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Finding Mr. Moonlight

Sheldon Goodman

Sep 12, 2019
3 min

Finding Mr. Moonlight

There’s a cemetery on a common that practically no-one knows is there. It’s not listed on The London Borough of Richmond’s Cemeteries page (it should be) and the state it’s in now is a stark contrast as to how well it was maintained a century ago. I first found out about the cemetery from a blog by Flickering Lamps but only started doing proper research into it when The Graveyard Twins posted some images and videos on their feed. It was like Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park but ev

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Finding Mr. Moonlight

Sheldon Goodman

Sep 12, 2019
3 min

Finding Mr. Moonlight

There’s a cemetery on a common that practically no-one knows is there. It’s not listed on The London Borough of Richmond’s Cemeteries page (it should be) and the state it’s in now is a stark contrast as to how well it was maintained a century ago. I first found out about the cemetery from a blog by Flickering Lamps but only started doing proper research into it when The Graveyard Twins posted some images and videos on their feed. It was like Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park but ev

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Visiting The House Of Life

Sheldon Goodman

Aug 27, 2019
5 min

Visiting The House Of Life

A Grade II listed cemetery in Zone 3? A short walk from Dollis Hill tube station lies a cemetery I doubt many of the local people even know about. Hidden behind a wall from Pound Lane, this place of rest once catered to a thriving local Jewish community who have long since moved away to other parts of London; its heritage only known to a small number. In January 2018 Willesden Jewish Cemetery joined the likes of Brompton and West Norwood in being awarded £1.7 million in Herit

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Visiting The House Of Life

Sheldon Goodman

Aug 27, 2019
5 min

Visiting The House Of Life

A Grade II listed cemetery in Zone 3? A short walk from Dollis Hill tube station lies a cemetery I doubt many of the local people even know about. Hidden behind a wall from Pound Lane, this place of rest once catered to a thriving local Jewish community who have long since moved away to other parts of London; its heritage only known to a small number. In January 2018 Willesden Jewish Cemetery joined the likes of Brompton and West Norwood in being awarded £1.7 million in Herit

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The Cedar’s Farewell

Sheldon Goodman

Aug 5, 2019
4 min

The Cedar’s Farewell

Today we mourn an icon. Trees hold a very special place in our hearts and you only have to look at how important the Bethnal Green Mulberry is and its value to the local community to see what imagery and emotion they conjure. Permission was given to remove this historic tree from its current site (being there between 150 – 400 years) to allow a developer to build flats on the site of the old London Chest Hospital and local people have quite rightly contested the proposal; evi

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The Cedar’s Farewell

Sheldon Goodman

Aug 5, 2019
4 min

The Cedar’s Farewell

Today we mourn an icon. Trees hold a very special place in our hearts and you only have to look at how important the Bethnal Green Mulberry is and its value to the local community to see what imagery and emotion they conjure. Permission was given to remove this historic tree from its current site (being there between 150 – 400 years) to allow a developer to build flats on the site of the old London Chest Hospital and local people have quite rightly contested the proposal; evi

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Help Restore The Burdick Grave

Sheldon Goodman

Jun 25, 2019
2 min

Help Restore The Burdick Grave

Right; roll up sleeves time, people. An accident befell my friends at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park not too long ago; a ruddy great tree decided it was time to collapse and in the process it took out a monument that is now in pieces on the floor. Tower Hamlets doesn’t have the most spectacular tombs but what it does is act as a repository of the honest Londoner; it’s a reminder of a time when this part of London wasn’t the nicest of places to live and work – airs and graces are

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Help Restore The Burdick Grave

Sheldon Goodman

Jun 25, 2019
2 min

Help Restore The Burdick Grave

Right; roll up sleeves time, people. An accident befell my friends at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park not too long ago; a ruddy great tree decided it was time to collapse and in the process it took out a monument that is now in pieces on the floor. Tower Hamlets doesn’t have the most spectacular tombs but what it does is act as a repository of the honest Londoner; it’s a reminder of a time when this part of London wasn’t the nicest of places to live and work – airs and graces are

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Highgate?

Sheldon Goodman

Jul 19, 2017
3 min

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Highgate?

Highgate Cemetery is asking for ideas on how to be a sustainable place of burial for years to come. This is important for many reasons. Firstly, it’s easily the best known Cemetery in the UK and the fact its publically seeking opinion on its future is big news. Secondly, because of its age, the board are clearly aware that the space needs to be better managed. Not only in terms of flora and fauna – I suspect the excellent work at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park and their recently

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Highgate?

Sheldon Goodman

Jul 19, 2017
3 min

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Highgate?

Highgate Cemetery is asking for ideas on how to be a sustainable place of burial for years to come. This is important for many reasons. Firstly, it’s easily the best known Cemetery in the UK and the fact its publically seeking opinion on its future is big news. Secondly, because of its age, the board are clearly aware that the space needs to be better managed. Not only in terms of flora and fauna – I suspect the excellent work at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park and their recently

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Big Fat Goths Explore Arnos Vale

Sheldon Goodman

Jun 5, 2017
2 min

Big Fat Goths Explore Arnos Vale

‘It seems that there is a rise in tombstone tourism’ started the article. Within the past month or so, awareness to cemeteries as places to visit in the capacity of a social/educational form rather than as a place of remembrance has hit the headlines and I (as well as others) have spoken to various news outlets regarding this new form of so-called dark tourism. Many people are willing to give cemeteries a chance and see them as more than just a place to inter someone. They ar

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Big Fat Goths Explore Arnos Vale

Sheldon Goodman

Jun 5, 2017
2 min

Big Fat Goths Explore Arnos Vale

‘It seems that there is a rise in tombstone tourism’ started the article. Within the past month or so, awareness to cemeteries as places to visit in the capacity of a social/educational form rather than as a place of remembrance has hit the headlines and I (as well as others) have spoken to various news outlets regarding this new form of so-called dark tourism. Many people are willing to give cemeteries a chance and see them as more than just a place to inter someone. They ar

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Our Next Tour is Live!

Sheldon Goodman

Apr 7, 2017
2 min

Our Next Tour is Live!

by Sheldon Hello everyone! Here at the Cemetery Club mausoleum we’ve been busy sorting out events for the summer and we’re pleased to announce our next tour will be brand spanking new and will be around Hampstead Cemetery! It’s a lovely place to have a stroll and you get a sense that in the 140-odd years that it’s been opened, its general look and maintenance hasn’t changed that much. It’s part of the second wave of cemeteries that opened after the likes of Highgate and Kensa

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Our Next Tour is Live!

Sheldon Goodman

Apr 7, 2017
2 min

Our Next Tour is Live!

by Sheldon Hello everyone! Here at the Cemetery Club mausoleum we’ve been busy sorting out events for the summer and we’re pleased to announce our next tour will be brand spanking new and will be around Hampstead Cemetery! It’s a lovely place to have a stroll and you get a sense that in the 140-odd years that it’s been opened, its general look and maintenance hasn’t changed that much. It’s part of the second wave of cemeteries that opened after the likes of Highgate and Kensa

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Murder, War & Gore: A Trip to the Long-Gone East End

Sheldon Goodman

Jan 25, 2016
2 min

Murder, War & Gore: A Trip to the Long-Gone East End

by Sheldon © AFP 2015 Ticket alert! In two weeks time we’ll be kicking off our touring schedule for 2016 with our highly popular tour of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park! Opened as the last of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ Cemeteries in 1841; Tower Hamlets wasn’t quite the success its shareholders had hoped for – the rich flocked to West Norwood and highgate but because of the areas high social mobility and poverty from being close to the docks, the grandeur it was supposed to have wasn

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Murder, War & Gore: A Trip to the Long-Gone East End

Sheldon Goodman

Jan 25, 2016
2 min

Murder, War & Gore: A Trip to the Long-Gone East End

by Sheldon © AFP 2015 Ticket alert! In two weeks time we’ll be kicking off our touring schedule for 2016 with our highly popular tour of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park! Opened as the last of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ Cemeteries in 1841; Tower Hamlets wasn’t quite the success its shareholders had hoped for – the rich flocked to West Norwood and highgate but because of the areas high social mobility and poverty from being close to the docks, the grandeur it was supposed to have wasn

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The Lost Docks, Prince and Engineer of Southwark

Sheldon Goodman

Mar 23, 2015
3 min

The Lost Docks, Prince and Engineer of Southwark

On a chilly Sunday morning, Steve and I went to Bermondsey tube station to go on a tour of Thames-side Southwark, led by the charismatic Tim Thomas (who wore the best flat cap I’ve ever seen). An actor (gleefully telling us it was he who bumped off Simon Callow in the third act of Four Weddings and a Funeral), Singer (and songwriter, co-writing the theme tune to Rainbow) and friend of the Brunel Museum, over the next two hours Tim took us into the heart of the old docks of So

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The Lost Docks, Prince and Engineer of Southwark

Sheldon Goodman

Mar 23, 2015
3 min

The Lost Docks, Prince and Engineer of Southwark

On a chilly Sunday morning, Steve and I went to Bermondsey tube station to go on a tour of Thames-side Southwark, led by the charismatic Tim Thomas (who wore the best flat cap I’ve ever seen). An actor (gleefully telling us it was he who bumped off Simon Callow in the third act of Four Weddings and a Funeral), Singer (and songwriter, co-writing the theme tune to Rainbow) and friend of the Brunel Museum, over the next two hours Tim took us into the heart of the old docks of So

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Offline Forever

Sheldon Goodman

Oct 14, 2013
3 min

Offline Forever

by Sheldon Los Santos Cemetery, as featured in Grand Theft Auto 5. Last week Christina wrote about (one of) the Cemeteries to be found in Grand Theft Auto 5. When she text me asking if it was alright to write about a Cemetery that didn’t physically exist, I immediately said yes, it was such a good idea for a post that it would be silly to ignore such a feature in such a hugely popular game. Such an intricate online cemetery with its flowers and headstones reminded me of the

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Offline Forever

Sheldon Goodman

Oct 14, 2013
3 min

Offline Forever

by Sheldon Los Santos Cemetery, as featured in Grand Theft Auto 5. Last week Christina wrote about (one of) the Cemeteries to be found in Grand Theft Auto 5. When she text me asking if it was alright to write about a Cemetery that didn’t physically exist, I immediately said yes, it was such a good idea for a post that it would be silly to ignore such a feature in such a hugely popular game. Such an intricate online cemetery with its flowers and headstones reminded me of the

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