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Some cemeteries in London reuse graves after just 75 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Cemetery_and_Crematorium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by nly 2mo ago
Some cemeteries in London reuse graves after just 75 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Cemetery_and_Crematorium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Cemetery_and_Cr...
I have very vivid memories as a child of walking through Brookwood Cemetary in south east England seeing a big machine crunching up headstones. Vast swathes of the place was flattened. The cheat code here seems to be "topple testing" for health and safety reasons.
It's the UKs largest cemetery and in a shocking state:
https://lostlcp.com/brookwood-cemetery-reburials/ https://lostlcp.com/brookwood-cemetery-reburials/
- sam_lowry_ 2mo agoThere is a park in Brussels where you literally walk on alleys paved with tombstones from the Jewish cemetery. You can still see some of the inscriptions there.
- pocksuppet 2mo agoWhich park?
- sam_lowry_ 2mo agoGeorges-Henri
- masklinn 2mo agoOn the continent, afaik most countries work on a lease system, you rent a plot for a few decades (which may or may not be renewable). Some countries have a “perpetual” lease with an ongoing fee, a few years after the payment stops the plot gets cycled. ‘Course space requirements are also a factor, if you have a family plot in a depopulated village in the countryside odds are good plots will be cheap and renewable forever.
- lifestyleguru 2mo agoOld church with over hundred years old tombstones around it is literally an English landmark. Even in central London. Tombstones you mention belong to people from wrong social class.
- cm2187 2mo agoI am not even sure about social class. In any case these old cemeteries are preserved probably more as historical artefacts, like an old Roman wall would be in London, rather than out of respect for the dead.