Summaries of publications - Friends of Nunhead Cemetery
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A GUIDE TO THE GRAVE SYMBOLS IN NUNHEAD CEMETERY by Jeffrey M. Hart and Ron Woollacott
This publication is intended to help the visitor to the Cemetery of All Saints, Nunhead (to give it its formal title) to understand and appreciate much of the symbolism associated with the Victorian concept of the 'celebration of death' and that of subsequent generations. They are found on many of its 44,000 monuments commemorating around 288,000 people buried here.
A5 softback, 32 pages with illustrations.
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A GUIDE TO THE GRAVES OF NUNHEAD NOTABLES
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by Ron Woollacott
A reprint of Ron's original guide of 1986, prepared to assist readers who want to find the graves of the personalities featured in the first and original edition of NUNHEAD NOTABLES published in 1984. Both publications have long since been out of print.
A5 softback, 8 pages with map and illustrations.
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BURIED AT NUNHEAD: Nunhead Notables volume 4 by Ron Woollacott and Michèle Louise Burford.
Actors and actresses, journalists and authors, artists and a sculptor, master mariners, a bare-fist pugilist and four crickerters. Chartists and social reformers, officers of the Royal Navy, veterans of the Crimean War
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including a survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade. Veterans of the American Civil War, the New Zealand War and the Boer War. These and more are among the interesting personalities of the past that have long since been forgotten and deserve to be remembered.
A5 softback, 130 pages with photos and illustrations. Also Grid Plan of Nunhead Cemetery (showing square numbers).
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THE GREAT VANCE (The Enigmatic Mr Peck Stevens): by Ron Woollacott and Michèle Louise Burford
The Life and Career of a Great Victorian Music-hall Luminary buried at Nunhead Cemetery.
The Great Vance was one of the greatest luminaries of the Victorian Music-Hall, who delighted working class audiences throughout the land with his numerous character impersonations and comic songs, and went on to entertain aristocrats and royalty. He was one of a group of comedians known as the Lion Comiques, who parodied top-hatted 'upper-class toffs', 'mashers', or 'swells', sporting Piccadilly weepers (long curly sideburns), Piccadilly windows (monocles), waxed moustaches, and more often than not wearing spats and carrying a walking cane. They sang and strutted on stage singing the praises of drinking, spending and womanising.
Who was the man known as 'The Great Vance'?
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A5 softback, 98 pages with illustrations.
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NUNHEAD CEMETERY AND THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO: by Jeffrey M Hart
The story of the Waterloo campaign and those soldiers who took part in it and now rest in peace in Nunhead Cemetery.
Contains the detailed biographies of eight brave soldiers: three privates, a corporal, a
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lieutenant, two captains, and a lieutenant-colonel. All were involved in the Waterloo campaign and their graves can be found in Nunhead Cemetery.
Part One - the Path to Waterloo Part Two - Nunhead's Waterloo Veterans Part Three - Near Neighbours
Intended for the general reader with an interest in Nunhead Cemetery or the battle of Waterloo or intrigued by the connections between the two. Providing an understanding of the significance of this great battle and a flavour of the lives of some of the individuals who played a part in bringing about the end of the global conflicts known as the Napoleonic Wars.
A5 softback, 178 pages with illustrations (some colour) and map.
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BURIED AT NUNHEAD: Nunhead Notables volume 3 by Ron Woollacott and Michèle Louise Burford.
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