https://spitalfieldslife.com/2009/12/04/at-the-crossbones-cemetery/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:41:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2009/12/04/at-the-crossbones-cemetery/#comment-178055 Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:41:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=2477#comment-178055 Crossbones Cemetery is a wonderful place and it connects us to people in the past who were outcasts from society. It is also a source of strength to people in the present who are outcasts. And that is the real point of John’s work. There’s no point in remembering the dispossessed of past times unless you think about those people who are dispossessed now.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2009/12/04/at-the-crossbones-cemetery/#comment-178046 Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:08:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=2477#comment-178046 This site of great significance deserves a pioneer like John Constable to highlight and hold discourse on its enormous effect on the history of Southwark.If anyone feels like going to a vigil on the 23rd of every month don’t be put off by thinking it’s a religious occasion,it is more a coming together of minds and hearts and all are welcome.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2009/12/04/at-the-crossbones-cemetery/#comment-131627 Wed, 07 Aug 2013 22:53:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=2477#comment-131627 As a former londoner born and bred I met up with an old school friend of 45 years who showed me the cross bones cemetery I never knew of its existance, , I found it deeply moving and sad. as I looked at the messages and flowers left undisturbed at the entrance. Regardless of the fact these people were eiher paupers or prostitutes they were human beings and deserve to be remembered.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2009/12/04/at-the-crossbones-cemetery/#comment-4450 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:06:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=2477#comment-4450 one of your saddest posts

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2009/12/04/at-the-crossbones-cemetery/#comment-76 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:59:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=2477#comment-76 I visited the Cross Bones Graveyard on Saturday with my daughter, we both found it moving, sad and strangely atmospheric.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2009/12/04/at-the-crossbones-cemetery/#comment-75 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:29:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=2477#comment-75 Thanks for the sympathetic report on our work at Crossbones. Please visit our website http://www.crossbones.org.uk for more on the history of the outcasts’ burial ground and the shrine at the red gates, regular updates on the vigils at the gates on the 23rd of each month and other Goose and Crow events, and our campaign to create a Garden of Remembrance on the site: http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/21659.html
JC

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