Dead Cold
West Norwood Cemetary, London, UK.

Camera Nikon D700 with 16-35mm Nikon Lense.
ISO 640, 1/640th sec exposure, f/5.6, 35mm.

Can be viewed much larger on Don’s Photography Blog

As the snow fell in South East London again, I couldn’t resist another visit to the local Cemetary. It’s always so atmospheric and beautiful once the whitness of the snow appears.

There are some really stunning monuments here and some very famous people’s graves.

Tate and Lyle {Sugar family}, Maxim {Machine Gun inventor}, Charles Haddon Spurgeon {England’s most famous Baptist Preacher}.

I’ll list a few more if anyone is interested?

Note Famous Burials in West Norwood Cemetery.
Main category: Burials at West Norwood Cemetery
More than 200 people in the cemetery are recorded in the Dictionary of National Biography. The Friends of West Norwood Cemetery have recorded and compiled biographies for many more of these with:

a large number of inventors, engineers, architects, and builders, such as Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of the automatic machine gun, Sir Henry Bessemer, engineer and inventor of the famous steel process, James Henry Greathead who tunnelled much of the London Underground, William Burges and Sir William Tite, gothic architects
many artists and entertainers, including: David Roberts, artist, William Collingwood Smith, painter, Joseph Barnby, composer and resident conductor at the Royal Albert Hall, Katti Lanner, ballet dancer, and actors E. J. Lonnen, Patsy Smart, Maria Zambaco and Mary Brough.
many notable medics, such as: Dr William Marsden, founder of the Royal Free Hospital and The Royal Marsden Hospital, Dr Gideon Mantell, the geologist and pioneering palaeontologist, and Sister Eliza Roberts, (Florence Nightingale’s principal nurse during the Crimean War)
many sportsmen, including C. W. Alcock, founder of Test cricket and the FA Cup, Georg Hackenschmidt, Anglo-Estonian professional wrestler.
There are also the ‘Great and the Good’ of the time, such as Sir Henry Tate, sugar magnate and founder of London’s Tate Gallery, Arthur Anderson, co-founder of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Paul Julius Baron von Reuter, founder of the news agency, and the Revd. Charles Spurgeon, Baptist preacher, Isabella Beeton (the famous cookery writer), who died at 28 in childbirth, to name but a few.

The Greek diaspora is well represented, including the Ralli family, Panayis Vagliano, Rodocanachi family, and Princess Eugenie Palaeologue