Tombs and towers: a view of Birmingham from Witton Cemetery
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Tombs and towers: a view of Birmingham from Witton Cemetery
Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 10 Aug 2012
The gravestones in the foreground are characteristic of a period that started in the First World War and lasted into the 1960s. The style is in marked contrast to the elaborate memorials of the Edwardian and late Victorian periods. It seems a fair assumption that from 1914 onwards quarrymen and stone and monumental masons were in increasingly short supply: a simpler, more economical style was a commercial necessity that, with its Art Deco flavour, was accepted by the bereaved as affordable, modern and secular.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.523566
Longitude
-1.880131