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🚨Covid-19 tweaked & with stricter attendance numbers than government guidelines advise, self & @sacha_coward are back at @fothcp for a Halloween reacquaintance with the cockney dead! Support local history and a brilliant place of nature! 🎃
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They lived together until Mabel’s death in 1916. The year before, Hall had met her cousin Una Troubridge, who happened to be a sculptor. Once Batten had been buried in a vault in Highgate Cemetery, they would hold seances to try and get advice from her from beyond the grave.
Childhood star & voice/inspiration of Disney’s Peter Pan; Bobby Driscoll. Earnt a juvenile Academy Award in 1950. In 1968 his body was found in a tenement, dying after heart failure from drug abuse & was buried in a pauper’s gave in Hart Island’s Potter’s Fields. 🇺🇸 🏴☠️ 🥇
#QBLockdownHunt Some fliers for me & @sacha_coward’s queer cemetery tours over 2019/2020 - highlighting LGBTQ lives that have been buried, forgotten and hidden in @theroyalparks & @ArnosValeCem. No more. 🏳️🌈 💀 @Queer_Britain https://t.co/lLtPjsYb0D
One of the women I talk about in Hampstead Cemetery: a writer who ended up influencing kids fashion in the 19th century! https://t.co/1We4CLonQR
“Can there be any more profitless mode of throwing away money than by erecting costly tombstones?” so wrote Isabella Holmes, who wrote a massively important cemetery text a century ago... (1/2) https://t.co/4x9UULNog1
A horrific week, so let’s indulge in some music hall for #MuseumFromHome. Watch this space, I have plans for this chap... https://t.co/VrjtOVbyez
Bloody #StormCiara, closing all the cemeteries 😡. (Hopefully no monuments will be damaged)
Shirley Brooks! Former editor of Punch magazine. Friend of Dickens & founder of @cremsoc, although he was buried in @Magnificent1of7 as cremation was illegal when he died in 1874. His son, Reginald, gave rise to the legend of the Ashes 🏏. Pic via @NPGLondon