Tag: Magnificent Seven London

• Do Pokémon Go and Cemeteries Mix? Let’s Find Out…

  

  A smartphone game in which you wander the real world with your eyes glued to your phone screen as you hunt around a Google-Maps style landscape for virtual creatures that you can catch and collect?! You can find them in parks. You can find them in the street. And surprise, surprise – you can find…

  irismacro

  July 18, 2016

  London, video games, virtual

  augmented reality, Cemeteries, Cemetery, London, Magnificent Seven London, Nunhead Cemetery, pokémon go, victorian, video games, virtual reality, visit

• We Went On A Walk Around Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in a Rainstorm…You’ll Never Guess What Happened Next!

  

  by Christina I would apologise for the ‘clickbait’ title but I really like it. If you clicked on it purely to find out what happened when me and my mum got caught in a downpour at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park a couple of months back then you are in for a treat! The conclusion to…

  irismacro

  July 5, 2016

  London, Shuffle Festival

  Cemeteries, Cemetery, history, London, Magnificent Seven London, photography, Shuffle Festival, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, victorian

• Rubbing Shoulders With The Living: A Great Day Out At Nunhead Open Day

  

  By Christina I have a leaflet in front of me about The Friends of Nunhead Cemetery. They gave it to me when I visited their stall at Nunhead Open Day on Saturday. It costs £2 a year to join and I’m going to sign up right after I write this post. The leaflet says ‘Nunhead…

  irismacro

  May 24, 2016

  London, Photography, Visits

  Cemeteries, Cemetery, Death, London, Magnificent Seven London, Nunhead Cemetery, open day, photography, South London

• Reasons To Visit Nunhead Cemetery

  

  If you’re looking for a grand Victorian era cemetery in London, the guidebooks will direct you to Brompton or Highgate. But Nunhead? Where even IS it? Here’s why it’s worth finding out… by Christina My cemetery books are keen to stress that Nunhead, the 6th of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ Victorian cemeteries of London, is in…

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  March 29, 2016

  London, Photography, Visits

  Cemeteries, Cemetery, leysdown tragedy, London, Magnificent Seven London, nunhead, Nunhead Cemetery, photography, scouts, se15, victorian

• Westminster Meets Kensal Green – My First Tourguiding Experience

  

  by Christina It is a Saturday morning at the end of June, it is about a million degrees, and Kensal Green Cemetery looks green and alive. I am standing in front of the gravestone of Dickensian author Wilkie Collins, trying to make 10 people I only met an hour ago (and Sheldon) believe it is…

  irismacro

  July 6, 2015

  Tour Guiding

  Cemetery, Kensal Green, Kensal Green Cemetery, London, Magnificent Seven London, tour, victorian, Westminster Guides, wilkie collins

• Zinkers, Graving and a Sarcophagus – Cemetery Facts, Customs and Trivia

  by Christina ‘To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches’ – Charles Baudelaire I found a Cemetery trivia quiz during a Google search for something else. It is called Cemeteries Can Be Fun. Sheldon – did we miss a trick? Should we have come up…

  irismacro

  September 8, 2014

  History

  Cemeteries, Cemetery, customs, Death, death customs, facts, Magnificent Seven London, trivia, victorians

• 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

• Cousins at Kensal and Camera Chaos

  By Nick  I believe I was first introduced to you as, ‘The third silent member of Cemetery Club’ in Sheldon’s prior post Capturing the Moment. I am Nick, Sheldon’s cousin, graveyard lover, photography enthusiast and not so silent after all. I decided to make my debut post after some gentle persuasion by Sheldon, I was…

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  March 3, 2014

  Family, History, Introduction, London, Memorial, Photography

  Cemetery, debut, Grave, Graveyard, Kensal Green Cemetery, London, Magnificent Seven London, nikon, photo, photography

• Little Cemetery Observations – a Photo Blog

  by Christina My friend Steph is a photographer. She moved to London from New York state in January 2007 and her first flat here was in Kensal Green. One of the first places I remember her taking photographs of was Kensal Green Cemetery – a long time before I even knew the significance and history…

  irismacro

  November 18, 2013

  London, Photography

  Cemeteries, Graveyard, Highgate, Kensal Green, Kensal Green Cemetery, little london observationist, London, Magnificent Seven London, photography, steph sadler

• West Norwood Cemetery – The Fluff Report

  by Christina I was excited about visiting West Norwood Cemetery. It was the spring, so the weather was likely to be warm and there would be no puddles to ruin my shoes. It was in South London which is my neck of the woods, and I always feel protective over my own neck of the…

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  October 17, 2013

  London, Tours, Visits

  beamish & mcglue, cake, Cemeteries, Cemetery, Death, Graveyard, London, Magnificent Seven London, mausoleum, South London, tours, victorian, visits, west norwood, West Norwood Cemetery