Abney Park Trust Messages

Re: WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:14:58 GMT

There is something very strange and compelling about the Abney Park Cemetery and the park. I definitely have to have a look at it someday. But all the educational activities and the volunteering opportunities are enough to keep you busy for quite a long time, and just a look doesn't sound as if it would do at all.

I have had on my shelf Roy Hattersley's book Blood and Fire about the Booths and have been meaning to read it for a long time, but when I looked at the list of people buried at Abney Park their names came up first, and so down came the book. I think maybe I should read it.

Christopher

chmorrison At frontiernet.net

Proposal for a Memorial Wall (example of St.James')

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:39:50 GMT

Preferred Style of Carved Grave Kerb

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:37:50 GMT

Preferred Memorial is at path edge only

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:34:58 GMT

Preferred Memorial is at path edge only

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:25:50 GMT

Preferred Style of Carved Grave Kerb

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:18:41 GMT

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Tue, 30 May 2006 21:25:27 GMT

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Re: THE TRUST

Wed, 17 May 2006 20:33:35 GMT

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Trust Proposals Planf

Sat, 13 May 2006 16:42:37 GMT

ABNEYFUTURES: The Trust's 'Conservation Plan'

These web pages set out

RIBA STAGE D BRIEFS

Sat, 13 May 2006 16:42:26 GMT

TRUST PROPOSALS PLAN:

ABNEYfutures Conservation Plan

1. Introduction

These web pages set out the RIBA Stage A-D briefs that form part of the Trust's ABNEYfutures 'Conservation Plan'

Context

The Trust's Conservation Plan is designed to enable the Trust's proposals that relate to built works, to be developed up to the level of detail required to meet the first part of the RIBA scheme (stage D). When complete, the Trust's Conservation Plan will cover stages A to D (highlighted in blue below).

RIBA stage 1 (stages A,B,C & D)

Part A Ideas Plan/Feasibility Study for discussion. This includes site visits to take measurements and to consider scheme design, and follow up meetings with clients.

Part B Discussion and refinement of initial proposals leading to preparation of scheme design suitable for submission for Planning Permission/Listed Building/Conservation Area consent if required.

STAGE 2 (RIBA stage E)

Design of construction, structure & drainage etc. suitable for submission for ‘Full Plans’ Building Regulations approval.

STAGE 3 (RIBA stage F,G & H)

Production information e.g. details of windows, electrical and heating layout, kitchen and bathroom layouts. Co-ordination of information from specialist suppliers/sub contractors, structural/mechanical consultants. Preparation of specifications, schedules etc for ‘going out to competitive tender’ or negotiations with selected builder.

STAGE 4 (RIBA stages J,K & L)

Appointment of builder. Negotiating savings - see below. Preparation of the contract. Issue of drawings and specification for construction. Administration of the contract on site for the contract period. Visiting site as necessary to check on progress. Answering queries & suppling additonal information as required by builder. Assessing value of work completed as work proceeds and advising stage payments. Inspection at end of defects period and preparation of draft final account.

BRIEFS - ABNEYFUTURES

Sat, 13 May 2006 16:35:53 GMT

BRIEFS for ABNEYFUTURES Plan

These pages set out the briefs prepared by the Trust to guide development of its ABNEYFUTURES plans i.e. the Trust's emerging 'Conservation Plan'

Proposals plan cover

Tue, 09 May 2006 18:55:25 GMT

Trust Proposals Plan cover

burials

Sat, 06 May 2006 16:40:35 GMT

Please note that the Trust does not handle requests or permissions for burials and there are no longer any rights of burial at Abney Park . Anyone asking for a discretionary or courtesy burial permission, must direct their request to Hackney Council, who will sometimes grant consent in an existing plot where a family member is already interred provided it accords with access and other estate management duties and purposes.

What they said about Abney Park Cemetery...

Sat, 06 May 2006 16:38:48 GMT

Famous Quotes

Found in a Victorian edition of The Eclectic Magazine , edited by John Holmes Agnew & Walter Hilliard Bidwell:

... Abney Park would no more be confounded with the exemplar of a Christian cemetery, than our joint-stock propietary schools are with Winchester or Eton, or a stuccoed 'place of worship', with the parish church.

...the irreverencies of Abney Park or the fripperies and frigidities of Pere la Chaise...

Found in London by Day and Night, chapter 14 - Reminiscences of the Past, by David W.Bartlett, 1852:

...There is a beautiful cemetery in Stoke Newington, and it was given to the inhabitants by Lady Abney, who was a sincere friend to Dr. Watts. There is in it a pretty little church, where funeral services are performed by all denominations of Christians. Lady Abney was very liberal in her religious views, and the cemetery is, with its church, open to all alike, and though its grounds were never consecrated, yet many rigid churchmen have been buried in it...

...There is no quieter burial spot within a dozen miles of London in any direction, and there are cedars of Lebanon in it, wide lawns, and beautiful flowers. There is an old clergyman in the church, who is always ready to officiate for a small fee on funeral occasions. He is over eighty years old, his hair is like the snow, and he is a fit companion to such a solemn place...

...One shining evening, with a female friend we visited the cemetery, and stopped in the little Gothic chapel to talk with the venerable clergyman. The tears actually sprung over his eyelids when we said that we came from America. "Ah!" said he, "I have two fine boys there!" Almost every family among the poor respectable classes in England, has some member, or relation in America. The old man asked a thousand questions about the wonderful far land of liberty in the west..

Found in On the Planting, and Managing of Cemeteries, by J.C.Loudon, Ivelet Books reprint 1981, introduced by J.C.Curl:

Vaults: One of the best examples, on a small and economical scale, is the public vault in the Abney park Cemetery.

The educational aspects of cemeteries were strong at Abney Park Cemetery, London, where trees and shrubs were labelled for the enlightenment of all those who walked there..

Loudon approved of Abney Park Cemetery because of the excellence of the planting that formed 'one of the most complete arboretums in the neighbourhood of London, all the trees and shrubs being named'...

Found in Congregationalism by Susan Thorne:

Those who had been villified during the 1790s as politically subversive and socially disreputable 'descendants of the Puritans' would increasingly be viewed as the 'thinking, active influential classes, the modern movers and shakers of our world' Or so the Rev. Thomas Binney put it (Opening Address, Congregational Yearbook, 1848)

Found in a Victorian periodical below an engraving of the new statue to Isaac Watts

As a place of sepulture.. and ornamented both by nature and art this beautiful cemetery must have attractions for the most unobserving and the least reflecting... a more picturesque and accessible spot... it would be difficult to find.

The words of the Rev. Thomas Baker Abney Park Cemetery: A Complete Descriptive Guide, 1869

In the midst of the grounds stands a very beautiful chapel, rearing its graceful form above that 'long row of reverend elms' consecrated by Watts to his friendship with Gunston... It is one of the most interesting and appropriate of the class of structures adapted solely for burial purposes; and embosomed among the ancient and stately trees, the whole forms a picture of nature and art combined, not easily to be surpassed.

Abney Park has never receieved Episcopal consecration; every portion of this cemetery is accessible to all parties, without distinction or preference.

The original prospectus opened with the following sentence: 'The object of this cemetery is the establishment of a general cemetery.. which shall be open to all classes of the community... without restraint in forms.'

The words of the cemetery chaplain, the Rev. J.Branthwhite French, Walks in Abney Park1883

The ear, also, which is attuned to sweet sound, may drink the joyous melody of the feathered tribe. the nightingale, the thrush, the blackbird, the linnet, and the lark are not strangers, but sojourners here.

In the words of The Secret Cemetery, by Doris Francis, Leonie Kellaher & Georina Neophytou, 2005

Tha annual Bronterre O'Brien oration similarly makes the contribution to society of this leading nineteenth-century Chartist and Nonconformist, who is buried at Abney Park Cemetery. Very mixed groups celebrate his Irish non-Catholic origins, along with his political status. For instance the oration during the fieldwork period was delievred by Arthur Scargill (a once prominent trade unionist) and attended by people from ethnic Irish, socialist, and trade union groups, and also by local people, including family groups.

A review of research on natural landscapes in urban areas, sponsored by English Nature, documents many of the reasons Abney Park is valued as auniquee communityresource. It suggests that contact with nature, particularly areas with woodlands and paths through low vegetation - the environment of Abney Park Cemetery- provides emotional sustanance and engenders feelings of calm, serenity and restoration.

Lotus Carvings

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:05:46 GMT

Wood mouse

Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:32:46 GMT

many zoned polypore

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:13:38 GMT

dryads saddle

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:18:26 GMT

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Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:03:03 GMT

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Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:58:23 GMT

Lucombe

Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:18:48 GMT

Lucombe leaves

Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:12:51 GMT

volunteers

Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:59:54 GMT

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butterflies

Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:37:10 GMT

primrose

Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:21:28 GMT

sketchers

Wed, 07 Jul 2004 08:47:56 GMT

in woods

Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:23:52 GMT

Children

Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:15:29 GMT

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Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:27:33 GMT

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Upcoming Events

Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:07:05 GMT

Childrens’ Workshop
Running over two weekends this workshop begins in the first week of November. Find out about the the local habitat.

History
Lecture series on Stoke Newington in Victorian times. Time 7.00pm Friday 4th December at the education center.

Wildlife Walks
Running over two weekends this workshop begins in the first week of November. Find out about the the local habitat.

Volunteering
Running over two weekends this workshop begins in the first week of November. Find out about the the local habitat.

Green Woodwork Sessions
Running over two weekends this workshop begins in the first week of November. Find out about the the local habitat.

Special Events
Running over two weekends this workshop begins in the first week of November. Find out about the the local habitat.

Abney Park Trust Messages

Re: WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Proposal for a Memorial Wall (example of St.James')

Preferred Style of Carved Grave Kerb

Preferred Memorial is at path edge only

Preferred Memorial is at path edge only

Preferred Style of Carved Grave Kerb

ASCEweek

ASCE event

Abney Park Cemetery Trust

ASCE

Re: THE TRUST

Trust Proposals Planf

RIBA STAGE D BRIEFS

TRUST PROPOSALS PLAN:

BRIEFS - ABNEYFUTURES

Proposals plan cover

burials

What they said about Abney Park Cemetery...

Lotus Carvings

Wood mouse

many zoned polypore

dryads saddle

Go london volunteers - walking the log 2

Go london volunteers - walking the log

Go London Volunteers

trunk walk 2.jpg

Lucombe

Lucombe leaves

volunteers

Server Admin Test 5

Server Admin Test 3

Server Admin Test 2

Server Admin Test

Server Admin Test

butterflies

primrose

sketchers

in woods

Children

wildflower 3

test1

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