Category: Angel

• Mary Nichols and the Sleeping Angel

  

  Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful graves in Europe, it is said that the grave Mary Nichols lay completely hidden under ivy of Highgate Cemetery until the 1980’s, when it was rediscovered by photographer John Gay. On the top of the grave lies a sleeping angel on a bed of clouds: it is easily one of…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  March 10, 2022

  Angel, Biography, History, London, Tours, Women

  angel, Brompton, Cemeteries, Cemetery, Death, dilapidated, Grave, Highgate, International Women's Day, Love, Marble, Mary Nichols, Mystery, sleeping angel, symbols, tomb, Womens history Month

• Our Next Tour is Live!

  

  by Sheldon Hello everyone! Here at the Cemetery Club mausoleum we’ve been busy sorting out events for the summer and we’re pleased to announce our next tour will be brand spanking new and will be around Hampstead Cemetery! It’s a lovely place to have a stroll and you get a sense that in the 140-odd…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  April 7, 2017

  Angel, Heritage, History, London, Tour Guiding, Tours

  Actor, angel, Austrlia, Bus, Call my Bluff, Comedian, Culture, Egypt, Entertainment, Event, Hampstead, Heritage, Horn, London, Music, NW6, Prime minister, Ticket, tour

• It’s Christmas in Heaven

  

  by Sheldon And so closes another year. A year that seems to have robbed us of more heroes and icons than usual. Our post detailing the loss of Bowie, it seems, was a warning call for 2016 – Prince, Muhammed Ali, Gene Wilder – all people who have massively influenced culture in the past few…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  December 19, 2016

  Angel, Holiday

  angel, baubles, christmas, family, festive, holiday, tinsel, wreath

• A Visit to Agatha Christie’s Grave

  

  Agatha Christie, the world’s best selling author, was born on 15th September 1890 in Torquay. She is know as the Queen of Crime for her detective fiction stories and her two most famous detectives are Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She is also the only female playwright to have had three productions in London’s West End…

  Guided Walks in London

  September 15, 2016

  Angel, churches, History, literature, People, Religion, travel, Visits

  Agatha Christie, Cemetery, Cholsey, Church, Death, Detective Fiction, Grave, Graveyard, history, Max Mallowan, Mrs Mallowan, oxfordshire, visit, Wallingford, Winterbrook House

• The Bronze Angels of London

  

  Two beautiful angels have been silently guarding the people buried beneath. These seraphs are in London; one is very well known, the other – practically unheard of. Hidden away behind a toolshed and overshadowed by a tree. Today, Cemetery Club is off to a two cemeteries in south west and south east London to look…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  December 24, 2015

  Angel, Architecture, History, London, Material, Memorial

  angel, Archangel, Bronze, christmas, Grieving, London, Retail, Royal Academy, Sculptor, Shops, Stone, Winged

• A Touch of Class In Hampstead Cemetery

  

  After a short walk from West Hampstead tube and cutting through Fortune Green, my first experience of this garden of the dead was through a narrow alleyway, I was then presented with a choice: left or right. The alleyway splits the cemetery in two, so I had to choose carefully… Hampstead Cemetery has always been…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  July 13, 2015

  Angel, Heritage, History, LGBTQ, London, Music, Photography, Visits, Women

  Camden, Cemetery, Fortune Green, Fred terry, Garden, Hampstead, Marie Lloyd, North London, poetry, Queer, Suicide