Investors in Death. The story of Nunhead Cemetery and the London Cemetery Company and its successors
Details:
- Author(s) Woollacott, Ron
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2010
- Pages 126pp; illus
- Publisher Friends of Nunhead Cemetery
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with the creation of London Cemetery Co and Nunhead Cemetery, their subsequent histories, and their decline. Chapters include: 'Historical background'; 'Nunhead Cemetery'; 'The Buxton affair and the ups and downs of recovery'; 'A new century, renewed prosperity and two World Wars'; 'The demise of the London Cemetery Co and closure of Nunhead Cemetery'