benastrada's photos with the keyword: tombs

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John Snow

22 Jul 2021 104
1813-1858 English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He is considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology, in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, London, in 1854, which he curtailed by removing the handle of a water pump.

Brompton cemetery 3

22 Jul 2021 89
www.ipernity.com/blog/292659/4736594 This made me think of Sylvia Plath's poem: The Moon And The Yew Tree This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue. The grasses unload their griefs on my feet as if I were God Prickling my ankles and murmuring of their humility Fumy, spiritous mists inhabit this place. Separated from my house by a row of headstones. I simply cannot see where there is to get to. [...]

Brompton cemetery 4

22 Jul 2021 92
View onto the Great Circle from one of the colonnades that flank Central Avenue.

Brompton cemetery

22 Jul 2021 88
Grade I listed Brompton Cemetery. One of the 'magnigificent seven' - cemeteries which were originally privately established in Victorian times in London. It now belongs to the crown.

Fanny Bury Marryat Palliser

22 Jul 2021 90
1805-1878 Author of - among many other books - the 8 volumes ‘History of Lace’, London, 1865 (3rd edit. 1875). This was translated into French by the Comtesse de Clermont Tonnerre.

Brompton cemetery 2

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Colonnades, along Central Avenue and the Great Circle