Comments on: Bluebells at Bow Cemetery https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/04/22/bluebells-at-bow-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 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Bill rice https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/04/22/bluebells-at-bow-cemetery/#comment-117809 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:48:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=60464#comment-117809 Beautiful photos

]]> By: PP@pimpmybricks https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/04/22/bluebells-at-bow-cemetery/#comment-49372 Thu, 24 May 2012 04:10:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=60464#comment-49372 This is an older post now and I have only just got to it. I so completely agree with you about Spring in England and I so absolutely could feel the experience of you standing under that tree, forced, in a sense, to take it in, twinkling minutely and not so minutely all around you. Twenty years ago I walked through a similar woodland scene (in the gardens of Osterley House) where a similar haze of blue drifted into my senses and still remains with me, stitched into the lining of my mental pocket. Twenty hours or so after that, my daughter was born. More life to add to the burgeoning Spring all around. Thank you for your description and for the photos. It took me back (to the present).
PP@pimpmybricks

]]> By: Barbara Barber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/04/22/bluebells-at-bow-cemetery/#comment-45764 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:11:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=60464#comment-45764 This has got to be the loveliest cemetery I have ever seen. Hard to believe it is in the heart of London.

The sort of image that is dangerous because it makes me want to get up and fly off to Spitalfields just to sit quietly in the little woods, to just be there. An expensive little trip from the U.S. though;)

But then again…those lovely bluebells sighing and waving among the old forgotten gravestones in the woods.

]]> By: susie ford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/04/22/bluebells-at-bow-cemetery/#comment-45430 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:45:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=60464#comment-45430 I too visited the cemetary early last week, to be amazed and delighted by the variety and quality of the flowering bulbs and plants – what about the cowslips! Where else in London do they thrive?
But what I found most extraordinary is the deep blue hue of the bluebells – rich, almost violet.
I walked through Gordon Square today, another great place to see wild and cultivated spring flowers, and I have to say that the bluebells there, although beautiful, were a touch insipid in comparison to those in Bow – is it the fertiliser!

]]> By: jane osullivan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/04/22/bluebells-at-bow-cemetery/#comment-45300 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:37:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=60464#comment-45300 ” primroses spangling the green

……an arcadian refuge from the city streets ”

from its title bluebells at bow cemetery,to all the luscious images , each word considered,another beautifully felt and harmonious piece of writing allowing us the reader be with you there under your umbrella and knowing that your faith in nature would be rewarded with sunshine , thank you dear gentle author , whoever you may be.

]]> By: Annie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/04/22/bluebells-at-bow-cemetery/#comment-45243 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:49:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=60464#comment-45243 You are a beautiful writer. My class of 10 year old primary school boys are going to be treated to this piece as an example of what they might become one day if they pull their fingers out now.
For me, it was the unfurling umbrella.
Write on.

]]> By: Paula PM https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/04/22/bluebells-at-bow-cemetery/#comment-45195 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:17:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=60464#comment-45195 Be still, my heart… You had me at “arcadian refuge”.

]]> By: Sally https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/04/22/bluebells-at-bow-cemetery/#comment-45160 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:49:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=60464#comment-45160 How utterly beautiful.

]]> By: Chris F https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/04/22/bluebells-at-bow-cemetery/#comment-45159 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:02:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=60464#comment-45159 I shouldn’t mind if my last resting place were in a bluebell wood.

]]> By: EastEnder https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/04/22/bluebells-at-bow-cemetery/#comment-45158 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:58:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=60464#comment-45158 Lovely article and wonderful pictures. Now it would be nice if you could refer to the place by its real name: Tower Hamlets Cemetery PARK. It has not been a cemetery since 1966.

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