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Recent Posts
- Resting in Peace
- Martha Gunn and the Kings Evil
- A & AH Wilds and the Ups and Downs of Life
- Hanover Chapel Vault: Enough to Wake the Dead
- The Lady Eldona At Her Tower
- A Life Too Full To Fit – Sake Dean Mahomet
- Coded Mortiquaria
- Hilbers the Blood Royal Homeopath
- Laurentia Dorothea and the penniless portrait painter
- From revolution to nobility – the Baronesses Erskine
- Within the Vaults – Outlaws and Others
- Henry Smithers: Our most recent deceased.
- James Justinian Morier and the Adventures of Hajji Baba
- Sir Matthew Tierney: ‘The Bloody Baron of Brighthelmstone’
- Ghosts of the stones: if not the bones
- How to Empty a Graveyard
- How to Fill a Graveyard
- Smoaker Miles: Phantasmagoria, Swimming with Dr Johnson and other stories
- Stanley Stokes and the Lynch Mob – East Street 1836
- Captain Custard and the Northern Extension
- Henry Tuppen and how giving to the Poor at Christmastime set him up before the Beak.
- Lord Byron, Class War and the price of a Decent Send Off
- Buried ‘neath the snow
- Sir Richard Phillips and the skull of Cardinal Wolsey
- The Deathly Pyramid
- ‘The Log of a Jack Tar’; James Choyce 1777 – 1836
- John Rowles and the Battle of Tar Tub
- The Honest Hairdresser
- Conversation with the dead
- Graveyard Hauntings
- A Rest Garden Factuary
- Into the Labyrinth
- The Double Death of Anna Maria Crouch
- Mr Weiss and his Instrument of Certain Death
- Corporal Staines
- Martin Archer Shee (1789 – 1850)
- Funerary Violin and the Forgotten Vault
- Historical disorder
- The Great Clearances
- The Bound Man
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Henry Tuppen and how giving to the Poor at Christmastime set him up before the Beak.
It was Boxing Day 1825, and Henry Tuppen was enjoying a midday meal with his family at a house on Grand Parade. One of the ladies present, Miss Faithful, was sitting at the window of the drawing room, and … Continue reading
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Lord Byron, Class War and the price of a Decent Send Off
Originally placed at the grave close to the Church Street boundary and the monument to Anna Maria Crouch, but removed during the clearances of the late 1940′s, a headstone bearing the following inscription: To the memory of HARRIET daughter of … Continue reading
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Buried ‘neath the snow
Barroness Erskine Henry Tuppen Sir Richard Phillips
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