Saturday, September 3, 2022

Galärvarvskyrkogården, Stockholm, Sweden

[visited 15 May 2022]

A tiny burial space located just behind the Vasa Museum, this is the last in a line of cemeteries intended for use by the navy. 

Please visit the official cemetery website for more information.


According to one source, ten men and two women whose remains were recovered from the Vasa were reinterred here in 1963 beneath this memorial:

Vasa Memorial


von Rosen





Friday, September 2, 2022

Skogskyrkogården, or Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm, Sweden

 [visited 15 May 2022]

A luscious, grand open space this UNESCO World Heritage site is more of a park than a burial ground and is probably most famous for being the final resting place of Greta Garbo.

For more information please visit the official cemetery website where you can sign up for guided tours and download the guide-map.



the Woodland Crematorium and Memorial Hall with Faith, Hope and the Holy Cross chapels


the visitor's center with cafe and gift shop


Greta Garbo







Thursday, September 1, 2022

Durham Cathedral Graveyard, Durham, England

[visited 28 April 2014]

The churchyard outside Durham Cathedral in Durham, England gives us a glimpse into what most church burial grounds once looked like in the United Kingdom and in much of North America at one time.




William Pearson, 1759-1828

Haslewood

"Erected to the memory of The Reverend Dickens Haslewood A.M. who died Oct. 3rd 1821 aged 61 years. Also of Elisabeth, wife of Dickens Haslewood, who died July 1st 1825, aged 65 years.


If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him."


Kitchin

"Great peace have they when love thy law

George William Kitchin, dean of Winchester, dean of Durham, chancellor of Durham University, 1827-1912"
Tucker

"Alfred Robert Tucker
curate of Saint Nicholas Durham 1885-1890
3rd Bishop E.Eq. Africa, 1890-1899
1st Bishop  of Uganda, 1899-1911
Canon of Durham, 1911-1914
1849-1914

I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness."

Memorial to those men from Durham who died in the Boer War

"Here lies the body of Mrs. Elisabeth Hunter, born at Medumsley, who died May 10th 1748 in the 80th year of her age"



Bluett family in Holcomb Rogus Chapel

 [ large photos courtesy of Pauline Prosser; small closeups courtesy of Wikipedia. ].  Buried in the small chapel of Hlcomb Rogus, Devon is ...