#Lost

Sheldon Goodman

Jul 26, 2021
5 min

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 omitting that blasted TV series. I’m always curious to see other examples of it, be it in archives, books or for the purposes of illustration here – cemeteries. So when I crack my knuckle

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Sheldon Goodman

May 9, 2019
4 min

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 Toby Carvery had a picture of the ruined churchyard of its church, Bromley St Leonard’s, up on the wall. A delightful part of E20 on the wall of a building in BR2. I

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Sheldon Goodman

May 9, 2019
4 min

The Lost Village of the East End

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Sheldon Goodman

May 8, 2019
2 min

Bones in a Library

…after being found under a driveway. In 2014, Alison Carpenter just wanted her driveway finished. A new home came with the associated building work you’d expect as she and her partner wanted to make their home their home. It took longer than expected and cost more than was anticipated; so it was decided to finish the works when they could. Two years of dirt being walked into the hallway was enough for her and her partner Michael to decide the driveway was the next thing to be

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Sheldon Goodman

May 8, 2019
2 min

Bones in a Library

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Sheldon Goodman

Jan 23, 2018
4 min

HRH (His Rolling Hulk)

Many people who lie in our cemeteries would have known, even visited, one of London’s best known animals. When I was about 7 or 8 I visited London Zoo for the first time. This was back when elephants and rhinos were still being kept in central London, which, considering it was the mid-1990’s, is bewildering. I clutched my blue guide book and remember looking at images of famous animals that had lived there over the years. There was an elephant, a gorilla and an owl. But I was

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Sheldon Goodman

Jan 23, 2018
4 min

HRH (His Rolling Hulk)

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Outside London: Stumbling on a Medieval Church in Kent

Sheldon Goodman

Feb 16, 2015
4 min

Outside London: Stumbling on a Medieval Church in Kent

Oast Houses, 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 an Oast House and Kent is littered with them – many converted into other things – hotels, pubs, houses…but that’s for another day) and I don’t know what led me to go pursuing b

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Sheldon Goodman

Feb 16, 2015
4 min

Outside London: Stumbling on a Medieval Church in Kent

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Guide & Seek: The Lost Lives of Brompton Cemetery

Sheldon Goodman

Jun 30, 2014
3 min

Guide & Seek: The Lost Lives of Brompton Cemetery

by Christina It is just past midday at Brompton Cemetery’s south gate. Sheldon is about to run through his first ever Cemetery Club tour before actual people begin arriving. As we start off for stop number 1 (Jon Snow), two dishevelled looking men with weather-beaten faces, Springsteen T-Shirts and bottles of cider in their hands start shouting at us. Or more specifically: me. ‘Alright love? Like the tattoos!’ I get this a lot. I thank them and we carry on, but they are still

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Sheldon Goodman

Jun 30, 2014
3 min

Guide & Seek: The Lost Lives of Brompton Cemetery

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Outside London – Childhood Memories By The Sea

Sheldon Goodman

Sep 26, 2013
6 min

Outside London – Childhood Memories By The Sea

by Christina I don’t know if it’s because I was born and raised on an island (albeit not near a coast) but I like staring out to sea. It also terrifies me (I try not to actually go in it if at all possible) but it fascinates me. Joseph Conrad wrote “As if it were too great, too mighty for common virtues, the ocean has no compassion, no faith, no law, no memory” and staring out to sea seems to erase every thought in my head and nothing else really matters -it’s a calming influ

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Sheldon Goodman

Sep 26, 2013
6 min

Outside London – Childhood Memories By The Sea

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The Mystery of Montague Fowler, Part Two

Sheldon Goodman

Jun 20, 2013
4 min

The Mystery of Montague Fowler, Part Two

For those of you who are new to the blog, a few weeks back I wrote of my discovery of an artefact belonging to a boy called Montague Fowler in a long forgotten chest in the old stables of a country mansion. As I was writing this post, I realised he signed both front and back pages. This was written on June 30th 1869, a Wednesday. The whole thing intrigued me. Here in my hands was this beautifully written piece of schoolwork, its writer long dead. It chronicled many things I

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Sheldon Goodman

Jun 20, 2013
4 min

The Mystery of Montague Fowler, Part Two

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Sheldon Goodman

Jun 3, 2013
3 min

The Mystery of Montague Fowler

Monday means it’s my time to write a post, and as I’ve been christened ‘history buff and modern day Tony Robinson’ by Christina (I hope she allows my embellishment of the role she bestowed upon me in the previous post), I thought it’d be interesting to occasionally venture off-topic and write about a little bit of detective work I’ve been doing over the past year or so, in this case it’s tied into the Magnificent Seven quite well, although indirectly. Ben’s old residence: his

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Sheldon Goodman

Jun 3, 2013
3 min

The Mystery of Montague Fowler

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