Did you know that fashionable funerals used to take place at night? These candle lit processions were more private and simpler than traditional 'heraldic' pomp and splendour. They were popular from the 17th- early 19th centuries🌟🕯🌙 #NationalFuneralMuseum
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@nfmtcribb @DrLindseyFitz wonder how expensive candles were back then? was it more candles were a show of wealth?
@nfmtcribb @CemeteryClub Wait, what? There is a national funeral museum? How did I not know this?!