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The Laundress
Read more: The LaundressReconnecting with a formidable woman from my family tree In the middle of Fulham, not too far from Stamford Bridge, home of Chelsea Football Club, is a building that sticks out. In comparison to the streets of terraced housing that surrounds it – it doesn’t seem to fit. Over the last century or so this…
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Stumbling Stones
Read more: Stumbling StonesMy foot scuffed something. I was walking down the Kloveniersburgwal in Amsterdam in 2018 when something slightly tripped me over. I looked down and saw something shiny embedded into the pavement. There were small plaques, which stood slightly proud from the brickwork. They resembled brass beer coasters, so I knelt down for a closer look.…
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Young Sheldon
Read more: Young SheldonWhenever I start researching a cemetery, I always start by looking for a name. My own. Hopefully that won’t be interpreted by you as arrogance. My forename isn’t very common – I’ve only met two other Sheldon’s in my time: one a distant cousin and the other at a party donkey’s years ago. I am…
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Vesty
Read more: VestyI’m in a cemetery today. I don’t want to be. Anyone who knows me will know one of my favourite jokes, considering my passion for cemeteries as museums of people, is to ‘threaten’ people with a blog post. “I’ll be writing about you one day!” I say, tongue in cheek. Earlier this month, it finally…
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The Tortoise & The Opera Singer
Read more: The Tortoise & The Opera SingerWhat on earth an opera singer has to do with a tortoise? We all know about Conchita from Eurovision but there’s another you should know about, whose unique grave resembles something from a Terry Prachett novel. Back in March I discovered the above image and the tag line ‘Opera Singer‘. The smile, the enthusiam, the…
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One of the most Impudent, Heartless Business Scoundrels On Record
Read more: One of the most Impudent, Heartless Business Scoundrels On Record‘The octopus is soft – soft and flabby. Its form when not in action has nothing terrible about it, it is a greyish mass, not especially distinguishable from other organisms. The octopus is crafty. When its victim is unsuspicious, it opens suddenly and holds him in its grasp…he draws you to him and into himself.…
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The Cedar’s Farewell
Read more: The Cedar’s FarewellToday we mourn an icon. Trees hold a very special place in our hearts and you only have to look at how important the Bethnal Green Mulberry is and its value to the local community to see what imagery and emotion they conjure. Permission was given to remove this historic tree from its current site (being…
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The Lost Village of the East End
Read more: The Lost Village of the East EndHard to imagine this part of the East End being a queer sanctuary and a once idyllic rural retreat… I recently gave a walking tour around old Bromley-By-Bow on behalf of my good friends at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park and the Women’s Environmentalist Network. It’s an area I’m vaguely familiar with, as my old local…
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The Forgotten Heir
Read more: The Forgotten HeirOur post today is by fellow blogger Charlotte on a mission to find quiet, cultured and unusual corners of London. The cemeteries and burial grounds of Britain are filled with ‘what-if?’s. Each headstone, tomb and unmarked grave is a reminder of lost potential, of chain reactions cut short and countless questions about what might have…
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Why Is King’s Cross Called ‘King’s Cross’?
Read more: Why Is King’s Cross Called ‘King’s Cross’?I’m sure many of you have found yourself asking this exact question when walking through the concourse; eyeing the massive queue of people waiting patiently to clutch on to the luggage trolley that’s on its way to Platform 9 3/4. It’s all down to one man. An entrepreneur who, had he been alive today, would have…
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The Albion Disaster
Read more: The Albion DisasterFor a time I worked amongst the glass towers of Canary Wharf, where the history of Docklands tickled my historical fancy. I regularly found myself stalking the exhibits of the Museum of London during my lunch hour and I paid a visit to Tunnel, the Archaeology of Crossrail where I learnt more about a Victorian disaster most…
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Meet the (Real) Eastenders
Read more: Meet the (Real) Eastendersby Sheldon This Saturday, let us take you on trip back in time (without a TARDIS, sadly) to the East-End. This isn’t the East End of coffee shops, vintage stores and cereal cafes. This is the East End where war heroes lived above shops, mourning achievements of yesteryear, where philanthropists makes it their life mission to…
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The Pirate’s Graveyard
Read more: The Pirate’s GraveyardToday’s post is written by Archaeologist, Egyptologist and Death Historian Lorraine Evans, founder of Morte Photography. Founded in an attempt to stem the tide of destruction that Evans witnessed in many burial grounds her blog was born in the autumn of 2013 to bring to life the plight of such historical and architectural treasures found within. …
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Outside London: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Read more: Outside London: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europeby Christina In Berlin, we went to see the Holocaust Memorial. It was raining as we arrived. The memorial is rows and rows of concrete blocks – they go back and back and back. They start off at knee height and as you walk further and further in they rise above your head and…
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Outside London: Looking For Eric
Read more: Outside London: Looking For EricWe have a new Guest Blogger, and inductee into Cemetery Club! Patrick Gurden loves a good Cemetery as much as the rest of us, and one of his favourite things to do is find the graves of famous people that mean something to him. Today’s blog post is all about a road trip to meet…
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Keep your wits about you: Looking for Dracula in Whitby
Read more: Keep your wits about you: Looking for Dracula in WhitbyI stole the title from the Whatsapp message Sheldon sent me when he found out where I’d been. ‘I hope you kept your wits about you in Whitby.’ QuickDraw Shelly they call him – always ready with a pun. In fact, you do need to keep your wits about you when you visit this coastal…
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