tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post6964486576236432377..comments2024-03-09T11:34:22.175+00:00Comments on The History Girls: GRAVESTONES AND EPITAPHS by Mary HooperMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-42055718163877468972012-06-27T11:27:28.837+01:002012-06-27T11:27:28.837+01:00Great post and pictures. This blog is a great comb...Great post and pictures. This blog is a great combination of suitable and useful information and well-written sentences that will certainly attract your sense towards <a href="http://www.customheadstones.net/" rel="nofollow">Gravestones</a> and Headstones.Headstoneshttp://www.customheadstones.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-80116345168806565982012-05-19T23:07:15.615+01:002012-05-19T23:07:15.615+01:00Thank you so much for all your comments. I have be...Thank you so much for all your comments. I have been away this week - in Switzerland - where my first call was to the graveyard of the village we were staying in. These were different in a lovely way: mini-gardens with rockeries and alpine flowers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-26441941422804243792012-05-16T20:38:03.599+01:002012-05-16T20:38:03.599+01:00My favourite stone is in Strata Florida Abbey: &qu...My favourite stone is in Strata Florida Abbey: "Here lies the left leg and part of the thigh of Henry Hughes Cooper". <br /><br />(The rest of him went to America).Jane Stempnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-5880428303210706912012-05-16T16:14:44.555+01:002012-05-16T16:14:44.555+01:00Love the epitaph! The mean man's tombstone mak...Love the epitaph! The mean man's tombstone makes me think of George Brassens's song against the man who finally 'fell victim to a critical indigestion/ and refused the care of medical therapy/because it was a German who had manufactured the medicine.'<br />'Il tombait victime d'une indigestion critique/et refusa le soin de la therapetique/ parce-que c'etait a un allemand/ Oh gai! Oh gai!/ Qu'on devait le medicament/ Oh gai! Oh gai!' Brassens didn't think much of patriotism.. Sorry for poor translation and lack of accents in the quote, can't get them here - the accents, I mean. I agree, old gravestones are far more interesting.<br /><br />Like the one to a man whose name I forget now, in Sonning-on-Thames churchyard. 'He loved and served sailors.' H'mmm..Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-79329730085546333902012-05-14T12:36:25.224+01:002012-05-14T12:36:25.224+01:00Great post. I usually enjoy a mooch round a gravey...Great post. I usually enjoy a mooch round a graveyard, but had a nasty experience on the Welsh borders in, I think, Burntisland. I found that very nearly every grave was of someone named Price...Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-54435716103287580182012-05-13T23:04:59.209+01:002012-05-13T23:04:59.209+01:00Yes, great post and pictures - the last one is par...Yes, great post and pictures - the last one is particularly fine, and the Elizabethan tomb is fabulous. My children's primary school necessitated a daily walk through a cemetery and I grew to love the inscriptions and the tiny clues it gave you about a life and a death. One, in particular, was intriguing: it simply read, if memory serves, <br />God forgive <br />Michael S...<br />I like your final ditty, too. Thanks, Mary.Linda B-Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01599899073420595717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-52232611095611363942012-05-13T19:50:26.799+01:002012-05-13T19:50:26.799+01:00I love old graveyards too, for the very same reaso...I love old graveyards too, for the very same reason. I've taken pictures of them--which earned me the epithet "wierd"... well, one of the reasons *wink*<br /><br />Nice post, enjoyed very much!Lorelei Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03294047277447613989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-21779376489836501072012-05-13T19:20:16.136+01:002012-05-13T19:20:16.136+01:00I love this post, too! I've loved exploring gr...I love this post, too! I've loved exploring graveyards & reading the epitaphs since I was a child. Thank you, Mary.H.M. Castorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716936870601385683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-40523577450336366082012-05-13T19:18:36.181+01:002012-05-13T19:18:36.181+01:00I love old gravestones! Today they're sanitise...I love old gravestones! Today they're sanitised by having to be a certain size & colour etc. It seems we're dictated as to how our gravestones can be. Yet the best graveyards & cemeteries are where the gravestones are all different.<br /><br />Having done a lot of research on my family tree, I love to look at the different gravestones and inscriptions. I like the ones you've pointed out here. :)Nikki - Notes of Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15116292112164268244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-30027413432228056492012-05-13T14:56:30.654+01:002012-05-13T14:56:30.654+01:00Great poat and photos.
I love graveyards too. I t...Great poat and photos. <br />I love graveyards too. I took an English friend into a Danish graveyard on one of the islands once and he asked why all the people on that island had been called Fred. Uh. Because that's the Danish word for peace. :-) Standard inscription, it seems.Marie-Louise Jensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18006940874591015786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-4219078165607992072012-05-13T13:03:02.755+01:002012-05-13T13:03:02.755+01:00Great photos - especially the last one. :-)
Last ...Great photos - especially the last one. :-)<br /><br />Last year, on the Welsh coast, I was looking at the graves surrounding a lovely little chapel overlooking the sea. Most of the graves were in Welsh, which I can't read, but the English ones, both ancient and modern, were all along the lines of "Life was tough, dead at last." It jarred with being in such a beautiful place, in a beautiful part of the world, but it seemed the local convention (unless local people were an inherently miserable bunch).<br /><br />One of the more modern ones implied an extremely long and arduous life, with death being a very welcome relief, and this was a fifty year old woman! I mean, she might have had a terribly tough life such that fifty years seemed like an overlong innings, but it seemed tragic that this was all that could be said about her. <br /><br />On modern graves, my boyfriend took <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/spw82/4956763310/in/set-72157624789624366" rel="nofollow">this photo</a> a few years back in the local modern cemetery - that scene certainly tells a story.The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-116853115942923752012-05-13T09:45:18.234+01:002012-05-13T09:45:18.234+01:00Fascinating - and that last picture in particular ...Fascinating - and that last picture in particular is chock-full of atmosphere. (Chock-full? Don't think that can be right...)I do agree about modern tombstones - I don't understand why there are all the regulations about what you can and can't have.Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-67056577551149935762012-05-13T09:41:04.676+01:002012-05-13T09:41:04.676+01:00This post is ideal for a sunny Sunday morning. Lov...This post is ideal for a sunny Sunday morning. Love it! I too am very fond of graveyards and tombstones. Thanks, Mary. Love that first poem...and the pix.adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.com