The surviving entrance to the private station at 121 Westminster Bridge Road
During the first half of the 19th century, London's population more than doubled and the number of London corpses requiring disposal was growing almost as fast.
Cemetery space in the city had failed to keep pace with this growth, and so the vast new Brookwood Cemetery - the London Necropolis - was built in Surrey.
Nearly every city and town has travel agencies. They are a ubiquitous part of commercial infrastructure and have been since we invented travel. Leaflets and posters by the million zillion billion. Plastic model airliners in the windows. Outposts of glamour...