In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious by W.T. (William Thomas) Vincent
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[Illustration: FIG. 58. FRINDSBURY.] [Illustration: FIG. 59. SUTTON AT HONE.] [Illustration: FIG. 60. BROMLEY.] [Illustration: FIG. 61. BECKENHAM.] The design invented by the sculptor at Sutton at Hone, near Dartford, is less original and also less striking. FIG. 59.--AT SUTTON AT HONE. "To Richard Northfield, died Oct. 19, 1767, aged 71 years." In the case of John Bone, bricklayer, of Bromley, Kent, it would probably be wrong to associate with his calling the tools engraved on his headstone. They were probably meant with the rest of the picture to represent the emblems of mortality. FIG. 60.--AT BROMLEY. "To John Bone, Bricklayer, died Dec. 14, 1794, aged 48 years." There is, however, one stone which may be included in the category of trade memorials, though its subject was not a mechanic. Mr. John Cade was a schoolmaster at Beckenham, and appears to have been well liked |
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