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Showing posts with label buckinghamshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buckinghamshire. Show all posts

Sunday, 25 August 2013

Cemetery Sunday - Overgrown

All Saints Churchyard, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England.
 
 
There us a reason that this particular churchyard is overgrown.  During the summer the grass in this section is left to grow wild.  This is due to some rare wildflowers and insects that have been found inhabiting the churchyard.  Once summer is over and it is safe to do so, the grass is cut.
 
 
 




Sunday, 11 August 2013

Cemetery Sunday - John Shaw, Town Surgeon of Marlow


 
"Sacred
to the Memory of
JOHN SHAW
 late of this Town Surgeon
who died 9th October 1823
Aged 31 Years."
 
 
All Saints Churchyard, Marlow, Buckinghamshire England.


 
 
 
 





Sunday, 4 August 2013

Cemetery Sunday - Sacred


All Saints Churchyard, Marlow, Buckinghmashire, England.
 
 
 
 




Sunday, 28 July 2013

Cemetery Sunday - Embrace


Gravestone Embrace, St Peter's Churchyard, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England.
 
The above gravestone held no further information, only the craving of a couple embracing.
 
 





Sunday, 16 June 2013

Cemetery Sunday - Crucifixion of Chirst

Ceramic Tile at St Peter's Churchyard
Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England.





Tuesday, 21 August 2012

The Pet Cemetery of Cliveden House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire




The 'burials' date from 1874 - 1956 and contain mainly dogs and a few horses or ponies, unfortunately I can find no information on the history of the pet cemetery, or whether all the animals belonged to the same family, the Astors of Cliveden House.  It's in the Ilex Grove part of the grounds and sadly is not very well maintained or even sign posted.  We just happened across it.

There has been a house on the site at Cliveden, meaning - valley among cliffs, in Taplow Buckinghamshire since 1666.  The present house was built in 1851 and is a Grade I listed Italianate mansion.  In 1893 the estate was purchased by William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor.  He became a virtual recluse after the death of his wife Mary Dahlgren Paul in 1894.  In 1906 Viscount Astor gave Cliveden and its ground to his son Waldorf on his marriage to Nancy Langhorne. The Astor family remained at Cliveden until 1969 when the house and grounds were leased by Stanford University.  The house is now owned by The National Trust and is a Luxury Hotel.


"Christoper, A favourite pony"


"Flossie"


"Missie"


"Chono"


"Laddie"


"Trixie"


"Baloo"

"Doushky"


"Dixie"


"Daphne"


"Midget"


"Blennie"


"Pugsy, dear pug"


"Tommy"


"Wallace"


"Snuff"


"Traffic Light"



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