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The former site of the Hardy Tree - the ancient tree was blown down in 2022 and only the roots and graves remain. Famously, as a young architect, Thomas Hardy supervised the removal of graves to make way for new railway lines, gathering the headstones around the tree in St Pancras old Church. Famously Vampyr author John Polidori’s grave is here. #graves #graveyard #ThomasHardy #bookstodon

Love this flower memorial which is being created in the Necropolis, Glasgow's main Victorian cemetery. It marks a common grave where 8,094 people were interred. When visiting the Necropolis, it's easy to focus on the ornate monuments created for the upper echelons of Glasgow society set on the top of the hill and forget that this was a burial place for all.

Between the 13th and 15th of March 1941, the German airforce dropped over 250 tonnes of bombs on Clydeside, killing around 1,200 people (half in Clydebank and half in Glasgow). This gravestone in Eastwood New Cemetery is a reminder that to this day, not all the bodies of those who were killed were ever identified. It's one of half a dozen similar stones in a row tucked away at the back of the graveyard.