Columbarium

Today, I went to visit my friend D who lives in Brookwood. Her house is quite near to the Brookwood Cemetery, also known as the London Necropolis. It was conceived in 1849 to house London's deceased, at a time when the capital was finding it difficult to accommodate its increasing population, of the living and dead. It is the largest cemetery in the UK. I knew it would take ages to have a good look round but I left home a little earlier so I could have a quick look. The small part I saw was very interesting and I will go back, perhaps in the Spring, to have a better look.

There have been many reburials there. The first was in 1862 when the routes into London's new Charing Cross Station meant the burial ground of Cure's College in Southwark had to be demolished, and the 7,950 bodies were taken on the London Necropolis Railway to Brookwood for reburial. 
In 2020 approximately 50,000 individuals' remains were reburied there as a result of exhumations to allow for the construction of the new HS2 Terminal at Euston Station.

The main Blip is a Columbarium - the largest  mausoleum in the cemetery. It was commissioned by Lord Cadogan but he later decided he no longer wanted to be interred there. It was bought from him in 1910, and fitted with shelves and niches to hold urns of cremated remains.
The extra is another mausoleum which caught my eye. 

Wandering around a cemetery is not to everyone's liking, but I do find it fascinating.