The Graveyard Detective

When Rachel Francis died in March 1865 aged just 11 hours, her grieving parents James and Elizabeth buried her in Preston Cemetery. The head...

An image I shot many years ago at Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey made me feel like Gulliver. Then I realised it was a small grave ornament in ...

More, as promised, of the Mourning Statues in St Anne's churchyard in Lancashire. This pair of angels, one grieving, the other consoling...

Not so long ago, I visited the churchyard of St Anne's Church in Lancashire. I thought I would not find a lot of interest. I was wrong a...

Now I can't stop finding them. These two angels are marking graves in St Anne's Churchyard in Lancashire. They, too, have stars on t...

When I visited Brookwood Cemetery many, many years ago, I took photographs of several of the angel memorials. When scanning the negatives re...

A week or two ago, I saw mention of a grave on the Lancashire coast and just a few days later found myself standing next to it. According ...