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It looks like a graveyard clearance, no longer common, but the victorians went in for them in a big way. Entire graveyards would be cleared on a fairly regular basis, usually the gravestones would be moved to the side of the graveyard, but it looks like they chose something more interesting to do with them wherever @marcom found to take that photo.
It's all to do with space in the graveyards.
am also interested to know what was going on here marcom..