being and becoming in the world
On Wednesday I visited Warriston Cemetery in Edinburgh. I did so in remembrance of a young woman called Cissy Pentney: Cecilia Pentney: R.I.P. about 6 pm, 5th July 1897. Photographs … Continue reading Warriston cemetery: the day before yesterday
Yesterday I came across this fallen tombstone in Warriston Cemetery. It was the grave of a child who had died in infancy:
Material that I have collected on ‘Dr Syntax’: 1820s’ John Sheriff: Early 1800s sketchbook and lecture notes by John Sheriff: Early 1800s sketchbook and lecture notes by John Sheriff: 1804 … Continue reading ‘Doctor Syntax’
I recently read this book by Peter Ross: This is a deeply moving book written by a man who observes much of what most of us fail to see! I … Continue reading Stone feathers, frozen mid-flight
This elegant angel stands in Warriston cemetery, Edinburgh. It was raised to remember two sisters: Elizabeth Charlotte Turnbull who died aged 15 months of Typhoid Fever: Ada Isabella Turnbull who … Continue reading Elizabeth and Ada [two girls singing]
This film is about a mausoleum in Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh. The mausoleum no longer survives as it was heavily vandalised and had to be demolished in the late 1980s [the … Continue reading ‘Tomb of the Red Lady’
Some years ago, in the archive of the The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, I came across a photograph of a tombstone with two angels … Continue reading Mrs Crudelius