Category: Religion

• Cemetery Club Podcast 1: Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

  Our first podcast looks at the little known life of the only woodland in zone 2… One of the things me and Christina have discussed is to try various platforms to reach out to our (happily) growing audience. Our recent visit to Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park was a perfect opportunity to explore this idea, and […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  September 12, 2013

  Family, History, Interview, London, Lost, Religion, Respect, Tours, Urban, Visits

  Cemetery, Ecology, Habitat, Ken Greenway, London, tower hamlets, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, Woodland

• Marylebone

  by Sheldon I’ve often thought wistfully of my schooldays.  I think back to when I was a sixth former, writing endless essays on the Duchess of Malfi or Antony and Cleopatra. I can’t remember much about either, but one thing I do recall is how I loved to construct essays, salivating with relish at the […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  August 30, 2013

  churches, History, London, Religion, Speeches

  Church, Georgian, history, Hogarth, Marylebone, Sir William Chambers, Talk, Thomas Hardwick, Twitter

• Of Letters and Ruins

  by Sheldon  My quest to discover the ‘true’ Norfolk Churches came when I had but a morning left to spend up in this tranquil part of our shores. The coach was due to leave Norwich at half past three that afternoon, so time was against me in visiting the choice of churches there are up […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  August 19, 2013

  churches, Family, History, Holiday, Interview, Memorial, Photography, Religion, Restored, Rural, Visits

  British Museum, Bromholm Priory, Church, Coast, East Anglia, Mundesley, Nicholas Stone, Norfolk, Paston, Paston Letter, Rood Screen

• The Novo Jewish Cemetery at Queen Mary

  by Sheldon I’m not particularly familiar with the East End of London. I’ve passed through it a few times for the seminal Brick Lane Curry and for a look around Spitalfields, but I’m not particularly au fait with the the area. If you asked me where Stepney Green or Bromley by Bow were, I wouldn’t […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  July 29, 2013

  History, Jewish, London, Religion, Respect, Restored

  Bevis Marks, Cemetery, Daniel Mendoza, East London, Jewish, Portuguese, Queen Mary, Sephardi, Sephardi Jews, Spanish, Synagogue, University

• The Mystery of Montague Fowler, Part Two

  For those of you who are new to the blog, a few weeks back I wrote of my discovery of an artefact belonging to a boy called Montague Fowler in a long forgotten chest in the old stables of a country mansion. The whole thing intrigued me.  Here in my hands was this beautifully written piece […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  June 20, 2013

  Family, Lost, Photography, Possessions, Religion

  Author, Cemetery, Chaplain, Copperplate, Death, Handwriting, Lost, Mystery, People, Reverend, victorian