Tour of West Norwood Cemetery, tomorrow, 7 December 11:00am www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

@fownc1837.bsky.social I wrote this recently about the new/reinstated gate…

Christmas in St Stephen's Chapel with West Norwood and Crystal Palace Community Choirs. Date: Saturday 6 December, 2025 Time: 2pm-4pm Venue: St Stephen's Chapel, West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood Road, London SE27 9JX @fownc1837.bsky.social www.westnorwoodcemetery.org/christmas-in...

3/3 Florence died in 1909 while Hannah reitred in 1913. By 1911 she'd moved to 46 Binfield Road Stockwell where she died in 1916. Both sisters are buried at West Norwood Cemetery

2/3 By 1881 they were living with widowed mother & other siblings at 55 Loughborough Park. Their older sister Lucy was also employed at Doultons for a short while but left to become the family's housekeeper. Doulton also employed their brother Arthur who died young in 1879.

1/3 After attending Lambeth School of Art, Hannah Barlow was the first woman employed by Doulton & Co, #Lambeth in 1871 to paint their ceramics. She was joined a few years later by sister Florence - Hannah’s designs featured animals while Florence painted birds and flowers.

Friends of West Norwood Cemetery also offer a guide for locating graves www.fownc.org/grave-search/

By 1919, Mabel Matthews, now widowed, was living at 8 Brockwell Park Gardens, Herne Hill with her widowed mother, sister and 2 brothers. She lived there until her death in 1970 and is buried in West Norwood Cemetery. @hernehillsociety.bsky.social

The annual Memorial Service in West Norwood Cemetery takes place on Friday 19 December at 2pm. See attached poster for further details. Anyone is welcome to attend. #Lambeth @fownc1837.bsky.social

As it’s Remembrance Day, the beautiful poppies on the railings of West Norwood Cemetery. Red for the Fallen, White for Peace, Purple for Animals all hand made by Knitwits at West Norwood Library ❤️🤍💜 #remembranceday #westnorwoodcemetery #poppies #knitwits #westnorwoodlibrary #westnorwood #lambeth

West Norwood remembers the fallen. This banner has been attached to the cemetery railings. Handmade by Knitwits at West Norwood Library. @fownc1837.bsky.social #RemembranceDay

Opening dates for the Visitor Centre @fownc1837.bsky.social in November.

The @fownc1837.bsky.social AGM 2025 is being held on Saturday 8 November from 1430 in the PictureHouse/Library at West Norwood. If you're a member and would like to register for your free place, please visit our Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fownc-2025...

John Easthope - Whig MP Charles Dickens was employed as a Parliamentary reporter and he led a short, successful strike against Easthope in 1836 over the terms of employment of his journalists. Easthope was known as a difficult employer, with the nickname 'Blast-hope'. Buried West Norwood Cemetery.

West Norwood Cemetery visitor centre opening hours for October. Feel free to come by and say hello and find out more about the beautiful and historic cemetery.

The original monument (pictured in 1969) was damaged in the 1987 hurricane and restored in 1992, with funding from the Geologists’ Association. I’m not sure if someone made a mistake when engraving the letters at that time but they are now the same as the original. Thanks for posting.

#31DaysOfGraves day 18: mistake This monument is for Gideon Mantell (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_...). It is in West Norwood cemetery. The letters LLD have been inserted. I don't know what they replaced! For those that care, #Pentax K-3iii, SMC Pentax-FA 31mm Ltd lens. #taphophilia #tombstone

Incredible stuff from "Dinosaurs: Fun, Fact, and Fantasy", 1982, with the voice of the legendary Derek Griffiths

Saturday 18th October at 11:00, West Norwood Cemetery: Momento Mori, the Victorian Way of Death www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/memento-mo...

Saturday 18th October at 11:00, West Norwood Cemetery: Momento Mori, the Victorian Way of Death www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/memento-mo...

Opening dates for the Visitor Centre @fownc1837.bsky.social in October.

#31DaysOfGraves day 8 - glass. Arguably the most famous tomb despite its current state, the "Red Lady" (officially the Robertson mortuary chapel) was erected in 1865 for Mary Ann Robertson (1826–1858). The original red glass roof allowed red coloured daylight to flicker on the stone figure inside.

#31DaysOfGraves day 8: glass. I had problems finding a suitable image for this one. I know I have a photo of some stained glass in a mausoleum somewhere on my hard disk, but where? Oh well, this one of Lucy Gallop in West Norwood cemetery, London, shows her photograph behind glass.

West Norwood Cemetery visitor centre opening hours for October. Feel free to come by and say hello and find out more about the beautiful and historic cemetery.

**Tonight** 7th October Dr Jane Jordan’s talk at St Leonard’s Church, Tooting Bec Gardens, Streatham 7:30pm. No need to book. Before Windrush and Beyond: Recovering Black History at West Norwood Cemetery. #Blackhistory

**Tonight** 7th October Dr Jane Jordan’s talk at St Leonard’s Church, Tooting Bec Gardens, Streatham 7:30pm. No need to book. Before Windrush and Beyond: Recovering Black History at West Norwood Cemetery. #Blackhistory

Beautiful autumn colours on a glorious sayt @fownc1837.bsky.social

Sunday 5th October - walking tour of West Norwood Cemetery 14:30 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

On Saturday 20th September about 250 descendants of the Chiot & Phanariot diaspora commemorated their origins at the Hellenic Enclosure, West Norwood Cemetery in London. This diaspora was provoked by the Massacres of Chios in 1822. Read more about this at: www.christopherlong.co.uk/WhoAreYourPe...

Opening dates for the Visitor Centre @fownc1837.bsky.social for September.

Sunday 7 September 14:30: Walking Tour of West Norwood Cemetery www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

A bit more detail in his journal and Gideon Mantell could have been the Samuel Pepys of paleontology. 6 March 1842: 'Attended a lecture by Prof. Ansted on the Megatherium, at the London Institution—very poor'. Need more dirt about the rubbish ground sloth lecture.

The heraldic Iguanodon on Maidstone's coat of arms seems to be drawn a bit differently each time. The designer of this version went to quite a lot of effort to make the dinosaur look as early modern as possible, including giving it mammalian ears. Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/kapta....

Sunday 7 September 14:30 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

Sunday 7 September 14:30 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

After the Napoleonic wars, the church commissioners decided to build four very similar churches in what's now South London: a St Matthew's (Brixton); St Mark's (Kennington); St Luke's (West Norwood) and St John's (Waterloo).

A commission of West Norwood station. You can always commission me rather than wait for me to turn up at your station. Email me at [email protected]

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 'Mother always had an idea that some day she would go into a trance and be buried alive,’ said the young lady, ‘so be very careful, and see for a certainty that she is dead.’ An undertaker's dilemma: bury or watch? thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/s...

Tonight's "Fake or Fortune?" on BBC1 revisited the portrait of Dido Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray. Dido Belle featured in @fownc1837.bsky.social Newsletter 110 (May 2024) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Salesman's white bronze tombstone sample. The Monumental Bronze Company sent out salesmen with samples and lavishly illustrated catalogues showing many different designs, which could be customized for unique and personal monuments. www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/...

Z is for Zinc is one of the entries in A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, with brilliant illustrations by @landisblair.bsky.social "White Bronze" or zinc alloy tombstones were cheap, easily customized, and very durable. Stonecutters lobbied to have them banned from local cemeteries.

Tomorrow at 14:30, walking tour of West Norwood Cemetery www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

@fownc1837.bsky.social hosted a walking tour for the Friends of Woodbury Park Cemetery (Tunbridge Wells). The group were particularly interested in seeing some of the NLHF projects including the new Visitor Centre and St Stephen's Chapel.

This week's top posts: 'Traumatic' reaction to Spurgeon's College's abrupt closure insidecroydon.com/2025/08/01/t... #Croydon #SouthNorwood #Spurgeons @itvnews.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social