Tag: tower hamlets

• Young Sheldon

  

  Whenever I start researching a cemetery, I always start by looking for a name. My own. Hopefully that won’t be interpreted by you as arrogance. My forename isn’t very common – I’ve only met two other Sheldon’s in my time: one a distant cousin and the other at a party donkey’s years ago. I am […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  July 26, 2021

  Abandoned, American, Biography, Family, History, Lost

  America, Captain, Cemetery, Cockney, Family history, Historian, infant, investigation, Lost, Maine, past, Shipping, tower hamlets

• The Lost Village of the East End

  

  Hard to imagine this part of the East End being a queer sanctuary and a once idyllic rural retreat… I recently gave a walking tour around old Bromley-By-Bow on behalf of my good friends at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park and the Women’s Environmentalist Network. It’s an area I’m vaguely familiar with, as my old local […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  May 9, 2019

  Cemeteries, Heritage, History, London, Lost, Rural

  Bow, Bromley, Cockney, East End, Gandhi, Gay, Jacobean, James I, LGBTQ, Lost, tower hamlets, Urbanisation, Village

• Meet the (Real) Eastenders

  

  by Sheldon This Saturday, let us take you on  trip back in time (without a TARDIS, sadly) to the East-End. This isn’t the East End of coffee shops, vintage stores and cereal cafes. This is the East End where war heroes lived above shops, mourning achievements of yesteryear, where philanthropists makes it their life mission to […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  February 20, 2017

  Advertisement, Community, Heritage, History, London, Lost, Prostitute, Tour Guiding, Tours

  Animals, bethnal green, Bow, Cemetery, Cockney, Cutty Sark, E3, Jack the Ripper, Mile End, Tiger, tour, tower hamlets, Tube

• Cemetery Club Podcast 1: Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

  Our first podcast looks at the little known life of the only woodland in zone 2… One of the things me and Christina have discussed is to try various platforms to reach out to our (happily) growing audience. Our recent visit to Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park was a perfect opportunity to explore this idea, and […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  September 12, 2013

  Family, History, Interview, London, Lost, Religion, Respect, Tours, Urban, Visits

  Cemetery, Ecology, Habitat, Ken Greenway, London, tower hamlets, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, Woodland

• Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park – Pizza, Ants & Stepping Back in Time (The Fluff Report)

  by Christina After our trip to Tower Hamlets, Sheldon and I said goodbye at Mile End tube station – he was off for a walk towards some other forgotten, hidden part of historical London and I was leaving to re-join the modern world. We exchanged a few words about beginning to write our respective pieces […]

  irismacro

  September 9, 2013

  London, Photography, Tours, Visits

  Cemeteries, Cemetery, Grave, Graveyard, Ken Greenway, London, THCP, tower hamlets, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park