• The first person buried at Nunhead Cemetery was an 101-year old grocer called Charles Abbott and today there are almost 2,000 graves.
  • The Bereavement Services offices located in Camberwell New Cemetery remain open for service enquires via the kiosk service.
  • Well, my excuse was we were just up the road at West Norwood cemetery so it would have been rude not to pop into Nunhead, and probably one of the lesser...
  • By 1960 Nunhead cemetery was incorporated as part of United Cemeteries Ltd and maintenance of the cemetery was wound down.
  • Opening its gates to the public again in 2001 and through the efforts of Friends of Nunhead Cemetery as well as the local council and residents...
  • I decide to take the longer route to Nunhead Cemetery; down the canal, Limehouse Basin-bound, instead of the faster and more direct one down Whitechapel...
  • If you’re the sort whose cemetery visits start with a search for the oldest gravestone, the first person to be buried at Nunhead was a 101-year-old grocer from...
  • Although it’s the least well-known and well-kempt of London’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ Victorian cemeteries, Nunhead is well worth the pilgrimage to south east London.
  • With the assistance of lottery funding in the late 1990s, the Friends of Nunhead Cemetery (FONC) renovated the ruined chapel, restored the gates, walls and railings...