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The (old) New Churchyard -a way tl;dr excerpt on those Crossrail Skellies

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There has been considerable interest recently in the very large number of burials unearthed in the excavation of the CrossRail project near Liverpool Street Station. The CrossRail work is not the first (and may not even be the last) archaeological excavation of the increasingly inaccurately named New Churchyard*, so I thought it only fitting that I post a segment out of my by now probably quite dated PhD, which goes into some detail about the origin and composition of the burial ground. Mostly, I thought I ought to put this up as a tribute to the late Bill White, who was a font of knowledge on all manner of Londoners long since gone to ground. What I’ve recorded here as ‘pers. Comm’ can now be found in the published monograph (cite), but I like to remember it coming straight from Bill himself; his funny, fascinating I insights that I would slowly absorb along with the heat from the mobile radiator set against the arctic cold of the infamous Rotunda. Excerpt below from my phd (