Continuing my series on my burial grounds calendar, here is the picture that greeted me when I turned the page this morning. I’m afraid I have to say it’s another disappointment :-(

This is St Bride’s Fleet Street, famous for it’s ‘wedding cake’ spire and for being, to quote their own claim, “the spiritual home of the media” (as Fleet Street was where the British newspaper industry had its beginnings in the early 18th Century).

There isn’t really a graveyard as such, which makes it a slightly odd choice for this calendar I think, although excavations after the destruction of the Second World War found the remains of over 7,000 individuals, dating largely from the Great Plague of 1665 and the London cholera epidemic of 1854.

Maybe next month will see a return to a better quality graveyard? I am resisting the temptation to look, and I live in hope!