Something slightly light-hearted for Xmas Eve ….. Tales from the Grave so far have focussed on stories surrounding those who are buried in the Cemetery. But the Cemetery itself has its own tales to tell such as this one from the Western Morning News of Friday 5th March 1880 – a tale of apparent mystery, intrigueContinue reading “The Curious Case of the Shifting Shrub”
Monthly Archives: December 2018
Robert Arthington – Philanthropist – The Millionaire Miser
From Liberia to Teignmouth The Cemetery continues to raise bizarre connections with the outside world. In April 2012 Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, was found guilty by a Special Court in the Hague of eleven charges of atrocities including terror, murder and rape. He was subsequently sentenced to 50 years in prison ofContinue reading “Robert Arthington – Philanthropist – The Millionaire Miser”
Maurice Mortimore
As an interesting by-product of all this work we have been doing on the war graves we have come across a number of other graves of people who have died in service but who are not in official Commonwealth War Grave Commission sites. There are also others, non-military, who died during particularly the Second WorldContinue reading “Maurice Mortimore”
War Graves Ceremony
On Saturday November 3rd 2018 at 11am at Teignmouth Old Cemetery there was a unique historic event – the first time ever that the war graves of Teignmouth Cemetery had been commemorated. You can see a record of this ceremony on the following link: War Graves Ceremony
Teignmouth Old Cemetery 