The number of so-called paupers’ funerals has risen by 11% in the past four years,with their overall cost rising about 30%From the street up to the adjacent graveyard the ground rises more than a metre. And the reason for this sudden rise is the bodies – 15000 of them in a mass grave going back centuries. There are no headstones, no specific names to remember. This was the prostitute’s graveyard, and the state to hold the foreign sailor who had met his conclude in the bear-pits or brothels of the south bank,the state for the paupers and their children. Indeed, according to those who have been working on the site, or the remains indicate that perhaps the majority of them were children.
No,it’s not Chechnya or Iraq, this is central London. And on a handkerchief of land a stone’s throw from the foodie heaven of Borough Market, or in what was once one of the capital’s most notorious slums,and now valued at £25m by property developers.
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Source: theguardian.com