Camberwell Old Cemetery Wood – 12 ACRE WOOD BEING DESTROYED.

2+ acres cut down, 100s of memorials to be crushed – 17 July 2020.

Southwark Council has resumed scraping away graves and mounding them over to bury over the dead.

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Wood chip pile, with view of the Shard in background.

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Area Z before the devastation – 2016.

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Diggers and tree cutters work over the graves of WW1 heroes.

War Graves

Camberwell Old Cemetery Wood War Graves

War Graves

Original plans shown to the public showed only six Commonwealth War Graves Commission WW1 graves.

War Graves

War Graves

The truth is original plans showing 46 Commonwealth War Graves Commission WW1 graves.

Camberwell Old Cemetery Wood

Camberwell Old Cemetery Wood

Overview of Camberwell Old Cemetery Wood

Camberwell Old Cemetery Wood

Camberwell Old Cemetery Wood

Google map from October 2017. Awaiting the heavy machinery to transform the site into 700 burial plots.

Area Z - stripped of vegetation

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Area Z – stripped of vegetation, with the remaining 9 acres. Doomed. Photo by John Edwards, 2017.

Memorials about to be removed

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Memorials about to be removed, to be crushed or dumped,