Cemetery alert! Come on down; 6.30 tonight at The Last Tuesday Society, 11 Mare Street, Hackney: it won’t be gloomy I promise.
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Roger Bowdler
@RogerBowdler
Historian of tombs & buildings. Formerly Grade I lister at Historic England. Now Montagu Evans. London DAC, Armourers, Royal Hospital, PSSA (sculpture)
Hampstead, Middlesex
Joined June 2015
- That is exceptionally sinisterly droll: great spot!SKULL SUNDAY Peeking out from under their burial shroud, beneath a heavy grave slab. This skull fixes us with its cold, deathly stare. It’s reminding us that we all share the same destiny. Memento Mori …… be ye ready.
- Thanks Tanya: a novel tribute - an AI ode!AI Ode to this magnificent Edinburgh Palm! :-) Ode to the Outlier Against the granite, grey and cold, You stand defiant, green and bold. A burst of tropics, misplaced, grand, Amidst the kirk’s dark, shadowed land. No desert heat, just haar and mist, By Scottish salt and
- It will be lovely to have your company looking at the beauties of tomb sculpture…💥 Have you booked for our online TALK this week? Sculpture in the Garden of Death: Tendencies in cemetery memorials 1840-1940 by @RogerBowdler 👉 Thurs 7th May 6.30pm 🌟FREE for PSSA Members BOOK here pssauk.org/event/spring-s…
- La Cambe German Military Cemetery west of Bayeux. Deeply Germanic as you would expect. Designed by Robert Tischler. Opened 1961. 21,000 burials (10% SS). Basalt crosses, groves of oak, tumulus: huge contrast with Allied sites. Superb info centre, very powerful. @Volksbund
