This is a Victorian gravestone in Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington. There's something boldly complacent about the 'satisfied' in an age where religious belief held much greater weight than today — as if one's deity has passed muster after being critically assessed. In this same cemetery there are also later gravestones with images of cars and bicycles on them. I like to think these items were highly valued by the individual buried in the grave, rather than what ran them over and killed them.
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