Tag: Death Care

• 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

• The Cemetery of All Saints

  by Sheldon And now we move on to the second Magnificent Seven Cemetery to be featured in this blog: Nunhead.  Nunhead was something of a reunion for the Cemetery Club – Christina was busy for a while whizzing around in ambulances, whilst I was busy gardening and drinking a dazzling array of ale.  Our schedules…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  July 1, 2013

  London, Respect, Visits, War

  Cemetery, Death, Death Care, Highgate, London, Magnificent Seven London, Nunhead Cemetery, Thomas Tilling, Vincent Figgins

• 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…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  June 10, 2013

  London, Photography, Tours, Uncategorized, Visits

  Cemetery, Christopher Wren, Death Care, John Hall Gladstone, Kensal Green, London, Thames Estuary

• Patti Smith Soundbite

  by Christina From time to time we’ll post clippings and extracts we’ve found that have nothing to do with our forays into Victorian graveyard life, but that are related to the point and premise of Cemetery Club. What follows is an extract from a recent Simon Hattenstone interview with Patti Smith, published in the Guardian…

  irismacro

  June 6, 2013

  Interview, Photography, Respect, Uncategorized

  Cemeteries, Death, Death Care, Grave, Graveyard, Patti Smith, The Guardian

• So It begins: Kensal Green

  Myself and Christina had already completed four visits out of the seven cemeteries by the time we came to Kensal Green. It was the one we’d actually intended to visit after our initial trip to Highgate, but for various reasons, it slipped down the list.  However, almost thirteen months after we were due to go,…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  May 28, 2013

  Photography, Review, Tours, Visits

  Cemeteries, Cemetery, Death Care, Duke, Grandeur, Kensal Green, London, Opposition, Royal, World War I

• Kensal Green in the Middle of Winter

  by Christina Sheldon and I visited Kensal Green Cemetery in January 2013, on a grey day after a rainstorm. I wore inappropriate shoes. It was muddy and dark and I had with me an old (circa 2005) analogue Canon 35mm camera and a roll of black & white film. I started snapping away while Sheldon…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  May 25, 2013

  Photography, Visits

  Cemeteries, Death, Death Care, Kensal Green, Kensal Green Cemetery, London