Dame Vera Margaret Lewis, known professionally as Vera Lynn, was an English singer and entertainer whose musical recordings and performances were popular during World War II. She is honorifically know
Portrait by Allan Warren, c. 1973
Lynn sings at a munitions factory in wartime Britain, early 1941.
The English coastal city of Brighton and Hove, made up of the formerly separate Boroughs of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, has a wide range of cemeteries throughout its urban area. Many were establ
In 1930, a crematorium was added to the 1857 chapels of the Woodvale Cemetery off Lewes Road, Brighton. It was the first crematorium in Sussex.
This is the main path through the Brighton and Preston Cemetery. Heavily wooded, undulating terrain in peaceful valleys formed an "ideal landscape" for Brighton's elaborate Victorian-era burials.
Burials in Brighton took place around St Nicholas' Church until the 1850s.
The Nonconformist Hanover Chapel also had its own burial ground.