Tag: Lives

• Parliament’s Postie

  

  Imagine being at the heart of communication in one of the most important buildings in the world! It’s 1903 and in his private office in Buckingham Palace, King Edward VII sits in his chair, pouring over a list of names. Making notes beside each one, the roll of names before him has been given Royal…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  December 12, 2019

  Biography, History, London, Murder, Royal, Work

  Abney Park, Biography, Cemetery, Crippen, Election, Grave, Hackney, House of Commons, Islington, Lives, Parcel, Parliament, Politician, Postage, Postman Pat, Public History, Royal Mail, Stoke Newington

• Get Involved! Tour Schedule 2015

  

  by Sheldon With the summer season firmly in sight it’s time to announce this year’s tour schedule! We kick off this year’s season with the celebration of the 175th birthday of Abney Park Cemetery. An immaculate arboretum in its day, nature has claimed back the once tidy flowerbeds and hidden the people buried here…UNTIL NOW. Come…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  April 27, 2015

  Event, London, Tours

  Abney Park Cemetery, Brompton Cemetery, Guide, Lives, tours, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, walk

• Guide & Seek: The Lost Lives of Brompton Cemetery

  by Christina  It is just past midday at Brompton Cemetery’s south gate. Sheldon is about to run through his first ever Cemetery Club tour before actual people begin arriving. As we start off for stop number 1 (Jon Snow), two dishevelled looking men with weather-beaten faces, Springsteen T-Shirts and bottles of cider in their hands…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  June 30, 2014

  Heritage, Tour Guiding, Tours

  Artist, Brompton Cemetery, Death, Diet, Graves, Guide, Kensington and Chelsea, Lives, Lost, Merchant, Museum, Official, Singer, tour