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Building Stones in the Brookwood Cemetery 24th September 2000

In conjunction with The Brookwood Cemetery Society, London Branch presented a chance to stroll under the whispering Surrey pines on a (wet) September Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately, Di Smith was not able to lead the trip, but Brian Harvey and Sue Hay were able to step into the breach. John Clarke of the Cemetery Society was on hand to talk about the history of the Brookwood Cemetery and the London Necropolis Company.

If you want to visit the Cemetery yourself (well worthwhile), the The Brookwood Cemetery Society runs regular guided walks.  Visit their website for details www.surreyweb.net/bcs/

Click on the compass for a location map  

All photographs © Paul Hetherington

Brian gives a preliminary talk on the cycle of rock formation. Guess what the weather was like!

The effect of frost and rain on a memorial.

This beautiful memorial is made from a metamorphic rock showing signs of incipient re-melting

John Clarke tells us about the former cemetery railway

This tomb is made from an unsaturated igneous rock

Not even our experts were able to identify its origins

The Sir Charles Lyell memorial - the father of modern British geology

This burial in the form of barrow is of a Dorset historian.  The standing stone is made from Serpentinite - from the Lizard

This memorial is over a 100 years old, but has not weathered at all.  It is made from artificial Coadstone - the secret of making it died with its inventor

This memorial is of another geologist - Harry Seeley FRS FGS FLS. That logo looks familiar!

 

After the walk, and after the rain, a chance to buy some of the Cemetery Society's literature
 

 

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