Tag: visit
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A Visit to Agatha Christie’s Grave
Agatha Christie, the world’s best selling author, was born on 15th September 1890 in Torquay. She is know as the Queen of Crime for her detective fiction stories and her two most famous detectives are Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She is also the only female playwright to have had three productions in London’s West End […]
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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 […]
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‘A Quiet, Beautiful Slope About a Mile On The Southern Side of Crystal Palace’
On a sunny day in May, I went for a walk and photo outing. Beckenham Crematorium and Cemetery, located in the London Borough of Bromley. It was an intrinsic part of my childhood, and is probably the reason that I found Sheldon’s original proposal for trips to all 7 of the Magnificent London cemeteries so […]
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Cimetière du Père Lachaise Part Deux
by Christina A few weeks ago, I reminisced here about a trip to Père Lachaise Cemetery I made in early 2011, to visit Jim Morrison. This was before Sheldon and I founded Cemetery Club and my interest in cemeteries had not yet been ignited by Sheldon’s wonderful and inspiring love of this section of world […]
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Cimetière du Père Lachaise Part 1
by Christina In a couple of weeks I’m going to Paris. I’ve been there in every season except springtime, which according to poetry and literature throughout the ages, is the ultimate time to go. (‘When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise‘ – Henry Miller, Tropic of […]
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Outside London: Stumbling on a Medieval Church in Kent
by Christina Last week, on an uncharacteristically sunny day in February, I came across a brown sign with a picture of a church on it. It was pointing down a dirt track that led up a hill and then disappeared into the trees. I was in Kent, looking for Oast Houses to photograph (I love […]
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Breakfast at Night – Our First AGM at the Cereal Killer Cafe
by Christina Sheldon and I decided we should have an AGM to discuss Cemetery Club and where the future will take us and the blog. A couple of days after this discussion I got an official looking Google Calender invite in my inbox, inviting me to the Cereal Killer Cafe in Shoreditch – a cafe […]
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Faces for Radio: The Day We Made a Cemetery Club Documentary.
by Christina A couple of weeks ago, on a rainy day in South London (is there any other type of day at the moment? No. It just rains.) Sheldon and I packed ourselves and our wet weather gear into my tiny Nissan Micra and beetled over to West Norwood Cemetery to meet Laura and Bobby, two […]
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Outside London – Going to Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee
by Christina People make pilgrimages all the time. Some people make religious pilgrimages, but I am not particularly religious (I go to church sometimes, and have done since I was 9. My Grandpa was a Reverend, and my mother is one too. And I’ve been to Jerusalem, and stood at the Wailing Wall, and written […]
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Outside London – Trekking to Talacre to See an Abandoned Lighthouse
It was a cold, clear day in November and for once I was wearing sensible shoes. In fact, I was wearing wellies. Sheldon would have been proud of me. My friend Jess, who came with me on this adventure, joked that I looked like a Yummy Mummy from Kent. Just with more tattoos. I countered […]
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