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From Brooke Street to Brookwood
From Brooke Street to Brookwood
by Brian Parsons
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Paperback, with 75 pages, and 28 illustrations in colour and black & white
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From Brooke Street to Brookwood: Nineteenth Century Funeral Reform and St Alban the Martyr Holborn Burial Society explores the history of nineteenth century funeral reform and the activities of the burial society attached to the church of St Alban the Martyr, Holborn in London.
The contents are:
The Nineteenth Century: the Context of Change
S Alban the Martyr Holborn Burial Society
The Death and Funeral of Fr Mackonochie
The Lych Gate
Into the Twentieth Century
An Appraisal of the Burial Society
Appendix 1: S Alban’s Burial Society: report of Committee to Meeting of S Alban’s Parish Burial Society
Appendix 2: The Funeral of Fr Mackonochie
Appendix 3: The Funeral of Fr Stanton
Appendix 4: A Poem (1913)
Appendix 5: The London Necropolis (Our Cemetery)