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  1. I love things having to with death and how we treat the dead. That’s why I listen Joanna Penn’s podcast. She is unapologetically interested in the macabre of all strains. Thanks for this glimpse down the lapin lair.

  2. My brother and his wife live in Chapel-en-le-Frith and my Mum is in a care home there. When I was a child we lived in New Mills which is just in Derbyshire and close to both Chapel and Lyme Park. I now live just the other side of Lyme Park so have always been in the area!
    However I’ve never noticed that inscription and will have to look out for it when I visit!

  3. These are the kinds of little bits of interesting information that give me that ‘ah’ moment. I could’ve said ‘duh.’ But so uncouth, ha. The kind of thing I just assume one thing about but nothing has come up to challenge that. I mean, we see hearses like the above in period movies, usually depicting a dark forboding atmosphere. I guess I just assumed there was a hearse service and that the vehicles would be housed in the local stables. Those photos are pretty neat.

  4. I had never heard of them before, but it makes good sense that there was one on an era of when people were laid out at home. We own a circa 1850’s house in the states and it has 2 coffin doors off the parlor in it. They’re 6 inches wider then any other doors in the house so they could get a coffin in. Interesting rabbit hole you went down thanks for sharing it!

  5. Do you have any information about the horse drawn hearse that is now in All Saints Church, Hilgay, Norfolk…..I believe it was returned to the church approximately 15/20 years ago

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