The London Dead

It must have been hard times and a fickle public’s dwindling interest in sword swallowing that drove this former performer in the Rus...

The tomb of Rowland Stephenson of Downhills House lies in the churchyard of All Hallow’s Church Tottenham.   Stephenson (1737? – ...

Agnes Forsyth, the daughter of James Forsyth the sculptor, died at the age of 4 in 1864. She lived with her mother Eliza and her fath...

This is an extraordinary building; a latticed wall encircles a central domed structure, originally designed, like the Pantheon, to be ...

Sacred to the memory Of William Frederick Tyler Aged 31 years Police Constable 403 of the N Division Metropolitan Police Force Wh...

William Mulready was born in Ennis in Ireland on April 1st 1786. His family moved to Dublin shortly after he was born and when he six...

Isaac Watts (1674 to 1748) is actually buried in the non conformist Bunhill Fields but his statue presides over Abney Park Cemetery w...

In May 1790 the Royalty Theatre in Goodman’s Fields put on an evening’s entertainment, ‘The Calamities of Captain Bligh’ which, afte...

The young Ferdinand Rothschild Ferdinand James Anselm Freiherr von Rothschild was born in Paris in 1839 of the Viennese branch ...

Radical William Godwin erected this memorial to his famous wife shortly after her death. It became a favourite place to meet for the ...