Cemetery Club

Sat at a cafe at the edge of Piso Livadi on the island of Paros, sipping an iced latte whilst overlooking the Aegean.

The actor Frederick Lane had not slept well.

When well-meaning cleaning and decoration instead open up a hornets nest I physically wince when I see videos on social media of admittedly good-natured, kind hearted individuals cleaning up grave stones.

This was more than just your average funeral.

Life lived with a bang, ended with a whimper Look at the cover image on this biography, written by Thomas Edgar Pemberton.

West Norwood Cemetery shared an image of one of their more imposing monuments and I countered it with the same shot, but from 1968 (courtesy of Lambeth Archives).

A flat in Hampstead is up for sale.

Taphophiles unite!

How one photographers secret stash fell foul of 19th century morality I was in The National Archives in February 2020 and found the allure of the microfilm readers too much to resist.

Porto, also known as Porto Cale (‘warm port’, in modern translation) in Roman times, is the city that gave Portugal its name.