Tag: Mary Nichols

• Mary Nichols and the Sleeping Angel

  

  Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful graves in Europe, it is said that the grave Mary Nichols lay completely hidden under ivy of Highgate Cemetery until the 1980’s, when it was rediscovered by photographer John Gay. On the top of the grave lies a sleeping angel on a bed of clouds: it is easily one of…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  March 10, 2022

  Angel, Biography, History, London, Tours, Women

  angel, Brompton, Cemeteries, Cemetery, Death, dilapidated, Grave, Highgate, International Women's Day, Love, Marble, Mary Nichols, Mystery, sleeping angel, symbols, tomb, Womens history Month