Exiting the world

This building housed the offices of the London Necropolis Railway Company's Terminus in Waterloo. It is a  few doors along from the hotel where the interviews are being held this week and I thought it was worthy of a blip. The building was constructed between 1900-1902 and is a visual reminder of the typically, and literally, groundbreaking vision of the Victorians in resolving a growing problem. Namely, that London was running out of space in its cemeteries and burial grounds. A vast new cemetery was built at Brookwood in Surrey with its own station and rail connection to Waterloo. The company had its own platform at Waterloo Station, which I believe was accessed through the archway at the front of this building. Coffins were carried in first or second class carriages depending upon the status of their occupants. I was drawn to the figurative adornments to the frontage of the building which is Grade ll listed but, sadly, rather neglected nowadays.