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When is a burial ground still a burial ground? City grounds on this webite are divided into 'existing' and 'lost' but the distinction is not always clear cut. Clearly a ground that is covered completely by a large office block is 'lost', but what about a site now paved over, with no indication as to its previous purpose? The burial ground of St Lawrence Jewry is a case in point. It is not built on, but now forms part of the pedestrian precinct in front of the Guildhall with no indication that it was once a burial ground.   Even further complications can arrive when buildings are demolished and a once built over ground becomes open space again. Lost or existing?
      
      Probably the only true definition of a lost ground is one that has been emptied of human remains, but that information is not always available, though interesting evidence comes from the website of Cherished lands Ltd., exhumation experts, who list all of the exhumations they have done in London since the sixties.  As it is, visitors to this site should not consider 'existing' and 'lost' as hard and fast definitions.

2008
Visited and updated photographs of St Lukes.

Visited and completed photographs of Shoreditch.

Have been in regular touch with Robert Bard, whose book on the London Burial Grounds is due out soon.  Robert has filled many photographic gaps.

Researching material from the Times Newspaper and adding it to the site - plenty more to add!

September 2008 - Have begun the task of transferring the site to a new server, which will provide much more space and enable me to enlarge the photographs. 

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