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Offline PJWELLS

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Re: Camberwell Old Cemetery
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 21 December 24 21:12 GMT (UK) »
A very apt description, it is a mound indeed, along a 50 m stretch.
I wonder if there  are any images of it before the mound  was created.

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Re: Camberwell Old Cemetery
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 21 December 24 22:05 GMT (UK) »
If the section was full of common graves then it be be an expanse of grass. Any municipal cemetery will have sections for common graves.
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Re: Camberwell Old Cemetery
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 22 December 24 01:56 GMT (UK) »
I have photos of 10-20 miniature headstones, as used on common graves, now laid flat alongside the mound and around trunks of trees in squares 8, 16 & 24 and which may have come from the mounded area. I won't have time to look up where each of them came from this side of Christmas, but I can check the surnames if anyone cares to ask. Sorry, no Wells there.

The office (at Camberwell New Cemetery) might have photos of the original area and any headstones that were removed. They photographed those from squares 100-108 (mainly) alongside Underhill Road which have just been relandscaped for reuse. They published a list of plot numbers and names (which I have) and would even let you take away your ancestors' headstone :)
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