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Friends of Warriston Cemetery
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Friends of Warriston Cemetery was founded in 2013 to safeguard the heritage of the first garden cemetery in Edinburgh. We always welcome new volunteers. www.friendsofwarristoncemetery.com
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WARRISTON CEMETERY IS CURRENT CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WINDS.

We will update you after the council have completed an inspection and it is reopened. Thanks.
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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jpwarchaeology.bsky.social
Perhaps a representative from the Church of England might like to accompany me on a tour of mediaeval ecclesiastical buildings in their ownership so that I can point out the thousands of images of actual demons which they seem to have forgotten...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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jpwarchaeology.bsky.social
I'm back with a winter season of online talks, starting with Dating Ancient Buildings.

Join us on Tue 25 Nov to learn how to use archives, archaeology & dendrochronology to understand the age of historic buildings.

Booking is now open, here...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
October 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
fowarristoncem.bsky.social
We recently had an overseas request from to locate a gravestone. It took two visits to find it as it it was completely hidden inside years of ivy growth & was subsumed into a tree. Two hours of cutting back thick ivy strands eventually revealed the stone. #Edinburgh #Gravestones #Cemeteries
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
fowarristoncem.bsky.social
We are continuing to re-establish the concentric circular paths in Section O & one of our lovely new volunteers has been tackling this path & has cleared around this beautiful celtic cross gravestone. #Edinburgh #Volunteering #FriendsOfWarristonCemetery #GardenCemetery #Taphophile
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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scotchurchestrust.bsky.social
The first scientific evidence corroborating the medieval presence of the "Black Death" in Edinburgh has been identified in DNA present in the plaque on the teeth of a skeleton unearthed during archaeological excavations under St Giles Cathedral in 1981.

Story here 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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atcherleyons.bsky.social
#31DaysOfGraves Day 31: Memento mori

This winged skull appears beneath a wall-mounted tablet, in the chancel of St Mary’s in my #OnePlaceStudy parish of Fawsley, “In Memory of Lucy Knightley of Fawsley Esqr. who lyes interr’d near this place. He died unmarried, & left a considerable Sume of mony”
Photo of the lowermost part of a wall-mounted memorial tablet. The main feature carved into the whitish stone is a human cranium or skull, without its lower jaw, and, spreading outwards and upwards from beneath the skull, a pair of bat-like wings.
October 31, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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davelifelines.bsky.social
#31DaysOfGraves Day#31 Memento Mori

Seven years ago today I spent a fascinating hour or so wandering around Abercorn Kirkyard in West Lothian looking at all the Memento Mori gravestones.

Here are a few of the best...
October 31, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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chriswoodyard.bsky.social
#31daysofgraves #31 Memento Mori
A cadaver/transi slab, said to be for Jane Preston, at Stamullen, Ireland, carved with a decomposing corpse in an open shroud, tied at head and foot, c. 1450.
Many more photos at the link.
www.irishstones.org/place.aspx?p...
Grey stone slab carved with decomposing skeletal remains in a shroud
October 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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scotchurchestrust.bsky.social
Day 31 of #31DaysOfGraves - #MementoMori

We're ending this year's annual celebration of the art and heritage of grave memorials with this absolutely stunning 18thC stone from Garvald, East Lothian

Thanks to @annaandthedead.bsky.social for curating the themes again this year. Happy Halloween all! 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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oneplacestudies.bsky.social
Burial grounds or memorials—or communities within them—can be researched as #OnePlaceStudies, a brilliant blend of #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory. If that is something you’d like to learn more about, visit our website for more information. You can also download our PDF guide to one-place studies.
atcherleyons.bsky.social Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 27d
#31DaysOfGraves. Day 19 catch-up: Social Group. My Waters Upton #OnePlaceStudy began with the churchyard then grew to take in the parish, including its cemetery, & revealed social groups—people who worked / socialised / played / prayed together, communities within a community—in both burial grounds.
Two photos combined in one image. Above: part of a cemetery, where modern gravestones are arranged in rows across the grass. Below: part of a churchyard, where older gravestones in a variety of forms appear to be distributed a little more haphazardly.
October 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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graveyardgirly.bsky.social
Day 31: Momento Mori

Happy Halloween 🎃

#31daysofgraves
November 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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What cemetery plants mean: A horticulture extension specialist explains how flowers, trees and other botanical motifs honor those buried beneath #DayOfTheDead #DioDeLosMuertos
Symbolism of cemetery plants: How flowers, trees and other botanical motifs honor those buried beneath
Many plants and flowers have symbolic meanings, and their presence on a grave may reflect something unique about the deceased.
buff.ly
November 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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graveyardgirly.bsky.social
Day 30: Colour

I am a huge green moss and blue patina enjoyer.

York cemetery, North Yorkshire, UK.

#31daysofgraves
A cluster of Victorian gravestones in York Cemetery, in different colours surrounded by bare trees and a carpet of damp leaves. In the foreground stands a moss-covered headstone in a pale green, and the other white stone headstone has moss on the edges that almost looks neon. Other older, darker gravestones fill the background, giving the scene a quiet, reflective atmosphere typical of historic English cemeteries. A weathered 19th-century gravestone in York Cemetery, made of stone with a green-blue patina and ornate Gothic detailing at the top. The monument bears multiple inscriptions, divided by a central stone ridge. The stone stands among many other old gravestones, with fallen leaves on the ground and bare trees behind, a peaceful, autumn scene.
October 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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secretkeepingpro.bsky.social
I forgot this one the other day. #31DaysofGraves - Tree
October 31, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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jeelyeater1.bsky.social
#31DaysofGraves Day 31: Memento Mori In Cramond churchyard, Edinburgh.
October 31, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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nationaltrust.org.uk
When in the woods, best beware of dead man's fingers lurking there.
Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found.

Happy Halloween everyone.

Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman
Fungi growing in a woodland, it looks remarkably like zombie fingers reaching up from the ground
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 AM
fowarristoncem.bsky.social
#31DaysOfGraves Day 31: Memento mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die"); symbols or tropes acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death.The most common motif is a skull, but other motifs include a coffin, hourglass or wilting flowers to signify the impermanence of life. #Edinburgh
October 31, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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anjajessen.bsky.social
#31DaysOfGraves leftovers 1: Malcolm McLaren

#HighgateCemetery #London #FreakyFriday #BuffaloGirls
A very designed black marble gravestone with a sculptured head, a relief banner with writing above that and two capital letter Ms in a shield shape on top. It’s wonky, on grassy ground, other graves all around.
October 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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wolfq4.bsky.social
Happy #Halloween week 🎃
If you are looking for something different to do, come along to my free talk this coming Saturday. "Walking in the footsteps of the #Glasgow #Witches"
Sat 1 Nov • 1pm • Mitchell Library
More info via Eventbrite:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-in...
Screenshot of Eventbrite with info on talk "Walking in the footsteps of the Glasgow Witches" 1 Nov 2025 @1pm Mitchell Library, Moir Dyer room, Glasgow. Booking recommended but not required
October 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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chriswoodyard.bsky.social
#31daysofgraves #30 colour The grave of Rudolph Nureyev, who died in 1993, in the Russian cemetery at Sainte-Geneviève-des-bois, near Paris. It is a mosaic designed to look like one of the Kilim rugs that Nureyev collected.
nureyev.org/rudolf-nurey...
mymodernmet.com/rudolf-nurey...
A colorful patterned rug seems to cover a tomb. Tomb of Rudolph Nureyev
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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welwynarchsoc.bsky.social
#31DaysOfGraves day 30 colour. Either side of the #Grecian revival church at Ayot St Lawrence are two mausolea, one for Sir Lionel Lyde who commissioned the church and the other for his wife Rachel. This photo was taken at sunset. For those that care #Pentax K20D, SMC Pentax-DA 18-55mm kit lens. 1/2
The photo shows the mausolea at sunset. The photo is framed by the outer structure of rather dirty white rendering and a semi-circular arch. In the middle is a tall square monolith with a carved stone pineapple on top. The inside of the surrounding mausoleum is orange from the setting sun. In the background are blue skies with clouds coloured orange by the sun.
October 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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fotc.au
A symbol for charity can be seen on William Birkbeck's headstone in Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Australia - Portion 9, Section 16, Grave 9.
Charity symbol (a heart in the palm of a hand) on the headstone of William Thomas Birkbeck's headstone in Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Australia - Portion 9, Section 16, Grave 9. Close up of William Thomas Birkbeck's headstone in Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Australia - Portion 9, Section 16, Grave 9. Inscription reads: Erected by the members of the Manchester Unity Independent Order Of Oddfellows in memory of their well beloved brother William Thomas Birkbeck P.P.C.M. who died 19th March 1909 aged 61 years.
October 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
fowarristoncem.bsky.social
#31DaysOfGraves Day 30 Colour. Changing colours and crunchy leaves make for a perfect Autumn walk in Warriston. #Edinburgh #Autumn #WarristonCemetery
October 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM