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Celebrating London's most intriguing burial ground. Crossbones is managed by @bostse1 and opened by volunteer wardens. Instagram run by volunteers.

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DRAWING AT CROSSBONES: 🦴☠️
A GATHERING FOR ILLUSTRATORS
(link in bio to book a space)

Join us for a special afternoon of drawing, inspiration and remembrance at Crossbones Graveyard & Remembrance Garden in Southwark, London

Friday 30 October 2026 12–2 pm

🪦Crossbones Graveyard & Remembrance Garden, London

All illustrators, artists, sketchers and creative souls are warmly welcome!

Bring your favourite drawing materials and sketch in this extraordinary place, steeped in history, stories and quiet beauty. Take inspiration from the garden, its symbols of remembrance and the powerful stories of those whose lives have too often been forgotten.

The story of Crossbones @crossbonesgraveyard

Traditionally associated with the medieval Winchester Geese, Crossbones became a burial ground for the poor and marginalised of London.

This remarkable place remains a symbol of remembrance, human resilience and the triumph of love and life over death.

Bring your sketchbook. Find your inspiration. Help us remember through art.

☔ Wet-weather meeting point: The Ship, Borough Road, London SE1 1DX.

🚆 Nearest mainline station: London Bridge.

Come as you are, draw what moves you, and share an afternoon of creativity and connection with other illustrators.

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Crossbones Graveyard & Garden of Remembrance 🖤✨🦋 #crossbonesgraveyard #gardenofremembrance #london #londonbridge #onthisday

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✨Hidden just off Borough High Street, Crossbones Graveyard is a former burial ground believed to hold around 15,000 people, many of them paupers and children.

It’s also traditionally linked to the “Winchester Geese” - medieval sex workers whose brothels were licensed by the Bishop of Winchester. The name sounds strange, but “Goose” was a nickname for these women.

The graveyard closed in 1853 and today the gates are covered with ribbons, flowers and tributes, creating a rather eerie memorial to London’s “outcast dead”.

🎟️ FREE to visit
⏰ Open: Wed - Fri | 12pm - 2pm
🚇 Nearest tube station: London Bridge (7 mins walk)

#londondarkhistory #travelinspiration #explorelondon #londontravel #freethingstodoinlondon

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Fat Lizzard Summer - London: Sarah Kane, Spooky Mormon Hell Dreams and a £6 Herzog/Kinski DVD box set 🇬🇧

Color:
🎞️ : MARIO NETA 200 - 35 mm @circanalogique
📷 : Minolta Riva Zoom 70
🧪 : @fotoyks.fi

B&W:
🎞️ : Fomapan 400 35 mm @fomapan.cz
📷 : Minolta Riva Zoom 70
🧪 : @carmencitalisboa

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Walk the Labyrinth Day at Crossbones Graveyard, presented by Friends of Crossbones

🗓️ Today, 19th September 2026, 11:00am – 4:00pm
📍 Crossbones Graveyard and Garden of Remembrance, London SE1
🎟️ Free (Open to all, drop-in)

Used for millennia as a teaching tool, the Labyrinth guides the walker in a winding, cursive path from the outer entrance to the centre, to rest there and to return to the outside. It has been used by many different spiritual lineages but its teachings are not confined to a particular practice. Rather, acting as a mirror to each individual walker, it tells us direct things about ourselves and our relationship with what's outside us.

From the first step on the Labyrinth path, the traveller finds there is no decisions to be made, giving the "leading, logical" part of the brain to take a rest and the "receptive, imaginal" part to flourish in the journey. The Crossbones Walk the Labyrinth Day offers free and open, welcome to all from 11am - 4pm on Saturday 19th September 2026, both to walk the Labyrinth and a place to rest, contemplate and express impressions.

The Labyrinth is laid out on Crossbones holy ground, a peaceful, healing and grounding for each walker. There will be short guided talks for those who wish to partake in a place set by with all sorts of art tools for responses and a teaching corner to learn how to draw your own Labyrinth.

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#labyrinth #Southwark #CrossbonesGraveyard
#Crossbones

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Friday lunchtime at Crossbones Graveyard Garden…
#travel #holiday #london #crossbonesgraveyard

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Marc Almond performs secret gig at Crossbones Graveyard for TON Magazine Issue 6 💫
Thank you to Marc for an unforgettable performance, @jermainegallacher and all the team @ton.magazine for bringing this joyous moment into our lives!

📍 @crossbonesgraveyard @stillthecrossbonesgraveyard

#marcalmond #softcell #tonmagazine #livemusic

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Such a magical, unforgettable night celebrating TON’s Issue 6, featuring Marc Almond. Huge thanks to @ton.magazine magazine for the invite and the incredible marcalmondofficial for an intimate performance we’ll never get over!!
I can’t count how many memories I have of Jermaine putting on a Soft Cell LP and finding a song for every single life moment. He always said he’d work with Marc one day and seeing him live out that dream is just the best thing ever. A true reminder that anything is possible when you believe in it, coupled with the relentless hard work we all know he puts in 🖤

#marcalmond #tonmagazine @stillthecrossbonesgraveyard @softcellhq Marc almond performing in a garden

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Joy of joys… fab seeing Marc Almond marcalmondofficial @ton.magazine issue 6 launch performing an intimate set with Neal X @themontecristos on guitar @@stillthecrossbonesgraveyard @crossbonesgraveyard 🥀🥀🥀🥀

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THE DISMAL OBJECT (3/4)

‘Hearse’
2026
Found object, mixed textiles, earth (sourced from Nunhead Cemetery and Wormwood Scrubs)

A monument, a pride parade, a funeral car. My hands slick, on my knees in a cruising ground, in a graveyard. A love letter to London’s legions, the Outcast Dead <3

With the Crossbones Graveyard.

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A bit of Crossbones Graveyard History yesterday at the monthly 23rd Ritual #albiondreamtime @crossbonesgraveyard #londonsoutcastdead

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Remembering the Great @estate_of_niall_mcdevitt_poet last night at the monthly 23rd Ritual at @crossbonesgraveyard

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