Day 26 #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'figure'
Sadly, this headstone is so badly worn its impossible to make out who lies here. Only the figure remains standing proud of the surface...
📍Holy Trinity, Marham, Norfolk
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Day 25 #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'graveside ornament'
I wanted to share this wonderful thing I found earlier this year. Every war grave has been marked with a Tommy silhouette, even the ones without a headstone. It really highlighted just how many WW1 & WW2 casualties lay here ⬇️⬇️
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Day 24 #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'unique animal'. Ive taken a bit of a liberty and chosen a reptile 🐢 But I couldn't not share this wonderful tortoise.
📍St John the Baptist, Aylmerton, Norfolk
24.10.2025 12:19 — 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 0
Fanny was an 8 year old girl whose name would become slang for cheap tinned mutton. What happened to her was so horrific I am not going to describe it here, but I will link the Wiki page if you want to read the story.
📍Alton cemetery, Hampshire
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Day 23 #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'cross'
It was Christmas Eve when I visited the grave of Fanny Adams. It was also Christmas Eve in 1867 when her murderer was hanged for his crime.
Her cross was decorated with tinsel and toys had been left for her.
Cont ⬇️⬇️
23.10.2025 08:49 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I no longer use tiktok, but I made this video when I visited a couple of years ago.
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Day 22 #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'landscape '
The tiny church of Kirkmaiden, perched on the cliffs on the South West cost of Scotland. Probably one of the prettiest places to be laid to rest 😍
I have shared below a short about one of the burials there ⬇️
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Day 21 #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'bronze'.
An unexpected find in a Somerset cemetery. The grave belongs to Lt Col John Marshall Field MBE.
📍East Coker cemetery, Somerset
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21.10.2025 09:06 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Day 20 #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'Wreath'
This lovely fruity Wreath is up on the wall inside the parish church and remembers Edward Bunting Loynes - church warden for 54 years.
📍St Nicholas, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
20.10.2025 10:33 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Day 19 #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'Social Group'.
I dont know anything about this grave marker, but I like it.
📍All Saints, Faringdon, Oxfordshire
20.10.2025 10:30 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Why do so many medieval church doors have iron studs on their exterior face?
1/7
📷 - All Images of South Door at St Mary's, Derwen, Denbighshire
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The men had built a secret vault to hide their contraband, which was smothered with manure when they were away. It is said that they were overcome by the fumes which had built up from the spirits they were hiding there and suffocated.
📍St Michael's, Tunstall, Suffolk
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Day 18 #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'mistake'
A smugglers headstone today to Robert Debney and William Cooper, who died in an unfortunate accident on 22 June 1778.
The mistake is that the headstone notes the men as being 28 and 18 respectively, but parish records show Debney was 30.
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18.10.2025 11:21 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Yep. Would've like to see it, tbh!
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Day 17 #31DaysOfGraves is 'relocated'
I've chosen a very old one today. Two Roman coffins, discovered in 1815, which now sit outside of the Norris Museum in St Ives (Huntingdonshire)
17.10.2025 16:58 — 👍 29 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
Epitaph : East Anglia // Episode One - Peasenhall, Suffolk
Our Epitaph: East Anglia podcast relaunched today!
Episode one available on Spotify, YouTube, Substack, and probably some places Ive never heard of!
open.spotify.com/episode/5rGH...
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Day 16 of #31DaysOfGraves - Obelisk
"REMOVED in the midst of his USEFULNESS.
READER be ye also ready"
A cheery warning about the fleeting nature of life on Alexander Cowper's obelisk monument in Wigtown Kirkyard in Dumfries and Galloway.
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Day 16 #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'obelisk'
The plaque reads 'Sacred to the memory if Henry Nicholas Ground ME of East Howle Colliery. Who died 11th March 1881, aged 31.
Erected as a tribute of respect to his memory by the workmen and friends.'
📍Found in St Lukes, Ferryhill, Co. Durham.
16.10.2025 18:39 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Oh, I love this!
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Day 15 #31DaysOfGraves is 'damaged'.
I've chosen this ceramic headstone, one of many in this style in the cemetery.
It belongs to Pvt Joseph Gale of the Royal Sussex Regiment. He died in Eastbourne Hospital on March 30th 1916, aged just 24. A casualty of the Great War.
📍South Hetton, Co Durham
15.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Not something you see every day!
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Day 14 of #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'inside'
Not an intentional interior viewing of this collapsed vault, photographed last year.
📍St Thomas a Becket, Ramsey, Huntingdonshire.
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Day 13 of #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'skeleton'
Today, we are at the grave of George Hopper. The tomb has some fantastic carvings, but beware! It is said that if you see Death's scythe move, you will follow George to the other side! ☠️
📍 St Mary's, Barnard Castle, County Durham.
13.10.2025 16:50 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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