St Saviour's Southwark has some good reports describing this burial ground at various times: 1822 - a report of a body-snatching incident; 1839 - a report of its over-filled "repulsive" condition; c 1861 - bodies exhumed by the Charing Cross Railway Company; June 1987 - more bodies found by workmen.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Ewer Street Burial Ground
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Ewer Street burial ground
Ewer Street Burial Ground {On the small information board:} Site of Ewer Str...
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Our Lady of the Assumption Deptford
Originally founded as a mission in 1842, it was built to serve the local Catholic community, many of whom had come from Ireland to work on the railways and in the shipyards.
1 memorial
Wandsworth Chapel
From The Story of Congregationalism in Surrey we discover that the claim on the plaque that there was a church/chapel erected here in 1573 is more tradition than truth. The early Wandsworth Pres...
1 memorial
Clapham Sect
A group of evangelical Christians, who worshipped at Holy Trinity Church in Clapham and centred on William Wilberforce, who campaigned for the abolition of slavery and other religious, philanthropi...
4 memorials
Robert Travers Herford
Unitarian minister, scholar and interpreter of Judaism. In addition to the information shown on his Wikipedia page and of his religious studies on the encyclopedia.com website, we know that Robert...
1 memorial
Prebendary Wilson Carlile
Born Brixton. In 1882 founded the Church Army, an evangelical organisation aimed at the poor in London and then during WW1 among the troops in France. Prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral. Known as "t...
1 memorial
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