Golders Green Crematorium
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Golders Green Crematorium and Mausoleum is one of the oldest crematoria in Britain.
Golders Green Crematorium, as it is usually called, is in Hoop Lane, off the Finchley Road, Golders Green, London NW11, five minutes walk from Golders Green tube station. It is directly opposite an extensive Jewish cemetery.
The crematorium's buildings have an Italianate style, and include a notable tower, visible in the photograph below. The gardens are extensive, and contain several large tombs, two ponds and bridge, and a large daffodil field. Another notable feature is a special children's section, which includes a swinging bench. There is also a wall dedicated to communists.
At Christmas, although the crematorium is secular, a Christmas tree is erected on the field in front of the main buildings, and a nativity scene is placed near the chapel of remembrance.
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Among those whose ashes are retained here are:
- Kingsley Amis
- Marc Bolan
- Bernard Bresslaw
- Anna Freud
- Sigmund Freud
- Sid James
- Alexander Korda
- Keith Moon
- Ivor Novello
- Joe Orton
- Anna Pavlova
- Peter Sellers
- Bram Stoker
- H. G. Wells
- Joyce Grenfell
- Yootha Joyce
Among those cremated here, but whose ashes are elsewhere, are:
- Stanley Baldwin, ashes removed to Worcester Cathedral;
- Neville Chamberlain, ashes removed to Westminster Abbey;
- Bebe Daniels, with her husband, Ben Lyon, at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood;
- T. S. Eliot (at rest in a church in the village of East Coker, England);
- Kenneth Horne;
- Leonid Krasin, ashes buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis;
- Rudyard Kipling, ashes removed to Westminster Abbey;
- Alice Liddell (see Alice's Adventures in Wonderland);
- Vivien Leigh, ashes were scattered on the lake at Tickerage Mill pond, near Blackboys, Sussex, London;
- Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, ashes buried at the Royal Cemetery at Frogmore;
- Arnold Ridley, Actor;
- King Prajadhipok of Thailand, ashes removed to Chakri Throne Hall in the Grand Palace, Bangkok
See also: List of other famous cemeteries
