General Chat

Postmans park is a gem, just round the corner from St Pauls, really worth going to visit,if in the area

http://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/gf-watts/watts-london/postmans-park

Found this video of St Pancras Old Church.....................

http://youtu.be/p_3y2Rc2oGw

Thanks for that link Mr M, shows the graveyard really well, but what's with the woman who's doing the talking, how put on does she sound :-D

Postmans Park, with little memorials to people who died in unusual circumstances.

Very crowded on a Summer lunchtime, with workers sprawled all over the grass.

Go on a quiet time, and stand and read all the plates.

Visited Postman's Park about nine months ago after Lynda mentioned it on another thread. Lovely peaceful little spot and the memorials are very moving but some of the facts may be distorted.

I photographed one that could just remotely have been an ancestor. A lady had saved another whose dress caught fire and in the process lost her life. My brother then spent some time checking the story out with newspaper reports etc. and the memorial plaque was completely wrong. The person named as the heroine who saved an actress whose dress caught alight was in fact standing in the wings at the theatre when the actress rushed off stage in her burning clothes. As she rushed by the heroine's dress was set alight and tragically she burnt to death. It was a theatre manager who saved the actress and he isn't mentioned at all.

It turned out not to be my ancestor, after all.