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The grave of ten navvies who died in a fall from the roof of the Crystal Palace, August 1853 . Ken Kiss is holding a transcription of the lettering on the gravestone.

They were:

James Wardlow
Joseph Copping
George Rolph Smith
George Topham
William Hardy
John Foreman
William James
Henry Fielding
Henry Reading
William Harris