EARTH TO EARTH - A Guided Tour of Nunhead Cemetery

With 52 acres and nearly 300,000 burials, Southwark’s Nunhead is the second largest of London’s magnificent seven cemeteries. Founded in 1840, just before a Cholera epidemic plagued the borough, Nunhead became a sombre sanctuary entwined with tales of maritime connections due to the cemetery’s proximity to the Thames and her dockyards. The grandest tomb belongs to John Allan, a successful Whitby-born shipowner whose…