The Graveyard Detective

The forlorn expression on the face of this child statue might have something to do with it being the sole survivor of an extreme case of van...

As I go round cemeteries in England, it is starting to dawn on me just how many headstones have decayed to the point where the deceased is a...

A recent aquisition from America was a glass plate negative of a grave in an unknown cemetery. I estimate it to date from about 1900 and mad...

This view of a cemetery (sadly unidentified) is a scan of a recently acquired glass plate negative. Fresh flowers identify a recent intermen...

I don't often come across wooden memorials as I go round England's cemeteries. Last week, I came across two in Hurst Green, Lancashi...

The Daily Mail has reported again on Poundland cemteries across Britain. The headline reads: " Modern face of mourning: The colourful ...

According to the Daily Mail , cold-hearted council bosses have ordered grieving relatives to remove graveside decorations, claiming a cemete...