An incredible four-bedroom home in south west London is on sale for £1.4 million, but it comes with a spooky twist – it sits on the site of a graveyard. The property in Bolingbroke Grove, near Clapham Junction, is uniquely positioned in St Mary’s Cemetery, an 8.5 acre conservation area in Wandsworth. Spanning across three floors, … Read more
Eerie pictures showing generations of coffins lying in the dusty catacombs underneath London’s West Norwood Cemetery have been released, giving a glimpse into the final resting place of Victorian millionaires. Built on a hill in London’s West Norwood, the world’s first ever Gothic-style cemetery was opened in 1837 as the capital’s population grew rapidly and as … Read more
An Italian cliff-top cemetery has collapsed into the ocean, with dozens of coffins floating off into the Mediterranean and many others feared to have been buried under the rubble. The landslide struck on Monday at around 3pm in Camogli, a tourist resort near the north-west city of Genoa, dragging around 200 coffins down the cliff … Read more
Burt Reynolds’ ashes are placed at Hollywood Forever Cemetery … more than two years after his death By Adam S. Levy For Dailymail.com Published: 05:40 GMT, 12 February 2021 | Updated: 05:40 GMT, 12 February 2021 Burt Reynolds’ ashes were placed in a lakeside grave at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles on Thursday. … Read more
That’s a grave insult! Trainee cemetery workers mistakenly dig practice plot at beauty spot Contractors dug a hole in the middle of a field of ‘irreplaceable ecological value’ Easthill Field, in Frome, Somerset is home to wildlife and endangered dormice Activists fighting to protect the field from developers were ‘intensely upset’ By Gregory Kirby For … Read more
An Anglo-Saxon burial ground has been discovered on a plot of land earmarked to become University of Cambridge accommodation. Excavations at the site revealed more than 60 graves which date back to a similar period as the famed Sutton Hoo site, around 400-650AD. Many of the newly-discovered burials contain grave goods such as bronze brooches, … Read more
Excavations of a massive Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Northamptonshire have revealed thousands of beads and brooches, along with weapons, textiles and other goods. Experts from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) uncovered the burial site at Overstone Gate amid preparations of the 15 hectare area for construction. Over the course of 12 months, the team identified 154 Anglo-Saxon … Read more
Prince Harry seems to have made a sudden U-turn about how acts of service should be carried out, preaching that ‘service is what happens in the quiet… when people aren’t watching’ – just days after he and wife Meghan Markle were slammed for turning Remembrance Day into a ‘tasteless publicity stunt’. While discussing the military … Read more
Death isn’t always tragic, at least not in this Romanian cemetery, where the dead beguile visitors with tales of their lives. The Merry Cemetery in the north-western village of Sapanta is a collection of more than 1,000 elaborate wooden Orthodox crosses etched with colourful epitaphs and childlike drawings. There are few secrets in this small … Read more
Arnold Schwarzenegger expressed dismay Wednesday at the turnout in Los Angeles National Cemetery where veterans and certain eligible family members are buried. The 73-year-old former California Governor was ‘upset’ to see that on Veterans Day there were ‘only like 20 people walking around’ the graveyard, he said on Twitter. He sharply contrasted the cemetery to … Read more