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Cragg Vale churchyard
Monday 7th May 2012, 11.45am a.k.a. ‘Lament for a Lost Spring’… Sorry to wax lyrical, it’s probably just the result of spending the day in a church selling piles of 2nd hand books to bargain-hungry...
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Historic cemetery, Collingwood
Monday 25th February 2013, 1.55pm (day 550) A day killing time in Collingwood before heading down to the start of the Heaphy Track. This graveyard sits on a hill above the town, and most of the graves...
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Heptonstall churchyard
Saturday 29th March 2014, 3.05pm (day 947) Heptonstall is the oldest part of Hebden Bridge, built several hundred feet above where the main town now stands. Its cemetery is home to the town’s most...
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St Thomas Centre, Ardwick
Wednesday 6th May 2015, 12.50pm (day 1,350) The St Thomas’ Centre, where I did some work today, is a converted church, and its front yard is paved with these grave markers. Which would have made an...
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Graveyard, St Michael’s Church
Saturday 11th July 2015, 5.20pm (day 1,416) This is taken in the same churchyard as the photo a day short of a year ago: the same Saturday of the year, that is. And for the same reason, in that we were...
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Abe’s headstone
Friday 8th March 2019, 11.55am (day 2,752) As I approach 50, my thoughts are filled with premonitions of death…. so I like to hang around cemeteries. Believe as much of that sentence as you wish. I...
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End of my 51st year
Tuesday 25th August 2020, 9.25am (day 3,288) It’s my birthday tomorrow, meaning today’s post marks the end of a ninth complete year of this blog. Am I feeling morbid? Not particularly, I just thought...
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Unseen corner
Wednesday 24th February 2021, 11.15am (day 3,471) This little graveyard perches on the hillside, across the valley from my house. With a powerful enough pair of binoculars, it might even be possible...
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Overgrown
Saturday 28th May 2022, 12.10pm (day 3,929) St. Bartholomew’s Church in Ripponden is a fine looking building in its way, and its graveyard an atmospheric and photogenic spot — but someone really needs...
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Rippleside cemetery
Saturday 20th August 2022, 12.50pm (day 4,013) Barking is one of the least gentrified bits of London, not that that is a bad thing. It also gives extremely good graveyard, as I discovered when getting...
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Balgay Hill cemetery
Sunday 24th December 2023, 1.55pm (day 4,504) A lush scene for Christmas Eve, particularly after yesterday. The cemetery on top of Balgay Hill in Dundee was a real discovery of the day. Just one of...
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The graveyard on the hill
Tuesday 16th January 2024, 11.25am (day 4,527) Snow was forecast and duly arrived, though it was hardly a winter apocalypse. It did make the town look good, though. This graveyard sits on the hillside...
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