Posted on 03/05/2019 7:39:16 AM PST by NRx
A video of London's famous Highgate cemetery shot in 2014 w/o annoying background music. The cemetery was one of several opened in the early Victorian era as a response to the problem of overcrowded churchyards in the city and a lack of space for burial in an age when cremation was not yet an accepted option. These cemeteries were originally designed as not just repositories for the dead, but beautifully landscaped parks for the living to enjoy. Gradually Highgate was overtaken by nature and fell into disrepair. In the mid 1970's it was abandoned by its owners and closed. Several decades of restoration and preservation work by both public and private entities has arrested the deterioration and restored many of the damaged monuments and tombs. Today the cemetery is a popular tourist destination with its plethora of Gothic monuments and mausoleums serving as a giant window into the Victorian world of death and mourning. A limited number of burials are once again being performed.
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Interesting... there are a lot of these walkthroughs.
This is a very good series...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vpUC3JJuDaumWNS8EPQrA
Indeed it is. I’ve been a fan of that channel for a while. If I still lived in NY I’d probably want to be planted in Green-Wood cemetery in Brooklyn which is a massive garden park cemetery dating to the late 1830’s. Although I rather like the mausoleums on the west coast, I am not a fan of the recent fad of so called memorial parks with no standing monuments allowed. They seem terribly boring.
I think Highgate is where Karl Marx is buried. Oddly enough, the shrubbery around his resting place seems to be well-watered.
Yes, he is there and yes, his grave has been the object of various expressions of opinion.
It is very professionally done. Most of the other tours include the person narrating in the video which is a distraction because they are laughing. Very annoying. The narrator in HG is rarely seen, sounds like James Woods and will flash up a bill board, advertisement poster, or a short movie or stills of the person.
It allows us to connect with our past and learn about actors whom have been forgotten except for this show.
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