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Darren Beach Interview

This week we continue our competition to win copies of Darren Beach’s handy pocket-sized guide, London’s Cemeteries. Darren’s book is the perfect companion to Brompton Cemetery and many of the other London cemeteries featured in the Deceased Online database . Our first winners, Carlos Amenguel Jackson from Mallorca and Rosemary Rowley from Macclesfield, were delighted to receive their prize copies. We hope to be adding the final set of Brompton records next week. Romanesque statues in Brompton Cemetery Recently, I caught up with Darren to find out more about his interest in cemeteries. He told me, ‘I've always been interested in London - my home town - and especially the awe-inspiring feel you can sometimes get from the traces left by its previous inhabitants. I don't really mean artefacts in museums, more the 'living' stuff in the streets with which we can look at social history, such as old railway lines, Roman ruins, and of course cemeteries. I...