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unusual facts about crematorium



Beckenham Crematorium and Cemetery

Beckenham Crematorium and Cemetery is located between South Norwood Country Park and Birkbeck.

Brixton, Gauteng

Laid out in 1912, Brixton Cemetery has a historic Hindu crematorium which was organised by Mahatma Gandhi shortly before his departure from South Africa in 1914.

Clyde Lamb

At the age of 53, he died of pancreatic disease in Dublin, Ireland on July 8, 1966, and was cremated at the Belfast Crematorium in Northern Ireland on August 12, 1966.

Cremation in the Christian World

The first crematorium in Stockholm, Sweden was built 1874; in Finland, the Helsinki Lutheran Parish Union built its first modern crematorium in 1926 which is still in use.

Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park

Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park is located in the north-western Melbourne suburb of Hadfield, Victoria close to Fawkner, Victoria, Australia.

Fred Potts

His grave is at Reading Crematorium, whilst his medals are held by the Imperial War Museum.

Giuseppe Miggiano

Some of these achievements can also be contemplated in the Charleroi region, we note particularly his "Perseus" at the cultural center of Couillet and its "Gate of Eternity" present at the Gilly crematorium.

Gusen concentration camp

In 2009, New York artist Karen Finley installed a sculpture in the courtyard of the crematorium, Open Heart, which commemorates the death of 420 Jewish children over two days in 1945 by lethal injection to the heart, by Nazi doctors.

James Bulmer Johnson

He died in Plymouth, Devon, in 1943 aged fifty-three, and was cremated at Efford Crematorium, Plymouth.

K. Pathmanaban

His remains were cremated at the Hindu crematorium in Cheras and the ashes were taken to Port Dickson to be scattered in the sea according to Hindu rites.

Lodge Hill

Lodge Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, a cemetery and crematorium in Selly Oak, Birmingham, England

Mortonhall

It is perhaps best known for its crematorium, designed by Sir Basil Spence, which is considered to be an outstanding example of Scottish modern architecture.

Post-mortem photography

Irish photographer Maeve Berry finds an aesthetic compromise by capturing the burning embers of bodies within the funeral crematorium.

Sigismund Payne Best

His ashes were scattered in the Garden of Remembrance of the crematorium in Swindon.

Sonderbehandlung

In a letter dated January 29, 1943 by SS-Sturmbannführer Bischoff to SS-Oberführer Hans Kammler, Bischoff refers to basement morgue 1 of Crematorium II at Auschwitz as a "Vergasungskeller", literally "gassing cellar".

Spinneys

In the 1960s Arthur Spinney retired from active participation in the managing of the stores, and died in August 1973 in Littlehampton, Sussex, where he was buried in the Crematorium.

Strašnice Crematorium

The crematorium was involved in the disposal of those who had been executed by the Nazi and Communist regimes including writer Vladislav Vančura, general Josef Mašín, politician Milada Horáková and bishop Gorazd of Prague.

Thornhill Cemetery

Thornhill Cemetery is a major cemetery and crematorium located in the Thornhill, a northern suburb of Cardiff, south Wales.

Tri-State Crematory

The crematorium was founded by Tommy Marsh in the mid-1970s and was located in the Noble community in northwest Georgia, north of the city of LaFayette.

Vaidyanath Jyotirlinga

This place could have been a centre of tantric cults like Kapalika/Bhairava where Lord Shiva is worshipped significantly as smasan vasin (meaning, residing in crematorium), sava bhasma bhushita (meaning, smearing body with ashes of burnt bodies).

Westminster cemeteries scandal

The Westminster cemeteries scandal was a British political scandal which began in January 1987 when Westminster City Council (WCC) sold three cemeteries, three lodges, one flat, a crematorium and over 12 acres of prime development land in London for a total of 85 pence.

Westpark Cemetery

The cemetery's main Military Plot contains the Johannesburg Cremation Memorial to 69 Commonwealth service personnel cremated at Johannesburg's Braamfontein Crematorium during the same war.


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