I visited Charlton Cemetry recently in the hopes of tracking down my great nan and grandads graves, however I was unable to find them. Charlton Cemetery is a working cemetery, as was affirmed when I got quite a scare by a grave digger appearing from a hole! Many of the graves here are so old that the grave stones have been weathered away and the engravings have completely dissapeared.
As with all the other cemeteries that I have visited the most popular statue appears to be that of an angel, however it was very noticable here as there were rows populated solely by angels lined up next to each other.
Although nothing unusual about this statue itself I was struck by the way the eye area has been marked over time. This, along with the fact that she is almost completely hidden undermeath tree, to me it gives the woman a strange and un-angel like appearance. She has definatlely become one of the most unique things I have witnessed in a cemetery so far.
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