It's important to always look your best when you are a festive icon.🎄 😆 This wee robin is scrubbing up well in the Water of Leith.💦 Hope you are getting your glad rags on this weekend too!😊 📸 Another great shot by George Kelsey whose pics we are very grateful to share.👏

Corporate Roundup 2025 Thanks again to all the organisations that came out with us and to keep the river healthy

Following the weekend's high winds, the cemetery was reopened this morning (Monday 15th December).

Please note: the cemetery has been closed again due to high winds (Saturday 13th Dec). We will update you when it has been reopened. Thanks.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead A sleigh hearse trimmed with tall plumes makes its way through a snowy street, c. 1900 collections.mnbaq.org/fr/oeuvre/60... #GothicYuletide

The cemetery has been reopened today, following the council's inspection. Thanks.

Please note - the cemetery is closed again due to high winds and potential storm damage. We are expecting the council to reopen it on Thursday 11th following an inspection. Thanks.

Help us unlock the Plants of the Past, by supporting volunteers to digitise decades of paper records & inform C21st science! @biggive.bsky.social From #GivingTuesday to 9 Dec, we have £10K in matched funds to unlock: every donation, however small, will be doubled: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Spring bulb planting! The council have given us a few thousand bulbs to plant in the final window of opportunity before winter hits. Today we planted hundreds of them along the front of the catacombs, ahead of the planned re-seeding to be done by the council. #Warriston #Edinburgh #SpringBulbs 1/2

Robins warming up for their festive shift... It's 1st December! #MondayMotivation 📷 Vicky Outen

On #WorldAidsDay, we remember those who died from that disease - and understand the importance of their memorials.

Warriston Cemetery has reopened, following the strong winds and subsequent inspection by the council.

WARRISTON CEMETERY IS CURRENT CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WINDS. We will update you after the council have completed an inspection and it is reopened. Thanks.

Perhaps a representative from the Church of England might like to accompany me on a tour of mediaeval ecclesiastical buildings in their ownership so that I can point out the thousands of images of actual demons which they seem to have forgotten... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I'm back with a winter season of online talks, starting with Dating Ancient Buildings. Join us on Tue 25 Nov to learn how to use archives, archaeology & dendrochronology to understand the age of historic buildings. Booking is now open, here... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...

We recently had an overseas request from to locate a gravestone. It took two visits to find it as it it was completely hidden inside years of ivy growth & was subsumed into a tree. Two hours of cutting back thick ivy strands eventually revealed the stone. #Edinburgh #Gravestones #Cemeteries

We are continuing to re-establish the concentric circular paths in Section O & one of our lovely new volunteers has been tackling this path & has cleared around this beautiful celtic cross gravestone. #Edinburgh #Volunteering #FriendsOfWarristonCemetery #GardenCemetery #Taphophile

The first scientific evidence corroborating the medieval presence of the "Black Death" in Edinburgh has been identified in DNA present in the plaque on the teeth of a skeleton unearthed during archaeological excavations under St Giles Cathedral in 1981. Story here 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#31DaysOfGraves Day 31: Memento mori This winged skull appears beneath a wall-mounted tablet, in the chancel of St Mary’s in my #OnePlaceStudy parish of Fawsley, “In Memory of Lucy Knightley of Fawsley Esqr. who lyes interr’d near this place. He died unmarried, & left a considerable Sume of mony”

#31DaysOfGraves Day#31 Memento Mori Seven years ago today I spent a fascinating hour or so wandering around Abercorn Kirkyard in West Lothian looking at all the Memento Mori gravestones. Here are a few of the best...

#31daysofgraves #31 Memento Mori A cadaver/transi slab, said to be for Jane Preston, at Stamullen, Ireland, carved with a decomposing corpse in an open shroud, tied at head and foot, c. 1450. Many more photos at the link. www.irishstones.org/place.aspx?p...

Day 31 of #31DaysOfGraves - #MementoMori We're ending this year's annual celebration of the art and heritage of grave memorials with this absolutely stunning 18thC stone from Garvald, East Lothian Thanks to @annaandthedead.bsky.social for curating the themes again this year. Happy Halloween all! 🎃

Burial grounds or memorials—or communities within them—can be researched as #OnePlaceStudies, a brilliant blend of #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory. If that is something you’d like to learn more about, visit our website for more information. You can also download our PDF guide to one-place studies.

Day 31: Momento Mori Happy Halloween 🎃 #31daysofgraves

What cemetery plants mean: A horticulture extension specialist explains how flowers, trees and other botanical motifs honor those buried beneath #DayOfTheDead #DioDeLosMuertos

Day 30: Colour I am a huge green moss and blue patina enjoyer. York cemetery, North Yorkshire, UK. #31daysofgraves

I forgot this one the other day. #31DaysofGraves - Tree

#31DaysofGraves Day 31: Memento Mori In Cramond churchyard, Edinburgh.

When in the woods, best beware of dead man's fingers lurking there. Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found. Happy Halloween everyone. Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman

#31DaysOfGraves Day 31: Memento mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die"); symbols or tropes acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death.The most common motif is a skull, but other motifs include a coffin, hourglass or wilting flowers to signify the impermanence of life. #Edinburgh

#31DaysOfGraves leftovers 1: Malcolm McLaren #HighgateCemetery #London #FreakyFriday #BuffaloGirls

Happy #Halloween week 🎃 If you are looking for something different to do, come along to my free talk this coming Saturday. "Walking in the footsteps of the #Glasgow #Witches" Sat 1 Nov • 1pm • Mitchell Library More info via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-in...

#31daysofgraves #30 colour The grave of Rudolph Nureyev, who died in 1993, in the Russian cemetery at Sainte-Geneviève-des-bois, near Paris. It is a mosaic designed to look like one of the Kilim rugs that Nureyev collected. nureyev.org/rudolf-nurey... mymodernmet.com/rudolf-nurey...

#31DaysOfGraves day 30 colour. Either side of the #Grecian revival church at Ayot St Lawrence are two mausolea, one for Sir Lionel Lyde who commissioned the church and the other for his wife Rachel. This photo was taken at sunset. For those that care #Pentax K20D, SMC Pentax-DA 18-55mm kit lens. 1/2

A symbol for charity can be seen on William Birkbeck's headstone in Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Australia - Portion 9, Section 16, Grave 9.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 30 Colour. Changing colours and crunchy leaves make for a perfect Autumn walk in Warriston. #Edinburgh #Autumn #WarristonCemetery

#31DaysOfGraves Day 30 - Colour The Clutterbuck family is buried in Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Australia - Portion 7A, Section 116, Grave 30. Yellow lichen has made their headstone a standout in the cemetery.

Day 29 of #31DaysOfGraves - Occupation A gravestone erected in 1765 over the shared plot of members of the Society of Coach Drivers in the Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh. These Canongate-based coachmen travelled the Edinburgh to London route, a journey that could take 10 or more days in winter.

#31daysofgraves Day 30 Colour Terracotta wheel head cross Hampstead Cemetery

#31DaysOfGraves Day 30 Colour: The cast iron memorial for Glasgow merchant Alexander Mackenzie at Glasgow Necropolis. Credit to my wee sister for all the Necropolis photos I have posted.

I'm delighted to be presenting on mourning crape as a token of death at the Symbols of Mortality online conference in February 2026. And I'm honored to be among such an absolutely stellar roster of death scholars. Take a look. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symbols-of... #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

#31DaysOfGraves "Occupation" Grave marker of William Ambrose Hulbert (1832-1882), one of the founders of baseball's National League. He was also president of the Chicago White Stockings team.

Day 28: Column Kensal Green Cemetery, London #31daysofgraves

#31DaysofGraves Day 29 - Occupation Cimitero di Serravezza, Italia Zu Fuße der Marmorberge

'This burying ground is the property of Charles Wilsone, Surgeon in Glasgow 1800' A plaque in the Ramshorn Kirkyard, Glasgow. Occupations on grave markers are everywhere, but they're particularly common in Scotland, a means of asserting status even after death. 1/3 #31DaysofGraves 29: Occupation

'This burying ground is the property of John McAslan, Seedsman, Glasgow' The Ramshorn was the preserve of the city's Georgian professional and merchant classes. Grave markers conveyed status, and the poor were buried without one until relatively recently. #31DaysofGraves 29: occupation

#31DaysOfGraves Day 29 Occupation: John Clark established a calico printing works in what became the village of Bowling, Dunbartonshire. He is buried at Old Kilpatrick Parish Church.

A windmill on the headstone of John Whittowe, the parish miller, at Hilgay, Norfolk, 1891. He's shown unloading the cart and carrying a sack of grain into the mill. #31DaysofGraves 29: occupation

#31daysofgraves #Occupation The Coopers and Gardeners burial places at Old West Kirk in Greenock - removed from their previous location