Tag: flowers

• Strolls in the Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

  

  I was making full use of my recent membership of the British Library and delving into their archives to explore ye olde books on Cemeteries. I came across one such book that was written in the 1860’s for the Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery; imagine Bradshaw’s Guide, which was written as a timetable and guide to…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  March 21, 2017

  Architecture, Engineering, Furniture, Photography, Railway

  Brighton, Daffodils, flowers, gothic, Locomotive, Parliament, Rastrick, Rocket, Spring, Sussex, train, Urpeth, Vanity

• Flowers Die and Hair Grows

  by Christina Let’s start today with some fun facts that will become relevant further on. First of all, did you know that the practice of putting flowers on graves was used in Ancient Rome in order to give the spirits a comforting and decorative environment in which to roam about? (Although the practice of laying…

  irismacro

  March 6, 2014

  Memorial, opinion

  bloom, blue, Death, flowers, hair, horticulture, irises, loss