The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: Locksbrook

Locksbrook Cemetery in Lower Weston, Bath, was opened in 1864. A different time with different attitudes, particularly to death. The age of the no-fuss, no funeral, low-cost cremation was still a century and a half away. The country was politically and economically at its zenith, although not all of its inhabitants had much of a share in the power or the wealth. Still, Locksbrook served a prosperous area. And even poor people afforded a decent funeral somehow, for the most part. The chapels, lodges, entrances, and other buildings, are from the designs of Messrs. Hickes and Isaac, of Bath, and are in the early decorated manner. The chapels are united by cloisters, from the centre of which rises a tower one hundred feet in height. What really strikes you about Locksbrook is the way it is landscaped, with its undulations, distinctive ‘rooms’, wide variety of memorials and monuments, and, most of all, its many specimen trees. Edward Milner (1819-1884) was the landscape architect we have to thank for that. Today it is a conservation area open to the public and a place for mild exercise and contemplation. Worth a visit.

Locksbrook Cemetery was closed in 1937.

Count the signs. Imagine trying to read them all as you negotiate this junction. It is by no means the worst example of information overload wrought chiefly by local highway authorities in the UK. And this is part of the Georgian City of Bath.

The 'Beer In The Evening' website includes a user review of this pub by an anonymous contributor remarking "the sort of pub where a woman may come in on her own, and feel safe, as long as she has a sense of humour." www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/21/21393/New_Crown_Inn/Bath

Trees are to botany as elephants are to zoology. Fuji X-E1 and 35mm f/1.4 lens. Akin to the view of a standatd 50mm lens on a full-frame camera.

Locksbrook cemetery. Camera: Fujifilm X-E1. Lens: Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 XF R.

The de Clarke monument in Locksbrook Cemetery, Lower Weston, Bath. It is a bronze sarcophagus with an angel over a base of Pennant stone sculpted by Edward Onslow Ford and completed in 1900. The monument was erected to Mary (d. 1895), wife of Lieut.-Gen The Hon Sir Andrew Clarke. Sir Andrew died in 1902. It is probably the finest tomb in Locksbrook, and is a Grade II listed building. I used a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens for this photograph. Camera: Fujifilm X-E1.

Camera: Fujifilm X-E1. Lens: Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 XF R.

Camera: Fujifilm X-E1. Lens: Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 XF R.

This was photographed using a Tomioka-made Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens (circa 1976) on a Fujifilm X-E1 camera (circa 2013) via an M42-Fuji X adapter. Focussing has not proved to be as easy as I had expected but that is more a problem of diminishing eyesight than a criticism of the Fuji engineers. This photograph had the odds set in my favour with the aperture closed down. The 55mm Chinon is my favourite old legacy lens but I shall try out a Helios-44 and a Carl Zeiss Tessar, as well as the bubble bokeh specialist Fujinon 55mm f/2.2 in due course.

Another visit to the chapel at Locksbrook cemetery. It is forlorn and dilapidated without yet being unsafe. I should like to see inside but it is well secured, and rightly so if the graffiti and litter is any barometer of the occasional out-of-hours visitors. Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens (circa 1976) on a Fujifilm X-E1 camera (circa 2013) via an M42-Fuji X adapter.