My trips out and about to take photographs do seem to be taking on a bit of a funerial air this year!
Today I was down in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, behind Mile End tube station – another closed cemetery with a similar history to Abney Park which I visited several weeks ago. Burials ended in 1966, and it’s been designated as a nature reserve since 2000, with a group looking after it – the Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. In fact when I was there today the members were busy carrying out some clearance work near the main entrance. Like Abney Park it also has war memorials dedicated to (relatively) recent events – there are monuments both to soldiers killed in the World Wars and one dedicated to the civilians killed in the area during the bombing raids of the Blitz.
Again it’s a very restful place and, unlike Abney Park, it was virtually empty of people when I visited. Anyway I hope you enjoy the photographs I took today 
Our feathered friends put in another appearance on this visit too – but this time in the form of a huge murder of crows who were hanging around, keeping their beady eyes on me… a bit creepy!
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| From Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park March 2010 |
