Not a way to treat a lion - Streatham Park Cemetery
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Not a way to treat a lion - 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. This attractive lion is near the centre of the cemetery and is one of the more interesting memorials so I cannot understand what possessed somebody to allow a modern headstone dating only from 1981 to be placed right in front of the lion. A more complete history of Streatham Park Cemetery is given at http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=MER056
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