Tag: train

• The Queen has died – so what happens next?

  

  An inevitable day has finally happened. The Queen’s extraordinary reign – 70 years and 214 days – has drawn to a close, making her the second longest reigning monarch in history, behind Louis XIV of France, whose record of 72 years and 110 days. But records are irrelevant. The Queen has died and whether you’re…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  September 8, 2022

  History, Royal, Women

  Balmoral, Cemetery, dead, Her Majesty, Queen, Queen Elizabeth II, Royal, The Queen, tomb, train, Vault, Windsor

• Strolls in the Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

  

  I was making full use of my recent membership of the British Library and delving into their archives to explore ye olde books on Cemeteries. I came across one such book that was written in the 1860’s for the Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery; imagine Bradshaw’s Guide, which was written as a timetable and guide to…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  March 21, 2017

  Architecture, Engineering, Furniture, Photography, Railway

  Brighton, Daffodils, flowers, gothic, Locomotive, Parliament, Rastrick, Rocket, Spring, Sussex, train, Urpeth, Vanity

• 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