Looking forward to playing #31DayOfGraves and posting photos from Toowong Cemetery in Queensland, Australia throughout October.

REPOST (error in first post!) Get ready! October 1st is the start of a month of gravestone and burial ground pictures, with a different prompt for each day. Be creative, there are no rules, just tag with #31DaysOfGraves! Background image is from King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.

Is everyone feeling ready for #31DaysOfGraves?? 😱 I'm in the final throes of my PhD but will put the prompts together soon so everyone can look them over ahead of October 1st 🪦

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead French designs for tombstones: broken columns, crosses, and a broken tree trunk, c. 1890 archives.somme.fr/ark:/58483/r...

@churchmonuments.bsky.social Do you know if there's any news on the CMS essay competition? I submitted mine in January but haven't heard anything yet :( 🪦

Check out #ThePeoplesDispensary – our free new online resource about charitable medicine in Edinburgh. It includes a fully transcribed and digitised archive of over 10,000 pages of Georgian patient case notes from the Edinburgh Public Dispensary 👉 www.rcpe.ac.uk/peoplesdispe...

The Huntington & Duckitt memorial at Anfield Cemetery (1877).

For anyone who was following the C18th French gravestone adventure last night, I've just finished a blog post about the discussion because there is no room in my guidebook for it all!! Please enjoy! #archaeology #gravestone #nfld spadeandthegrave.com/2025/05/13/s...

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #MothersDay A punched paper mourning sampler for 'Mother'. The stonework obelisk is cleverly done. 1875.

Fascinating article about a monument to a medieval Italian woman at Yangzhou, China www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#Angus graveyards part 5! Brechin Cathedral 1/ So many motifs on the Donaldson grave, 1725.

Part 4 of #Angus graveyards. Still at House of Dun, the Erskine tomb deserves it's own thread. 1/ John Erskine died in 1696. The symbolism! The smiling skeleton! The weird robed figure and heart!

#Angus graveyards number 3 - House of Dun 1/ Alexander Coully d.1760

#Angus graveyard number 2 - Old and St Andrew's Kirkyard, #Montrose 1/ Ships! Charles Gray died in 1851, 63y and is commemorated with a large ship on his headstone. Robert Strachan, a shipbuilder, erected a headstone to his parents in 1818 and it features the hull of a ship under construction.

A birthday/Easter tour of #Angus graveyards. First, St Mary's and St Peter's, #Montrose 1/ An undated wooden cross

1/ These entries in the burial register for St James' Cemetery #Liverpool caught my eye. 4 people were buried over two days (11th & 12th June 1832) in grave plot WT45, three of whom lived on Addison Street. This was the same time as cholera riots took place across the city.

Has anyone seen this crucifixion style of headstone before? I've never come across any quite like them. At St Anne's RC Church, Edge Hill, Liverpool. Unfortunately the bases are missing so no names or dates, but likely 1840s-1860s.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead The Death's-head Gallery at the New York Morgue. The bodies of the unknown dead were photographed to aid in identification. thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/t...

A weird one from Toxteth Park Cemetery #Liverpool. Commemorating Mary (d.1886, aged 56y) and Capt William Shaw (1897, 66y) of Belfast.

1/ A quiet lunchtime at St Peter's Tavern. St Peter's Roman Catholic Church opened on Seel Street #Liverpool in 1788.

More from #NewOrleans. St Louis' Cemetery No. 1 is the oldest extant cemetery, it was established in 1789. 1/ The headstone of Francisque Botto, d.1839

Gravestone of Abigail Noble, 1683, in Westfield, Massachusetts. This is the oldest surviving gravestone in Westfield, and one of the oldest anywhere in Western Massachusetts. Carved by George Griswold.

Metairie Cemetery #NewOrleans, opened in 1872. 1/ ALL the Egyptian symbolism on the Brunswig mausoleum (1892)

St Patrick's Cemetery #1 - opened 1841 #NewOrleans 1/ A mourning scene on the top of the headstone to the Brennan family.

St Patrick's Cemetery #2, #NewOrleans. 1/ A beautiful gate with mourning scene at the entrance to the plot commemorating the Brady family.

Greenwood Cemetery, #NewOrleans. Opened in 1852. 1/ Hauth mausoleum.

Cemeteries in #NewOrleans! First - Cypress Grove. Built by the The Firemen’s Charitable & Benevolent Association in 1840. 1/ Cast iron tomb of the Leeds family, 1844.

For those of you who aren't such a fan of New Year's Eve (like me), Happy 171st Dinosaur Dinner Party Anniversary instead 🦕🦖 blog.geolsoc.org.uk/2021/04/15/t... Enjoy your mock turtle soup!

A frosty morning #otd 19 years ago at St Mary's Churchyard #Whitby (28/12/2005)

#31DaysOfGraves Day 31 - Skull: Richard Kay died 1724, St Michael's Churchyard, Garston 💀 Thank you so much everyone for joining me this month! Drop ideas for next year here! 🪦🪦🪦

#31DaysOfGraves Day 30 - Scrollwork: I was looking for something else but came across this one which is unusual. David William Butler d.1880, aged 36y and is buried at Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 29 - Old: Liverpool is relatively "new" when it comes to commemoration in the UK. This delicately carved headstone to Hannah Webster (d.1730) is among the earliest, at Toxteth Ancient (Unitarian) Chapel.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 28 - Died elsewhere. Swainston Harrison Jr died in Ibi, Central Africa (now Burkina Faso) in 1892. His brother Norman was second engineer on the Titanic, and died when it sank in 1912. Both are comemmorated at St John the Evangelist, Knotty Ash, Liverpool

#31DaysOfGraves Day 27 - Inside: Too literal?! A depiction of body snatching at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. There were many reports of graverobbing here in Liverpool before the 1832 Anatomy Act. Most famously 1826 when casks of 33 salted dead bodies were discovered awaiting shipment to Edinburgh.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 26 - Unusual: Adelheid (d.1864), Henry, and Christian Moeser. At Walnut Hills Cemetery, Cincinnati

Day 26: Unusual This unique little gravestone is at the Orphir Round Church graveyard on Orkney, & features a scroll with the inscription, foliage, & a small building below! 😍 #31daysofgraves

#31DaysOfGraves Day 25 - Torch 🔦: Torches on all four corners of this grand memorial at Toxteth Park. Torches aren't common in Liverpool but this commemorates a Greek family (the Galattis) and the style is more Classical than most. It cost £225 in 1904 (approx £23,000 today).

#31DaysOfGraves Day 24 - Mason: This slate headstone at Ford Cemetery #Liverpool is signed by Phelan of #Wexford. Ford has a few Irish slate memorials, but imported limestone is more common. Commemorating Michael Berney (d.1861, aged 67y) of Wexford. Also Mary Sheil (d.1873, 30y)

#31DaysOfGraves Tag 23: Tier

#31DaysOfGraves Day 07: TREE - Ostpark Day 20: BUILDING - Nordfriedhof Eving Day 23: ANIMAL - Nordfriedhof Eving Day 24: MASON - Ostpark, grave 'Richter' #Dortmund #watercolorpainting #urbansketching #pleinair #ruralsketching #art #kleineKunstklasse 2/2

#31daysofgraves Day 23: Animal | Día 23: Animal 🐴 Family Scala tomb by Ettore Sclavi (1913) — Cimitero di Staglieno, Genoa 🇮🇹 (I'm stuck on Staglieno this year 😊) Don’t trust this beautiful woman riding a horse. She is one of the Four Horsemen, Death itself ☠️

#31DaysOfGraves Day 23 - Animal: A stag 🦌 on the headstone of Harris Caplan (d.1915, aged 63y). The deer is symbolic of the tribe of Naphtali, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. At Rice Lane Jewish Cemetery #Liverpool

#31DaysOfGraves Day 22 - Flower 💐: Lilies in a vase on the memorial of Edward Ledwich, d.1867, aged 73y. Also James Crowley (d.1869, 72y), Mary O'Donnell, (d.1870, 57y), and Catherine Crowley (d.1873, 76y). At Ford Cemetery, Liverpool

#31DaysOfGraves Day 21 - Well known: John Keats d.1821 - "One Whose Name was writ in Water" at Cimitero Acattolico/the Protestant Cemetery in #Rome

Day 19. Mistake. Stone of Vincent M. McGeary at the Presbyterian Cemetery in May's Landing, NJ. The dates are Nov. 20 1907 to Feb. 26 1907. The real death date is probably in 1908. #31daysofgraves

#31DaysOfGraves Day 20 - Building: The receiving vault at the United American Cemetery (originally the Colored American Cemetery) #Cincinnati. Used to store bodies during the winter when the ground was too hard to dig. Now derelict.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 19 - Mistake: A very grand memorial for a mistake. Commemorating Sarah Smith d.1838, the wife of William Smith Esq. "who resided"? in Lisbon, and d.1865, aged 75y. At Lisbon British Cemetery / Cemitério dos Ingleses #Lisboa

#31DaysOfGraves Day 18 - Verse: A kind of unusual one at St James' Cemetery #Liverpool with a verse each from both the wife and the deceased husband's point of view, and a memento mori at the end. Angus Macleod, died 1837, aged 40y. (Transcription in Alt Text)

#31DaysOfGraves Day 17 - Tree: A white willow at Otley (All Saints) Parish Churchyard 🌳

#31DaysOfGraves Day 07: GRAVESIDE ORNAMENT - Jüdischer Friedhof Dorstfeld Day 08 + 14: SUN / MOON + TRAVEL - Nordfriedhof Eving Day 09: COLOUR - Friedhof Dorstfeld Day 16: JUXTAPOSITION - Ostpark #Dortmund #watercolorpainting #urbansketching #pleinair #ruralsketching #art #kleineKunstklasse 2/2