PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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LONDON CEMETERY IS CREMATOR, UNDERTAKER AND MONUMENT MAKER 
With our remark- 
able centralization of 
industries in mind it 
is somewhat surpris- 
ing to learn that our 
British friends have 
gone a few steps 
farther in one direc- 
tion by combining all 
the industries pertain- 
ing to the burial of 
the dead. This field 
seems to have been 
overlooked by Ameri- 
can captains of indus- 
try who have perhaps 
been too busy central- 
izing everything liv- 
ing to turn their at- 
OFFiCE AND FUNERAL STATION tcntioii to the disposal 
London Necropolis Co. 
of the dead. 
The London Necropolis Company, a unique and 
very successfully managed institution, conducts the 
largest and most beautiful cemetery in Great Britain, 
and are also, to quote from their literature, “general 
undertakers, cremators, embalmers, sculptors, monu- 
mental masons, etc.” They operate all of these vari- 
ous businesses on an extensive and systematic scale 
and advertise to conduct funerals and erect monu- 
ments in any cemetery in the United Kingdom on a 
fixed and moderate scale of charges. Brookwood 
Cemetery, the company’s burial ground, comprises 500 
acres and is located at Woking, 28 miles from London. 
Their new building for offices and private funeral sta- 
tion at 121 Westminster Bridge Road, London, is 
said to be the only structure of the kind. Carriages 
pass into this private station, leave their passengers at 
separate waiting rooms, and depart by another exit 
while the mourners enter directly into their respective 
cars of the funeral train and are taken to the ceme- 
tery, where the company has another private railway 
station. 
When carriages pass through the archway of the en- 
trance to this building, shown in our opening illustra- 
tion, they are entirely beyond the public gaze, and 
after the mourners leave the carriages the latter pass 
out by an exit into Hercules-road, so that however 
WHERE TRAINS LEAVE PRIVATE FUNERAL STATION 
London Necropolis Co. 
largely attended the funeral may be there is no delay 
or crowding. From the glass-roofed station hall the 
mourners reach the departure platform, either by the 
staircase or elevator, when the funeral parties are at 
once directed to the waiting-rooms reserved for them 
adjoining the platform. These waiting-rooms, one of 
which is reserved for each funeral, have about 144 
LAWN VIEW IN BROOKWOOD CEMETERY, OWNED BY LONDON NECROPOLIS CO. 
Chapel in Background at Right. 
