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London Road Cemetery, Bromley
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Bromley's London Road Cemetery would be entirely unremarkable, a brick and stone chapel surrounded by forgotten, lopsided monuments, were it not for one magnificent specimen of memorial sculpture: the depiction of Edward Fuller in his best suit, being guided up to heaven by a coyly-smiling angel.
This is the oldest cemetery in Bromley, opened in 1877. It's now full and closed to new burials.
Wood Green Cemetery
Opened in 1995, this cemetery was just a few years old when these photographs were taken. New cemeteries are always rather odd and bleak.
Eastcote Lane Cemetery
Meller calls Eastcote Lane "small, modest and dull", and he is right. A small attempt to jolly the place up has been made by planting palm trees around the red-brick chapel, but this seems only the emphasise the mundanity of the rest of the site.
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