Summaries of publications - Friends of Nunhead Cemetery

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BURIED AT NUNHEAD: Nunhead Notables volume 3
by Ron Woollacott and Michèle Louise Burford.
Eleven Victorian actors and actresses are among 100 personalities whose life stories appear in
this new book, along with several officers who served in Nelson's navy, veterans of the
Peninsular War, Battle of Waterloo, and Cri-mean Campaign.
Others of interest include the general secretary of the Newspaper Society who played chess
with a future British Prime Minister; the West India merchant who founded one of the UK's first
roller skating rinks; the railway pioneer who worked on the Stockton and Darlington rail-way and
drove Stephenson's 'Rocket'; a French interpreter to Louis Philippe I of France; the Lord Mayor
of London who became the first Governor of the Bank of England; the artist son of an Indian
prince; Queen Victoria's state coachman; a friend and supporter of the Italian patriot General
Garibal-di; the war correspondent known as 'The Doyen of the Press'; the first Chief Port and
Harbour Master of Victoria, Australia; a former president of the Women's Provident League; the
1 / 16
founder of the 'Tailor and Cutter'; and oth-ers who came from more humble backgrounds
including, the 'King of the Rat-catchers'; London's 'Queen of the Costers'; the cow keeper who
became a successful antique dealer; and the chimney sweep turned preacher.
A5 softback, 130 pages with photos and illustrations.
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OLD CAMBERWELL: by Ron Woollacott and Michèle Louise Burford.
Old Camberwell including East Dulwich, Dulwich, Nunhead, Peckham and Peckham Rye
2 / 16
In the early years of the twentieth century topographical picture postcards were very popular
and most of the views that appear in this book were originally published by local photographers
and photographic artists.
They provide a photographic record of the old Borough of Camberwell.
Nunhead Cemetery features on page 72.
A4 softback, 110 pages with black and white photographs.
A Magdala Terrace Nunhead Local History Publication
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INVESTORS IN DEATH: by Ron Woollacott.
3 / 16
The
1840,
Nunhead
and
was
Cemetery
athe
spacious
of
All
Saints
ground
was
set
established
in
Surrey
by left
the
countryside.
London
Cemetery
Company
in
cemetery
1969,
when
a126
profitable
it's
owners,
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United
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Cemeteries
abandoned
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and
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afford
six
years.
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Greater
London
1975
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was
Powers)
by
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Borough
of
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under
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now
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IIthen
historic
landscape
and
aAct.
peaceful
oasis
inderelict
crowded
South
East
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softback,
pages
with
photos.
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NUNHEAD
CEMETERY
- Aburial
Colourful
History:
by
Rogers
and
Cathy
Mercer.
4 / 16
This
colouring
book
provides
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to Nunhead
Cemetery
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a love
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softback,
pages
with
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A
SHORT
GUIDE
TO
NUNHEAD
CEMETERY:
Tim
&through
Carol
Stevenson.
5 / 16
The
Both
Friends
editions
Nunhead
were
Nunhead
Cemetery
best-sellers
Cemetery
of
All
and
Saints
published
are
in
now
1988;
the
this
very
was
first
followed
comprehensive
oflast
print.
by
acemetery
revised
illustrated
edition
guidebook
in 1995.
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of
millennium
has
boundary
happened
year.
railings
atwith
Nunhead
and
the
restoration
since
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publication
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member
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information
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hand
from
and
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guidebook,
and
vice-chairman
articles
updated
that
therefore,
by
appeared
Carol
husband
is
Stevenson,
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and
earlier
wife
guides,
reading
includes
team,
together
FONC
for
much
all
visitors
useful
with
A5
softback,
30
pages
illustrations.
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NUNHEAD
&of
THE
MUSIC
HALL:
by
Rex
Batten.
6 / 16
From
popular
television
flourished
the
entertainment.
middle
finally
and
killed
of
the
over
the
nineteenth
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century,
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the
until
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theincluding
1960s
Hall was
when
This
telling
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Nunhead
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pictures
more.
in
Nunhead
biographical
Cemetery,
details
a
A4
softback,
40died
pages
with
illustrations
(some
colour).
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TREES
&
SHRUBS
OF
NUNHEAD
CEMETERY:
byto
Carol
Stevenson.
Nunhead
cemetery!
Cemetery
comes
as
aplanted
surprise
aof
visitor
who
expects
the
mown
grass
ofbook
awork
lawn
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to
the
1840,
maintain
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of
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formal
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the
style,
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in
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the
Nunhead
time,
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and
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help
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range
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native
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trees
the
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Cemetery's
shrubs
history,
in Cemetery
and
it.
this
will
A5
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pages
with
illustrations.
7 / 16
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THE
BUTTERFLIES
OFList
NUNHEAD CEMETERY: by Richard A. Jones.
Visitors
but
Every
with
cemetery
athe
woodland.
soto
shrill
often
is
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now
songs
the
Sun-dappled
ahere.
tranquil
tracks
of
Cemetery
birds
emerge
wilderness
and
paths
find,
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into
not
lead
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sunny
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a
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past
closely
heart
clearings
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insects.
cropped
of
London.
trees
and
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lawn
open
and
with
banks
grassy
green
rows
ofspaces.
of
flowering
and
neat
pleasant
The
grave-stones,
bramble.
air
isbe
alive
Wildlife
probably
seen
in
abounds
this
been
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overlooked.
Victorian
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This
Cemetery
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illustrated
from
butterfly
book
the
contains
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have
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details
Wood
found
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to
the
and
the
butterflies
several
White-letter
others
likely
Hairstreak.
tohave
A5
softback,
32
pages
with
photos
and
illustrations.
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NUNHEAD
NOTABLES:
by
Ron
Woollacott.
8 / 16
Notables
laid
English
Dictionary
to
new
rest
Biography.
(see
edition
inentries
Nunhead
of
below),
National
of
Nunhead
gives
Cemetery
Biography,
an
Notables
insight
between
and
into
(printed
many
1840
the
lives
May
more
andaof
2002),
1998.
are
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least
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updated
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and
sequel
to
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include
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and
which
square
number
amending
followed
numbers.
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it,
biographical
the
due
text
to
lack
sketches
ofNunhead
necessary
space.
that
Each
and
were
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110
pages
with
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and
illustrations.
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MORE
NUNHEAD
NOTABLES:
by
Ron
Woollacott.
9 / 16
A
their
medicine
boundaries
second
varying
selection
ofways,
welfare,
Greater
have
of
personalities
sport
London.
contributed
and
entertainment,
who
much
lie
to
buried
the
which
arts
at
Nunhead,
and
is
of
sciences,
great
extraordinary
significance
religion
and
people
well
politics,
beyond
who,
in
the
From
brother,
fascinating
Kingdom.
African
Huguenot
Light
Trafalgar
across
there
claim
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is
the
to
the
explorer,
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fame
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very
On
marquis,
the
skies
actress,
gathering
the
and
is
Waterloo,
first
last
that
of
another
way
lived
entry,
on
London.
an
two
they
of
the
through
inventive
to
novelists,
personalities
and
Charles
who
lived
volunteer
tell
Among
aby
the
fought
the
gallant
on
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tale,
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following
soldier
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airman
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all
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leader
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the
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only
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the
an
a
book
Most
were
overgrown
of
well
is
dedicated
the
known
and
people
unmarked
in
to
whose
their
their
time,
memory.
graves
lives
some
are
or
featured
were
beneath
even
in101
neglected
this
quite
brand
famous,
new
decaying
now
collection
they
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lie,
ofenemy
potted
virtually
biographies
This
forgotten,
little
in
Ron
Woollacott.
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softback,
84
pages
with
illustrations.
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NUNHEAD
REMEMBERED:
Rex
Batten.
10 / 16
Sheltered
million
those
Saints
people.
Cemetery,
Londoners
under
is
forest
Nunhead.
lie
as
buried.
rich
trees,
as
the
Nunhead
where
harvest
snowdrops
Remembered
ofthe
blackberries
and
bluebells
is
athat
collection
end
welcome
the
summer
anecdotes
the
spring,
in
the
and
apeace
stories
of
of
Alla
In
do
fearsome
and
have
souvenirs
nature
small
of
things
aphotos
boy
notorious
the
this
who
little
book
allgirl
murderer.
alone
and
can
fought
represent
entombed
the
only
armies
undertaker's
aand
fraction
the
men,
dead,
of
Nunhead's
aof
the
day's
fearless
outing
memories.
police
for
aquarter
python
and
Butnever
the
we
There
of
the
cemetery
is
also
aItof
beautifully
under
snow.
remembered
motorised
funeral
inofthe
twenties
and
a vivid
description
Account
love
be
far
and
away.
of
aphantom,
little
religious
sadness.
divisions,
But
Nunhead
the
gulf
between
is
resting
rich
place
poor
Londoners
are
intermixed
and
with
humour
anecdotes
can
of
This
collection
reflects
the
diversity
of
the
century
and
aof
half
of
Nunhead's
history.
A5
softback,
with
and
illustrations.
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THE
WALWORTH
SCOUTS:
by
Rex
Batten.
11 / 16
It
vandalised
Archivist,
question
Baden
was
more
Powell,
the
Paul
that
than
caller
Moynihan,
the
the
thirty
founder
asked
telephone
years
answered.
of
after
Scouting?"
odd:
the
"Was
in
The
the
scouts'
aoffice
caller
Percy
memorial
of
had
Baden
the
ahistory.
Archivist
query.
inPowell
Nunhead
Nothing
at
Huxford
Scout
Cemetery
unusual
Headquarters.
any
relation
had
that,
been
to
but
The
Lord
the
"Not
rang
researching
drowned.
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he
was
that
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But
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the
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that
about.
Leysdown
Friends
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was
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thing
answer
Tragedy
Nunhead
the
to
immediate
the
do
and
Cemetery
was
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toreaction.
keep
Huxford
had
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the
worked
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where
caller
was
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one
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got
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could
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the
name
the
Baden
Association
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proved
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be
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remarkable
piece
of
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26
pages
with
photos.
which
The
Walworth
is
of
Scouts
print.
supercedes
an
earlier
book,
The
Leysdown
Tragedy
by
Rex
Batten,
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THE
VICTORIAN
CATACOMBS
AT
NUNHEAD:
by
Ron
Woollacott.
12 / 16
A
complete
from
short
the
history
as
possible
of
St.
Christopher-le-Stocks,
description
list
of those
the
buried
various
within
London.
catacombs
them, including
in Nunhead
the human
Cemetery,
remains
including
exhumed
a
A5
softback,
34and
pages
with
photos
and
illustrations.
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THE
SCOTTISH
MARTYRS:
byofWally
MacFarlane.
13 / 16
One
dedicated
Martyrs.
told
by
of Wally
the
The
to
most
five
story
Macfarlane,
intriguing
political
of
these
ismemorials
men,
ato
who
of
reminder
in
put
the
South
the
18th
cause
of
London's
century
the
of
price
political
who
Nunhead
paid
became
for
justice
Cemetery
universal
before
as
suffrage.
is
their
the
own
Scottish
obelisk
lives,
as
The
Cemetery
citizens
or
Victorian
public,
setting
of
burial
planting
burials.
contains
the
for
day,
this
grounds
Its
gives
memorial
which
many
formal
way
ofreformers
other
contrast
London.
avenue
istimely
paths
perhaps
magnificent
sharply
As
which
towering
well
the
with
as
monuments
recall
least
the
the
limes
known
the
Scottish
small
and
country
erected
but
simple
the
Martyrs
most
lanes
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headstones
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memory
memorial,
ofknown
gloom
a bygone
of
of
marking
Nunhead
the
the
era.
most
original
great
common,
eminent
A5
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illustrations.
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BURIAL
PLACES
IN
SOUTHWARK:
by
Ron
Woollacott.
14 / 16
A
Woollacott
guide
to
burial
grounds
London
Borough
of
Southwark
~Burying
Past
Present
By
Ron of
in
This
2001
is ato
completely
revised
andcemeteries,
updated
edition
of
Southwark's
Places
first~Borough
published
grounds,
Southwark
private
past
and
present
municipal
Anglican
and
Nonconformist
burying
places
graveyards,
inand
the
London
private
burial
A5
softback,
74 and
pages
including
index,
black
andother
white
photographs
and
drawings.
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CAMBERWELL
OLD
CEMETERY:
bychurchyards,
Ron
Woollacott.
15 / 16
Road,
buried
short
East
there.
history
ofpages
the London,
former
Parish
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special
honour.
drawings.
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including
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with
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