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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 10h

#31daysofgraves

Day 14: Inside

Holy Trinity Wordsley

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orsa-marga.bsky.social @orsa-marga.bsky.social · 5h

Day 14: Inside Tag 14: Innen
Just in case! Alarm clock to be used from the inside of the coffin. It is part of the sepulture museum at the #Zentralfriedhof #Wien
#31DaysOfGraves

orsa-marga.bsky.social @orsa-marga.bsky.social · Dec 15

'Glocken' #FotoVorschlag
"Rettungswecker" so konnte der Lebendigbegrabene die Glocke auf dem Kasten oben läuten von 1726 #Wien Bestattungsmuseum

Konstruktion aus Strippen und Hebeln, einem Kasten mit einer Glocke oben drauf, zwei kaum erkennbare Schilder zur Erklärung

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Remember It - Recuérdalo @recuerdalo.bsky.social · 5h

Inside the Fosse Ardeatine in Rome, the burial place of the victims of a #massacre of civilians carried out by German occupation forces in March 1944. (Link to the history in the comments). #31daysofgraves 14. inside. #WWII #LestWeForget #Memorial #Monument #Taphophile #massgrave #grave #photography

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Anja Jessen @anjajessen.bsky.social · 4h

The coffin of Joseph Lister, surgeon and antiseptic pioneer. Also the record holder in fastest leg amputation at 30s. His coffin had fallen apart so they had to give him a new one.

#31DaysOfGraves #Inside #HighgateCemetery #London #EastCoastKin

A cemetery vault with niches for coffins. Up on the highest shelf is a wooden coffin with an old metal sign on the front, lit by a spotlight.

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social @stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social · 4h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 14: Inside

Going back to the black glass-fronted Bannister grave from Day 8, I zoomed in to capture #Ladybirds resting inside the floral carvings of forget-me-nots and roses.

No greenfly on these roses, but they'd have found lots of red spider mites.

#LadyBugs

#Nature

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social @stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social · 4h

Put it in night mode.

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DJYP / Donald J Y Poirier @donbusking.bsky.social · 8h

White Lake #Pioneer #Cemetery Ontario Canada

Forest #Graveyard

Safe happy waves from Canada death is only the beginning

RIP

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social @stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social · 16h

Wow, just wow. As life and death just are, so nature just is <3

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social @stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social · 16h

Same for me, thank you for pointing to them.

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Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social · 1d

Today in #31DaysofGraves is Skeleton AND it's #MementoMoriMonday - so here is the very crudely carved cadaver effigy from St Dogmaels. Probably a prior or senior monk from the monastic community there.

Upper part of crudely carved cadaver effigy with shroud exposing face and ribs and clutched over lower part of torso

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Mach ich auch @machichauch.bsky.social · 22h

#31DaysOfGraves
12: Notable Woman
This grave in Kyôto ist supposed to be Murasaki Shikibu's. The author of Genji monogatari died prob. 1016. The location used to be temple ground and is today cared for by a neighbouring factory. She shares the space with calligrapher/poet Ono no Takamura (802-53).

Grave of Murasaki Shikibu in Kyôto: green enclosed space with a stone and the inscription, a small bowl before

Stone at the entrance to the graves to Murasaki Shikibu and Ono no Takamura: A stone, partly covered by green leaves and small flowers in pale violet colour, „murasaki“ in Japanese.

grey stone stele marking the grave of Ono no Takamura, a glass/plastic cup of water standing before. (Photos all by me 2015)

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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 19h

Day 13, Skeleton: I couldn't resist using today to highlight the amazing Paris Catacombs! Created in former underground quarries below Paris, the Catacombs were established in the late 18th century. The first cemetery transfered there was the Cimetiere des Innocents, in April 1786.
#31daysofgraves

A stone plaque is set in the centre of a wall of human skulls and femurs in the Paris Catacombs. The plaque reads 'Ossements du Cimetiere des Innocents Deposés en Avril 1786'.

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social @stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social · 16h

Let's just ask to clear up any misunderstandings: did the badger drag out the bone to make more space in his home?

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social @stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social · 16h

...I'm just going to let this develop...

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social @stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social · 16h

Lol, you know it!

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social @stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social · 17h

There was a huge squirrel burying nuts ...

But I think that belongs to the graveyard team -- gotta get that work done!

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Karen @songthrush83.bsky.social · 1d

Day 13 of #31daysofgraves - skeleton. Here’s a view of the wall that divides the churchyard from the cemetery, taken in 2019. Many of the bones in both places share DNA with my own, and I always feel connected to my ancestors when I’m up here.

A photograph taken in Codnor cemetery, close to the wall that divides the cemetery from the churchyard. The wall runs through the centre of the picture, rising slightly diagonally to the right. On the left, in front of the wall, is a Victorian gravestone which is leaning forward slightly. Beyond the wall is Codnor church with a large yew tree standing in front of it. The ground in front of the wall is covered with ivy and fallen leaves.

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Professional Secret Keeper @secretkeepingpro.bsky.social · 1d

Day 12 of #31DaysofGraves - Notable Woman

Historically notable (Eliza Hamilton)
Notable to me (my mom)
Notable in that I wish I knew her (Diane) - everybody dies but she lived

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 1d

Since it's Sunday, one more for #31DaysOfGraves, notable women
- a picture of Haworth Churchyard, resting place of Charlotte and Emily Brontë. It's a beautiful spot, but the photo gives an idea of how crowded it is - apparently somewhere in the region of 40,000 souls lie here, in quite a small plot

Haworth graveyard, Yorkshire. Ranks of gravestones among trees.

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social @stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social · 1d

So who gets it?

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social @stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social · 1d

These truly are the most notable of women.

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thefamilyarchives.bsky.social @thefamilyarchives.bsky.social · 1d

#31daysofgraves day 12 notable woman. My gg grandmother Maria Elizabeth Tavendale (nee Coveny), Waimangaroa, West Coast, #nz. She came here from #Liverpool as an assisted immigrant in 1878, age 19. She had 11 children, the youngest born 1900 (age 41). William died in 1901, so she raised them alone.

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Remember It - Recuérdalo @recuerdalo.bsky.social · 1d

Remains of a #grave in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Brindisi. #31daysofgraves 13. Skeleton (not quite, but the closest I could get) #funeraryart #memorial #photography #taphophile.

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social @stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social · 1d

Doesn't that make it a Momento Mori (Day 31)?

I soo wanted skull and crossbones to mean it's a pirate grave, but I'm just a silly swashbuckler at heart!

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social @stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social · 1d

With a bonus wasp!

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