Sunset, Kensal Green Cemetery 28.01.2026

This anonymous article appeared in the New Court Gazette of Saturday 17 September 1842, when the cemetery was just 9 years old. The style is rather overblown, the wind is a ‘balmy zephyr’, a troubled heart is an ‘afflicted breast’ and the text is liberally sprinkled with adverbs, adjectives and lofty thoughts. It starts with a quotation from a ’favourite author’ but I have not been able to trace…