St Pancras and Islington Cemetery is a large cemetery in East Finchley, North London. Although it is situated in the London Borough of Barnet, it is run as two cemeteries, owned by two other London Bo
Islington Chapel, English Heritage Listed Building Grade II
Headstone from the eastern boundary
Wooden grave markers
Mond mausoleum
Margaret Fairchild
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Margaret Mary Fairchild, also known as Mary Teresa Sheppard, Miss Shepherd and M T Sheppard, was a British homeless woman. Earlier in life, she had been a concert pianist and nun.
St Pancras and Islington Cemetery
…Henry Croft, first "Pearly King". The grave marker is now in the crypt of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Margaret Fairchild, subject of The Lady in the Van Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens, violinist and conductor…
Fairchild in 1989
The former Convent of the Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls on Gloucester Avenue where Fairchild was a novice in 1936, now the North Bridge House School
23 Gloucester Crescent in 2019
For 15 years Fairchild lived in her van where the car is in this image