Abney Park Cemetery, London. Tightly packed paupers graves. These were actually one step up from a pauper’s pit where the poor or unclaimed bodies would be buried, often without an inscription plaque listing who was interred there. The price for one of these small headstones was around a shilling and for a further one penny you could have a name inscribed on it.
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02 February 2010
Abney Park Paupers Graves
Abney Park Cemetery, London. Tightly packed paupers graves. These were actually one step up from a pauper’s pit where the poor or unclaimed bodies would be buried, often without an inscription plaque listing who was interred there. The price for one of these small headstones was around a shilling and for a further one penny you could have a name inscribed on it.
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