Highgate Cemetery Then and Now

A short film of two shots of the same scene in Highgate cemetery. The first taken in 1981, the second in 2006.

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Travel & Events

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• Highgate
• Cemetery
• Kate
• Bush
• Wow

[futurebabe8001]

I'm addicted to this song ! Who is it?

[fbllxl5]

@futurebabe8001 Wow by Kate Bush

[Blacksilkcrow]

WOW! - Thats not only a vid...its a dream from the history...

Very great pics and the perfect music, too!!!

[captain0389]

Wow, this is probably the most beautiful cemetery I've in a long time.

[Leiene7]

I would love to visit that cemetery. Incredible.

[futurebabe8001]

@fbllxl5 thank you for saying.. I watched her video.. not exactly what I expected! but thought provoking. ^.^ blessings..!

[HattieLovesCattie]

Its nice that its been cleaned up.Americans take very good care of our cemeteries,esp.the ones in cities and towns.There are many rurual graveyards for families on private land.The best kept American cemeteries are our military ones,esp.Arlington and the one at the beach in Normandy.The one in Honolulu is also nice.

[fbllxl5]

@MatlockJack I don't dispute what you say, just that VV cannot now 30 years after publication be the whole story. You're quite right about the publication date, I refer to 1981 because I was with John Gay when he took some of the photographs and my diary records 1981. And I have just realised it is now 30 years since I took the original photographs of my vid so perhaps I should update with a now and then 30 years on!

[MatlockJack]

@fbllxl5

Victorian Valhalla is emphatic of the love, dedication and involvement of volunteers (from at least 1981 onwards) and documents this indicatively. It mentions the determination of these people to prevent the Cemetery (Western side initially it would seem), from dismantling unto vandal's paradise (page 20).

[MatlockJack]

@fbllxl5

It tells the whole history of neglect that provoked the restoration process. It refers to the ideals and architectural/horticultural intentions/embryonic activities of the team responsible for same, under the headings: "The Old Cemetery finds New Friends and "Highgate faces the Future" . It refers to historic cases of vandalism and mentions one of the photos being unrepeatable on that basis I was intrigued to read of the book being written in 1981: my (original) copy says 1984.

[fbllxl5]

@MatlockJack Victorian Valhalla is not the whole story, as it was written in 1981 it does not contain any of the amazing work and restorarion that has happened in the intervening years, nor does it document the unrelenting and dedication of the work of volunteers, without whom the cemetery would have been completely destroyed by nature and vandals

[fbllxl5]

@trimas3 "I'm seeing things too.." damn right there! You and Lily are probably psychotic and need to seek help