East London Cemetery

The East London Cemetery and Crematorium are located in Plaistow in the London Borough of Newham. It is owned and operated by the dignity funeral group

History

The cemetery was founded in 1871 and laid out in 1872 to meet the increasing demand from the eastern suburbs of London. The first interment was in August 1872 and remains open. The cemetery covers 33 acres (0.13 km²) next to the Greenway and has two Gothic chapels built at the end of the 19th century that remain in use. A burial chapel dedicated to Church of St Michael and All Angels, and a non-denominational chapel for cremations.

Burials

Memorials

• Memorial to the 550 victims of the 1878 SS Princess Alice disaster.
• Memorial, marked by a ship's anchor, commemorates those who died when the staging collapsed during the launching of HMS Albion in 1898.
• A further disaster, the Silvertown explosion of 1917, is commemorated in the grave of Andrea Angel, chemist at the Brunner Mond chemical works whose TNT plant exploded damaging up to 70,000 properties in the area, killing 73 people and causing over 400 casualties.

Notable burials

• Michael Barrington
• Christopher Blake
• Robert Cawdron (1921–1997)
• Beryl Cooke
• Sylvia Coleridge
• Jack Cunningham (1912–1967)
• Leslie Dwyer
• William Dysart
• Hilda Fenemore
• McDonald Hobley
• Anthea Holloway (1919–2002)
• Arthur Howard
• Bryan Kendrick (1929–1970)
• Charles Lamb
• Carl Hans Lody - the last person to be shot in the Tower of London as a spy
• Mollie Maureen
• Michael Mellinger
• Billy Milton
• Michael Mundell (1945–2003)
• Elizabeth Stride - one of the Jack the Ripper victims
• Tony Steedman
• Jack Warner
• Doris Waters
• Queenie Watts

Cremation of notables

• Lilian Baylis, ashes scattered

External links

• East London Cemetery and Crematorium on the Newham website