Mortuary Worker & Death Blogger
Firstly, apologies for the delay in posting this! No excuse, but the week has been a busy one with preparations for our engagement party this weekend and I have managed to cram in a lot apart from writing a blog post from the weekend. Secondly, another apologies that this will be a largely photo based... Continue Reading →
Somehow, the last week came together in a nice neat epiphany last night. I think you would call it an epiphany anyways, or at least I had one of those ‘this is all connected!’ moments that forced a big grin on my face and I knew I had to write about it. As you may... Continue Reading →
Along St. Thomas Street, just up the road from Guy's Hospital where I used to work last year and the fancy Shard building, there is a doorway that most people just walk past. Tucked in the corner of that doorway to a restaurant is another door that opens to a spiral staircase that appears to... Continue Reading →
Highgate Cemetery opened in 1839 and today is probably the most famous and visited of all the Magnificent Seven. Today it is still in use and the burial site of some of the most famous of London’s population. The site is divided by Swains Lane and has an East and West side. The West side... Continue Reading →
As I said earlier this week, I had some time off work and yesterday I had arranged to meet my friend Joely in Chelmsford before heading into London in the evening. It would appear I can't do anything or go anywhere now without checking out a graveyard or two. In Chelmsford a short walk down... Continue Reading →
Nope, not the 2016 film starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt, or the 1960 film of which that was the remake. I'm talking cemeteries, of course, I'm always on theme. In the 19th Century, the cemeteries of London were becoming a very serious problem. Think overcrowding, huge hygiene issues causing outbreaks of disease and just... Continue Reading →
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