Tower Hamlets Cemetery
Tower Hamlets Cemetery - also The City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery and locally Bow Cemetery - is a cemetery in the East End of London near the Mile End underground station .
Established in 1841 as the last of the Magnificent Seven , the cemetery was closed for funerals in 1966. The complex has been owned by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets since 1986 and the surrounding brick wall and 16 grave monuments are on the National Register of Buildings. Since May 2000 the cemetery has been a nature reserve and has been expanded to a park with additional areas including Scrapyard Meadow. A reopening of the cemetery as a multi-denominational burial place for the 21st century is always under discussion.
Graves of famous people
- Rees Ralph Llewellyn - performed the autopsy on Mary Ann Nichols , the first victim of Jack the Ripper
- Alexander Hurley - singer and comedian, second spouse of Marie Lloyd
- John "White Hat" Willis - first owner of the Cutty Sark
- Will Crooks - Trade union member and first Labor Mayor of Poplar
- Hannah Maria Purcell - widow of William Purcell, ship's carpenter of the Bounty
- Major John Buckley VC - Defender of the Delhi Magazine in the Sepoy Rising of 1857
- some victims of the Bethnal Green disaster
Web links
- Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
- Friends events at THCP ( Memento from January 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '24 " N , 0 ° 1' 41" W.