Tag: Mystery

• 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

• The Mystery of Montague Fowler, Part Two

  For those of you who are new to the blog, a few weeks back I wrote of my discovery of an artefact belonging to a boy called Montague Fowler in a long forgotten chest in the old stables of a country mansion. The whole thing intrigued me.  Here in my hands was this beautifully written piece…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  June 20, 2013

  Family, Lost, Photography, Possessions, Religion

  Author, Cemetery, Chaplain, Copperplate, Death, Handwriting, Lost, Mystery, People, Reverend, victorian

• The Mystery of Montague Fowler

  

  Monday means it’s my time to write a post, and as I’ve been christened ‘history buff and modern day Tony Robinson’ by Christina (I hope she allows my embellishment of the role she bestowed upon me in the previous post), I thought it’d be interesting to occasionally venture off-topic and write about a little bit of detective…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  June 3, 2013

  Family, Lost, Photography, Possessions, Visits

  Cemetery, Copperplate, Death, East Grinstead, Handwriting, Lost, Mystery, People, Reverend, Sussex, victorian