This spooky sign inviting you to enter a tomb was on a grave
in St Paul’s, Shadwell, East London.
The church is close to the docks and is known as the Church
of Sea Captains, with over 70 sea captains buried in the graveyard. Captain
Cook was a member of its congregation, and John Wesley preached there (- of course
he did. It’s a merry day for me if I discover somewhere he didn’t preach). The handsome
building is a “Waterloo church”, funded by Parliament to celebrate the Battle
of Waterloo victory.
I didn’t accept the invitation to enter the tomb. Nice
offer, but I was dead busy, didn’t want to get out of my depth, had a bit more
skull-king around to do and, anyway, I’m a lazy-bones.
