Talk:Peter Labilliere

Original gravestone

I have been able to find two images of Labilliere’s 'original' stone. The first is in a printed source - Huxley, AJ. "A curious burial". Country Life. 117 (3049): 1625. The second is a scanned, online image (from the Shutterstock archive) - Curtis, John. "'Interesting England' Major Peter Labellier, who is buried upside down in Box Hill Woods, Surrey, England, Britain. Known as the 'Topsy Turvy Grave'". Shutterstock. Retrieved 28 April 2020.. The stone is much cleaner in the Shutterstock image (number 703542qv) than in the Country Life image and the top right-hand corner of the stone appears to have been eroded a little so that the final 'e' of Labelliere is not visible in the former, (but this may just be a trick of the light).

Incidentally, in the Shutterstock image, "N^o 6" has been marked onto the front of the stone. The Country Life article says that this is a War Department marking. My guess is that this is connected with the Old Fort (built in the late 1890s), as there are boundary stones marked No 1, No 4, No 5 and No 7 on the 1897 OS map (but not on the 1870 map). The "N^o 6" marking appears to be a stamp, which might suggest that the majority (if not all) of the 'stone' is made of concrete. Does anyone know more? Mertbiol (talk) 09:16, 28 April 2020 (UTC)