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images courtesy J. Tomlinson and Dorothy Marshall
 Dissenters Chapel courtesy Friends of Beckett Street Cemetery
 

 

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 Information about Platform-7

Since 2009, outdoors live events company Platform-7 have created a series of thoughtful and highly successful live performances called Up The Line. Taking place in cemeteries during darkness the event encourages an audience to reflect on war, remembrance and their local place of burial. Almost 1,500 people have attended with hundreds leaving comments on the impact of the evening.

Because of the impact the event has had on the audience, Platform-7 has considered widening the event across the UK and has approached the NFCF to request a possible partnership and potential locations for our 2012 events.
To find out more on this proposal please visit their internet page:
‘As well as functioning as burial sites, [Victorian Cemeteries] were often regarded as places for visiting and promenading, even if it be of a more dignified and morally uplifting kind’
Ken Worpole, (see NFCF website A View on avoiding Mistakes]
 
A winter scene at Cleethorpes Cemetery
image courtesy Roy Saxby
 Image courtesy Ryde Social History Group
Ryde Social History Group
Image courtesy Friends of Arnos Vale
Friends of Arnos Vale 
 


 
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