YOUTUBE MANOR PARK CEMETERY & CREMATORIUM VIDEO NOW LIVE!

  My Manor Park Cemetery & Crematorium YouTube vlog is now live!

Link:-

https://youtu.be/3htrfaEtlCA

Manor Park Cemetery & Crematorium sits in the East End of London. It is a beautifully kept cemetery; although it does have older, more interesting and more sunken graves on site, complete with wonky tombstones. Dating back to 1874, a heritage trail consisting of 20 notable graves and landmarks was introduced in 2024, to mark 150 years of the cemetery's existence.

Come and take a walk in my shoes and I'll show you the grave of Annie Chapman- the second of Jack the Ripper's victims- although the siting is approximate as she was buried in a public grave which has since been reused. Nearby is the rather sad site of another Chapman, Sarah, who married and later became Sarah Dearman. She played a leading role in the 1888 Bryant & May matchgirls' strike, and was one of the pioneers of the trade union movement. Aside from the part-Victorian/ part-modern chapel and crematorium, there is a columbarium, a memorial pavilion and more than one war memorial.

But the piece de resistance has to be the granite tomb in the shape of a BMW convertible, which weighed one ton and had to be lowered into position by crane. It commemorates car fanatic Steve Marsh, and has to be the most stupendous tombstone I have ever seen!

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