Lunch in a park near my hotel.
The headstones along the wall behind the man are a common site in English parks. It means that the park used to be a churchyard or cemetery and the land has now been repurposed. The headstones have historical value, so they leave them there, propped up against the walls.
You sometimes see the same thing in graveyards that haven't been converted. It might be because they simply ran out of space at some point in the past, and old headstones were removed to make room for new ones. Or another churchyard nearby may have been abandoned and its headstones were moved to one that is still active.
They usually didn't move the bodies, however. So even though the headstones are moved out of the way, you're still eating lunch in a graveyard.
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