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Beckenham Crematorium and Cemetery is located between South Norwood Country Park and Birkbeck. [1] The cemetery was opened in 1876 [2] although it is often erroneously reported as 1880 and was initially known as the Crystal Palace District Cemetery. [3]
Description: Grave of Josiah Stamp, his wife Olive Stamp, and their eldest son Wilfred Stamp, Beckenham Cemetery, London.The family were killed simultaneously by a direct hit from a German bomb on 16 April 1941.
The logo of Find a Grave used from 1995 to 2018 [2] Find a Grave was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City, Utah, resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of famous celebrities. [3] Tipton classified his early childhood as being a nerdy kid who had somewhat of a fascination with graves and some love for learning HTML. [4]
Bourne lived in retirement at 16 Kings Hall Road, Beckenham, Kent. He was the last surviving defender from Rorke's Drift, dying on 9 May 1945 (the day after VE Day), at the age of 90. Bourne was buried in Beckenham Cemetery. His house in Beckenham has been adorned with a blue plaque. [4]
Although located in the London Borough of Ealing, this extramural cemetery was created and opened in 1855 by the St Mary Abbots parish in North Kensington, with the assistance of the Hanwell Urban District Council. This was to take the pressure off St Mary's own burial grounds which were almost full.
The cemetery suffered extensive damage during World War Two, and at the end of the war in Europe a gift was given to the cemetery in the form of the renewal of the chapel's south side stained glass window, depicting a miscellany of some 30 biblical emblems. In 1965, the cemetery came under new management in light of local government reorganisation.
The cemetery was opened in 1891 and the crematorium in 1938. The cemetery was originally laid out on land which had belonged to Newlands Farm, which was established in the medieval period. [1] The cemetery has two chapels, one being a traditional Church of England chapel and the other being used for multi-denomination or non-religious services ...
South Ealing Cemetery is a cemetery in South Ealing which was established in 1861 as Ealing and Old Brentford Cemetery. [1] The cemetery covers 21 acres. [2] The cemetery contains the Commonwealth war graves of 184 armed service personnel, as well as that of a Belgian soldier of World War I. [2] [3]