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Just a girl who likes to take walks in cemeteries. I love old churches, cathedrals, forgotten places, and cats. Lover of nature. All photos in media are my own. Alt text friendly.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · Mar 7

Spring rain in Highgate is kind of magic.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 4d

During a Mast Year for acorns, like this year, squirrels get lazy

A red squirrel with its arms raised above its head

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Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social · 1d

#31daysofgraves Day 12 notable women. A famous face in an unmarked grave. Portraits of Elizabeth Johnston(e) Hall (1822-1901) hang in every major photographic collection in the world, but she is buried in a common grave in Warriston. #Edinburgh #PhotoHistory #HillAndAdamson #NewhavenFishwives 1/2

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 23h

#31daysofgraves #12 Notable Woman
The tomb of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, The Panthéon, Paris. When she died in 1934, her body was so radioactive that her coffin was lined with 2.5 millimeters of lead. The bodies of Skłodowska-Curie and her husband, Pierre Curie, were moved to the Panthéon in 1995.

light beige stone classical tombs, one, higher than the other in a niche, a green wreath and multicolor flower nosegay are on the lid of the lower tomb

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 4h

It’s very eye catching isn’t it! When I saw it I immediately had to find out more about him.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 1d

Day 12 of #31DaysOfGraves - Notable Woman

An unassuming slab of stone off the Fife coast at Torryburn covers the mortal remains of Lilias Adie, the only known grave of an accused witch in Scotland

Buried beneath the tidal line by superstitious villagers in 1704, her grave was rediscovered in 2014

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social @stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social · 6h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 13 Skeleton

Right order! Nothing to see here!

All our skeletons are in their appropriate place, underground, and no amount of trick or treating is going to bring them out.

Here's a lovely shot of the long avenue instead.

St John's #Graveyard, #Nelson, #Lancashire.

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Welwyn Archaeological Society @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social · 10h

#31DaysOfGraves day 13 skeleton. Lots to choose from for this theme but settled on this tombstone from St John the Devine, Elmswell, Suffolk. The gravestone is for Matthew Marsh who died in 169[5]. The two skeletons are standing on hour glasses which are on top of cherubs and are holding shovels.

Detail on one edge of the tombstone showing a skeleton carving. The proportions are all wrong with the lower half of the body much smaller than the upper. The skull looks like it it is grinning. The skeleton is holding a spade or shovel in its left hand. A description of the rest of the tombstone is given with the second photograph.

$A face-on view of the tombstone. On either edge is a standing skeleton holding a spade in its inside hand. Each skeleton is standing on an hourglass which in turn is on the top of the head of a chubby cherub. At the centre-top of the tombstone is a third cherub head with two outstretched wings either side. Below that is a framed panel with the text. The text reads Memento Mori \ Here lyeth the body of \ Mr Matthew \ Marsh who \ dyed ye 18th of \ Aprill 1695 [the last digit is unclear] \ [in Italics] aetatis suae 52 \ [last line unclear] C...$

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 5h

Great article! Captured what I feel also. Thanks for sharing !

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 6h

“In searching for them, you wander through the everyday fabric of a place. You see how a culture remembers its dead, and in doing so, you understand how it chooses to live.”

Interesting article exploring the growth In tourist visits to graveyards around the world 👇
www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...

Tombstone tourism: Why visiting graveyards is becoming so popular

A growing number of tourists are “rebelling against tick-box travel” by ditching the popular sights for a trip to the graveyard.

www.euronews.com

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 5h

Highly recommend reading up a bit more than I could include on his life here. What an interesting, brave man. he also had a great sense of humour by the sounds of it !

Reginald Warneford - Wikipedia

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 6h

My thoughts exactly.!

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Anja Jessen @anjajessen.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysOfGraves
Day 11: Military

#HighgateCemetery #London

View along a stone covered grave to an algae-and-lichen-covered, elaborate headstone with two crossed sabres. Everything is very withered and green.

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social @stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 10 Urn

The Shakleton Grave, St John's Graveyard, #Nelson, #Lancashire with an Urn.
In Victorian days drapes signified a veil between the living and the dead. After a death many things in a house could be draped and if a breeze moved a veil it meant the dead had past on.

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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 10: Urn
Urns aplenty at Lister Lane Cemetery.

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Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 10 - Urn: We have so many great examples at Warriston that I'm going to do a double post. Sadly, due to historic vandalism, many have been toppled to the ground. #Edinburgh #taphophile #WarristonCemetery 2/2

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Welwyn Archaeological Society @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 10: urn

I took this photo one foggy morning in the Calton Hill cemetery, Edinburgh. For those that care, Pentax K-3iii, SMC Pentax-F 50mm f/1.7 lens.

#scotland #taphophilia #cemetery #graveyard #monument

Black and white photograph of a tall burial monument. A tall urn with two handles stands on a tall plinth with a square cross-section. In the background is a leafless winter tree and multiple other monuments including some obelisks. It is a little bit foggy.

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jen @jenzsky.bsky.social · 11h

The Guardian…

#31DaysofGraves #monochrome
#cemetery #cemetaries #photography
#classicmono #b&w #birds

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 6h

Day 11: Military

Flight Sub-Lieutenant Reginald Alexander John “Rex” Warneford

More info on his career in the alt text,

Brompton Cemetery, London
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A vertical stone memorial in Brompton Cemetery, dedicated to Flight Sub-Lieutenant Reginald Alexander John “Rex” Warneford, VC, RNAS. The headstone is in the form of a Roman-altar-like monument on a tall base. At the top is a pediment bearing a relief of the Victoria Cross. Below that is a carved portrait relief of Warneford in uniform, flanked by inverted torches and a bay-leaf wreath or festoon. Beneath his likeness are the words COURAGE INITIATIVE INTREPIDITY.

Lower still is a relief panel showing Warneford’s famous exploit: a Zeppelin airship engulfed in flames, plummeting to earth, with billowing smoke, and Warneford’s aircraft nearby. Inscription notes that the memorial was “erected by the readers of the Daily Express to commemorate the heroic exploit in destroying a Zeppelin airship near Ghent on June 7 1915.”. It stands among other graves and headstones, under trees, with grass around its base.

7 June 1915, over Belgium near Ghent (after chasing a German Zeppelin from Ostend). He dropped bombs from his aircraft (a Morane type) on the airship LZ-37, successfully setting it alight so that it crashed. The explosion damaged his own aircraft, his engine stopped,and crash landed behind enemy lines. He made repairs, restarted his engine (after some time) and managed to fly back to base

For that action he was awarded the Victoria Cross, and also the Légion d’honneur from France

Tragically, less than two weeks later (17 June 1915), he died in a flying accident at Buc aerodrome near Paris. The right wing of his aircraft failed during a climb; he was carrying an American journalist, Henry Beach Needham. Both were thrown out; Needham died immediately; Warneford was fatally injured

His funeral in Brompton Cemetery (21 June 1915) was a major event where mourners lined the streets. The memorial headstone was paid for by public subscription readers of the Daily Express newspaper.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 7h

Day 10: Urn

Love the Virginia Creeper on this one, such a stunning red foliage.

Kensal Green Cemetery, London

#31daysofgraves

A weathered stone grave monument at Kensal Green Cemetery featuring a large urn draped with a stone cloth, symbolising the veil between life and death. The urn itself, a common motif in Victorian funerary art, represents the soul’s immortality and the body’s return to ashes. The draped fabric adds a layer of mourning, suggesting the shrouding of earthly life and the passage into the afterlife. Deep red ivy cascades dramatically down the front and sides of the monument, its colour evoking both love and decay. The grave stands amid overgrown grass, with autumnal trees in the background, creating a poignant, atmospheric scene of quiet remembrance and natural reclamation.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 7h

Please hold whilst I catch up with #31daysofgraves 🤣

🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 3d

So special. Thank you for sharing that with me !!

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 3d

We hope so too, they really are remarkable little ornaments that are becoming rarer and rarer. Here's a wee filmed close up of one in Aberdeenshire.

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Lorraine Evans @thedeathhistorian.bsky.social · Aug 13

Delighted to announce that Burying the Dead will be released in a paperback version this coming September. Yay! 😃

Pre-orders are now available via the Pen and Sword website, or why not treat yourself to the hardback version. @penandswordbooks.bsky.social

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Burying-the-...

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Lorraine Evans @thedeathhistorian.bsky.social · 4d

Day 9: Hands #31daysofgraves From clasping hands to an angelic pointy finger, you can't really go wrong....💀😉

#graves #graveyard #cemetery #cemeterieandgraveyards #death #symbolism #archaeology #mortality #gravestone #Victorian #burialground #burial #hands

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CathyLoweBerkshire @cathylowe.bsky.social · 4d

#31DaysOfGraves 9 • hand

Many pairs of hands included in this imposing monument, but the smallest pairs the saddest of all.

All Saints, Spelsbury, Oxfordshire. Sir Henry Lee, d 1631.

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