Celebrity Graves

[Bibliogryphon 9,491]

Visited St Alban's Cathedral on Tuesday and saw the grave of the most recently deceased Archbishop of Canterbury  - Robert Runcie (He was formally Bishop there)

[Toast 16,026]

Runcie!   That was the AB of C I was trying to think of in the pub quiz last week. 

Would have been the wrong answer anyway.

[msc 18,375]

16 minutes ago, Toast said:

Runcie!   That was the AB of C I was trying to think of in the pub quiz last week. 

Would have been the wrong answer anyway.

 

Runcie, Carey, Rowan Williams, Welby - for an atheist that's not too bad. Oh and obvious Thomas Becket and Cosmo Lang from history. I had to look up Geoffrey Fisher even though he did the coronation for Elizabeth II and famously once beat the shit out of Roald Dahl (in his capacity as headmaster)!

 

I remember after Runcie died, my English teacher used it as a lesson when she was grumpy for years after, how Carey had appeared on the news that night and said he was "literally shattered" to hear the news. "He was not literally shattered, he was in one piece. Do not make similar mistakes in your exams or I shall be cross!"

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1 minute ago, msc said:

 

Runcie, Carey, Rowan Williams, Welby - for an atheist that's not too bad. Oh and obvious Thomas Becket and Cosmo Lang from history. I had to look up Geoffrey Fisher even though he did the coronation for Elizabeth II and famously once beat the shit out of Roald Dahl (in his capacity as headmaster)!

 

I remember after Runcie died, my English teacher used it as a lesson when she was grumpy for years after, how Carey had appeared on the news that night and said he was "literally shattered" to hear the news. "He was not literally shattered, he was in one piece. Do not make similar mistakes in your exams or I shall be cross!"

I remember Ramsey and Coggan prior to Runcie, which more lor less spans my entire lifetime, though if I'd been asked to list the last half-dozen I'd have missed Williams!

[An Fear Beag 1,505]

9 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

Visited St Alban's Cathedral on Tuesday and saw the grave of the most recently deceased Archbishop of Canterbury  - Robert Runcie (He was formally Bishop there)

 

Is this a new game of "Spot the Grave"? I'll give it a go. My guess is a bit obvious though - where the ground looks to have been disturbed:

 

 

 

[Bibliogryphon 9,491]

53 minutes ago, An Fear Beag said:

 

Is this a new game of "Spot the Grave"? I'll give it a go. My guess is a bit obvious though - where the ground looks to have been disturbed:

 

 

 

 

I was with Mrs Biblio who wasn't going to look kindly on me taking random headstone pictures.  She already thinks my family are "the sort of people who put the fun in funeral" so I didn't want to give her any more ammo. 

 

The Grave is actually on the far side of the Cathedral which is also the resting place of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester and St Alban

[Commtech Sio Bibble 1,977]

My friend and I went for a walk along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal and found our selves in Shipley so we then decided to visit the grave of Bryan Mosley as I knew he was buried there. Mosley was obviously best well known for his role as Alf Roberts on Coronation Street, who was killed off 6 years before I was born but my lack of social life has allowed me to watch him on Classic Corrie reruns and as a Doctor Who fan I'll also give an honourable mention to his role as Malpha in the brilliant Daleks' Master Plan.

 

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4 hours ago, Commtech Sio Bibble said:

My friend and I went for a walk along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal and found our selves in Shipley so we then decided to visit the grave of Bryan Mosley as I knew he was buried there. Mosley was obviously best well known for his role as Alf Roberts on Coronation Street, who was killed off 6 years before I was born but my lack of social life has allowed me to watch him on Classic Corrie reruns and as a Doctor Who fan I'll also give an honourable mention to his role as Malpha in the brilliant Daleks' Master Plan.

 

 

He was a big man, but out of shape.

[theoldlady 2,268]

Television & Film Screen Writer, Producer. He is best remembered for the television series, Rod Serling: "The Twilight Zone" and "Night Gallery." Born Rodman Edward Serling, the second of two sons in Syracuse, New York, to Samuel and Esther Serling, he was raised in Binghamton, New York, graduating from Binghamton High School. During World War II, at age 19, he joined the Army, serving from January 1943 to January 1946, and attained the rank of Technician 5th Class, where he was trained as a Demolition Specialist. He also became a paratrooper, and served in the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 11th Airborne Division. Although he was short, only 5 feet, 4 inches tall, he was a noted boxer on his regimental sports team. While fighting the Japanese in the Philippines, he was seriously wounded in the wrist and knee, and was awarded the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star Medal, and the Combat Infantryman's Badge, among many decorations. Due to his wartime experiences, he would later suffer from nightmare flashbacks for the rest of his life. At the end of the war, he was discharged and entered Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, on the G.I. Bill, where he graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Literature in 1950. He married his lifelong wife, Carol, on July 31, 1948; they would have two children. Following graduation, Serling took a staff writer job with WLW Radio in Cincinnati, Ohio. A lifelong chain smoker, Serling often smoked as many as five or more packs of cigarettes a day. In 1951, Serling moved on to television, writing scripts for Fireside Theater, the Hallmark Hall of Fame, Kraft Television Theater, and similar shows. In 1955, he wrote a play "Patterns" for Kraft Television Theater, and it became so popular that it was presented for a second time the following week, the first such show to be run twice consecutively; this made Serling noted by television moguls. Serling also wrote "The Rack" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight," both shows noted as perhaps the best of television drama. In 1959, Serling began a series for CBS television called "The Twilight Zone," in which Serling would introduce each episode. Fighting the television producers for artistic control, Serling won, giving him an opportunity to provide social messages in a science-fiction setting. The show proved to be an instant hit, and ran for five seasons. Of the 156 episodes, Serling personally wrote 92 of them. In 1970, NBC picked up Serling's follow-up series, "Night Gallery," an hour-long show that ran three tales during each show. Serling would write nearly one-third of the shows for "Night Gallery" during its three-year run. After that, Serling's stories from "The Twilight Zone" and from "Night Gallery" were published in book form as "The Season to be Wary" (1968). In his later years, Serling wrote screenplays for movies, including "Seven Days in May" (1964), a movie about an attempted military coup against the President of the U.S., "Planet of the Apes" (1968), and "The Man" (1972), a movie about the first Black U.S. President. In 1975, he suffered two heart attacks before he entered a Rochester hospital for heart bypass surgery. During the operation, he suffered another heart attack, and died the next day. His lifelong smoking habit was considered a likely cause of his death. During his long writing life, Serling had earned six Emmys for his work. About his life's work, Serling once said, "If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer."

 

[Toast 16,026]

For lovers of funerary art, I have just found this Facebook group.  It's a public group, so should be accessible to all.

 

Cemetery Arts

https://www.facebook.com/groups/742494956570217

 

"This is a Gallery for Funerary art, featuring Victorian era statuary, landscapes, mausoleums, and history. We are looking for skilled photographers and artists to contribute. We are not promoting religion. This is not a Paranormal interest group.

Please; No Cherubs...I just don't like them. Thanks for understanding. I don't mind a little Kitsch, but there's a limit. I prefer the old Victorian era art."