Anna Fairley Nielsson
Photographer and archaeologist undertaking AHRC-funded research into the archaeology of Liverpool's cemeteries 🪦 She/her 🏳️🌈
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- Reposted by Anna Fairley NielssonThis afternoon, @tealcartoons.bsky.social and I visited San Michele Cemetery. It's one of my favourite spaces in Venice - a whole island of the dead! Here's a thread on some of the more unusual graves we came across. /1
- Help please! I'm putting together a big research proposal that will involve investigating C19th-early C20th burials in Liverpool, Dublin and NYC. If anyone knows of anyone in Dublin & NY who would be helpful for me to talk to/work with, or specific locations of interest, pls drop them here?! 🪦
- Reposted by Anna Fairley NielssonSomething a bit more cheerful! Today I made a snowman for the first time ⛄️ 📍Nant Ddu 🪦 #Wales
- Reposted by Anna Fairley NielssonThe chart shows the distribution of burials per year at Lister Lane Cemetery from 1842 to 1963.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley NielssonDay 29: Occupation Joseph Bonomi (1796–1878) sculptor, traveller, and pioneer Egyptologist. #31daysofgraves
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31daysofgraves Day 24: Unique Animal. A pair of griffins (I think?) on the tablestone for Leonard Chester, 1648, in Wethersfield, Connecticut. It is one of the oldest dated gravestones in New England, and it was carved by my distant grandfather(s), Matthew and/or George Griswold.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley NielssonDay 24 #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'unique animal'. Ive taken a bit of a liberty and chosen a reptile 🐢 But I couldn't not share this wonderful tortoise. 📍St John the Baptist, Aylmerton, Norfolk
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#Halloween quilt via Sylvia Schaefer, Flying parrot Quilts #WomensArt
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31daysofgraves Day 31: Memento Mori. Henry Robe, 1807, at Copp’s Hill Burying Ground in Boston. Carved by William Bartlett. I know it’s supposed to be an hourglass that he is holding, but I prefer to think of it as the reaper unwinding and enjoying a cold beer after a long day of harvesting souls.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31daysofgraves Day31 #mementomori ‘remember (that you have) to die" Morebattle Cemetery Kelso Scottish Borders One engraved in the exterior wall of the church Another on the cemetery wall One a headstone I think we get the message!
- Reposted by Anna Fairley NielssonLegacies in Stone will create many opportunities for people to get involved in local historic #graveyards. #LocalHistory #genealogy #Edinburgh #31DaysOfGraves ewh.org.uk/legacies-in-...
- Reposted by Anna Fairley NielssonThe last day of #31DaysOfGraves 31: memento mori. These symbols seem to be very common here in Scotland. Here are just a few from Stirling and Northumberland. Thanks so much for sharing all your pictures. I've really enjoyed seeing them. Thanks too to @annaandthedead.bsky.social for organising! 🎃👻🎃👻
- Reposted by Anna Fairley NielssonDAY 31: Memento Mori. Last one. It's been a pleasure to participate in #31DaysOfGraves. I've learned a lot and meet very interesting people while starting to acclimatize to Bluesky. Thank you @annaandthedead.bsky.social 🙂 Cemetery of Staglieno (Genova, 08/2015) Digital stereo pair / i3Dsteroid
- #31DaysOfGraves Day 31 - Memento mori: Joseph Tapping's headstone at King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Mass. 😍☠️⌛. Died 1678, aged 23y. FUGIT HORA! Time flies! Today is the end of 31 Days. Thank you SO much all who joined me.
- #31DaysOfGraves - I can't just stop at one though! Here's some more memento mori from Brechin Cathedral, Angus. Archives record the deceased as Donaldson, "some time mason Brechine", died 1724, and Isabell Fletcher his spouse, d.1723.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley NielssonDay 30 of #31DaysOfGraves - Colour A wide array of varied species of lichen and mosses provide most of the colour that visitors see when wandering around historic Scottish graveyards...
- Reposted by Anna Fairley NielssonA windmill on the headstone of John Whittowe, the parish miller, at Hilgay, Norfolk, 1891. He's shown unloading the cart and carrying a sack of grain into the mill. #31DaysofGraves 29: occupation
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31DaysOfGraves Day 30: COLOURS - Yesterday I found wonderful autumn colors in the cemetery. The yellow of the large ginkgo tree shone particularly beautifully against the grey sky. And I even found time for a quick sketch. 🤗🎨🖌️ Cemetery Lütgendortmund 📍 #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #Germany
- Reposted by Anna Fairley NielssonDay 30 #31daysofgraves - colour. A red, blue, gold and white Christogram inlaid on the headstone of William Righton who died aged 31 in 1867. I’m impressed at the durability of this decoration, considering it’s over a hundred and fifty years old.
- #31DaysOfGraves Day 30 - Colour: Coloured tiles on the monument to Daniel McCoy of Carrickmacross, d.1868, buried at Ford Cemetery, Liverpool.
- #31DaysOfGraves Day 29 - Occupation: I haven't seen many women's occupations on C19th memorials. Ann Wallace was a corset maker, died 1857. At Nellfield Cemetery, Aberdeen.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31daysofgraves day 28 - column. I know I’m slightly cheating by posting a photo of a grave I used for another prompt but I remembered I have the original paperwork for it: “best York stone coursing, best White Hard Sicilian Marble Column Headstone, Kerbs, and Posts, as design selected.”
- #31DaysOfGraves Day 28 - Column: Well a round tower is basically a column... Kate Mary Scott & her husband Anthony (an architect) are commemorated by this depiction of an Irish round tower (cloigtheach) at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31DaysOfGraves "Tree" This grave in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, marks the resting place of George S. Bangs. While serving in the administration of Ulysses Grant, Mr. Bangs developed the railroad mail car. This achievement is memorialized in the base of the stone tree.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31DaysOfGraves Day 27: Tree Tree on gravestone at Lister Lane Cemetery.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31daysofgraves Day 27: Tree. This gravestone for Jonathan Chaffe, 1818, shows a tree that has been cut down, representing the end of life. It is located in Hampden, Massachusetts. Carved by an unidentified carver, possibly from Longmeadow.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31DaysOfGraves Day 27: Tree. Trees on tombstones. In the Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh.
- #31DaysOfGraves Day 27 - Tree: Most depictions of trees on memorials in Liverpool are willows on headstones made of Welsh slate. 1/ Toxteth Park Cemetery 1859, 2/ St Michael's Garston 1873, 3/ Anfield Cemetery 1883, 4/ St James' Cemetery 1885.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31DaysOfGraves Day 26 - Figure I've always loved this angel with a star on her head in the General Protestant Cemetery in St John's, NL
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31DaysOfGraves Tag / Day 26: Figur / Figure Eine Katze und der Mond
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31daysofgraves Day 26: Figures Old Castleton Cemetery, Newcastleton, Scottish Borders
- #31DaysOfGraves Day 26 - Figure: Saint Francis of Assisi on the top of the monument commemorating Francesco Morelli (1919-1946) and Giuseppe Morelli (1876-1954) at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley NielssonWoljeongsa Temple, Odesan, South Korea Buddhist monastics and practitioners bury their hair after tonsure at this memorial site in the forest. #31daysofgraves #landscape
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31DaysOfGraves Tag / Day 22: Landschaft / Landscape Higashiotani Friedhof Kyoto/Higashiotani Cemetery, Kyoto
- #31DaysOfGraves Day 25 - Graveside ornament: Back in New Orleans - mardi gras ornaments and beads round the vase on a burial plot at St Patrick's No. 1 and a little broken cat and pair of horses at St Louis' No. 3.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31DaysOfGraves Day 24: Unique animal. John Fisher 1511-1571 sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire and wife Katherine Digby 1500-1569. Wood and plaster monument. St James Great Packington. 1/2
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31daysofgraves Day 24 unique animal. Can only be this, one of my favourites, a unicorn in Dunblane Cathedral's graveyard. It has seen better days, but is now part of a group being cared for by HES' stone conservation team, who do an amazing job! We had at least one other unicorn, now gone.
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- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31daysofgraves “Unique Animal” I’m always charmed that the local pet cemetery has not just markers for cats and dogs, but also birds, hedgehogs, guinea pigs, rabbits and squirrels. And one cat with her stomach exposed, waiting to attack when you pet her. Memorial Pet Cemetery, Roseville, MN
- #31DaysOfGraves Day 24 - Unique animal: This buffalo stands near the Goldring family tomb - William Goldring is chairman of the Sazerac Company which makes Buffalo Trace Bourbon. At Metairie Cemetery #NewOrleans. Goldring is still alive, but I don't know if the tomb has been used by family.
- #31DaysOfGraves Day 24 - Bonus unique animal: The She-Wolf nursing Romulus and Remus, symbolic of Rome, on the monument to Goffredo Mameli (d.1849, aged 21y) at Campo Verano. By Luciano Campisi 1891.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31DaysOfGraves Day24 Unique Animal It's a #MillTown, no scorpions here, everything is very run-of-the-mill! So I offer you The Chadwicks and their beautifully carved prize bull, at craggy Edge End, Marsden Heights. And the grave of Henry Pullman Veterinary Surgeon, with it's riderless #Horse.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31daysofgraves Day 24 Unique animal Octopus 🐙 Brill, Buckinghamshire
- Reposted by Anna Fairley NielssonTag 23: Kreuz Cross In you, O Lord, I have trusted. Forever I shall never perish. Ps 31.1 Sometimes things become clear through the shadow. #Zentralfriedhof #Wien #31DaysOfGraves
- #31DaysOfGraves Day 23 - Cross: An iron cross at Walnut Hills Cemetery, #Cincinnati. It opened in 1843 as “The Second German Protestant Cemetery”.
- #31DaysOfGraves Day 22 - Landscape: My friend and I explored the overgrown St Meddan's, Fintray, Aberdeenshire a couple of weeks ago. The church dates to the 12th century, but there's a headstone dating as recently as 2014!
- A few of the oldest stones, and bonus ponies 🪦 🐴
- Several nettle stings later... the sacramental recess (aumbry) survives in the church wall with a relief carving of the crucifixion.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley NielssonI can't help but document this every time I'm in St James' Cemetery,Liverpool. Halsey was murdered by his ship's cook on board his ship & buried in St James' on 15th August 1844. He left 6 children and a wife behind in Charleston, North Carolina.🪦🖤 #31daysofgraves
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31DaysOfGraves Day 21 - Bronze A Bronze Green Man on the headstone of John Joseph Thompson. Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Australia - Portion 15, Section 12, Grave 48.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31DaysOfGraves #21 Bronze "The Angel of Death Victorious" Haserot family monument, Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio. Commissioned by Frances Haserot when his wife Sarah died in 1919. The angel appears to weep black tears (due to oxidation) and some say that the head turns and the eyes move.
- #31DaysOfGraves Day 21 - Bronze: I (knowingly) saw my first white bronze (zinc) monuments this summer. This one commemorates the Paull family at Lakeside-Carpenter Cemetery, East Providence, Rhode Island.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31DaysOfGraves Day 20 - Wreath A wreath on a memorial shaped like the Eiffel Tower (memories of a trip to Paris?) Rose Jane Leahy is buried in Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Australia - Portion 27, Section 14, Grave 22.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley NielssonTag 18 • Mistake / Fehler There seems to be a mistake in the space-time-continuum. 📍 Nordfriedhof Kiel It may be an innuendo: The name Zaith Raiser is pronounced like the german word "Zeitreiser" which means time traveller. #31DaysOfGraves #cemetery #graveyard PS: Einige kennen den ja schon.
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31daysofgraves 18. Mistake 🤦 J. Moreno Nieto — San Isidro Cemetery, Madrid 🇪🇸 I don’t know if the workers who assembled this funerary monument were in a big hurry… The thing is, they put the pillar upside down 🙃 And that’s how it’s been ever since—more than a century later. 📸 by Nus Morella 🥰🤗
- Reposted by Anna Fairley Nielsson#31DaysofGraves - Day 17 - Relocated Westfield Cemetery, Danielson, Connecticut, USA Elizabeth Webb of Boston “She removed to this Place in 1774 on Account of that Place being in the Possession of the British Troops”
- Reposted by Anna Fairley NielssonDay 20 #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'Wreath' This lovely fruity Wreath is up on the wall inside the parish church and remembers Edward Bunting Loynes - church warden for 54 years. 📍St Nicholas, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
- #31DaysOfGraves Day 20 - Wreath: Christmas wreaths on the Rabbitte family vault at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin in January 2024.
