Highgate Cemetery
Had a very nice weekend, enjoying the amazing weather on Saturday. I ended up going to Highgate Cemetery with gnine and her parents who were visiting for the week. Highgate is exactly the kind of creepy, run-down, and overgrown cemetery that I love. It's the inspiration behind Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book and has quite a few famous people buried there, including Karl Marx. It's also the source of a somewhat dubious modern vampire tale. The cemetery is divided into two sections, the East and the West. The West part of the cemetery is older and you have to go through with a tour group. This kind of limited my picture taking because I kept having to run to catch up with the tour group. I would love to go back and have more time to thoroughly explore the Western half without supervision.
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The Egyptian Avenue -
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Grave of lesbian author Radclyffe Hall who was buried along with her lover and （interestingly) her lover's husband -
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A not so great picture of an area called The Lebanon Circle, which actually looks more like this.
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The grave of a famous Victorian boxer (this just made me think of Sherlock Holmes) XD -
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A sleeping angel -
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And on to the East Cemetery! This section had a mixture of older and more modern graves.
An angel with a basket for takadainmate (I searched everywhere for this!) -
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Karl Marx's grave -
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A fighting angel! I may have gotten a bit carried away with the angels...
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An angel with a bowl -
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And randomly (because they go so well with this post) cupcakes from the Merlin Meet -
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Now if you want to see some really nice photos from Highgate Cemetery, check out this person's blog.
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The Egyptian Avenue -
From 2010-02-21
Grave of lesbian author Radclyffe Hall who was buried along with her lover and （interestingly) her lover's husband -
From 2010-02-21
A not so great picture of an area called The Lebanon Circle, which actually looks more like this.
From 2010-02-21
From 2010-02-21
The grave of a famous Victorian boxer (this just made me think of Sherlock Holmes) XD -
From 2010-02-21
A sleeping angel -
From 2010-02-21
And on to the East Cemetery! This section had a mixture of older and more modern graves.
An angel with a basket for takadainmate (I searched everywhere for this!) -
From 2010-02-21
Karl Marx's grave -
From 2010-02-21
A fighting angel! I may have gotten a bit carried away with the angels...
From 2010-02-21
An angel with a bowl -
From 2010-02-21
And randomly (because they go so well with this post) cupcakes from the Merlin Meet -
From 2010-02-21
From 2010-02-21
Now if you want to see some really nice photos from Highgate Cemetery, check out this person's blog.
