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Golders Green Crematorium and Mausoleum was the first crematorium to be opened in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, and one of the oldest crematoria
Cremation

Cremation is the process of reducing human remains to basic Chemical element in the form of bone fragments through flame, heat, and vaporization....
 in Britain
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. It is owned by the London Cremation Co plc, and opened in 1902, designed by the architect Sir Ernest George
Ernest George

Sir Ernest George RA was an England architect.His London office was known as "The Eton College of architects' offices" . His pupils included Herbert Baker, Guy Dawber, John Bradshaw Gass and Edwin Lutyens....
.

Since its opening Golders Green Crematorium has become the flagship of crematoria the world over.






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Golders Green Crematorium and Mausoleum was the first crematorium to be opened in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, and one of the oldest crematoria
Cremation

Cremation is the process of reducing human remains to basic Chemical element in the form of bone fragments through flame, heat, and vaporization....
 in Britain
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. It is owned by the London Cremation Co plc, and opened in 1902, designed by the architect Sir Ernest George
Ernest George

Sir Ernest George RA was an England architect.His London office was known as "The Eton College of architects' offices" . His pupils included Herbert Baker, Guy Dawber, John Bradshaw Gass and Edwin Lutyens....
.

Since its opening Golders Green Crematorium has become the flagship of crematoria the world over. It has pioneered cremation and its practices. But what probably sets Golders Green apart is its association with the funerals of many of the great names of British history over the last century.

Golders Green Crematorium, as it is usually called, is in Hoop Lane, off Finchley Road
Finchley Road

Finchley Road, an inner city main road which runs for about 7 kilometres/4 miles, is one of the major thoroughfares of north London, England.It starts next to St....
, Golders Green
Golders Green

Golders Green is an area in the London Borough of Barnet in London, England. Although having some earlier history, it is essentially a 19th century suburban development situated about 5.3 miles north west of Charing Cross and centred on the crossroads of Golders Green Road and Finchley Road....
, London NW11, five minutes' walk from Golders Green tube station
Golders Green tube station

Golders Green tube station is a London Underground station in Golders Green, north London. The station is on the Edgware tube station of the Northern Line between Hampstead tube station and Brent Cross tube station....
. It is directly opposite an extensive Jewish cemetery (Golders Green is an area with a high Jewish population). The crematorium is secular
Secularity

Secularity is the state of being separate from religion. For instance, eating and bathing may be regarded as examples of secular activities, because there is nothing inherently religious about them....
, accepts all faiths and all kinds of non-believers; clients may arrange their own type of service or remembrance event and choose whatever music they wish.

The crematorium's buildings have an Italianate style
Italianate architecture

The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct nineteenth-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and Neoclassicism, were synthesized with picturesque aesthetics....
, and include a notable tower, visible in the photograph, which contains the chimney from the crematoria. The of gardens are extensively planted, and produce a beautiful and tranquil environment for visitors. There are several large tombs, two ponds and bridge, and a large crocus
Crocus

Crocus is a genus of perennial plant flowering plants, native to a large area from coastal and subalpine areas of central and southern Europe , North Africa and the Middle East, across Central Asia to western China....
 lawn. Another notable feature is a special children's section, which includes a swinging bench. There is also a 'communist corner' with notables of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Communist Party of Great Britain

The Communist Party of Great Britain was the largest communist party in the United Kingdom, though it never became a mass party like the Communist parties of France and Italy....
. There are two cremation chapels and a chapel of remembrance. There are also three columbariums containing the ashes of thousands of Londoners.

There are grave locations for 14 holders of the Victoria Cross
Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration which is, or has been, awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth of Nations countries, and previous British Empire territories....
 cremated here, and there are locations and memorials for many other military personnel of all ranks, and from many countries.

At Christmas, although the crematorium is secular, a Christmas tree
Christmas tree

File:Christmas Tree.JPGThe Christmas tree is one of the most popular traditions associated with the celebration of Christmas. Normally an evergreen Pinophyta tree that is brought into a home or used in the open, a Christmas tree is decorated with Christmas lights and colourful Christmas ornaments during the days around Christmas....
 is erected on the field in front of the main buildings, and a nativity scene
Nativity scene

File:Presepe naples rome2.jpgA nativity scene is a depiction of the nativity of Jesus as described in the gospels of Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Luke....
 is placed near the chapel of remembrance.

Cremations

Among those cremated here, but whose ashes are elsewhere, are:
  • Stanley Baldwin
    Stanley Baldwin

    Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British Conservative Party politician, statesman, and major figure on the political scene in the interwar years....
    , ashes removed to Worcester Cathedral
    Worcester Cathedral

    Worcester Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Worcester, England; situated on a bank overlooking the River Severn. Its official name is The Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Mary the Virgin of Worcester....
  • Neville Chamberlain
    Neville Chamberlain

    Arthur Neville Chamberlain was a British Conservative Party politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain is best known for appeasement foreign policy, in particular regarding his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany, and for his "containm...
    , ashes removed to Westminster Abbey
    Westminster Abbey

    The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, which is almost always referred to popularly and informally as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic architecture Church , in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster....
  • Bebe Daniels
    Bebe Daniels

    Bebe Daniels was an United States actor. She began in Hollywood in the silent movie era and later gained fame on radio and television in England....
    , with her husband, Ben Lyon
    Ben Lyon

    Ben Lyon was an American film actor and a 20th Century Fox studio executive.Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Lyon entered films in 1918 after a successful appearance on Broadway theatre opposite Jeanne Eagels....
    , at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery
    Hollywood Forever Cemetery

    Hollywood Forever Cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood, Los Angeles, Californiadistrict of Los Angeles, California....
    , Hollywood
    Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

    Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonym of cinema of the United States....
  • T. S. Eliot
    T. S. Eliot

    'Thomas Stearns Eliot', Order of Merit , was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J....
    , at rest in a church in the village of East Coker
    East Coker

    East Coker is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated two miles south of Yeovil in the South Somerset district. The village has a population of 1,781....
    , England
    England

    native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
  • Gary Holton
    Gary Holton

    Gary Frederick Holton was an England actor and musician from London. He is best remembered for playing the part of Wayne in the United Kingdom television comedy Auf Wiedersehen, Pet....
    , actor most famous as the star of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
    Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

    Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is a United Kingdom comedy-drama series about a group of seven British migrant construction workers: Wayne Winston Norris, Dennis Patterson , Leonard "Oz" Osborne, Brian "Bomber" Busbridge , Barry Taylor , Neville Hope and Albert Arthur Moxey, who, in Series 1, are living and working on a German building site....
  • Kenneth Horne
    Kenneth Horne

    Kenneth Horne was an England comedian and businessman....
    , comedian and businessman, star of Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh, Beyond Our Ken
    Beyond Our Ken

    Beyond Our Ken was a radio programme, the predecessor to Round the Horne . Both programmes starred Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee, with announcer Douglas Smith....
     and Round the Horne
    Round the Horne

    Round the Horne was one of the most influential BBC Radio comedy programmes, comparable to The Goon Show in its influence on other comedy programmes....
  • John Inman
    John Inman

    Frederick John Inman was an England actor who was best known for his role as List of Are You Being Served? characters#Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries in Are You Being Served?, a British sitcom in the 1970s and 1980s....
    , actor, star of Are You Being Served?
    Are You Being Served?

    Are You Being Served? was a long-running British sitcom broadcast from 1972 to 1985. It was set in the men's and women's department of Grace Brothers, a large, fictional London store....
  • Henry James
    Henry James

    Henry James, Order of Merit , son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an United States author....
    , ashes removed to family plot in Cambridge, Massachusetts
    Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
  • Leonid Krasin
    Leonid Krasin

    Leonid Borisovich Krasin was a Russian and Soviet Union Bolshevik terrorist, politician and diplomat....
    , ashes buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis
    Kremlin Wall Necropolis

    The Kremlin Wall Necropolis is a part of the Kremlin Wall in Moscow overlooking the Red Square. Soviet governments buried many prominent local and international Communism figures here....
  • Rudyard Kipling
    Rudyard Kipling

    Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet. Born in Mumbai, British India , he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book , Kim , many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King ; and his poems, including Mandalay , Gunga Din , and If? ....
    , ashes removed to Westminster Abbey
  • Alice Liddell
    Alice Liddell

    Alice Pleasance Liddell was the inspiration for the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Her surname Liddell is ...
     (see Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a novel written by England author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a Rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures....
    )
  • Vivien Leigh
    Vivien Leigh

    Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier , was an English actress. She won two Academy Awards for playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire , a role she had also played on stage in London's West End Theatre....
    , ashes were scattered on the lake at Tickerage Mill pond, near Blackboys
    Framfield

    Framfield is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. The village is located two miles east of Uckfield; the settlements of Blackboys, Palehouse and Halland form part of the parish area of 6,700 acres ....
    , Sussex
    Sussex

    Sussex , from the Old English Su?seaxe , is a Historic counties of England in South East England England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex....
    , London
  • Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
    Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll

    The Princess Louise was a member of the British Royal Family, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Victoria of the United Kingdom and her husband, Albert, Prince Consort....
    , ashes buried at the Royal Cemetery at Frogmore
    Frogmore

    The Frogmore Estate or Gardens comprise of private gardens within the grounds of the Home Park, Windsor, adjoining Windsor Castle, in the England county of Berkshire....
  • Arnold Ridley
    Arnold Ridley

    Major William Arnold Ridley, Officer of the Order of the British Empire was an England playwright and actor, first notable as the author of the play The Ghost Train and later in life for portraying the elderly Private Charles Godfrey in the popular British sitcom Dad's Army ....
    , author and actor
  • H. G. Pelissier
    H. G. Pelissier

    Harry Gabriel Pelissier was an English people theatrical producer, composer and satire. Pelissier presented a number of theatrical productions during the Edwardian era, such as Pelissier's Follies....
    , actor, composer and satirist
  • King Prajadhipok
    Prajadhipok

    Prajadhipok was the seventh king of the Chakri dynasty. He was the last absolute monarch and the first constitutional monarch of Siam.Prajadhipok's reign was the shortest in the history of the Chakri Dynasty....
     of Thailand, ashes removed to Chakri Throne Hall in the Grand Palace, Bangkok
    Bangkok

    The city of Bangkok is the Capital , largest urban area and primary city of Thailand. Known in Thai language as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or Krung Thep for short, it was a small trading post at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River during the Ayutthaya Kingdom and came to the forefront of Thailand when it was given the status as the...
  • Dr Richard Bowdler Sharpe
    Richard Bowdler Sharpe

    Richard Bowdler Sharpe was an England zoologist.Sharpe was born in London and studied at Brighton, Peterborough and Loughborough. At the age of sixteen he went to work for Smith & Sons in London....
    , zoologist, founder of the British Ornithologists' Club
    British Ornithologists' Club

    The British Ornithologists' Club was founded in October 1892 to promote discussion between ornithologists and to produce a journal, their Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, which has been published continuously since that year....
     Assistant Keeper British Museum
    British Museum

    The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture situated in London. Its collections, which number more than 7 million Object , are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present....


Burials

Among those whose ashes are retained here are:

See also

  • List of cemeteries
    List of cemeteries

    This list of cemeteries compiles notable cemetery, mausoleums and other places people are burial, worldwide. Reasons for notability include their design, their history and their burial....


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