Visit to Highgate Cemetery

This may seem a strange place to go on my day off, but this Victorian cemetery is just incredible and well worth a visit. It was a rainy day, which gave the atmosphere a etheral quality. As well as being a beautiful and intriguing site, rich in history, architecture, landscape and romance, Highgate is still an operating cemetery, with up to seventy interments and some thirty to thirty-five plots sold each year.


Grave of Alexander Litvinenko

These are just some of Highgate's famous interments:
Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/Jeremy Beadle, TV presenter, writer and producer/Charles Cruft, founder of Crufts dog show/John Dickens and Elizabeth Dickens, parents of Charles and models for Micawber and Mrs Nickleby/George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross), novelist/Michael Faraday, physicist/Alexander Litvinenko, Russian dissident turned critic, murdered by poisoning in London/Malcolm McClaren, performer, impresario, manager of The Sex Pistols, 'godfather of punk'/Ralph Miliband, left wing political theorist, father of David Miliband and Ed Miliband/Sir Ralph Richardson (1902–83), actor/George Wombwell, menagerie exhibitor/

Grave of George Wombwell, menagerie exhibitor

Karl Marx Grave

Patrick Caulfield, painter and printmaker known for his pop art canvasses

I would like ths as my gravestone. It's to the the point (none of this 'fell asleep' nonsense) and I love the simple geometric design.

 

Sleeping Angel (carved from a single piece of marble)

All this has reminded me that I must get around to asking for a grave location search for Duvee, my Fairy Godmother - but that's another story.......