A small, quiet bit of history
Just outside the old city limits of Enschede, The Netherlands, but now near the shopping centre and facing a busy road, sits this old graveyard called the Boerenkerkhof (farmer's graveyard).
Originally intended for the rural community of Lonneker, it was closed for burials in 1954. By that time the grounds had become valuable and the city council had plans to clear away the graves and put a large building there. Protests prevented this and the graveyard is now a small, quiet park surrounded by traffic and ugly buildings.
A fellow genealogist asked me to take a photo of a specific grave there, not just because the buried are distant family of his, but also to serve as an illustration of the huge increase in child mortality after the industrialisation of the region. This is what I gave to him:
Olympus Stylus 1s, 55mm, ISO800, f2.8, 1/160s
"Here rests Pieter Scheenstra ... and Pietertje Scheenstra ... Sleep softly, sweet children."
That's an awesome photo! What a story, too. I am still trying to get my mother to join Steemit. She loves cemeteries because she is a genealogist as well. I wouldn't be surprised if the two of you have researched some of the same families.
The Scheenstra family is Frisian. The father of these children, Anne Scheenstra, was a day laborer from Rotsterhaule in Frisia. My family is from elsewhere, but I do have these people in my database as they remotely connect to a side branch.