Chingford Mount
Cemetery

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Chingford Mount

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The Kray Twins

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Twin brothers Ronald "Ronnie" Kray (24 October 1933 – 17 March 1995) and Reginald "Reggie" Kray (24 October 1933 – 1 October 2000) were English gangsters who were the foremost perpetrators of organised crime in the East End of London during the 1950s and 1960s. With their gang, "The Firm", the Krays were involved in armed robberies, arson, protection rackets, assaults, and the murders of Jack "The Hat" McVitie and George Cornell.

As West End nightclub owners, they mixed with prominent entertainers including Diana Dors, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland, and with politicians. The Krays were much feared within their milieu, and in the 1960s became celebrities in their own right, even being photographed by David Bailey and interviewed on television.

They were arrested on 9 May 1968 and convicted in 1969 by the efforts of a squad of detectives led by Detective Superintendent Leonard "Nipper" Read, and were both sentenced to life imprisonment. Ronnie remained in Broadmoor Hospital until his death on 17 March 1995, but Reggie was released from prison on compassionate grounds in August 2000, eight weeks before his death from cancer.

The Kray family plot at Chingford Mount Cemetery contains the graves of Ronnie & Reggie, brother Charlie, parents Violet & Charlie and Reggies first wife Frances Kray.

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Chingford Mount Cemetery was established in 1884 by the same company who owned the now congested Abney Park Cemetery in north London. The site purchased was known as the Mount Caroline Estate, so-called after the wife of the land owner.

In 1975 new owners made an application to build houses on the unused portion of the cemetery, in-line with fierce opposition from locals the application was duly rejected. As a consequence the cemetery became neglected with both it's chapel and lodges becoming victim to vandals and eventually the lodges were gutted and the chapel burnt to the ground with the loss of nearly all it's records.

The cemetery was then acquired by LB Waltham Forest in 1977. Since 1981, only lawn type memorials have been allowed and the newer areas are laid out in a lawn type design with the headstones in a back to back fashion similar to Lavender Hill Cemetery.

The entrance gates and piers of red brick and iron on the western main entrance survive from the 1884 layout, with a short avenue lined by mature London plane trees, which crosses a large pond.

Among those buried in the cemetery are the Kray family and Benjamin Pollock, founder of Pollock's Toy Museum.

The cemetery contains the war graves of 137 Commonwealth service personnel of World War I and 182 of World War II, with the names of those whose graves have no headstones being listed on a low screen wall surrounding the War Graves Plot in Section F13.

Photos were taken on Sunday 24th May 2015.

Chingford Mount Cemetery
Old Church Road
Chingford Mount
London
E4 6ST