETTER IN THE EASTER WEEK OF 1852:

JOSEPH MENES BORN JUNE 5TH 1846 DIED APRIL 25TH 1852
CAUTLEY FREDERICK BORN NOVR. 6TH 1847 DIED APRIL 25TH 1852
JESSIE BORN JULY 22ND 1849 DIED APRIL 25TH 1852
JOHN IGNATIUS BORN SEPT. 12TH 1851 DIED APRIL 25TH 1852
ALSO THEIR GRANDMOTHER SUSAN WIDOW OF JOHN MARTIN DIED THE 26TH AUGUST 1858

ALSO THEIR MOTHER JESSIE DAUGHTER OF JOHN MARTIN DIED 10TH SEPTEMBER 1859 AGED 34 YEARS

AND THEIR FATHER JOSEPH BONOMI

SCULPTOR, TRAVELLER AND ARCHAEOLOGIST BORN 9TH OCTOBER 1796 APPOINTED CURATOR OF SIR JOHN SOANE’S MUSEUM 1861 DIED 3RD MARCH 1878

(At the base) IN LOVING MEMORY OF COLONEL J. I. BONOMI DIED 27TH MARCH 1930

Below the inscription is a carved square panel showing the Egyptian god Anubis (jackal-headed) seated on a stylised funerary tomb, signifying the deceased’s lifelong devotion to ancient Egypt. The monument combines the Christian symbolism at the top with the Egyptian iconography at its centre, reflecting Joseph Bonomi’s dual identity as both a Victorian Christian and a pioneering Egyptologist.

After years of sketching temples along the Nile, he returned to London to help reshape how ancient Egypt was presented to Victorian audiences. He became Curator of the Sir John Soane’s Museum in 1861.

His final resting place is in Brompton Cemetery, London. a modest curved headstone but rich in symbolism: Carved with a depiction of the jackal-headed god Anubis guarding a tomb, and surrounded by hieroglyphic touches that reflect his lifelong fascination with ancient Egypt.

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Janice Heppenstall @janiceheppenstall.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

My latest blogpost has just published. It's aimed at Intermediate level family history researchers or people moving on from Beginners to Intermediate, and looks at how we can layer up and cross reference information from burial records. englishancestors.blog/2025/10/24/g...

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Getting the most from cemetery records

Today’s post is an interloper amongst my little ‘Ancestral Tourism’ series. It follows on from Part 1: Churches and Churchyards, Part 2: Municipal & other Public Cemeteries an…

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Day 28: Column Kensal Green Cemetery, London #31daysofgraves

This image features an ornate tomb situated in Kensal Green cemetery of Mary Eleanor Gibson 1854 – 1872 . The structure is made of weathered stone and designed in a classical style, with fluted Corinthian columns supporting a detailed, decorated roof. Atop the roof are four large angel statues, each in dynamic poses, with one seemingly pointing or gesturing upward. The surrounding area shows overgrown vegetation and additional gravestones, suggesting an aged and atmospheric setting. The sky in the background is partly cloudy, adding contrast to the dark stone of the mausoleum

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

No skull is complete without a jaunty little mustache. gravestone for Dorothy Sprague (d.1727) Malden, Massachusetts (I'm not 100% sure of the carver, but I think it may be a Foster family stone.)

a skull with feathered wings and a wee curly mustache, carved on a gray-green gravestone

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Day 27: Tree York Cemetery, North Yorkshire, UK. #31daysofgraves

A peculiar curved tree draped in moss and ivy surrounded by equally mossy grave stones. Standing in a grassy cemetery in York, the tree precariously arches forward, its trunk twisted naturally over them. The photo has other trees in the background, their branches bare of leaves against an early winter sky. The vast number of orderly gravestones in crowded rows are drenched by rain.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Day 26: Figure James Starley, father of the British bicycle industry. A prominent figure indeed. More in the alt text! London Road Cemetery, Coventry, Uk. #31daysofgraves

The grave of James Starley in London Road Cemetery, Coventry, marked by a tall stone obelisk on a square base with a carved portrait medallion. Surrounded by mature trees and older headstones, the monument commemorates the “father of the British bicycle industry,” inventor of the Ariel high-wheel bicycle and pioneer of the penny-farthing and tangent-spoked wheels, whose innovations helped make Coventry a centre of cycle engineering.

His major innovations included:
• Designing the bicycle model known as the Ariel (1871) which used wire-spoked wheels and a large front wheel.
• Patent and use of “tangent” spokes for wheels (improving strength & lightness).
• Inventing a form of differential gear for tricycles, which fed into later vehicle engineering.
• The high-wheel “ordinary” bicycle (commonly called the penny-farthing) is strongly associated with his name, though as with many inventions, he built upon earlier work.
• His nephew, John Kemp Starley, later developed the “safety bicycle” (equal-sized wheels, chain-drive) which became the blueprint of the modern bicycle.

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