Category: Tours
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Guide & Seek: The Lost Lives of Brompton Cemetery
by Christina It is just past midday at Brompton Cemetery’s south gate. Sheldon is about to run through his first ever Cemetery Club tour before actual people begin arriving. As we start off for stop number 1 (Jon Snow), two dishevelled looking men with weather-beaten faces, Springsteen T-Shirts and bottles of cider in their hands…
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So, Where Were We?
by Sheldon Apologies to all Cemetery Club aficionados for the unexpected hiatus – the demands of the living consumed our passion for the dead (I had my final tour guiding assessment and Christina had the SE20 Craft Fair and Marathon to run). We’re back now, on what is just a few days after our anniversary!…
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Ghostsigns, Gravestones, and the Painted History on our Walls
A guest post by Sam Roberts, who runs Ghostsigns.co.uk! Sam’s aim is to create a permanent record of ghostsigns around the world as they are a unique record of commercial, craft and advertising history. Last month this gravestone provided another piece in a puzzle that I have been working on through my research into ghostsigns, the fading remains…
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West Norwood Cemetery – The Fluff Report
by Christina I was excited about visiting West Norwood Cemetery. It was the spring, so the weather was likely to be warm and there would be no puddles to ruin my shoes. It was in South London which is my neck of the woods, and I always feel protective over my own neck of the…
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Let’s See How the Arrow Flies
by Sheldon I received some very good news a few weeks back. As a younger man I often worried. Worried for the future, worried for my friends, worried about taking risks and chances. It’s this train of thinking that made me one of the few people in my sixth form not to continue on towards…
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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…
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Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park – Pizza, Ants & Stepping Back in Time (The Fluff Report)
by Christina After our trip to Tower Hamlets, Sheldon and I said goodbye at Mile End tube station – he was off for a walk towards some other forgotten, hidden part of historical London and I was leaving to re-join the modern world. We exchanged a few words about beginning to write our respective pieces…
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In the Wilds of East Anglia
Christina is currently in Luxembourg hunting Elephants, so today’s post is by Sheldon, recounting a change in pace of life after a few days in Norfolk. Once a year, I get the opportunity to operate my ‘reset’ button. Usually every second week in August, me and a few friends retire to a chalet on the North…
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A Journey to Nunhead
by Sheldon As promised last week, my post this sunny and hot Monday will be a more in-depth look at Nunhead. It was the second Cemetery to be opened by the London Cemetery Company, as an attempt to recreate the success they’d had with Highgate. The opening of the Cemetery utilised a recently passed bill…
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Paradise By Way of Kensal Green
Kensal Green was the first of the Magnificent Seven to open and set the template on how to open a beautiful, peaceful setting to deal with the ever growing population of dead Londoners. The opening in 1833 was preceded by years of staunch debate and ideas on how to improve burial and general sanitation. The…
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