I am confused between at least two apparently different Brighton cemeteries. There is the beautiful Extra Mural Cemetery, with an entrance on the Lewes Road, which then runs parallel to Bear Road. If you keep walking through the Extra Mural Cemetery, at its very end you come to a gate on Bear Road, and if you cross over that very busy road you can enter the Bear Road Cemetery. That much is clear to me, the Bear Road Cemetery is clearly labelled and obviously separated by a road. If you then, instead of crossing that road, turn round and walk down a car-suitable road, and walk back towards the Lewes Road, leaving via an entrance about a hundred yards further down the Lewes Road, nearer to Brighton town centre, than the Extra Mural Cemetery Entrance you came in, then were you just in a cemetery with a different name?
I am wondering if I am confusing the Woodvale Cemetery with the Extra Mural Cemetery, and if they run into each other? When I was standing at the gate next to Bear Road, I looked down and could see what looked like a modern graveyard, planted with a lot of young trees, and beyond that another graveyard.
I try to avoid going in currently used graveyards, for many reasons. I find Victorian graveyards very beautiful, peaceful and interesting, and I enjoy photography. Anyone who died after about 1920 I try not to photograph their gravestone, it just doesn't feel right.
Can anybody explain which of these Brighton graveyards is which? I think it is just the Extra Mural and Woodvale that I may or may not be confusing. I do realise that the Bear Road cemetery is across the Bear Road from it.