Reply To: The book club

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Georgie

    Well that’s a weird coincidence (or, more likely, the result of spending too much time in the company of Mister Bryant), but only three or four days ago I was Google-mapping Brookwood cemetery and wondering if I might take a drive over, but from what I can see not much can be seen from the road other than the walls.  I can’t really go and park and take a stroll around, which I would love to do, being a bit of a fan of old cemeteries and graveyards.  It led to reading about the ‘Magnificent Seven’ new cemeteries for the London dead and, by extension, the Necropolis Railway.

    You can still follow the route of the branch line down from the main railway station (now called Chapel Avenue) to Cemetery North station (demolished) and across the road, parallel to Cyprians Avenue, to Cemetery South station – where the St Edward Brotherhood Church and Monastery now are, but the buildings don’t look station-like, so I think that station has also been demolished.