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Aug 10, 2016 8:29:18 GMT
Post by warcorrespondent on Aug 10, 2016 8:29:18 GMT
Hi everyone. I am very glad I discovered your brilliant forum this morning. I have been photographing graves and cemeteries for several decades and since 2014 I have been photographing Lancashire [and Manchester] burial grounds. On my Twitter account, I sum myself up as 'I'm a longtime student of funerary architecture who photographs headstones and memorials that tell a story - Our Social History is written on those stones.' I am known as 'The Graveyard Detective' and, most recently, 'Grave Photographer'. I blog extensively and post on the subject across Social Media. Most recently, I blogged about three Second World War casualties who are buried in Blackley Jewish Cemetery - a barrage balloon operator killed in the London Blitz 1940, a nursing Sister at the Jewish Home of Rest in London who was killed in 1944 when a V1 landed on the Nurses Home and a Lancaster crewman who died of injuries received when it crashed just short of the airfield - tI he aircraft had lost most of it's tail when it was bombed by another Lancaster flying above it.
Normally, I walk for four hours round a cemetery or churchyard reading the headstones, looking for interesting inscriptions and always photograph any military related grave I see. Over the last four weeks, I have been to Manchester's General Cemetery [thrice], Brookfield Unitarian Church, Blackley Jewish Cemetery [twice], Christ Church Harpurhey and on Monday, of the three locations I visited, Salford's Agecroft Cemetery and the Manchester Spanish-Portuguese Jewish cemetery were particularly interesting. At the latter, I photographed a large First World War war memorial to local Jewish servicemen who were killed in France. Quite why they only commemorated those killed in France, I have yet to discover. At it's base was a large plaque to Second World War casualties. One CWGC headstone that I could see but several remembrances on private memorials.
Right. I apologise for wittering on Oh, and indication of the scale of my photo-taking is that I have 104,000 images on my laptop [and external hard drives] from the last two years.
Thanks
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Normally, I walk for four hours round a cemetery or churchyard reading the headstones, looking for interesting inscriptions and always photograph any military related grave I see. Over the last four weeks, I have been to Manchester's General Cemetery [thrice], Brookfield Unitarian Church, Blackley Jewish Cemetery [twice], Christ Church Harpurhey and on Monday, of the three locations I visited, Salford's Agecroft Cemetery and the Manchester Spanish-Portuguese Jewish cemetery were particularly interesting. At the latter, I photographed a large First World War war memorial to local Jewish servicemen who were killed in France. Quite why they only commemorated those killed in France, I have yet to discover. At it's base was a large plaque to Second World War casualties. One CWGC headstone that I could see but several remembrances on private memorials.
Right. I apologise for wittering on Oh, and indication of the scale of my photo-taking is that I have 104,000 images on my laptop [and external hard drives] from the last two years.
Thanks
LaurenceSaveSave