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Woolwich Cemetery is in two parts, west and east, divided by Rockliffe Gardens. This is the Old Cemetery to the west, founded in 1856 by the Woolwich Burial Board. They laid out the 12-acre site which was formerly part of Plumstead Common. This is at the top part of the cemetery looking through the locked gate from Camdale Road. On a misty New Year's Eve in 2019 there is a certain melancholy. In fact these gates are always locked and the ones a little further along Camdale Road towards Rockliffe Gardens are open in daylight hours.

Woolwich Cemetery is in two parts, west and east, divided by Rockliffe Gardens. This is the Old Cemetery to the west, founded in 1856 by the Woolwich Burial Board. They laid out the 12-acre site which was formerly part of Plumstead Common. The inscription on the upright gravestone includes the words "In loving memory of Henry Pryce who peacefully passed away to his eternal rest 17th April 1885 aged 50. Also interred in this cemetery Charles Hesse Judson Pryce, died 31st March 1863 aged 9 months, Ann Mary Maria Pryce who died 29th October 1863 aged 2 years and 8 months, the dearly beloved children of Henry (the above named) and Maria Pryce. Also of Henry William Pryce the dearly beloved son of William H and Annie Pryce who died 11th August 1884 aged 4 months, And Lilian May Pryce who died 19th July 1887 aged 10 weeks, And of Maria Pryce the devoted wife of the above-named Henry Pryce who entered into rest 11th February 1892 in her 72nd year." A close up of the gravestone can be seen at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6425191

Woolwich Cemetery is in two parts, west and east, divided by Rockliffe Gardens. This is the Old Cemetery to the west, founded in 1856 by the Woolwich Burial Board. They laid out the 12-acre site which was formerly part of Plumstead Common. This is a close up of the gravestone seen at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6425114

Woolwich Cemetery is in two parts, west and east, divided by Rockliffe Gardens. This is the Old Cemetery to the west, founded in 1856 by the Woolwich Burial Board. They laid out the 12-acre site which was formerly part of Plumstead Common. This is the cemetery at the end of September when the autumn colours seemed to be coming early.

Woolwich Cemetery is in two parts, west and east, divided by Rockliffe Gardens. This is the Old Cemetery to the west, founded in 1856 by the Woolwich Burial Board. They laid out the 12-acre site which was formerly part of Plumstead Common. The Phipson memorial is in the distance - see https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2985089 The late afternoon light on the last day of October 2020 brings out the colours well.

Woolwich Cemetery is in two parts, west and east, divided by Rockliffe Gardens. This is the Old Cemetery to the west, founded in 1856 by the Woolwich Burial Board. They laid out the 12-acre site which was formerly part of Plumstead Common. This memorial in Woolwich Old Cemetery is to Margaret Flaunty who died in 1910 aged 57 and to her husband Edward who died in 1940 aged 87.

The Princess Alice was a pleasure steamer that sank on the evening of Tuesday 3rd September 1878 in the greatest tragedy ever seen on the Thames. It had been sliced in two by the Bywell Castle, a coal ship. Only 69 out of the 700 passengers survived, many of those who died were poisoned rather than drowned due to the polluted water of the Thames. The point where the boat sank was close to where the Southern Outfall Sewer discharged raw sewage into the river at Crossness. Thousands of people attended the mass funeral of 120 of the victims held at Woolwich Old Cemetery on Monday 9th September (although then it was called just Woolwich Cemetery as the New Cemetery did not open until 1885). The Celtic cross monument marking the grave was paid for by the sixpenny donations of 23,000 people.

On this side the inscription explains that the memorial is to Thomas Barroll Phipson who died in 1865 and to Sidney Lovell Phipson, his youngest son, who died in 1929. On the other side is an inscription commemorating Thomas' eldest son Temple Leighton Phipson-Wybrants, who died on his 34th birthday, November 29th 1880 while in command of an expedition exploring the Sabi River, Eastern Africa. "His body recovered through his mother's devotion October 7th 1881 rests here." See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2985094 and also http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10845547

On the other side of this memorial, the inscription explains that the memorial is to Thomas Barroll Phipson who died in 1865 and to Sidney Lovell Phipson, his youngest son, who died in 1929 - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2985089 On this side, the inscription here commemorates Thomas' eldest son Temple Leighton Phipson-Wybrants, who died on his 34th birthday, November 29th 1880 while in command of an expedition exploring the Sabi River, Eastern Africa. "His body recovered through his mother's devotion October 7th 1881 rests here." See also http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10845547