Tag: wilkie collins

• Gruesome – Or History Made Graphic?

  

  Why go traipsing around a cemetery? Well, it’s no different from going to a museum or an art gallery. So when I come across historical accounts written by cemetery enthusiasts, I have to share their words as I would my own. The following article originally appeared in the Londonderry Sentinel on  Saturday 1st December, 1956. Its author…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  April 27, 2018

  History, London, opinion, Review

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• Westminster Meets Kensal Green – My First Tourguiding Experience

  

  by Christina It is a Saturday morning at the end of June, it is about a million degrees, and Kensal Green Cemetery looks green and alive. I am standing in front of the gravestone of Dickensian author Wilkie Collins, trying to make 10 people I only met an hour ago (and Sheldon) believe it is…

  irismacro

  July 6, 2015

  Tour Guiding

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