Tag: dilapidated

• 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

• 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…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  July 8, 2013

  London, Photography, Respect, Tours, Uncategorized

  Abandoned, Cemeteries, Death, dilapidated, Highgate, James Bunstone Bunning, Kensal Green, Nunhead Cemetery, se15, South London

• Nunhead on a Friday in February

  by Christina When Sheldon and I ventured to Nunhead, on a sunny but chilly day in February this year, Cemetery Club (not yet named so) had been lying dormant for a good 18 months. We had both been busy with other stuff, as mentioned by Sheldon in his last post, and our hobby had been…

  irismacro

  July 4, 2013

  London, Urban, Visits

  Cemeteries, Cemetery, Death, dilapidated, nunhead, se15, st paul’s cathedral