Tag: Charles Dickens

• The Abode of the Mortal Part of Man: Cemetery Club Tour Part 2

  

  by Sheldon Who’d have thought that 31 acres in North London would carry on the mantle established by a burial ground that lay 4.1 miles away, created several hundred years before? On Saturday I ventured up to Stoke Newington to give a tour on behalf of the Abney Trust, as part of their Winter Fun Day.…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  December 15, 2014

  London, Tour Guiding, Tours

  Abney Park Cemetery, Amy Winehouse, Champagne Charlie, Charles Dickens, Dissenter, Salvation Army, William Booth

• St Ghastly Grim

  The City is a place of fascination and intrigue. I wonder if any other square mile on this planet has experienced such changes as the heart of our City has? From the first Roman settlement near the present Tower of London, to being the world’s premier financial and business heartland: the City has undergone a…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  March 13, 2014

  churches, History, London

  Charles Dickens, City of London, Diary, Gateway, plague, Samuel Pepys, Skulls, St Olave Hart Street

• If You Seek His Monument

  Celebrated author Charles Dickens stipulated that his legacy would be his books: yet a memorial was unveiled in Portsmouth in 2014 to celebrate his 202nd birthday. He stated in his will that ‘I conjure to my friends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial or testimonial whatsoever’. This has been…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  February 10, 2014

  churches, Heritage, History, London, Memorial

  1666, Charles Dickens, Dome, Great Fire of London, King Charles II, London, Portsmouth, Sir Christopher Wren, st paul’s cathedral, Statue