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New Road, Bromsgrove - Businesses open as usual - sign
Image by ell brown
On New Road in Bromsgrove, going towards the town centre.
This is near to the A38 junction.
Was raining on and off, on the way back to the station.
Businesses open as usual - sign. There was road works in the town centre. A warning to drivers heading in.
New Orleans - Iberville: St. Louis Cemetery #1
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Saint Louis Cemetery #1, which replaced the now vanished St. Peter Cemetery as the main burial ground in New Orleans following the fire of 1788, is the oldest of three Roman Catholic cemeteries bearing the same name. Spanning just one square block on the north side of Basin Street, one block from the inland border of the French Quarter and bordering the Iberville housing project built on top of Storyville, St. Louis #1 is the final resting place of over 100,000 dead. The above ground vaults, mostly constructed in the 18th and 19th century and currently is varied states of disrepair, are said to be needed because the ground water levels in New Orleans make burials impossible, but in reality owe much of their existence to French and Spanish tradition.
Famous New Orleanians buried in St. Louis #1 include Jean Etienne Boré, a wealthy pioneer of the sugar industry and the first mayor of New Orleans; Homer Plessy, the plaintiff from the landmark 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision on civil rights; Benjamin Latrobe, America's first professional architect; Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial, the first African-American Mayor of New Orleans; Paul Morphy, one of the earliest world champions of chess; and Marie Laveau, a legendary Voodoo priestess, whose unmarked grave in the Glapion family crypt is perpetually decorated with gifts and marked x's or crosses left by visitors.
