Cemeteries in 1900 London: Victoria Park Cemetery

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Arthur H. Beavan continued his survey of London's cemeteries at the turn of the twentieth century in Imperial London, first published in 1901, with this description of Victoria Park Cemetery:

Victoria Park Cemetery, a dismal place, passed on the Great Eastern line beyond Bethnal Green, is thickly studded with children's graves, chiefly of the poorer classes from the overcrowded parishes round about.

Pathetic indeed were the efforts made by the sorrowing parents to adorn the little mounds where their treasures lay; scallop and mussel-shell, glass vases, bead work, miscellaneous china and tinsel ornaments, were all pressed into service; for flowers would not grow well, and the hardiest of shrubs drooped and withered in the uncongenial soil and atmosphere of this part of East London.

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