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« on: September 19, 2017, 09:18:14 AM »

I took some car parts to the powder-coaters yesterday. I've been using the same company for nearly 40 years & they always seem to have interesting stuff in their workshop. Everything from oil-rig pipeline parts, to vintage race car stuff to a complete Massey Ferguson tractor, being coated grey as a garden ornament.
Yesterday it was these.
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« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2017, 09:23:00 AM »

Cast iron crosses from a cemetery at a nunnery in London. Apparently the cemetery was overgrown & neglected but is now being "restored". A lot of the crosses had fallen over or been taken down & stacked in a corner. So Craig & Lee at A & C Shotblasting in Berkshire have blasted them all back to bare metal, etch primed them & coated them in gloss grey, which was their original colour.
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« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2017, 09:26:22 AM »

Each nun had a number, which are the discs attached to the crosses & most stand about 3 feet tall -the crosses, not the nuns. The more important you were, the taller the cross. Late 19th/early 20th century.
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« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2017, 09:31:29 AM »

I'm not religeous at all, but I just think these are beautiful objects in their own right. Very tactile -Craig says visitors to the workshop can't resist touching them. They've got a couple of hundred to do. Interesting.
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« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2017, 05:35:34 PM »

A tangible link to somebody that seems to be built in us ? I always feel at ease in cemetery's  ..
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« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2017, 06:03:19 PM »

They look good. The writing still stands out well considering the years of weather the crosses have withstood.
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« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2017, 06:10:11 AM »

Nice that they are going to the trouble of having these restored. A bit of a shame that usually the sisters only got a number when in multiple burial plots. Seems a little authoritarian and soulless.
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« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2017, 03:58:56 PM »

I thought that too Dave -anonymous even in death. Like the Borg, just part of the collective.
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« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2017, 06:00:11 PM »

Don't mention the BORG..you may get assimilated ? Roll Eyes
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« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2017, 07:31:12 PM »

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« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2017, 09:56:55 PM »

I wonder if sister St Bruno was in charge of the Pipe smoking tobacco. Roll Eyes
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« Reply #11 on: September 20, 2017, 10:24:07 PM »

Nice that they are going to the trouble of having these restored. A bit of a shame that usually the sisters only got a number when in multiple burial plots. Seems a little authoritarian and soulless.

Part of the point of being a nun is give up your indepence and individuality - they choose it in life, I don't suppose they're bothered about it when they're dead!   Wink
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