rust 344 - a breeches maker of Moorfields

like yesterday, part of the burial ground series that never was

this photograph was taken in Bunhill fields burial ground, an old burial ground in the London Borough of Islington, north of the City of London, and managed by the City of London

it was used as a burial site for nonconformists from the late 17th century until the middle of the 19th century and contains the graves of many notable people including William Blake (another one of my ‘heroes’), John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, George Fox and Isaac Watts

the gravestone behind the rusty railings is that of one Richard Coleman, born 1712, buried 1761, died aged 49 years 6 months, a breeches maker of Moorefields