London's newest Cemetery in 1900: Finchley Cemetery

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Arthur H. Beavan found this to say about Finchley Cemetery at the turn of the twentieth century in Imperial London, first published in 1901:

In 1900 the newest and most remote of the cemeteries was the one at Finchley (in those days almost in the country), attached to the St. Pancras, Marylebone, and Islington vestries, reached via the Highgate Archway.

Its site had been well selected, open and breezy, with fine and unexpected landscape effects from many parts of its well laid-out grounds.

Its picturesque lodges and chapels (there are no catacombs) were thoroughly up-to-date.

Graves were, at that time, few and far between, scattered about on grassy lawns overshadowed by trees of many years' growth.

As the parterres, etc, matured, and the shrubs grew bigger the cemetery became most beautiful.

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