A2 (c. 23"x16") print on: Permajet Gold Silk (£40) Innova Soft-textured matt (£36)
In Nunhead Cemetery, South London
Cemeteries are fascinating places, and the best of them (Highgate and Bunhill Fields in London, Père Lachaise in Paris, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, for instance) are actually worth a visit if you can divorce yourself from the thought of the bodies lying underneath the sarcophagi, the tombs. But local government finance these days is usually insufficient for their proper upkeep, especially with low visitor numbers, and many of them - like Nunhead here - as a result are decaying seemingly to match the state of the inmates below. But we're so far removed from the Victorian era that saw the rise (if that's the right word) of these compound mausoleums, and with the lost relevance of the vast majority of their occupants, and with virtually everbody being cremated these days, that perhaps the cemeteries themselves should be laid to rest and the real estate recovered for future needy generations.