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What a cool looking cemetry. Was watching a documentry in me dads on Sunday about what god could be and they were going through all kinds of religion and when the guy was in highgate cemetry, I just liked the look of it.

The place would look spooky at night and even more if it had the fog that we had a couple of weeks ago.

Pics of it here.

http://www.craphound.com/images/highgate/index_1.html

http://www.craphound.com/images/highgate/index.html

Has the part what I was interested in but didn't the angle this pic has of it on one of the curves.

http://ck37.image.pbase.com/image/33459958/medium.jpg

It's even got a temple of doom. hello1

Closet we have to that place is St James by the Anglican cathedral would can look spooky at night.

Has Ghost Stories on it too and not sure about the Vampire one.

http://www.afallon.com/stories/highgate.htm
 
If you go there, DON'T mention ghosts - the curators and staff take a very dim view of spooks and don't allow ghost hunts in there.

This didn't stop Richard Felix from breaking into the cemetary for his "Ghosts of London" DVD - it even shows him getting out the way he came in - through a gap in the railings!
 
Nah would just like to visit the place to admire the look of it whenever I go to London again. 8)

Did they ever take that guy to court over that?
 
Nope, but Highgate do know about it. Felix has also been caught out on DVD on other occasions, and the National Trust, English Heritage etc. are checking into this.
 
Ooh, he's a rebel, that one! :lol:

I have a lovely book of photos of Highgate, taken before the vandalism which wrecked many of the wonderful monuments.
 
MaxMolyneux said:
Nah would just like to visit the place to admire the look of it whenever I go to London again. 8)

Did they ever take that guy to court over that?
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The words 'Highgate' and 'Court' on the same thread?

LOCK IT DOWN, QUICKLY!
 
I must admit I did pop into this thread in a road accident style wondering if someone had committed the cardinal sin. ;)
 
*wanders by in morbid curiosity*

It does look like a lovely spooky place, I love the architecture of tombs and mausoleums not to mention the mood of the places. How many ghost sightings have their actually been in Highgate Cemetary however? I have no idea.

Some people find cemetaries creepy but I find them beautiful and peaceful places full of oddities, equisite carvings and the like.


Glad this thread is not not about other stuff.
But i should hope other people Might admire nice cemetaries however each sightseer takes each remnant. ;)
 
The documentary was "The Story of God". I've started a thread on it here:

www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24473

It certianly looked awfully impressive in that footage.

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/!\ I know it may not need mentioning but in case this tempts in the unwary I want to remind people that the old caveats still apply:

There is technically nothing wrong with mentioning Highgate Cemetry but there are connected topics that are (rightly or wrongly) verbotten and this stricture stands:

www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 353#393353

The magazine's lawyers take this issue seriously and we will enforce those guidelines.
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As you were.
 
Yea it's a totally amazing place isn't it, like stepping into a Hammer Horror film.
Glad this thread is not not about other stuff.
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Such as?
 
Can't delete for some reason
 
EssexSpook: See my post above.

I've already removed one post from this thread and would like to avoid wasting any more of my time on this.
 
many_angled_one said:
*wanders by in morbid curiosity*

It does look like a lovely spooky place, I love the architecture of tombs and mausoleums not to mention the mood of the places. How many ghost sightings have their actually been in Highgate Cemetary however? I have no idea.

Some people find cemetaries creepy but I find them beautiful and peaceful places full of oddities, equisite carvings and the like.


Glad this thread is not not about other stuff.
But i should hope other people Might admire nice cemetaries however each sightseer takes each remnant. ;)
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I most find them creepy at night probably due to spooky stories I read. 8)

Is nice archetechture though, St James here has some good archetech but not as big as the highgate place.

Emps that was the documentry I watched which got me interested in the cemetry. ;)

Thanks for the warning anyway so I don't end up causing anything either. ;)
 
If you go there, DON'T mention ghosts - the curators and staff take a very dim view of spooks and don't allow ghost hunts in there.
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Try asking them in a broad American accent, "Say, you know where Mary Poppins' grave is?"

Was there for the first time this summer. Wonderful place. Nice village too - good pubs, a great Oxfam bookshop and an off-licence with cut price Laphraoig! What more could a man ask for! Some awful council flats round there too. They looked like plastic train carriages stacked up on each other. Couldn't believe there were people living in them. Anyway, to get back on topic, its well worth the entrance fee and camera permit. Pity they don't let you bring in a tripod though.
 
So is it more a tourist site too now as you pay to get in?
 
Try asking them in a broad American accent, "Say, you know where Mary Poppins' grave is?"
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:lol: Brilliant.
Or you could try Ebeneezer Scrooge!

(I have a photo of his gravestone, very confusing. It is of course a film prop, and is nowhere near Highgate.)

If anyone has photos of Highgate, I'm sure we'd all love to see them.

We had a 'morbid turn of mind' thread on here, with many gratuitous photos of graveyards. Daren't even try to search for it now. :(

*takes hat off, holds it respectfully over heart*
 
I was lucky enough to visit the cemetery before it got tidied up. I seem to remember even guided tours were rarer in those days but I went once, sometime in the 80‘s, when they opened the place up for a day and you were allowed to walk around unaccompanied - I‘m not sure they do that anymore. It was nice to see the place when it was quite a lot wilder than it is now. Having said that I think they’ve done a pretty fair job of balancing character and atmosphere with the demands of practicality and, I assume, insurance issues.

On a general note, cemeteries and churchyards have their own unique attraction in cities because they’re often the only place to get a bit of space and some peace quiet. My own particular favourite, when I wish to park my arse if I’m feeling a bit fatigued after a round of urban flânerie, is the churchyard of St Brides. Tiny compared to Highgate, hemmed in by tall buildings and only a few yards from Fleet Street and Ludgate Circus and all the associated traffic, I’ve always found it to be an incredibly calm, and calming, place. And, unless I'm just lucky, it's the time of day that I go or I scare people away, I always seem to have the place more or less to myself. The kind of place you sit down with a coffee and find yourself half an hour later with all the shite flushed right out of your mind. If you’re in central London and wish to partake of Spook’s Patented Head Diet, plant yourself on a bench at St Brides for a while.
 
Essexspook - There were a few big old train-wreck of threads a while back frequented by everybody and their pets about some events and people associated with Highgate Cemetary. It resulted in flaming, trolling, bannings and eventually a ban on talking about those people from up on high. (entirely understandable, I would have done the same)

The subject itself started as stories about the Highgate Vampire and hauntings there and devolved into shit-slinging about the people involved in certain events (and then beyond them) there rather than the entirely fortean interest of those specific events. If you want to know about those events you will have to read up on them yourself rather than discussing it here as I'm not entirely sure if even discussion of those events (excluding discussion/mention on the people involved) is banned as well or not.
Any Moderator word on that?

I hope saying even this much is permissable as I'm sure a lot of thread readers will be confused about all of this, especially newer members who had no idea of why it was banned or what it is they are not supposed to talk about.
 
many_angled_one said:
The subject itself started as stories about the Highgate Vampire and hauntings there and devolved into shit-slinging about the people involved in certain events (and then beyond them) there rather than the entirely fortean interest of those specific events. If you want to know about those events you will have to read up on them yourself rather than discussing it here as I'm not entirely sure if even discussion of those events (excluding discussion/mention on the people involved) is banned as well or not.
Any Moderator word on that?
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I'm afraid its nearly impossible to go any further into a discussion of Highgate (other than how nice the cemetry is) without getting into hot water quickly so best avoided.

many_angled_one said:
I hope saying even this much is permissable as I'm sure a lot of thread readers will be confused about all of this, especially newer members who had no idea of why it was banned or what it is they are not supposed to talk about.
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In a wonderfully Catch 22 situation saying why it is not possible to discuss things is itself pretty close to not being allowed. Thats why I link through to the post above which says what it is you can't discuss (it had to be stated once otherwise things would get even sillier). If it would be helpful I can add in links to the various threads so people can read up on the mucky hisotry of all this unpleasantness so as to avoid any further discussion of why we can't discuss certain topics.

I'll leave your post (and this reply) for now but if we are told to remove it and/or the thread then I'm sorry to say we'll have to.
 
Spookdaddy wrote:
you were allowed to walk around unaccompanied - I‘m not sure they do that anymore.
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I was able to do this year in the part Karl Marx in interned in, once I had payed in

And if you are looking for an alternative to the cemetry which must not be mentioned (how intriguing!), my niece (a Londoner and my erstwhile guide on my annual trips there) has advised me that Nunshead Cemetry south of London is what other famous now-less-accessible cemetries once were, if not better. Nunshead is apparently about half an hour to an hour by train from central London and is apparently quite old (at least Victorian), highly atmospheric, full of monumental gravestones and as accessible as any garden-variety cemetry. Anyone been?
 
Hospitaller said:
Spookdaddy wrote:
you were allowed to walk around unaccompanied - I‘m not sure they do that anymore.
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I was able to do this year in the part Karl Marx in interned in, once I had payed in
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Sorry I meant the old cemetery over the road, not the new(er) bit.

Nunhead is definitely worth a visit. South London rather than south of London - between east Dulwich and Brockley. A friend of my ex-girlfriend got lost there early one blustery autumn morning during a shoot for a Guinness advert (he fannies around with hair and make-up for the film industry). He's gay, Jewish, about six foot eight inches tall and prone to extremely loud clothes and louder hysterics. One has to wonder what went through the mind of any Sarf Londoner who bumped into him while out emptying the dog that morning.
 
If it would be helpful I can add in links to the various threads so people can read up on the mucky hisotry of all this unpleasantness so as to avoid any further discussion of why we can't discuss certain topics.
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Yes please, it's all quite confusing and I'd love to find out what happened. Thanks many_angled_one and Mighty_Emperor.
 
EssexSpook said:
If it would be helpful I can add in links to the various threads so people can read up on the mucky hisotry of all this unpleasantness so as to avoid any further discussion of why we can't discuss certain topics.
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Yes please, it's all quite confusing and I'd love to find out what happened. Thanks many_angled_one and Mighty_Emperor.
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OK I've updated the post on the other thread I linked to above to include links to various threads that had to be shut down for legal reasons. I'm afraid if that isn't any help then there is little I can do about it. A kindly FTMBer might PM you with further info but that is as much as can be done on the board.
 
Does anybody know exacly what is happening with this de-burial initiative to make room?
https://highgatecemetery.org/future

Highgate Cemetery will soon run out of space.
It is over 180 years since the first burial at Highgate Cemetery.
But within the next few years the space available will significantly diminish. We would like Highgate to continue as a working cemetery and not become simply a tourist attraction.
Providing a place of burial is the best way to preserve its special character and prevent its decline. With their loved ones continuing to be buried here, future generations would value Highgate Cemetery as a spiritual landscape, different in character from other open spaces such as parks.
By taking back long-abandoned graves the future of the Cemetery can be assured. Where graves are no longer wanted by their historic owners, they could be made available for the present generation.

Naturally there would be many safeguards to preserve the interests of grave owners and their families, and to protect the heritage. But there is much scope for Highgate Cemetery to accommodate more burials with minimal impact on the wonderful landscape.


We call the process ‘grave renewal’. This booklet explains our indicative proposals for how it might work, and is subject to further change and refinement. Other London cemeteries already have similar powers, so the precedent is well-established. To implement it here, Highgate Cemetery needs a supplementary Act of Parliament which we intend to seek in November.
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