The headstone of Tom Highflyer, a young slave boy rescued by the Royal Navy’s East African Anti Slave Trade Squadron in 1866 is re-sited after restora

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The headstone of Tom Highflyer, a young slave boy rescued by the Royal Navy’s East African Anti Slave Trade Squadron in 1866 is re-sited after restoration exactly 148 years to the day it was originally sited in Brighton's Woodvale Cemetery. Named after the ship that rescued him, the boy was sent to Brighton to live and be educated, where he died in 1870, at about the age of 12. His grave and stone monument had fallen into disrepair and the restoration was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and organised by the Brighton Black History Group and the local council. Robert Pontin, a stonemason-fixer, placing the stone correctly in place.

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Size: 5000px × 3337px
Location: Brighton, UK
Photo credit: © Andrew Hasson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: africa, african, burial, grave, gravestone, memorial, rescue, slave, sombre