notable burials Archives

Tragic Tale of a Young Cyclist: Will Cornwell’s Untimely Death in 1923

Sep

8

2024

Will Cornwell, for whom the gravestone was initially erected, was killed whilst cycling home from work one April evening in 1923. He was the third son of Henry & Ada Minnie Cornwell who lived in Sangley Road, Catford, and who would later be buried beside him, and commemorated on his memorial.Will was born in Catford ...

Art, Loot and Empire: The Benin Bronzes

Aug

19

2022

Located aside the pathway close to the thorn laden berm between the two Ladywell and Brockley cemeteries lies the recently discovered headstone of Charlotte Mabel Alleyne d.1961. Her grave now features as a stopping point for guided history walks. Mabel achieved a modest fame in the art world from her career as an artist and ...

Fredrick William Winder (1817-1912) – An Old Thames Postman.

Aug

12

2022

Browsing through old newspaper cuttings, seeking interesting stories on Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, I struck gold with this interesting article on the life of Frederick William Winder, an old Thames Postman. Postman’s Adventurous life. The Funeral took place at Lewisham Cemetery on Saturday of Mr. Frederick William Winder, who has terminated a remarkable career at the age ...

Greek-American Tycoon’s grave found in Ladywell cemetery!

Jul

18

2022

Located close to the Cross of Sacrifice in Ladywell cemetery is the final resting place of a truly remarkable man who 'spoke twenty languages'. Indeed Nicholas John Coundouris who died in 1929 whilst residing in Forest hill is perhaps the only Greek-American buried in the cemetery? His gnarled cruciform headstone is presently entwined in summer ...

Greek-American Tycoon’s grave found in Ladywell cemetery!

Jul

18

2022

Located close to the Cross of Sacrifice in Ladywell cemetery is the final resting place of a truly remarkable man who 'spoke twenty languages'. Indeed Nicholas John Coundouris who died in 1929 whilst residing in Forest hill is perhaps the only Greek-American buried in the cemetery? His gnarled cruciform headstone is presently entwined in summer ...

Burt Lancaster, Zulu Dawn and Colonel Durnford link uncovered in grave find in Brockley cemetery

Jun

21

2022

Burt Lancaster as Colonel Durnford. In the film Zulu Dawn he used an authentic break frame Webley revolver. He had to do all this acting and action with a crippled left arm and he devised a way he could handle and reload this type of weapon.. He proved a fit and skilful rider and comes ...

Adelaide Clunies-Ross, the Cocos Islands and Joshua Slocum the first person to sail solo around the world

May

8

2022

The Cocos Keeling Islands -' extraordinary rings of land which rise out of the ocean' (Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle), are situated in the Indian Ocean about 700 miles S.W. from Sumatra and 1200 miles from Singapore.'If there is a paradise on this earth, it is the Cocos Islands." Captain Joshua Slocum, 1897. ...

Culloden, Thomas Hastie Hay, a public beheading and the last battle to be fought upon British soil

Apr

14

2022

A recent and striking discovery of a familial link to the last battle to be fought on British soil at Culloden moor, which is located close to Inverness, on the 16 April 1746, was uncovered when tracing the ancestral links to a Glasgow born oil company merchant called Thomas Hastie Hay ( d.1891) whose headstone ...

Absalom Dandridge and the Captain Swing Rioter Transported to Van Diemen’s Land

Apr

3

2022

Nestled away in a section of Brockley cemetery sometimes dubbed the ' Mini-Valhalla' for it's grander funeral headstones, is the last resting place of the wonderfully named Victorian, Absalom Dandridge (d.1904) who is buried alongside his wife, Sophia Caroline (d.1906). Absalom who was described in the 1858 Directory of Kent as a 'Marine Store Dealer' ...

Lieutenant Gilbert Price, a pivotal figure in the Anglo-Irish War of Independence Talbot Street gunfight, is remembered in the latest podcast by Mike Guilfoyle

Mar

4

2022

This bonus podcast by Mike Guilfoyle tells the forgotten story of Lieutenant Gilbert Price and his pivotal role in one of the most memorable and bloody events of the Anglo-Irish War of Independence - the dramatic Talbot Street gunfight and the killing of Republican leader Seán Treacy. You can stream this on the Tempest website https://www.tempestproductions.net/podcasts/episode/91435d12/london-epitaphs-12-lieutenant-gilbert-price or on Soundcloud ...

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Tragic Tale of a Young Cyclist: Will Cornwell’s Untimely Death in 1923

Art, Loot and Empire: The Benin Bronzes

Fredrick William Winder (1817-1912) – An Old Thames Postman.

Greek-American Tycoon’s grave found in Ladywell cemetery!

Greek-American Tycoon’s grave found in Ladywell cemetery!

Burt Lancaster, Zulu Dawn and Colonel Durnford link uncovered in grave find in Brockley cemetery

Adelaide Clunies-Ross, the Cocos Islands and Joshua Slocum the first person to sail solo around the world

Culloden, Thomas Hastie Hay, a public beheading and the last battle to be fought upon British soil

Absalom Dandridge and the Captain Swing Rioter Transported to Van Diemen’s Land

Lieutenant Gilbert Price, a pivotal figure in the Anglo-Irish War of Independence Talbot Street gunfight, is remembered in the latest podcast by Mike Guilfoyle