Sunday 27 February 2022

Waterlow Park and Highgate (West) Cemetery

 







I've visited Highgate East Cemetery before, where Karl Marx and Douglas Adams and many others are buried, but never the older West Cemetery. It's beautiful - these photos don't show you the snowdrops everywhere or the effect of all the monuments through the trees, or give any idea of just how big it is. 

There are a few more recent graves, Beryl Bainbridge, and poor Alexander Litvinenko. But mostly it's trees and ivy, huge monuments to long-dead manufacturers, catacombs (which I didn't go in, you need the guided tour for that), and a lovely balance between controlled conservation and picturesque decay.

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