Highgate Cemetery guide Kevin Bourne says he enjoys sharing his fascination with funerary architecture with tour groups.(Dominic Schaefer Photography - Dominic Schaefer Photography) After an uphill ...
If you could time-travel back to London in, say, the mid-1850s, you might find yourself strolling in Highgate Cemetery, taking in what had become a cutting-edge showpiece of the Victorian sensibility.
A glass house built onto one of London's most famous and historic cemeteries has hit the market. Listed at $8.3 million, it has floor-to-ceiling windows that flood the modern structure with light. A ...
During the middle of the 19th Century, London’s burial sites had a much-needed revamp and rebrand. Out went graveyards – small and grim churchyard plots in residential areas – and in came cemeteries, ...
This is a lively place, with shops garlanding High Street, and clusters of Georgian and Victorian houses. But it isn't the life of Highgate that fascinates visitors. It's the dead. The 37 acres of ...
Global warming is threatening London's historic Highgate Cemetery, an overgrown oasis housing graves of notable figures from Karl Marx to pop star George Michael, its custodians say. Concerned at ...
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Satanism, sex rituals, a vampire, a bizarre feud and the bodies of some of the most famous people on the planet – this story has it all. The Highgate Vampire is a relatively recent legend in vampire ...
Perched on a steep hillside peering down at central London, a Victorian graveyard, Highgate Cemetery, provides clues to long ago lives and is still in use today.Credit... Supported by Highgate ...
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