The Graveyard Detective

I was drawn to the Church of All Hallows, Great Mitton by a photograph of an early headstone I saw recently on the internet. Seeing it in pe...

UPDATED February 20, 2016 In the first twenty years of the last century, public curiousity fed photographers imagination for picture opport...

Here is a slightly more macabre photograph which has no identifying marks. I have a theory it was taken on a battlefield some years after a ...

id and found it contained a couple of hundred very ornate In Memoriam cards dating from the 1850s to the 1950s. I will share a photograph wi...

Now, this is an exceedly rare item - a family snapshot, probably pre-1900, of a dog being taken to see the grave of its mistress and the flo...

Sent to me from New Zealand, this grainy postcard [circa 1900] shows bones and skulls in the bone yard of Paco Cemetery in Manila, Philippin...

Of course, before the First World War, humorous postcards were very popular in Britain. Sometimes there was a graveyard theme as in the card...