War graves in Streatham Park Cemetery
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War graves in Streatham Park Cemetery
Image: © Marathon Taken: 1 Mar 2017
Streatham Park Cemetery opened as the Great Southern Cemetery in 1909. Up to the Second World War Streatham Park Cemetery accounted for one fifth of all burials in South London. It is a strange mixture with colourful gardens of remembrance near the entrance in Rowan Road, large mausolea not far from the entrance, and a 'street' of even larger mausolea, many to Italians, beyond the war memorial. Much of the rest of the cemetery is quite wild. The cemetery is reasonably attractive on a sunny day but when visiting on a gloomy day, I found the marble mausolea overpowering and extremely depressing. A more complete history is given at http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=MER056 The war graves, which are from the Second World War, are in a line as seen here and are quite a distance from the entrance. Sadly they are not in a special area as in many other local cemeteries - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3035400 and http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2528457
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