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DJRVST

DJRVST

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Doe anyone know if images exist of the inside of the now demolished Key Hill Temple that stood in Key Hill Cemetery?
 
I did have a couple before my computer crashed I will see if I still have them.:)
 
Hello David.

Here is one of the inside of the Chapel.:) The other is of the Chapel when it fell into disrepair.:(

Wendy.
 
Thank you Wendy fits my memory of a look inside as a young child in the early fifties as best as I know.
When was the building demolished?
 
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Wendy said:
Hello David.

Here is one of the inside of the Chapel.:) The other is of the Chapel when it fell into disrepair.:(

Wendy.
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Hi Wendy, Thanks for showing the pictures of the Key Hill Temple.
My Grandmother and her daughter my Aunt were buried there.
I remember as a young child, I remember going with my mother and sister to look for their gravestones.
I did a drawing of the cemetery a few years ago.
All the best.

ladywood
 
Hi Ladywood did you find their gravestones?

A lovely painting not many people paint cemeteries, I thing they find the subject depressing........not me I love them tranquil and full of history.:)
 
Wendy said:
Hi Ladywood did you find their gravestones?

A lovely painting not many people paint cemeteries, I thing they find the subject depressing........not me I love them tranquil and full of history.:)
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Hi Wendy, It's not a painting, just a charcoal and pastel drawing.
When I finally got round to it, i.e. looking for my grandmothers and great aunts grave I couldn't find them. This was about 2000.
I'm not sure but I think half the cemetery was lost to road works and the graves were re-interned somewhere else.
That's just one more job on my list of tracing the family tree.

Since you quite like graves and graveyards [I do too] here are a couple of pen and wash drawings of graves.
The first two are at a place called Jordan's, which belongs I think to the Quakers, near Chorleywood in Hertfordshire.
It's William Penn, [of Pennsylvania] and his family. And there's a barn called the Mayflower Barn.
The third drawing is of grave stones in Evesham just next to Simon De Montforts grave, who I think with a French connection and maybe lost a battle in the 'Wars of the Roses'. I'll check it out.
Anyway glad you like me enjoy the quiet and reflection of a cemetery.
Last year an old friend and I visited the D Day beaches and quite a few Commonwealth War Cemeteries.
The Canadian Cemetery is very moving when you suddenly realise all the trees are Maples and the American Cemetery just above Omaha Beach is also very moving.

ladywood
 
Ladywood your pictures are very nice and unusual subjects!

The only graves moved at Key Hill cemetery were along the side of the cemetery when they built the Metro line. The remains were cremated and all the names are listed on large stones in a wall in a memorial garden situated above the catacombs.:)
 
Wendy said:
Ladywood your pictures are very nice and unusual subjects!

The only graves moved at Key Hill cemetery were along the side of the cemetery when they built the Metro line. The remains were cremated and all the names are listed on large stones in a wall in a memorial garden situated above the catacombs.:)
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Thanks Wendy, I'll go and have a look in the Memorial Garden.

ladywood
 
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