Tag: Brompton

• 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

• The Lions of London, Part 1

  

  A marker to the dead can take many forms. A simple slab. A towering obelisk. A niche in a wall. Or as a ruddy great lion. Lions in cemeteries – not actual lions, although wouldn’t that be something – exist in funerary sculpture and are almost as impressive as seeing the real thing. There are…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  August 12, 2021

  Animals, art, Cemeteries, History, London, People, Sport

  art, big cat, Boxing, Brompton, Cemetery, Chelsea, Gravesend, Iran, Lion, London, Sculptor, Sculpture, Statue, Woolwich

• The Open Air Cathedral

  by Sheldon Out of all the Magnificent Seven cemeteries we’ve visited, there is one that beckons to us time and time again. It’s the Cemetery that started our journey into the Victorian underworld and sparked our interest into the past. A cemetery that has had remarkably mixed fortunes over its existence, from being founded as…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  January 13, 2014

  Architecture, Review, Urban, Visits

  Brompton, Cemetery, Death Care, Kensington and Chelsea, London, Pankhurst, West London