#abney

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Abney the cat edit @didik2023v2

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Abney in Utah

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Street art “Snoopy” signé de l'artiste Nina Chanel Abney toujours là sur les murs de l'Hôtel Citizen le long du Canal Saint Martin, Paris, janvier 2021.

[londiniumlundene]

Abney Park Cemetery

Opening in 1840 as the fourth of the “Magnificent Seven” garden cemeteries of London, Abney Park is perhaps the most different of them all. Laid out in grounds that once belong to the 17th Century Abney and Fleetwood Houses, the site was never consecrated, as it was to be the new non-denominational cemetery for London (replacing the City’s Bunhill Fields). Additionally, and uniquely amongst the garden cemeteries, Abney Park was also designed to be an arboretum, with around 2,500 varieties of plants.

The gates of the park were built in Egyptian Revival style, complete with hieroglyphics translating to "the Gates of the Abode of the Mortal Part of Man" – a move that some felt was too much of a departure from traditional Christian architecture, whilst others praised it for its reflection of the cemetery’s nonconformist nature. Likewise, the centrally located Gothic chapel was deliberately designed to be nondenominational, as it did not show any bias towards a single Christian sect’s architecture.

Like all the other garden cemeteries though, by the mid-20th Century Abney Park was full, and the decrease in revenue from burials led to serious neglect. In 1973, Save the Abney Park Campaign was set up, securing English Heritage designation as a registered Historic Park and Garden, with Grade II listing for the chapel and gates in the 1980s. The following decade, a visitor centre was opened, and the cemetery was declared a Local Nature Reserve. Restoration work continues to this day, and the Abney Park trust frequently runs education, training and community events.

One major ongoing project is to find out more about those who are buried there. There are of course the notable burials, including William and Catherine Booth, founders of the Salvation Army, and Frank and Susannah Bostock, Victorian menagerists buried, appropriately, under a statue of a large lion. Amongst those less well known people though are Betsi Cadwaladr, a nurse who served in the Crimea and often disagreed with Florence Nightingale; Daniel Halse, a detective constable who was among the first on the scene to the murder of Catherine Eddowes (the fourth canonical victim of Jack the Ripper) and pushed for greater preservation of the crime scene; Nelly Power, a famed songstress and male impersonator in her day; and Margaret Graham, a seemingly fearless aeronaut who was the first British woman to make a solo balloon flight, and later survived several balloon crashes and fires.

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I made my gay centaurs get engaged

Anyone caught heavily referencing/tracing/plain stealing my art/designs will immediately be reported for art theft, you do not have permission to use this artwork in any way, shape or form

[mintxlimeade]

Abney | Vee

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Street art "Snoopy" signé de l'artiste Nina Chanel Abney sur les murs de l'Hôtel Citizen le long du Canal Saint Martin, Paris, mars 2020.

[therealricksanchezpleasestandup]

Mama's home. Mama's had to deal with two versions of her psychotic tween daughter all day. Mama's gonna drink an entire bottle of wine and smoke a pack of cigarettes in the span of an hour, probably.

Yep. That makes two of them.

"Wanna talk about it?"

Also pass the alcohol while you're at it.

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