Largest burial ground in the last 100 years

From: The Bromley Times

The capital’s largest burial ground in the last 100 years officially opened in Chislehurst last week.

Kemnal Park Cemetery, off the Sidcup By-Pass, has more than 30,000 plots along with memorial gardens for ashes on the grounds where Old Kemnal Manor once stood.

The site, run by Michael Burke, opened unofficially last year. He says the site will set “new levels of expectations” for London cemeteries.

Joshua Fowler, Reporter 

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Rev. James Endell Tyler (1789–1851)

"Health of towns":
an examination of the report
and evidence of the Select Committee:
ofcMr. Mackinnon's Bill: 
.... for establishing
cemeteries around the metropolis.
(p:22 1843)

The Rev, James Endell Tyler, Rector of St. Giles's - in-the-Fields, a witness of the first class, says :

" Having been there sixteen years, I never have heard of a complaint from the neighbours. We have three schools, the windows of which open into the churchyard; and we all think it a great advantage to have that free circulation of air. We have never, in any one instance, found any effluvia from the churchyard. On the contrary, it is a decidedly healthy spot."

The funeral of His Majestry King George VI

The funeral of His Majestry King George VI  1952

Kensal Green

I wanted to show you something of the English way of burying people. This is Kensal Green and a very traditional way of disposing of the dead in London. Have a look and see what you think. The atmosphere is formal and restrained and the cemetery has so much more dignity for the rich than, say, Hart Island and other 'potter's Field' type cemeteries offered to the poor departed.