Cemetery Days & Funeral Portraits
By Pete Woods on Jul 5, 2010 | In Features, Lifestyle and Fashion | Send feedback »
It might be a cliche about alternative types hanging around in cemeteries but they are some of the most peaceful places around and completely cut off from the urban decay outside their walls. This is certainly the case with Kensal Green in NW london which is one of the nicest in London along with the likes of Highgate, West Brompton and Nunhead.
What you maybe surprised at is that many of these have open days generally held once a year in the Summer and Kensel Green celebrate theirs in style. People dress up in all their fineries and stalls are set out selling books and pamphlets and even home made jam and cakes as well as things like gingerbread skeletons. Hearses are all out on display and lots of eccentric people come along to walk around the Victorian mauslolems and edifices or maybe even to take a tour of the catacomb beneath the angican chapel.
This is however one of those cases where a picture tells a thousand stories so here if I can work out how is a photo blog of the afternoon.
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