Nunhead Cemetery Archives

Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

The Cramps in Nunhead Cemetery (?)

Oct

2025

The great US band The Cramps visited London in 1990 and were photographed in a cemetery for a Melody Maker photoshoot by Joe Dilworth. Online there has been debate about where exactly these photos were taken, with candidates discussed including Nunhead Cemetery, Abney Park and Kensal Green.I am going to go with Nunhead for now ...

Cenotaph South – South London’s poetic landscape

Sep

2025

'Cenotaph South: mapping the lost poets of Nunhead Cemetery' (Penned in the Margins, 2016) by Chris McCabe is a remarkable book. Partly it is what it says on the cover – an exploration of some of the largely forgotten poets buried there including Marian Richardson and Albert Craig. But he also wanders over the wider ...

The World to the Eel is a Net

Sep

2024

'England was once a great marsh sloppy and empty of landlords. In this watery realm the serpent was sovereign'. So begins an imagined prophecy in Molly Lester's quilt based work 'The World to the Eel is a Net' by Molly Lester exhibited in the chapel of Nunhead Cemetery.Free entry during cemetery opening hours until Sunday ...

Nunhead Cemetery Open Day 2022

Jun

2022

Nunhead Cemetery Open Day was busy on 21st May 2022 with its usual idiosyncratic mixture of local history, wildlife and cemetery enthusiast stalls, morris dancers and goths.There was a 'hearse and horses promenade' courtesy of South London undertakers Francis Chappell & Sons. I posted this picture on twitter and a friend asked what was going on ...

Nunhead Cemetery Open Day Saturday 18th May 2019 11am to 5pm

May

2019

The FOBLC have a stall at this wonderful event organised by the Friends of Nunhead Cemetery. There will be tours of Nunhead cemetery, visits to the chapel and crypt (which is not usually open), plus special activities for kids like face painting, we hope to see you there!

NUNHEAD CEMETERY OPEN DAY Saturday 19th May 11am – 5pm

May

2018

The FOBLC will again be having a stall at this event organised by the Friends of Nunhead Cemetery. It's a great day, hopefully see you there!

Snow on Nunhead Scouts Memorial

Dec

2017

Snow in Nunhead Cemetery today, here on the scouts memorial. This is the burial place of eight boy scouts aged 11 to 14 from the 2nd Walworth troop who were drowned on 3 August 1912 when their boat capsized at Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey. Among those who survived was Edward Beckham, great grandfather of ...

NUNHEAD CEMETERY 2015 OPEN DAY

Mar

2015

Historic and Beautiful Victorian NUNHEAD CEMETERY OPEN DAYSATURDAY►16 MAY 2015◄ 11.00 am ~ 5.00 pm WOODCRAFTING DEMONSTRATIONSHISTORY, ECOLOGY & LOCAL GROUPS STALLS PLANTS FOR SALE; BIRDS OF PREYTOURS OF CEMETERY & CRYPT HOMEMADE REFRESHMENTSCHOIRS IN THE CHAPEL; CHILDREN’S BUG HUNTEXHIBITION IN THE MAUSOLEUM & MORE (All subject to availability)__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NUNHEAD CEMETERY, LINDEN GROVE, LONDON SE15 P12 bus and Nunhead Railway StationOrganised by the Friends ...

Nunhead Cemetery Open Day Saturday 17th May

May

2014

We will be having a stall at the annual Nunhead Cemetery Open Day this Saturday, 17th May 11am - 5pm. It's always a great day. Do pop along to look at the stalls, enjoy the guided walks and come by and see us

Supermarket Self-Checkout – is scanning kind of scabbing?

Jan

2014

Always been a Marc Almond fan musically, and I think we can claim a bit of him for South London as he lived around the Bermondsey Street area for quite a while (not sure he still does). In fact he's just about to release an exciting-sounding London-themed album 'The Tyburn Tree' with John Harle, which ...