Comments on: Bluebells At Bow Cemetery

By: Bella

Bella — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:47:30 +0000

My great-grandparents’ house backed onto the cemetery. Arts & Crafts but must have been bombed in the war, long after they’d moved south. Their half of the street is now council flats. My grandfather talked about the cemetery, a child’s adventure playground, I suppose. So on an East End tour one spring, I paid my respects and was duly rewarded with swathes of daffodils, snowdrops and hellebores among the tumbling old stones. As someone has already commented, your photographs are absolutely ravishing. A secret garden, with many stories to tell.

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 20:02:08 +0000

How lucky we are to live in England. Your photographs are absolutely ravishing.

By: jennifer newbold

jennifer newbold — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:32:58 +0000

Although I doubt it will matter to me where I’m buried, such a place appeals to me. Men and monuments decay, but flowers resurrect themselves every spring.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 14:41:17 +0000

I like to think of my grandmother’s grave surrounded by bluebells. She was buried there in 1960–taken there in a horse-drawn, glass-enclosed black hearse. I was ten years old and have memories of walking behind it to the grave. Living over the Pond, I haven’t had a chance to visit it for quite some time so thank you for your photos.

By: Prue Briggs

Prue Briggs — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 11:54:30 +0000

So lovely and peaceful at Bow Cemetery. We go there with our son and daughter-in-law when we visit them, wish we were there now! Beautiful photos of a beautiful place

By: Georgina Briody

Georgina Briody — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 11:09:53 +0000

My father was born (1914) and brought up in Bow…..just wondering how many of his relatives are buried there. Will have to investigate. Thank you GA.

By: wendy mukluk

wendy mukluk — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 01:01:40 +0000

so beautiful… thank you!
i am in wisconsin usa and we are a month or so behind you all nature & weather-wise. just a few buds showing on trees here, but there are some dandelions blooming, and there are crocuses and two early tulips blooming in my yard. it is so comforting to see nature continuing on, flowers blooming, despite all the craziness in the world…

By: ja Woolf

ja Woolf — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 22:43:47 +0000

Lovely photos of a lovely place. we went before the lockdown and it was pretty then but there were no leaves out. I wish we could get to see it now but your pictures were the next best thing.

By: GEORGIA BURG

GEORGIA BURG — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 22:43:05 +0000

Lovely photos – a nice cheer-me-up for today. It’s nice to see nature recapture the graveyard.
I so look forward to reading your articles and seeing photos daily. It makes my morning better than it otherwise would be. Thank you

By: Di Corry

Di Corry — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:43:04 +0000

Thank you GA for sharing such beautiful photos from this oasis of calm, just what we all need right now.
My uncle Harry is resting there…so that place is special to me, I feel I have paid him a visit albeit from afar.