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Ranulf Road, LONDON, NW2 2BT

Memorial to fallen service personnel. Beyond, houses in Ranulf Road along the northern boundary of the cemetery.

Hampstead cemetery is divided between consecrated and non-consecrated ground. The latter contains numerous non-Christian burials which reflect the cosmopolitan nature of northwest London.

Hampstead Cemetery was consecrated by the Bishop of London and opened in November 1876. It is 26 acres and is designed in the Egyptian style. This is near the northern edge. The Bianchi monument can just be glimpsed on the left - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4355049

Hampstead Cemetery was consecrated by the Bishop of London and opened in November 1876. It is 26 acres and is designed in the Egyptian style. The Bianchi monument dates from the 1930s and commemorates the early death of the opera singer wife of an Italian restaurateur. On the left is a scene of the Bianchi family sitting on a bench and cradling their infant son.

To the fore is the grave of Charles Forte 1908-2007 'Hotelier and Caterer, Philanthropist, Great Patriarch'. Behind, the grave of Mordaunt Allen Gwynne who died in 1910, is a listed monument described thus Pedestal with sculptured angels on plot raised by kerbing. c1910. By EH Mills, monumental mason of Hampstead. Stone. Inscribed and draped oval pedestal surmounted by 2 sculptured winged angels in flowing robes assisting the soaring spirit of the deceased, hands joined in prayer and gazing heavenwards, also in flowing robes. Kerbing, with moulded cornice and inscribed with the mason's name and address, enclosing rectangular plot.

Abeokuta and Ido Ekiti are both cities in the southwest of Nigeria.

There are good numbers of mature trees on the perimeter of the cemetery as well as bushes, creepers and scrub around the graves, all of which help towards supporting a considerable variety of birdlife especially in this less trimmed western area.

Arthur Pearson 1866-1921 was born in Somerset, became a journalist and then a newspaper proprietor, founding Pearson's Weekly and the Daily Express, which was the first newspaper to carry news rather than advertisements on its front page. He went blind from glaucoma in 1911 and when he became aware of the plight of soldiers who had lost their sight during WW1 he founded St Dunstan's, a charity to care for and rehabilitate blind ex-Service people. (The flaming torch on the gravestone is its symbol.) He also supported the Boy Scout movement and founded a charity, Pearson's Fresh Air Fund, to give poor children country outings. see http://pearsonsholidayfund.org/annualreview2002/ABreathofFreshAir.htm