Mick Hartley

Among the many pleasures of Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington (not to be confused with the Seattle steampunk band) – the names of the departed:

Even better when they come with a moving epitaph:

Poor John Harold Quested Foat, alas, only made it to the age of nine:

Perhaps, when stuck for a name, Dickens wandered round here in search of inspiration.

More Abney Park pics below the fold (and previously here).