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Can recommend Natural Born Heroes by Christopher McDougall about Crete. It's excellent.
Notable graves you've visited
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Can recommend Natural Born Heroes by Christopher McDougall about Crete. It's excellent.
Thank you for the recommendation, just starting Crete, The Battle & The Resistance by Antony Beevor.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Paddy Fermor was a proper legend. A renaissance man if there was ever one. Either me or my dad has a first edition of his biography that is worth ££ now but I can't remember where it is...
Will check out Natural Born Heroes, thanks LynnDoyleCooper
I've read Ill Met By Moonlight and seen the movie. Classic stuff.
Patrick Leigh Fermor - Wikipedia
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
1 quick google search later.
What's not to like!, what a pic?!
Will get his biog. Thanks Sprocket.
edit: quite a tribute here.
John Pendlebury – Patrick Leigh Fermor
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None I don’t think. I’d like to visit my Grandfather‘s grave who was buried miles away from home in WW2. Actually I should look into that. I hope it’s in an exciting part of Germany. I should have done it when I used to visit Berlin.
not-bono-ever
meh
i urbexed saviles gaff in glencoe in august. not exactly a grave but sadder and grimmer than any grave i have been to. Luckily it has been utterly trashed and vandalised c/w grafitti. Its what he would have wanted. it did make make want to do damage to the place. the twat
I did the ceaucesus's graves in the 90's whilst at a loose end.they are buried 25 metres apart to stop them teaming up in the afterlife. There were a handful of DPRK'ers laying flowers . surreal.
I did the ceaucesus's graves in the 90's whilst at a loose end.they are buried 25 metres apart to stop them teaming up in the afterlife. There were a handful of DPRK'ers laying flowers . surreal.
1927
Funnier than he thinks he is.
My local cemetery has the grave of the greatest pound for pound boxer that ever lived.
http://www.foundagrave.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/103403194_135791392734.jpg
http://www.foundagrave.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/103403194_135791392734.jpg
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
I had a relative killed there no known grave.
ruffneck23
front left
Barnes Wallace the bouncing bomb bloke , but only as its in a nearby cemetery
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Went to Tyne Cott in Flanders as one of my great grandads is on the wall at the back having no grave.
toblerone3
Grrrrr
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scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
More local to London graves that are worth visiting are at Bunhill Fields, , which I don't think is as well-known as it should be. John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe and William Blake are the two most famous people there; I love Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and basically everything by Blake, a beautiful madman that I suspect would have fit well into Urban.
It's also a well-kept cemetery. Unlike most other central London cemeteries, it feels like a cemetery rather than a park with gravestones - there are still lots of half-buried tombstones, lots of piled up stones where bodies were moved, and so on, but there are also numerous big tombs, and the paths are kept clear. That's partly because the mother of the Wesleys, as in Methodism, is buried there, and the Wesleyan Museum and chapel is opposite it, and occasional visitors from American Methodists help pay for the upkeep. (Well, pre-Covid; it would be ironic if a plague burial ground became unkempt due to a plague). The museum and chapel are worth visiting too.
I don't know if the museum's open yet - their website seems to have been designed by someone who got all their skills on an introduction to web design course in 2013, which would fit with the way their tour guides have been every time I've visited. Extremely old and slightly rude people who loved their subject and talked about our lives as if we were visitors from the future, rather than the present.
Anyway... Bunhill Fields was originally founded as a cemetery in 1665, in the plague, and the owner allowed anyone to be buried there - it was full of non-conformists of any faith. So if you go there, a lot of those unknown people with half-readable names on their stones were probably fighting to be different when they were alive, same as we are now.
(Sorry, I really love that cemetery and the museum and everything in the area).
It's also a well-kept cemetery. Unlike most other central London cemeteries, it feels like a cemetery rather than a park with gravestones - there are still lots of half-buried tombstones, lots of piled up stones where bodies were moved, and so on, but there are also numerous big tombs, and the paths are kept clear. That's partly because the mother of the Wesleys, as in Methodism, is buried there, and the Wesleyan Museum and chapel is opposite it, and occasional visitors from American Methodists help pay for the upkeep. (Well, pre-Covid; it would be ironic if a plague burial ground became unkempt due to a plague). The museum and chapel are worth visiting too.
I don't know if the museum's open yet - their website seems to have been designed by someone who got all their skills on an introduction to web design course in 2013, which would fit with the way their tour guides have been every time I've visited. Extremely old and slightly rude people who loved their subject and talked about our lives as if we were visitors from the future, rather than the present.
Anyway... Bunhill Fields was originally founded as a cemetery in 1665, in the plague, and the owner allowed anyone to be buried there - it was full of non-conformists of any faith. So if you go there, a lot of those unknown people with half-readable names on their stones were probably fighting to be different when they were alive, same as we are now.
(Sorry, I really love that cemetery and the museum and everything in the area).
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
I went to Jim Morrison's grave in '89. There were even gendarmes at the metro station searching people as it was a hot spot.
Interesting photo history here : visual history of Jim Morrison' grave
You wouldn't want to have your grave near his that's for sure! The bust had already been stolen by the time I visited.
Interesting photo history here : visual history of Jim Morrison' grave
You wouldn't want to have your grave near his that's for sure! The bust had already been stolen by the time I visited.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I used to work near Bunhill Fields, had lunch with William Blake a few times. Did visit the grave of film director Michael Powell, I was with a mate who was obsessed with him. He was driving me back to London from somewhere, and we detoured to the grave in Gloucestershire, the headstone wasn't up yet as he wasn't long in the ground.
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Books, not bombs
Highgate to become a tourist attraction Exit through the gift shop as Highgate cemetery woos death tourists
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Went to this one last year in Mexico City
Fozzie Bear
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Abney Park in Stoke Newington has loads of cool non-conformist graves but this is a favourite, for a guy who ran a circus.
Fozzie Bear
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Also a big tomb for Booth, the Salvation Army guy and one for one of the cops killed in “The Tottenham Outrage”.
