Tag: funeral

• Killed By A Coffin

  

  It’s an image that does the rounds on social media from time to time. I’m not the first to share it and it’s one of the initial images I found when I began my immersion into cemetery history. Kensal Green was the second cemetery I visited for this blog and its not an event you’d…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  March 2, 2020

  Accident, Biography, Cemeteries, History, London, Medicine

  Accident, funeral, gothic, Highgate Cemetery, history, Illustrated London News, Kensal Green Cemetery, Killed by a Coffin, Tragedy, UCL, Undertaker

• Who is buried under St George’s Chapel?

  

  On the 8th September 2022, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II passed away. Aged 96, Elizabeth was the second-longest reigning monarch in history with a reign of 70 years and 214 days. This is just behind Louis XIV of France, whose record of 72 years and 110 days still remains. The Queen was several things. A…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  May 18, 2018

  Biography, Family, History, Royal, Women

  Elizabeth II, funeral, George IV, history, Prince, Prince Philip, Queen Victoria, Royal, The Queen, tomb, Vault, Windsor, womens history

• Choo Choo(oooohh) – The Ghostly Ghost Train that London Forgot

  by Christina ‘The dead-space we find in our living environments’ – this is a great description by Sheldon of what we do here at Cemetery Club and of what captures our interest. I’ve been using our time off to step back and see what unexplored dead spaces come to me instead of actively looking for…

  irismacro

  May 27, 2014

  History, London, Urban

  1854, brookwood, buried, Cemeteries, Cemetery, dead, Death, funeral, ghost train, leake street, London, london necropolis railway, london necropolis station, Magnificent Seven London, train, University of Westminster, waterloo