Pinner Cemetery

Pinner Cemetery is not quite as bad as it was when Meller called it a "desperate wasteland". The chapel is neat and not unattractive; the hillside location could, with a little work, look much better than it does. Susan Dunford's red granite armchair is the only monument of note, but worth a visit. The rest of the site, if the sunken and lop-sided memorials could be tidied a little, and some landscaping done on the currently rather bleak hillside, would be a more pleasant place for the bereaved to visit. And visit they do: on the Saturday morning we were here, this was busy. A cemetery like this might not be forever, might not be worthy of preservation down the centuries, but while it's being used, it should be less bleak than Pinner currently is.

Filed under: London Cemeteries .

One Response to Pinner Cemetery

  1. Kaye Cottrell says:

    I am trying to find Grave 49, section E3. The name is Florence Garnsworthy.passed away 27th October,1955? Pinner Cemetary. I would be so grateful if anyone could tell me if the grave is still there, as I promised my Dear Mum on her deathbed last year in June, that I would try and locate this grave of her treasured Aunt, and come to London to lay flowers for her. Yours sincerely, Kaye.

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