Hither Green Cemetery
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Hither Green Cemetery
Image: © Marathon Taken: 24 Aug 2010
Founded in 1873, Hither Green Cemetery is now home to one of the largest flocks of ring-necked parakeets in London. It also sadly contains the mass grave of 33 victims of the bombing of Sandhurst Road School in 1943. A total of 38 children and six members of staff were killed in the attack on this Catford school. See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1211133/Survivors-remember-day-Luftwaffe-massacred-38-pupils-London-school.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhurst_Road_School_Disaster
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