Here are some photos taken recently of Bancroft Road Jewish Cemetery. We have written a number of articles on the state of this cemetery and these show that some tidying up has been done. Unfortunately many of the tombstone inscriptions…
We were recently contacted by a sharp-eyed researcher who suspected we had a duplicate entry for Benjamin Woolf. Normally, such duplications are relatively easy to look into, albeit administratively very much harder to rectify! But not so in the case…
The serendipity of the random Google Search occasionally drops an unexpected sugar plum in your lap.. One such dropped into ours recently: a book entitled “An historical and topographical description of Chelsea, and its environs, Volume 2” By Thomas Faulkner.…
We set up The CemeteryScribes project in 2008. Our aim was to photograph and record the information inscribed over the centuries on headstones in Jewish cemeteries across the country before its irrevocable loss to the ravages of acid rain, urbanization,…
In the course of our travels around the UK, we have visited many Anglo-Jewish burial grounds, from the peaceful walled historic London cemeteries in Aldernery Road and Brady Street to the sloping, depleted expanse of West Ham, but nothing compares…
In 1177 Henry II gave a licence for Jewish communitites to have a burial ground in any city in Great Britain. The Jewbury cemetery is about an acre in size and is now beneath a car park. The site was…
Please click on the photos for more information and note they are Copyright L B Saunders. The Ohel, Green Farm Road, is protected against vandalism and the plaques are from the Cathedral Road Synagogue which was sold several years…
In a recent article in the Jewish Chronicle ‘I didn’t want a traditional headstone for my father’s grave. But what was the alternative?’ Stephen Games describes how he commissioned a unique tombstone for his father, in strict conformation with the four prerequisites imposed by the…
