Originally Posted by
Max
If I ever go to London again, I'd love to visit Highgate.
It's in two halves- Karl Marx is in the newer- and duller- part. The spectacular older half is (or was when I was last there a few years ago) in the 'care' of the 'friends of Highgate Cemetery'. The representative- a lady- of that body who was on duty when I last visited was rude and officious, shouting at anyone trying to take photographs...
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You'd be much better off visiting one of the other great Victorian cemeteries when you next visit the capital. I particularly love Kensal Green ("For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen; Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green". G K Chesterton).
It's beautiful, vast and rambling- and there aren't any bossy boots telling you what to do or where to go (or not). The list of famous people there is impressive- Charles Babbage, Blondin, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Wilkie Collins, Marcus Garvie, Harold Pinter, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, not to mention a daughter of Winston Churchill and two children of King George III- oh, and Freddie Mercury was cremated here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensal_Green_Cemetery
Brompton Cemetery is pretty wonderful too, with an equally distinguished population- Samuel Cunard, Brian Glover, Bernard Levin, Emmeline Pankhurst etc etc..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brompton_Cemetery
I'll get round to posting some of my pictures of these places one day...
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