Comments on: Snowfall At Bow Cemetery

By: Ardith

Ardith — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 04:26:31 +0000

These are utterly captivating photos, GA. Thank you for them.

By: Achim

Achim — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:03:45 +0000

What a wonderful mood — that’s probably also the opinion of the fox!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 06:22:47 +0000

Curiously, what one reader sees as a bear (in image 0063), I see as a fox leaping into the sky.

By: Brenda Sanders

Brenda Sanders — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:06:39 +0000

Beautiful, as usual. I enjoy your writing and photos very much. I am from Arkansas, one of the United States, and have a question or two, if you don’t mind,but first let me say that I do have an England connection, as one of my maternal grandpa’s was from there, and immigrated here in the 1880’s.

To the questions. The first photo – at the top- shows the stone of Jane Maria, with much writing below. I was curious about what it said, and enlarged it as much as I could. There seems to be multiple names, but I could not make out their connections to Jane Maria. I have read of (due to space shortage) burials of a family being one above the other (a stack for want of a better word). Is this such a case?

Second question, which I admit sounds kind of….weird even to my own ears… what are the markers made of? Now please let me clarify before y’all write me off as totally crazy American. I assume they are marble. Most of the ones in our local cemeteries are. I can’t speak for the ones in the US’s northern States, nut here in the upper south, we have trouble with moss growing on them, and without scraping and a whole lot of work you can’t read LARGE lettering, much less the smaller lettering like is on the stones shown in your photos although your stones are much older – the oldest stones in the two cemeteries that I am most familiar with are in the early to mid 1800’s. I guess I am really wondering how y’all keep that from happening, because I would really like to try it on my family tombstones.

Again, thank you for your writing and pictures. I truly enjoy reading about England. Great Grandpa Allen was not from London, but it gives me a picture of his native country, nevertheless. For him to have journeyed so far, and ended up in a small, rural place such as I live, is such a marvel to me.

By: Kitanz

Kitanz — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 06:48:55 +0000

Beautiful and Sad. Thank You for these pictures.

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 06:35:35 +0000

Thankyou for these vary atmospheric views, I need to visit sometime as my 2x great grandfather William James Crisp and his wife Jane Perrin Brown Crisp are buried somewhere in Square 59 in the cemetery, they bought the plot when their baby son Frank died in 1865.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:49:36 +0000

I used to walk through the cemetery with my friends, who lived just behind it in Fairfoot Road, when I was at Coopers’ school in Mile End. This was before part of it, where Cantrell Road is, was dug up. There was a concerted attempt by Tower Hamlets to dig it all up and sell it for development at that time, in the late 1960’s, but fortunately they failed.
I still like to wander there when I’m in the area, just to remember.
Memento Mori.
Great photographs GA.

By: David Bishop

David Bishop — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:23:26 +0000

Beautiful post and photos. Thank you Gentle Author.

By: Gayle Thorsen

Gayle Thorsen — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:28:49 +0000

Gorgeous photos…I feel as peaceful looking at them as if I’d been there.

By: Delia Folkard

Delia Folkard — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:34:50 +0000

I would have loved to have gone for a walk in Bow Cemetery on Sunday but made with do with a trudge through the snow in Buckinghamshire. We visited the cemetery in October before going on to the Nunnery for the East End Painters exhibition and your book signing of East End Vernacular. We made a special trip to E.Pellicci for a cup of tea and Nevio gave us directions on how to get there. We weren’t sure at first if it was the right place as it was signed Tower Hamlets Cemetery. We loved it and although tranquil it was good to see it being well used by children on their way back from school.