DeadGoodWalks

Part 2/2: Where did the bodies go in these crumbling mausoleums? and I find exposed coffins damaged due to neglect If you wish to donate to the cemetery to help with repairs and general maintenance please visit https://www.kensalgreen.co.uk #walkingtour #walking #coffin

Part 1/2: A walk through Kensal Green Cemetery in London visiting the royal graves that are out in the open. If you wish to donate to the cemetery to help with repairs and general maintenance please visit https://www.kensalgreen.co.uk #walking #cemetery #royalty

Join me as I visit the grave of Winston Churchill and accidentally end up at a posh horse racing event after going to find out where all the noise was coming from.

Something a bit different from me...POV on the streets of London on the eve of Her Majesty's funeral. We couldn't make it on the actual day due to catching covid and falling ill.

#camping #campinglife #church Join me at St Andrews Church in Wroxeter, England for a full tour of the church we'll be camping in, and we'll even venture out after dark for a graveyard walk. The church is run by the church conservation trust and the money we paid will go towards repairs and general maintenance of the church.

Join me on a painful walk around Langton Old Burial Ground near Gavinton in the Scottish borders. The original church at Langton was abandoned in 1798 when the new Church was built although the graveyard continued to be used up until something like 1868. Most of the stones are moss covered and in an advanced state of decay which is a shame because there are some beautiful rare carvings to see.

#crypt #monks #death Join me for a bit of a different walk around the Capuchin Crypt in Brno, Czech Republic. Where we'll see around 30 mummified monks, and a saint preserved in wax that has her own blood in a vial!

#diana #princeharry #princess I pay a visit to the Althorp Estate, childhood home and burial place of Princess Diana to see the private chapel that she is rumoured to be buried in as her ancestors have been before her. Before that we'll visit the oval lake at Althorp House to see her "official" grave and mausoleum where I found out something that shocked me. Oh and surprisingly we get to see the grave of US President George Washington's grandfather! Who was Diana's relative! The apparent grave of Diana in the chapel shows a re-cemented area of stone floor that was removed so that Diana could be lowered into the crypt, It was sealed 3 days after her funeral and Earl Spencer later said that he changed his mind after he got permission to bury her on the island of the lake.

In this video we'll head to the graves of Henry Tate (Tate & Lyle Sugar/Tate Gallery), Henry Doulton (Doulton Pottery) and Sir Horace Jones (Tower Bridge Designer) oh and also the grave of William "Shakspeare" Which confused me a bit. I also step inside my first columbarium where I have a bad experience. #towerbridge

The heat gets the better of me and my camera nearly melts in the search for Mozarts grave in 40.c heat 🫠 After finding Mozart's "fake" grave I head to St Marx Cemetery to try and find his real final resting place. Mozart’s Grave: Contrary to popular belief, the location of Mozart’s grave in Vienna is not such a mystery after all. Sort of ... Mozart was buried in the St. Marx cemetery (now a public park). A memorial gravestone marks the grave’s most likely site. Easily found once inside the park. Mozart, though, is almost certainly no longer there. Where was Mozart buried? Mozart died on December 5th, 1791. The trouble all started because they buried the great composer in a standard, unmarked plot in the St.Marx cemetery (now a park) in Vienna’s third district. This was perfectly normal practice at the time. Note we’re not talking about a mass pauper’s grave, as often claimed or represented in popular media, but simply an unmarked one. In fact, the idea of Mozart as some poor musician scraping by on handouts largely belongs to the realms of myth. He earned huge amounts of money (though he spent a fair deal, too, it must be said). Anyway, the problem is the word 'unmarked'; not so much as a stray piece of sheet music identified the last resting place of one of history’s greatest composers. Equally, very few people attended the actual burial: not even his wife. Again, all normal for the time. This state of affairs later led to confusion as to the grave’s exact location. Efforts were made, however, in the mid-1800s to identify the most likely site, and instructions given to cemetery staff to ensure the location was kept in good order. A proper memorial stone designed by Hanns Gasser went up there in 1859. The Mozart Memorial at the Zentralfriedhof So far so good, but we’re not at the end of the story. To celebrate the centenary of Mozart’s death, that memorial moved to the central cemetery (Zentralfriedhof) to join a cluster of musicians' graves featuring the likes of Beethoven and Schubert. Which means if you see something looking like Mozart’s 'grave' in the Zentralfriedhof, it’s just a monument and NOT the actual grave. Meanwhile, back in St.Marx, a large stone slab eventually marked the grave’s location, and subsequent years saw the addition of further adornments (including a stone angel and column). The current display results from restoration efforts in 1950, which repaired damage caused by WWII bombing (a not uncommon problem for Vienna’s historical sites), and further restoration in 2016. Burials at St. Marx ended in 1874, but the cemetery remains in good condition and serves as a rather wonderful park. The combination of nature and old gravestones has created a remarkably peaceful and unique look and atmosphere. But there’s more … First, we’ll likely never know if the marked location truly is the actual plot where they laid Mozart to rest. We’re assuming the 19th-century Viennese got it right. Second, this kind of grave was not permanent back in the late 18th century. Which means they typically dug up the bones after ten years and reused the site for a new burial. So even if it’s the correct grave, Mozart is almost certainly no longer in it. Nobody knows what happened to Mozart’s actual skeleton once they reused his burial plot. A skull in the hands of the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg is alleged to be Mozart’s, but nobody is sure - scientific tests proved inconclusive. How to find Mozart’s grave Unfortunately, the cemetery is not in the most convenient location in Vienna, sandwiched behind a bend of the A23 Autobahn. Take trams 18 or 71 (which leaves from the central stops along parts of the Ringstrassen) to the St. Marx stop, then walk for a few minutes following the 'St. Marx Friedhof' signs. You can find the grave easily enough inside. Go through the main cemetery entrance and walk down the aisle of trees until it forks and just look left. A sign helpfully points to the 'Mozartgrab' (it’s plot 179). If you’re in St.Marx cemetery, check the grave at plot 207 (Anna Gottlieb), too. She was the soprano who played Pamina at the premiere of Mozart’s 'The Magic Flute' in 1791 (just before his death). (Credit subscriber RF)

Join me in Vienna, Austria for a tour of the Zentralfriedhof where we'll pay out respects to some of the most influencial composors to ever live. We'll stop by Strauss, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Mozart (if we can find him), as well as some of the most bizzare headstones you'll ever see including a fat cat in a suit with a crown on his head....I kid you not. 00:00 Intro 13:19 Beethoven & Composers 18:34 The Cat King #beethoven #mozart #celebrity

A quick walk through of Vienna's capuchin crypt. Home to emperors and empresses of the Hasburg dynasty. Apologies for the shaky footage...best I could do #crypt #royalty #vienna

We're on the Great Orme today in North Wales to walk the graveyard of St Tudno's church, we'll see some amazing sculptures, immortelles, and one hell of a sea view. The winged wheel: This gravestone, depicting a winged wheel, keeps alive the memory of a woman who was keen to challenge what it was considered acceptable for women to do. Beatrice Blore was born in Middlesbrough in 1887. Her father died when she was young and her mother re-married. The family came to Llandudno when her stepfather got a job as an electrician on the town’s pier. In June 1914 Beatrice drove a 10hp (horse power) Singer car up the Great Orme’s Cable Hill which has a gradient of 1 in 3. The feat attracted many onlookers and she was lauded as the first woman ever to drive a car up the Great Orme. Beatrice had a daughter, also named Beatrice, by local businessman George Wilkins Browne of Llandudno. The couple never married and in 1920 she changed her name by deed poll from Beatrice Blore to Beatrice Blore-Browne. She died, aged 34, on 23 November 1921 after suffering from cancer for two years. George Wilkins Browne was a businessman and racing driver who was reputed to have held the land speed record at Brooklands. By 1914, he lived on Curzon Road, Craig-y-Don. He managed the Llandudno Automobile Touring Company, which had a garage on Mostyn Broadway. He was renowned for being ruthless in business and brought many lawsuits against various local people. He later became the Managing Director of Silver Motors Limited and in later years, he was a councillor on Llandudno Urban District Council. In December 1920, George became the first person to drive a car both up and down Snowdon. He drove up and down the railway track in a 14hp Angus Sanderson car, filmed for cinema audiences. The ascent took 1 hour 22 mins, the descent 1 hour 5 mins #girlpower #girl #brave

The butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker, nearly everyones job is listed on their gravestone here, it really gives you the history of the town in one short walk. We also check out the grave of a little girl and her 6 siblings who she didn't know were dead. The Church of St Mary's & All Saints is the parish church of Conwy, Wales in the United Kingdom. It was originally the Cistercian Aberconwy Abbey, but in 1283 King Edward I of England moved the Abbey to Maenan. The parish registers date back to 1541. The foundations of the church date back to 1172, and the Aberconwy Abbey was completed in 1186. Since then the church has grown and changed. The East and West-end buttresses and parts of the walls, particularly on the North side, are original. In the fourteenth century, the church received the lower portion of its tower, the South transept, and the North and South porches. A room north of the tower was enclosed to serve as a charnel house. The fifteenth century saw the completion of the tower, and the installation of the rood screen and the early Tudor period baptismal font.This includes Sir Richard Pole's, badge, (an eagle's claw grabbing a fish) who was the constable of Conwy castle between 1488 and 150. In the sixteenth century the roofs over the aisles were raised. Next to the altar at the south end is the tomb of Robert Wynne, a major benefactor of St Mary's, and the builder of Plas Mawr on Conwy's High Street. The chancel floor was raised at a later date, and in 1872 the roof of the nave was raised by Gilbert Scott. At some point the South window of the transept was reconstructed and the clerestory windows were reset to where they now remain. Also in the nineteenth century, Lord Penrhyn donated the tower clock. In 1921 the church received a memorial chapel on the church's north side, and five years later the vestry was enlarged. In 1949 the former charnel house became the Parish Room. The church holds a number of objects of interest dating back to medieval times, and two windows in the nave's south aisle made by the William Morris company, a workshop with associations with the Pre-raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. In the summer months the church is a venue for Conwy's Classical Music Festival, a series of weekly hour-long concerts by professional musicians.

Join me at Olsany Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. We'll see around 200 mausoleums, amazing sculptures, some famous Czech graves, exposed remains (ashes), and you can hear me murder the Czech language. This is a big one! #prague #walkingtour #cemetery

Join me for a walk around West Norwood Cemetery - The Greek Enclosure! We'll peek through mausoleum doors and have a look back in time at the late 1800s where time has stood still for for the people who reside in them. I read a news article a year or so ago saying human remains could be seen poking out of coffins, so I'm heading there to see for myself. Opened as the South Metropolitan Cemetery in 1837, West Norwood Cemetery is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries of London and is said to hold the finest collection of sepulchral monuments in the capital. There are 65 Grade II Listed monuments in West Norwood Cemetery. The Greek Enclosure is most impressive of all. #mausoleum #coffin #cemetery

Join me in the beautiful surroundings of St Baglan's church in North Wales as I visit the grave of Lord Snowdon, Brother in law to the Queen and husband to Princess Margaret. If thats not amazing enough we'll try to find the grave of an apparent pirate....oh and I brought the dog too. St Baglan's Church, Llanfaglan, is a redundant church in the parish of Llanfaglan, Gwynedd, Wales. It is designated by Cadw as a Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches. It stands in an isolated position in a field some 150 metres (164 yd) from a minor road. The size of the surrounding churchyard and the presence within the structure of the church of a stone dating from the 5th or 6th century is evidence that an earlier church or churches stood on the site. It is traditionally credited to its namesake, the 7th-century saint Baglan ap Dingad. The present church dates probably from the 13th century. The chancel was rebuilt in about 1800, when the north porch was also added. Unusually, the church escaped restoration during the Victorian era, and so its interior is still little changed since about 1800. Describing the reasons for its Grade I listing, Cadw states it is "a rare example of a medieval church unrestored in the 19th century, so retaining an exceptionally complete set of 18th-century furnishings". It also comments on its "outstanding isolated setting." After it was declared redundant, the church was vested in the charity the Friends of Friendless Churches in 1991, and the charity has held the freehold since 7 February 1991.It has since been repaired, aided by financial help from Cadw. The church is constructed in stone with slate roofs. Its plan consists of a nave and a chancel under a single roof, a south transept acting as a chapel, and a north porch. On the west gable is a bellcote, and on the chancel gable is a weathered cross. There are no windows in the nave, and the chancel has only a two-light east window. In the south and east walls of the transept are small two-light windows. Over the doorway is a lintel consisting of a 6th-century inscribed stone. Internally, the walls are plastered and whitewashed; the roof timbers are also whitewashed. The floor is paved with slate slabs. There is no division between the nave and the chancel, and the transept is fully open to the body of the church. The east window dates from the 14th century and was resited when the chancel was rebuilt. #princess #thequeen #royalty

Join me on a Sunday morning as I explore the graveyard of St Mary Magdalen Church in Mortlake and look for the tomb of Richard Burton which has a window in it! St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church, Mortlake, is a Roman Catholic church in North Worple Way, Mortlake, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The church is dedicated to Jesus' companion Mary Magdalene. The church building, in Gothic Revival style, was designed by Gilbert Blount, architect to the first Archbishop of Westminster, Nicholas Wiseman, and dates from 1852. The church's first parish priest, Fr John Wenham, was a convert from the Oxford Movement,[1] who had studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, and had been an Anglican army chaplain in Ceylon. Mausoleum of Sir Richard and Lady Burton: The cemetery includes a Grade II* listed tent-shaped mausoleum of Carrara marble and Forest of Dean stone,[13] containing the tombs of the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton (1821–1890) and his wife, Isabel, Lady Burton (née Arundell; 1831–1896), who designed it;[2] she also erected the memorial stained-glass window to Burton, which is next to the lady chapel in the church. Comte de Vezlo Mausoleum: The cemetery includes another mausoleum, commemorating the very young Comte de Vezlo, Guilaume Henri (1894–1901). A plaque near the mauseolum's entrance also commemorates his mother, Annette Rosamonde Blasio, the Comtesse de Vezlo, who died in 1938. The architect is not known.

Brompton Cemetery (originally the West of London and Westminster Cemetery) is a London cemetery, managed by The Royal Parks, in West Brompton in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries. Established by Act of Parliament and laid out in 1839, it opened in 1840, originally as the West of London and Westminster Cemetery. Consecrated by Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London, in June 1840, it is one of Britain's oldest and most distinguished garden cemeteries. Some 35,000 monuments, from simple headstones to substantial mausolea, mark more than 205,000 resting places. The site includes large plots for family mausolea, and common graves where coffins are piled deep into the earth. It also has a small columbarium, and a secluded Garden of Remembrance at the northern end for cremated remains. The cemetery continues to be open for burials. It is also known as an urban haven for nature. In 2014, it was awarded a National Lottery grant to carry out essential restoration and develop a visitor centre, among other improvements. The restoration work was completed in 2018. Although the cemetery was originally established by a private company, it is now the property of the Crown. By the early years of the 19th century, inner city burial grounds, mostly churchyards, had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead. In 1837 a decision was made to lay out a new burial ground in Brompton, London. The moving spirit behind the project was the architect and engineer, Stephen Geary, and it was necessary to form a company in order to get parliamentary permission to raise capital for the purpose. Geary was appointed as architect but was later forced to resign. Securing the land – some 40 acres – from local landowner, Lord Kensington and the Equitable Gas Light Company, as well as raising the money proved an extended challenge.[5] The cemetery became one of seven large, new cemeteries founded by private companies in the mid-19th century (sometimes called the 'Magnificent Seven') forming a ring around the edge of London. The site, previously market gardens, having been bought with the intervention of John Gunter of Fulham, was 39 acres (160,000 m2) in area. Brompton Cemetery was eventually designed by architect, Benjamin Baud with at its centre, a modest sandstone domed chapel dated 1839, at it southern end, reached by two symmetrical long colonnades, now all Grade II* listed, in the style of St. Peter's Square in Rome, and flanked by catacombs.It was intended to give the feel of a large open air cathedral. It is rectangular in shape with the north end pointing to the northwest and the south end to the southeast. It has a central "nave" which runs from Old Brompton Road towards the central colonnade and chapel. During the 4-year restoration project that began in 2014, an original Victorian flooring with Bath and York stone radial pattern was uncovered underneath the chapel carpet. Below the colonnades are catacombs which were originally conceived as a cheaper alternative burial to having a plot in the grounds of the cemetery. Unfortunately, the catacombs were not a success and only about 500 of the many thousands of places in them were sold. The Metropolitan Interments Act 1850 gave the government powers to purchase commercial cemeteries. The shareholders of the cemetery company were relieved to be able to sell their shares as the cost of building the cemetery had overrun and they had seen little return on their investment and there were few burials at first. #london #brompton #timetravel

#GeorgeMichael #Highgate #london I'm back at Highgate Cemetery in London to visit the famous burials and explore more of the Cemetery! We'll visit George Michael, Karl Marx, Jeremy Beadle, Lucian Freud, Michael Faraday and more... If you haven't seen my first video click the link below. https://youtu.be/t71OHi7Wick The cemetery in its original form – the northwestern wooded area – opened in 1839, as part of a plan to provide seven large, modern cemeteries, now known as the "Magnificent Seven", around the outside of central London. The inner-city cemeteries, mostly the graveyards attached to individual churches, had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead. The initial design was by architect and entrepreneur Stephen Geary. On Monday 20 May 1839, Highgate (West) Cemetery was dedicated to St. James[3] by the Right Reverend Charles James Blomfield, Lord Bishop of London. Fifteen acres were consecrated for the use of the Church of England, and two acres set aside for Dissenters. Rights of burial were sold for either limited period or in perpetuity. The first burial was Elizabeth Jackson of Little Windmill Street, Soho, on 26 May. Highgate, like the others of the Magnificent Seven, soon became a fashionable place for burials and was much admired and visited. The Victorian attitude to death and its presentation led to the creation of a wealth of Gothic tombs and buildings. It occupies a spectacular south-facing hillside site slightly downhill from the top of the hill of Highgate itself, next to Waterlow Park. In 1854 a further 19 acres to the south east of the original area, across Swains Lane, was bought to form the eastern part of the cemetery which opened in 1860. Both sides of the Cemetery are still used today for burials. The cemetery's grounds are full of trees, shrubbery and wildflowers, most of which have been planted and grown without human influence. The grounds are a haven for birds and small animals such as foxes. Highgate Cemetery was featured in the popular media from the 1960s to the late 1980s for its so-called occult past, particularly as being the alleged site of the "Highgate Vampire". #Highgate #London #GeorgeMichael

Until the 19th century Lowertown was in Far Oxenhope in the Chapelry of Haworth, in the parish of Bradford. Those attending church would go either to Haworth or to the mother church of St Peter at Bradford, and burials would have taken place in the churchyard of St. Michael & All Angels, Haworth. Lowertown Wesleyan Chapel, built in 1805, was the first church/chapel in Oxenhope and the adjoining burial ground is the oldest of the five graveyards in Oxenhope. Burials there date from 1807 to 1908. The ‘old’ burial ground is situated on the north or left-hand side of Denholme Road if facing uphill, just above the junction with Jew Lane. Lowertown Wesleyan Day School was built on the other side of Denholme Road in 1852 and an extension to the burial ground formed, with burials dating from 1855 to 1975. This ‘new’ burial ground remains under the control of the Methodist Chapel in West Drive. By 1889 the Chapel was too small and, in 1891, a large imposing Methodist Chapel seating 700 was opened on Station Road and the original chapel sold and converted into a mill. The mill was in use for most of the next century, but in August 1990 it succumbed to a mill fire and was demolished the following day. When the buildings came down the little ‘old’ burial ground was revealed. The day school was closed in 1896 and the pupils transferred to a new school in Uppertown, Oxenhope. The old school was demolished and the site used to enlarge the ‘new’ burial ground. A large Methodist Sunday School was built next to the new Methodist Chapel in 1897. This chapel was itself demolished in 1972 and the Sunday School demolished in 1987 to be replaced by a small purpose built Chapel at the top of West Lane. The ‘old’ burial ground contains much social history of the 19th century, providing names of the local families who lived and worked in the village. "Akeroyd, Baldwin, Bancroft, Beaver, Binns, Booth, Butterfield, Crabtree, Denby, Drake, Farrar, Feather, Greenwood, Hey, Holdsworth, Holmes, Hopkinson, Normington, Ogden, Overend, Parker, Preston, Sunderland, Sutcliffe, Whitaker, Wright, Waddington and Yates" are among the 52 families that are buried there. Mercy Butler’s gravestone has a reference to her husband Fredric who died at the Battle of Inkerman in the Crimean War. The ‘old’ burial ground is bounded on three sides by the former mill site. As well as being an architectural heritage site of historical interest the graveyard provides an important green space in the village, especially as the old mill site has now been developed for houses. Thanks to the Trust the burial ground, with all its memorials, has been saved. You can visit the trusts website here - www.theoxenhopeoldburialgroundstrust.org.uk #abandoned #cemetery #grave

Heptonstall is a small village in Yorkshire with a population of around 1500 living residents and over 100,000 deceased. Despite being a small village it houses 3 churches and 5 graveyards. Heptonstall's original church was dedicated to St Thomas Becket. It was founded c.1260, and was altered and added to over several centuries. The church was damaged by a storm in 1847, and is now only a shell. A new church, St Thomas the Apostle, was built in the same churchyard and suffered a lightning strike in 1875 causing a pinnacle to fall off the top of the church.

A brief tour of Brompton Cemetery Catacombs. Filming isn't advised but I managed to get some shots on the way out, not before the guide turned off the lights so we couldn't film. The catacombs are open twice a year so this is a rare glimpse inside. Brompton Cemetery offered a range of interments when it opened in 1840, to fit almost every pocket. The most expensive were large private plots along the Avenue, marked by eye-catching monuments. A stylish alternative was an ornate coffin on a shelf in the underground catacombs. It was also a way for Victorian mourners to stay close to their loved ones after death. A catacomb burial meant they could visit the coffin regularly. #dead #catacombs #london