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Death in the British Museum: Object in Focus

Sheldon Goodman

Jul 22, 2021
4 min

Death in the British Museum: Object in Focus

Being invited by our wonderful Cemetery Club master of ceremonies Sheldon K. Goodman to participate in Death in the British Museum this coming Saturday has given me a little push towards reevaluating what the massive museum collection in Bloomsbury means to me. It has encouraged me to consider the importance of furnereal objects and how they connect us to our ancestors in powerful ways. Vietnamese incense-burner (British Museum number 1985,0125.1) This Vietnamese incense-burn

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Queerly Departed

Sheldon Goodman

Feb 2, 2019
1 min

Queerly Departed

Beneath those endless rows of stones and tombs of Brompton are stories. Fabulous stories. The first cemetery event of the year is here! I am super-pleased to announce that finally Queerly Departed is now live. The lovely Dan Gilbert from Brompton Cemetery got in touch with me a few months ago in regards to doing something out of the ordinary to get people engaged with the open-air cathedral and mentioned perhaps looking into the LGBTQ history of the cemetery – which is an are

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Queerly Departed

Sheldon Goodman

Feb 2, 2019
1 min

Queerly Departed

Beneath those endless rows of stones and tombs of Brompton are stories. Fabulous stories. The first cemetery event of the year is here! I am super-pleased to announce that finally Queerly Departed is now live. The lovely Dan Gilbert from Brompton Cemetery got in touch with me a few months ago in regards to doing something out of the ordinary to get people engaged with the open-air cathedral and mentioned perhaps looking into the LGBTQ history of the cemetery – which is an are

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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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Meet the (Real) Eastenders

Sheldon Goodman

Feb 20, 2017
1 min

Meet the (Real) Eastenders

by Sheldon This Saturday, let us take you on trip back in time (without a TARDIS, sadly) to the East-End. This isn’t the East End of coffee shops, vintage stores and cereal cafes. This is the East End where war heroes lived above shops, mourning achievements of yesteryear, where philanthropists makes it their life mission to improve the living conditions of countless children and the medic who was to uncover what Jack the Ripper did to what we now understand to be his first

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Meet the (Real) Eastenders

Sheldon Goodman

Feb 20, 2017
1 min

Meet the (Real) Eastenders

by Sheldon This Saturday, let us take you on trip back in time (without a TARDIS, sadly) to the East-End. This isn’t the East End of coffee shops, vintage stores and cereal cafes. This is the East End where war heroes lived above shops, mourning achievements of yesteryear, where philanthropists makes it their life mission to improve the living conditions of countless children and the medic who was to uncover what Jack the Ripper did to what we now understand to be his first

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The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Sheldon Goodman

Oct 24, 2016
2 min

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Celebrating the lives of long gone Londoners – that’s what we’re about. Here’s someone we cover on our tours around Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park – an extraordinary man and an extraordinary animal. Imagine, being nine years old, amidst the grubby streets of London, looking into the piercing eyes of a beast more at home in the forests of India rather than the East End of London. Charles Jamrach was unloading some Leopards in the yard of London’s most unusual shop – an emporium

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The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Sheldon Goodman

Oct 24, 2016
2 min

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Celebrating the lives of long gone Londoners – that’s what we’re about. Here’s someone we cover on our tours around Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park – an extraordinary man and an extraordinary animal. Imagine, being nine years old, amidst the grubby streets of London, looking into the piercing eyes of a beast more at home in the forests of India rather than the East End of London. Charles Jamrach was unloading some Leopards in the yard of London’s most unusual shop – an emporium

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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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Westminster Meets Kensal Green – My First Tourguiding Experience

Sheldon Goodman

Jul 6, 2015
4 min

Westminster Meets Kensal Green – My First Tourguiding Experience

by Christina Kensal Green: Victorian grandeur 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 1889 and foggy. It’s hard to set the scene given that it’s obviously 2015 and puffy white clouds are lazily floating across a vivid blue sky above us. It’s

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Westminster Meets Kensal Green – My First Tourguiding Experience

Sheldon Goodman

Jul 6, 2015
4 min

Westminster Meets Kensal Green – My First Tourguiding Experience

by Christina Kensal Green: Victorian grandeur 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 1889 and foggy. It’s hard to set the scene given that it’s obviously 2015 and puffy white clouds are lazily floating across a vivid blue sky above us. It’s

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Cimetière du Père Lachaise Part Deux

Sheldon Goodman

May 11, 2015
4 min

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 history. Basically what I’m trying to say here is – I went there but I didn’t pay it much attention. All I had to share with you were a few dingy Polaroids I had saved from t

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Cimetière du Père Lachaise Part Deux

Sheldon Goodman

May 11, 2015
4 min

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 history. Basically what I’m trying to say here is – I went there but I didn’t pay it much attention. All I had to share with you were a few dingy Polaroids I had saved from t

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Orators and Entertainers

Sheldon Goodman

Dec 8, 2014
1 min

Orators and Entertainers

by Sheldon I’m pleased to say that another Cemetery Club tour is happening! On Saturday 13th December, I warmly invite you to join me for ‘Orators and Entertainers: the Hidden Story of Abney Park Cemetery’! Following on from the hugely successful Tower Hamlets walk I led, the nice people of Abney Park have invited me to guide you around what was, upon its opening in 1840, the world’s first cemetery-cum-arboreteum. It carried on the mantle as the ‘campo santo for dissenters‘ (

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Orators and Entertainers

Sheldon Goodman

Dec 8, 2014
1 min

Orators and Entertainers

by Sheldon I’m pleased to say that another Cemetery Club tour is happening! On Saturday 13th December, I warmly invite you to join me for ‘Orators and Entertainers: the Hidden Story of Abney Park Cemetery’! Following on from the hugely successful Tower Hamlets walk I led, the nice people of Abney Park have invited me to guide you around what was, upon its opening in 1840, the world’s first cemetery-cum-arboreteum. It carried on the mantle as the ‘campo santo for dissenters‘ (

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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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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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So, Where Were We?

Sheldon Goodman

May 27, 2014
2 min

So, Where Were We?

by Sheldon Apologies to all Cemetery Club aficionados for the unexpected hiatus – the demands of the living consumed our passion for the dead (I had my final tour guiding assessment and Christina had the SE20 Craft Fair and Marathon to run). We’re back now, on what is just a few days after our anniversary! Focussed as ever on writing about the dead-space we find in our living environments, and we’re excited to bring you a development that we’ve had in the pipeline for a while

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