Tag: gothic
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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…
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Strolls in the Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
I was making full use of my recent membership of the British Library and delving into their archives to explore ye olde books on Cemeteries. I came across one such book that was written in the 1860’s for the Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery; imagine Bradshaw’s Guide, which was written as a timetable and guide to…
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Highgate-on-Sea
by Sheldon Welcome, reader! You’ve probably just seen us on Inside Out taking presenter Natalie Graham around the regions graveyards and meeting a few of the characters buried within them. Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery could very easily be that other great nationally famous Cemetery; Karl Marx’s last resting place – Highgate; but in my opinion,…
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Keep your wits about you: Looking for Dracula in Whitby
I stole the title from the Whatsapp message Sheldon sent me when he found out where I’d been. ‘I hope you kept your wits about you in Whitby.’ QuickDraw Shelly they call him – always ready with a pun. In fact, you do need to keep your wits about you when you visit this coastal…
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