A recent stroll in Abney Park Cemetery produced this image. The cemetery is packed with Victorian and twentieth-century gravestones and memorials, overflowing with religious and classical motifs — angels, broken columns, clasped hands and the like, all anticipating a heavenly embrace. What interests me about the car on this gravestone is that it contains no religious reference at all, if anything it would have been a status object in 1962 when car ownership was not nearly as commonplace as it is today — an aspirational gravestone perhaps?
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