Sometimes stories pop out at you and this one (indirectly) involved one of our greatest statesmen. I was with Mark in Beckenham Cemetery recently and as we were looking over the graves infront of us, one inscription caught my eye. Geoffrey’s grave is the celtic cross – ‘Geoffrey H. Crabb who was accidentally drowned, June 6th 1927, aged 23 years’ Headstones that state the cause of death show a remarkable frankness and public demonstration of loss; it’s acknowledgment of priva

Sometimes stories pop out at you and this one (indirectly) involved one of our greatest statesmen. I was with Mark in Beckenham Cemetery recently and as we were looking over the graves infront of us, one inscription caught my eye. Geoffrey’s grave is the celtic cross – ‘Geoffrey H. Crabb who was accidentally drowned, June 6th 1927, aged 23 years’ Headstones that state the cause of death show a remarkable frankness and public demonstration of loss; it’s acknowledgment of priva

by Sheldon To say people mourned was an understatement. As the carriage passed through the gates of Bow Cemetery, thousands of mourners gazed upon the handsome horse-drawn carriage that contained the remains of a fighter. His coffin was barely visible beneath the floral tributes which only barely expressed the sentiment so many felt at his death. A fighter for social justice, the rights of workers and the personal nemesis of poverty. The year was 1921 and Will Crooks was dead

by Sheldon To say people mourned was an understatement. As the carriage passed through the gates of Bow Cemetery, thousands of mourners gazed upon the handsome horse-drawn carriage that contained the remains of a fighter. His coffin was barely visible beneath the floral tributes which only barely expressed the sentiment so many felt at his death. A fighter for social justice, the rights of workers and the personal nemesis of poverty. The year was 1921 and Will Crooks was dead