Tower Hamlets Cemetery

We are still working on our visit to all the Magnificent Seven Cemeteries and it turns out that Tower Hamlets is quite close...one stop on the underground and a 10 minute walk. We were fortunate to have a day with blue skies and sunshine so we took advantage and went out for a look about.



Here in the East End, there are lots more people of modest means and, hence, fewer large monuments to rich. We saw nothing that resembled the things we saw even at Kensal Green with the generals and business tycoons under huge monuments.

Lots of children here. There is also lots of sailors in unmarked graves. We are not far from the Docklands and this must have been the closest place to be interred.

This cemetery is now essentially a park and filled with trees. The shade insures that most markers are covered with green coating of life. Life and death together.

But there are a few grave stones that reflect position, money and power. This angle was one of the more impressive.

The presence of so many trees does have its drawbacks. I was a bit surprised that nothing was knocked over by this large tree falling.

Many of the statues have suffered of over time.

This view of the cemetery give a good sense of what this park-like place is like to wander about in.

Few of the grave stones were upright and straight. Many have ivy growing over them and all were mostly green. This is a place very different from High Gate but it is nevertheless worth a visit to see just how different these cemeteries all are.