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West Norwood cemetery is in south London and is one of the magnificent seven. Norwood cemetery is 40 acres of land
and has a anglican chapel there which has a crematorium chapel two minutes away from the anglican chapel. West Norwood
cemetery has one catacomb that was closed due to smallpox and is recently undergoing works to the roof and other stuff to
allow people to go in there. In the inter-war years burial spaces ran out so the lambeth councill began bulldosing monuments
and doing reberials over the top of other coffins. West Norwood hold guided tour on the first sunday of every month
2.30pm for tours between April and October and 11am between November and March.
Notables at Norwood
a large number of inventors, engineers, architects, and builders, such as Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of the automatic
machine gun, Sir Henry Bessemer, engineer and inventor of the famous steel process, James Henry Greathead who tunnelled much
of the London Underground, William Burges and Sir William Tite, gothic architects
many artists and entertainers, including:
David Roberts, artist, Joseph Barnby, composer and resident conductor at the Royal Albert Hall, Katti Lanner, ballet dancer,
Patsy Smart, TV-Upstairs, Downstairs actress, and Mary Brough, actress in Aldwych farces
many notable medics, such as:
Dr William Marsden, founder of the Royal Free Hospital and The Royal Marsden Hospital, Dr Gideon Mantell, the geologist and
pioneering palaeontologist, and Sister Eliza Roberts, (Florence Nightingale's principal nurse during the Crimean War)
many
sportsmen, including C. W. Alcock, founder of Test cricket and the FA Cup, Georg Hackenschmidt, Anglo-Estonian professional
wrestler.
There are also the 'Great and the Good' of the time, such as Sir Henry Tate, sugar magnate and founder of London's Tate
Gallery, Paul Julius Baron von Reuter, founder of the news agency, and the Revd. Charles Spurgeon, Baptist preacher, to name
but a few.
The Cypriot and Greek diaspora is well represented, including the Ralli family, Panayis Vagliano, Rodocanachi family,
and Princess Eugenie Palaeologue.
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