Tag: Dissenter

• A Gangster’s Paradise

  

  by Sheldon The people whose houses backed on to Chingford Mount Cemetery would be forgiven for thinking that the Resurrectionists had returned, early in the morning of the 15th of June 1934. Flickering torches slowly meandered their way through the darkness, the light catching the odd headstone here and there. Their flickering light barely illuminating some…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  April 20, 2016

  London, Murder, People, Photography, Visits

  bunhill fields, Campo Santo, Cemetery, Chingford, Crime, Dissenter, E4, Gangster, Krays, London, Murder, Pollocks Toy museum, Suicide, Waltham Forest, Walthamstow

• 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

• The Bone Hill

  It was on a cold Winter’s day on January 5th, 1854 that the relatives of fifteen year old Elizabeth Howell Oliver huddled around her grave to say their goodbyes. As the Minister committed her body to the dirt – ashes to ashes and dust to dust, a much broader event was coming to the fore.…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  January 23, 2014

  Heritage, History, London, Memorial, Photography, Restored

  Abney Park Cemetery, Artillery Arms, Bunhill, Burial Ground, Cemetery, City of London, Dissenter, John Bunyan, Non-conformist, Thomas Bayes, William Blake