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Derelict London & The Underground

2004-10-16

My Mum is a Londoner, in it. It is rare to spend a long time looking through a website for more than an hour, without moving on...and two websites have me facinated by their content today. Derelict London . com explores the state of some of London's places, transport and cemerery

My Mum is a Londoner, in it. It is rare to spend a long time looking through a website for more than an hour, without moving on...and two websites have me facinated by their content today. Derelict London . com explores the state of some of London's places, transport and cemerery's left to fall to rack and ruin. Here is an extract from the Cemetery pages: Woodgrange Park Cemetery, Manor Park : In 2000, there was a lively correspondence about Woodgrange Park Cemetery in Manor Park [East London] and some of the headstones to be used on the Emmerdale Farm [ TV soap] set in Yorkshire, prepararatory to the sale of part of of the cemetery for housing. The London Evening Standard carried a full page report and pictures on the work of exhumation. The pictures are of a piles of discarded coffins and a large JCB at work as men sift through the soil for bones. The Graves of East London civilians killed during the worst raids in the Blitz are being bulldozed today to make way for flats. ...the remains of about 15,000 people are being dug up and bagged in plastic bin-liners. .....Screens were erected around the graves but residents of flats overlooking the site said they have been shocked to se…

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