Friday, 1 December 2023

"Shakespeare never went to Venice, Homer never went to Troy, Dante never went to Hell"; Christopher Logue (1926-2011) Kensal Green Cemetery

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“Astounding. I bought this volume this morning for thirty pence from a charity shop in West Norwood - never having heard of Christopher L...
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Thursday, 23 November 2023

Her grave is dug; Stéphane Mallarmé and Harriet Smyth (1838 -1859) Kensal Green Cemetery

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If I hadn’t been kneeling down, trying to take a photo of the colonnades reflected in a puddle, I probably would never have noticed the newi...
Tuesday, 14 November 2023

This extravagant journey: Steve Peregrin Took (1949-1980) Kensal Green Cemetery

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I'm taking this extravagant journey Or so it seems to me I just came from nowhere And I'm going straight back there The Buzzcoc...
Thursday, 9 November 2023

Not seeing 'Death' in Toronto; Mount Pleasant Cemetery

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There were two things I wanted to do on a recent trip to Toronto; the first was to visit Mount Pleasant Cemetery, the second to see an exhib...
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Thursday, 26 October 2023

I am NOT dead! Thank God, I was never in better health; John Ternouth (1796-1848) Kensal Green Cemetery

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Sculptor John Ternouth's grave in Kensal Green was probably sculpted by himself One can only wonder how sculptor John Ternouth came to h...
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Friday, 20 October 2023

Père Lachaise without the visitors; Zadie Smith on Kensal Green Cemetery and the search for Eliza Touchet

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With nothing to do and nowhere to go, I took my regulation walk through the streets like my fellow-Britons, but with the small difference th...
Wednesday, 11 October 2023

The Mysterious Thea Canonero Altieri (1910-2006) Kensal Green Cemetery

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  What do we know about Thea Canonero Altieri? Not very much. We have her dates of birth (21.06.1910) and death (29.10.2006) and so know tha...
Thursday, 5 October 2023

The famous cemetery gates; Lavender Hill Cemetery, Enfield

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Anyone alive and watching TV in the early 1970’s witnessed Lavender Hill Cemetery’s brief moment in the national spotlight when it featured ...
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