Now, walking through the cemetery, all that remains is fields of unmarked graves for some of Victorian London's richest ... epidemic causing a build up of "burial congestion".

It was pervasive enough that John Maass, author of numerous articles and books on Victorian-era architecture in the 1970s, dubbed it the “absurd coffin canard.” Left: The entryway of a New York house ...

Servicemen from the Royal Regiment of Scotland who helped carry the Queen's coffin at her lying-in-rest in Edinburgh are also are among thosereceiving honours under the Royal Victorian Order.

Throughout the month of October, Violet Bank Museum had an exhibit on Victorian funeral customs. Museum patrons have seen six 19th-century coffins that range from the highly ornate “toe pincher” that ...