"The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality." (c)

"Вecause I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality."
 Emily Dickinson

Nunhead Cemetery is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London. The cemetery is located in the Nunhead area of southern London and was originally known as All Saints' Cemetery. Nunhead Cemetery was consecrated in 1840 and opened by the London Necropolis Company.
Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the Magnificent Seven Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London. The first burial was Charles Abbott, a 101-year-old Ipswich grocer and the last, a volunteer soldier who became a canon of Lahore Cathedral.
 Nunhead Cemetery was opened in 1840, but by the middle of the last century the cemetery was nearly full, and so was abandoned by the United Cemetery Company. This neglect led to the cemetery gradually changing from lawn to meadow and eventually to woodland.
It was reopened in May 2001 after an extensive restoration project funded by Southwark Council and the Heritage Lottery Fund. Fifty memorials were restored along with the beautiful Anglican Chapel, designed by Thomas Little. The cemetery contains examples of the magnificent monuments erected in memory of the most eminent citizens of the day, which contrast sharply with the small, simple headstones marking common, or public burials.