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I TOOK MY FIRST LSD AT HIGH GATE WITH MY MATE HE FREAKED OUT AND RUN OFF ! I STAYED ALLNIGHT ON MY OWN TALKING TO THE DEAD GREAT CONVERSATION'S WITH MANY THANK'S FOR THE MEMORIE'S MAY LITTLE FLUFFY CLOUD'S BE WITH YOU WHERE EVER YOU WANDER
I can't thank you enough for this tour. I worked as a stone restorer in the cemetery in the early 1980's, often working through the night. Until now I've never relived the excitement of strolling through the empty cemetery alone and with the sounds of birds, sticks snapping, the distant roar of London... Pure magic, captured in all its glory in real time... Thank you!
I am from Seattle, USA, and what a privilege u gave us who don't have access to such a beautiful site. I can finally say the I "toured" Highgrove. Thank u!!!
Cemeteries have a macabre beauty to them. Such calming places. Quite amazing considering how much grief they have had experienced within them. I’ve been to cemeteries in many countries and so far they have all felt the same.
What a fascinating historical place! The volunteers who took over the care of the cemetery have done a wonderful job! Amazing how it is preserved yet landscaped by Mother Nature!
The fact that the cemetery is overgrown and tangles of ivy grip the trees and gravestones with long sinuous fingers makes it even more beautiful in my opinion , like a mysterious lost world waiting to be explored. Many thanks for sharing 🙏🙏
I lived adjacent to HG Cemetery in 1973 and frequently walked through it. Back then there was sadly a lot of open graves and general neglect, but thankfully these days the Friends of Highgate voluntary group are working selflessly to preserve this historical sacred site.
Very nice walk in these two cemeteries. I prefer the first, the one to the west. It has a lot more charm than the other one which doesn't look like much with the tombs without order; I would say without dignity and without soul. The West Cemetery has a romantic character. I noticed a grave with a large dog lying at the foot of this grave. It softened me. It is quite possible that the West Cemetery is haunted, but by benevolent spirits. There are such places as the Petit Trianon in Versailles. Thank you WW for this long and certainly tiring walk.
What an amazing and magical walk. I visited Highgate in 2005 and had recorded my tour of this wonderful place. Unfortunately, when I returned to the USA, I found out that the file had been corrupted and therefore, unplayable. This wonderful video brought back all the fascination, curiosity and magic of that time. This video is excellent. Thank you for bringing back happy memories of my trip to London and Highgate! 😊
I'm from Canada and no doubt watching this I'm looking at some of my ancestors graves as I can date my family back in London to about 1690. It's kind of sad this cemetery looks round down a bit. Nice video. I hope to visit London someday. England looks amazing.
It's run by volunteers and the only funding it gets is what you give at the gate, money is tight and is not helped by (insert appropriate swear words) who think it's cool/protest to do things to Marx's tomb which then has to be repaired or cleaned leaving less for the rest of the repairs and maintenance, I totally get that he's a devisive figure and some people really object but chain a damned protest banner up, not attack it with spray paint or hammers. The friends of Highgate cemetery are doing the best job they can with no local or government aid, they are utterly brilliant people who are saving this atmospheric spot from becoming yet more overpriced London housing! Good job ladies and gentlemen. If you go and take pictures for your UA-cam or Instagram etc, drop them a bit of cash on your way out, those likes depended on them!
@@mistywolf312 Thanks for that information. I didn't know any of that and it's such a shame that there's not some kind of financial support for maintenance, etc. Thanks also to those volunteers who do what's necessary to protect such an important place.
@@mistywolf312 I spoke to one of the guides about this on my last visit. There is a financial constraint to the maintenance of the cemetery but there is a conscious decision to treat the area as a nature reserve so everything is maintained around this idea. Consequently the wildlife diversity here is quite incredible, more so jf you think this is located in North London which is not exactly the prettiest part of London. I know as this is where I was born and brought up. The main features though are conserved and looked after. The cemetary is in much better condition now than it was in previous decades. The days when schoolboys used to play football with the skulls of the dead are now long gone.
@@ds1868 oh, no I totally get the create a wildlife habitat inside the city, I just felt the need to praise the friends and point out that they are not funded and taking your frustrations out on the grave just means any funds they have are diverted from such a wonderful place.
My grandmother would visit Highgate cemetery to read and to write in her diary. She often remarked just how peaceful and quiet it was there. Many thanks for this walking tour.
This is truly a beautiful video. The TRAGEDY is you didn’t stop on a few of the gravestones so your viewer could appreciate the time and history these people left behind. Thanks for the walkthrough.
Your videos are the best! I’ve been to HighGate and it is massive! The slow pace you keep is perfect for seeing as much of this incredible place as possible!thank you!
Thank you so much for filming this video! I have always wanted to visit this cemetery, but I couldn't go when I was in London last year. What a magical, incredibly beautiful place. I really liked the video format too, quiet, without spoken commentary.
Highgate always reminds me of this.. Come to me by moonlight when the wind is in the trees, follow me in silence, yet linger among these fallen idols of lost gods and fanes where wild thorns grow, where once we walked, and once we talked, a thousand years ago. Sorry, can't remember who wrote it.
Thank you very much for this beautiful video. At 8:31 🕊️🕊️🕊️ George Michael (unmarked grave), his mom Lesley Angold, and sister Melanie Panayiotou burial location 🕊️🕊️🕊️
@@garrybuicke1803 Yes I know it has plaque on his grave now. I keep up with George's information. Thanks for the update. It's so sad just to say George's grave plaque...miss him so much. His sister was a very nice person also. This was helpful because I love corresponding with his fans and I am glad people remember George :) Thanks Garry.
Such a beautiful place. I’ve always wanted to visit Highgate Cemetery. Graveyards and cemeteries are so peaceful, understandably. The perfect place to take a quiet walk and reflect. A solitary place where all who are buried there are at peace. I knew Highgate was big but I didn’t realise how big 😱total respect to all and a reminder of our own mortality 🪦🪦🪦❤
My late son found a job near here with two elderly gents. He traded room and board for household chores. He got a day job also at the London Apprentice pub. .The first night in London found a B and B on Ebury Street.
It feels like walking through a fairytale, in a way. Like something out of the fantasy books I read back in middle school. What a beautiful, somber place ❤️
Amazing cemetery and beautiful monuments. I loved the one with the dog. I've never been to this cemetery but wish I had. You walked your socks off for this one and it's really appreciated.
What a magnificent cemetery. I could easily spend the entire day there reading the monuments. Thank you for the walkthrough. The views are spectacular.
You are THE BEST.You do so much walking.England has such beautiful, ancient and modern places and you show them ALL.Thank you for not narrating,but just capturing the natural sounds around you.Its a shame politicians are trying to screw it all up.
I have been meaning to go there for years as my grand parents are buried in the old cemetery. I also have details and grave numbers for several other distant relatives.
Hauntingly beautiful place. I would not be afraid to explore it .Even on the darkest day The birds and wildlife bring it back to life .The beauty of Hampsted!
One of the most peaceful places I know of. There's nothing quite like it. I often walk through the graveyard near me. Your video is beautiful btw, glad I found your channel today.
That’s an impressive cemetery. A lot of famous people buried there. Thanks for taking the time to show it to us. I like the wild look of it, rather than the usual pristine look of cemeteries. It was like walking in the forest, which I love doing, so I enjoyed that. Except instead of examining trees and mushrooms, we were looking at headstones and crypts. lol Many were so elaborate. Some even had little little snippets of how they died engraved on them. Poor little Edwin, drowned while bathing in (couldn’t make out where). Patrick Caulfield’s headstone, artistically arranged “D E A D”, ha. Great video, and perfect subject matter for this time of year. Now you have to go to a cemetery at night and film a really spooky walk. (I dare you!) 🎃
What a spooky, yet incredible place. I'm glad this was tidied up in the 1970's and brought back to its former glory. I will be looking a filming here at some point in 2021 for my UA-cam channel. Thanks for the great video. Matt
I was so excited to see that you made a video walking through this cemetery. I had read a few articles about it and had only seen pictures from the internet. So peaceful and beautiful.
I just read Tracy Chevalier's great novel Falling Angels. Highgate is a prominent setting in that book, so I really enjoyed this virtual tour. Thank you for posting!
araneus1: I was glad of that too. It's about thirty years since I last visited Highgate Cemetery West and Tom Sayers grave and monument stood out more to me than any other. 'Lion' - his beautiful and beloved dog forever watching over his master, gave a particular poignance to it. It was so touching to read that he was the 'Chief Mourner', walking behind the coffin as they made their way to the Cemetery and I pray that they were or shall be, one day reunited in heavenly places.🕊
Wow.TY.Such a unique cemetery.Dang,buried so close together.Looks VERY old.Perfect day for it.TYSM again.Those animal and bird sounds REALLY give it that extra creepy feel.👍👍👍
Toured Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, it was historical, and Christopher Colon (Columbus) Cemetery in Havana, Cuba, that was just beautiful, both have their charm. But now I would love to see High Gate ! 👍 🇨🇦 ✌️
Great film, Highgate cemetery is in a class of its own. I thought those two girls in the big hats might turn you into a frog,but you seem to have got away with it.
I wonder what the souls of the long gone and forgotten may feel like, when you walk around their graves. I bet many of them are happy to have a visitor, perhaps after decades of nobody looking at them.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful video. I must say you gave a better tour of the West side than I was allowed several years ago when I went there. They only allowed people in the West side with a tour guide. Our guide literally rushed us along, barely time to study anything or take decent pictures. Didn't appear to be interested in showing us much of anything. I left quite disappointed having come from the US to see this magical place. You've more than made up for all that.
Thanks Melissa! Yes, with the current situation they have allowed people to wander around instead of having to be guided, which I very much appreciated. All the best.
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SIGHTS SEEN WITHIN THIS VIDEO
0:00:10 - Gatehouse and Chapels of Highgate Cemetery - opened in 1839
0:08:33 - George Michael’s unmarked grave next to his mother
0:15:32 - Nero, the lion, on the tomb of George Wombwell, travelling menagerist
0:16:27 - Circle of Lebanon - an ancient cedar tree (Cedar of Lebanon) was here long before the cemetery, and a circle of tombs was built around it, though it had to be removed due to decay and replaced in 2019
0:19:38 - View towards St Michael's Church
0:20:19 - Terrace Catacombs
0:21:10 - Mausoleum of Julius Beer
0:25:51 - Egyptian Avenue - lined with tombs, when the cemetery was founded, interest in ancient Egypt was very strong, encouraged by Napoleon’s campaigns
0:40:59 - Cuttings Catacombs
0:45:34 - Cross of Sacrifice - World War I and II memorial
0:46:38 - Colonnade by entrance courtyard
0:52:58 - Tomb of Karl Marx - resting place of the socialist revolutionary, featuring a gigantic bust by the socialist sculptor Laurence Bradshaw
1:08:55 - Malcolm McLaren’s grave - punk impresario and original manager of the Sex Pistols
1:10:21 - Patrick Caulfield’s grave - painter and printmaker known for his pop art canvasses
1:16:18 - George Eliot’s grave (Mary Ann Evans - the name on the grave is Mary Ann Cross) - novelist, common law wife of George Henry Lewes and buried next to him
1:21:36 - London Fire Brigade memorial - dedicated to those Fire Fighters whom served and died during the Air Battle of London in World War II
1:35:03 - Leslie Hutchinson’s grave - cabaret star of the 20s and 30s
1:39:20 - Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and other novels
:)
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oh you have timestamps. This is fascinating, thank you.
I TOOK MY FIRST LSD AT HIGH GATE WITH MY MATE HE FREAKED OUT AND RUN OFF !
I STAYED ALLNIGHT ON MY OWN TALKING TO THE DEAD GREAT CONVERSATION'S WITH MANY
THANK'S FOR THE MEMORIE'S
MAY LITTLE FLUFFY CLOUD'S BE WITH YOU WHERE EVER YOU WANDER
Thank you
I can't thank you enough for this tour. I worked as a stone restorer in the cemetery in the early 1980's, often working through the night. Until now I've never relived the excitement of strolling through the empty cemetery alone and with the sounds of birds, sticks snapping, the distant roar of London... Pure magic, captured in all its glory in real time... Thank you!
My pleasure Tim, I'm pleased you enjoyed it!
I am from Seattle, USA, and what a privilege u gave us who don't have access to such a beautiful site. I can finally say the I "toured" Highgrove. Thank u!!!
Cemeteries have a macabre beauty to them. Such calming places.
Quite amazing considering how much grief they have had experienced within them.
I’ve been to cemeteries in many countries and so far they have all felt the same.
Incredible walk. Peace and quiet. The old cemetery is as important as the old books. My regards.
yes...the death are quiet
What a fascinating historical place! The volunteers who took over the care of the cemetery have done a wonderful job! Amazing how it is preserved yet landscaped by Mother Nature!
The fact that the cemetery is overgrown and tangles of ivy grip the trees and gravestones with long sinuous fingers makes it even more beautiful in my opinion , like a mysterious lost world waiting to be explored. Many thanks for sharing 🙏🙏
I lived adjacent to HG Cemetery in 1973 and frequently walked through it. Back then there was sadly a lot of open graves and general neglect, but thankfully these days the Friends of Highgate voluntary group are working selflessly to preserve this historical sacred site.
Some of the most amazing design I've seen anywhere! That "tunnel" of crypts was so incredibly beautiful!
A beautiful place to walk, and to be thankful for being alive!
Very nice walk in these two cemeteries. I prefer the first, the one to the west.
It has a lot more charm than the other one which doesn't look like much with the tombs without order; I would say without dignity and without soul.
The West Cemetery has a romantic character.
I noticed a grave with a large dog lying at the foot of this grave.
It softened me.
It is quite possible that the West Cemetery is haunted, but by benevolent spirits.
There are such places as the Petit Trianon in Versailles.
Thank you WW for this long and certainly tiring walk.
Not only spooky, but romantic and historic!
Vrdd amei 👏👏👏 completo o vídeo amo arte tumular 👏
At 8:34 , they just passed up George Michael's gravesite next to his mother. Thanks for sharing this beautiful video tour of Highgate.
@John Q. Absolutely!
Thanks for the info and time stamp. I was waiting for this as well
Aww it was one with flowers grown around beautiful 😍
@@lisaconnolly8387 Yes. Btw his favourite flowers were Forget me nots💠
What a beautiful cemetery. Worth a trip to London just to see it!
Yes, made it a must the last I was there.
What an amazing and magical walk. I visited Highgate in 2005 and had recorded my tour of this wonderful place. Unfortunately, when I returned to the USA, I found out that the file had been corrupted and therefore, unplayable. This wonderful video brought back all the fascination, curiosity and magic of that time. This video is excellent. Thank you for bringing back happy memories of my trip to London and Highgate! 😊
I'm from Canada and no doubt watching this I'm looking at some of my ancestors graves as I can date my family back in London to about 1690. It's kind of sad this cemetery looks round down a bit. Nice video. I hope to visit London someday. England looks amazing.
It looks so overgrown and forgotten. Still beautiful.
It's run by volunteers and the only funding it gets is what you give at the gate, money is tight and is not helped by (insert appropriate swear words) who think it's cool/protest to do things to Marx's tomb which then has to be repaired or cleaned leaving less for the rest of the repairs and maintenance, I totally get that he's a devisive figure and some people really object but chain a damned protest banner up, not attack it with spray paint or hammers.
The friends of Highgate cemetery are doing the best job they can with no local or government aid, they are utterly brilliant people who are saving this atmospheric spot from becoming yet more overpriced London housing! Good job ladies and gentlemen.
If you go and take pictures for your UA-cam or Instagram etc, drop them a bit of cash on your way out, those likes depended on them!
@@mistywolf312 Thanks for that information. I didn't know any of that and it's such a shame that there's not some kind of financial support for maintenance, etc. Thanks also to those volunteers who do what's necessary to protect such an important place.
@@mistywolf312 I spoke to one of the guides about this on my last visit. There is a financial constraint to the maintenance of the cemetery but there is a conscious decision to treat the area as a nature reserve so everything is maintained around this idea. Consequently the wildlife diversity here is quite incredible, more so jf you think this is located in North London which is not exactly the prettiest part of London. I know as this is where I was born and brought up. The main features though are conserved and looked after. The cemetary is in much better condition now than it was in previous decades. The days when schoolboys used to play football with the skulls of the dead are now long gone.
@@ds1868 oh, no I totally get the create a wildlife habitat inside the city, I just felt the need to praise the friends and point out that they are not funded and taking your frustrations out on the grave just means any funds they have are diverted from such a wonderful place.
My grandmother would visit Highgate cemetery to read and to write in her diary. She often remarked just how peaceful and quiet it was there. Many thanks for this walking tour.
This is truly a beautiful video. The TRAGEDY is you didn’t stop on a few of the gravestones so your viewer could appreciate the time and history these people left behind. Thanks for the walkthrough.
Even WITHOUT stopping, look at how long the walk was...can't blame the uploader at all.
Where do I got my Stupid Shot? ;)
@@auction20000 Pfizer, Moderna or J&J??
So many graves, so little time.
All you need to do is pause your video 😊
Your videos are the best! I’ve been to HighGate and it is massive! The slow pace you keep is perfect for seeing as much of this incredible place as possible!thank you!
Thank you so much for filming this video! I have always wanted to visit this cemetery, but I couldn't go when I was in London last year. What a magical, incredibly beautiful place. I really liked the video format too, quiet, without spoken commentary.
Thank you so much Nocturnem, glad you enjoyed it!
I can highly recommend a visit to this cemetary. The guides are excellent as well.
What an amazing place, so unique, so much character. You couldn't replicate it in a million years.
Highgate always reminds me of this..
Come to me by moonlight when the wind is in the trees,
follow me in silence, yet linger among these fallen idols of lost gods
and fanes where wild thorns grow, where once we walked,
and once we talked, a thousand years ago.
Sorry, can't remember who wrote it.
Lovely lines and very appropriate to the scenes.
That was absolutely stunning. Thank you. Saving this one to my favourites.
SCBB, that's great to hear, thanks!
Me too I saved it in favourites as well
Thank you very much for this beautiful video. At 8:31 🕊️🕊️🕊️ George Michael (unmarked grave), his mom Lesley Angold, and sister Melanie Panayiotou burial location 🕊️🕊️🕊️
SL, you're very welcome!
@@garrybuicke1803 Yes I know it has plaque on his grave now. I keep up with George's information. Thanks for the update. It's so sad just to say George's grave plaque...miss him so much. His sister was a very nice person also. This was helpful because I love corresponding with his fans and I am glad people remember George :) Thanks Garry.
Thank you for uploading these video. Though live far away from UK, I feel like I'm walking and breathing the air. Cheers from Indonesia. ✌🏻
Thanks for watching CP, greetings to Indonesia 🙂
Such a beautiful place. I’ve always wanted to visit Highgate Cemetery. Graveyards and cemeteries are so peaceful, understandably. The perfect place to take a quiet walk and reflect. A solitary place where all who are buried there are at peace. I knew Highgate was big but I didn’t realise how big 😱total respect to all and a reminder of our own mortality 🪦🪦🪦❤
My late son found a job near here with two elderly gents. He traded room and board for household chores. He got a day job also at the London Apprentice pub. .The first night in London found a B and B on Ebury Street.
It feels like walking through a fairytale, in a way. Like something out of the fantasy books I read back in middle school. What a beautiful, somber place ❤️
Amazing cemetery and beautiful monuments. I loved the one with the dog. I've never been to this cemetery but wish I had. You walked your socks off for this one and it's really appreciated.
Thank you Linda, it was really relaxing walking through the cemetery 🙂
What a magnificent cemetery. I could easily spend the entire day there reading the monuments. Thank you for the walkthrough. The views are spectacular.
Shame it has not been looked after , just left too decay !!!
It looks so beautiful and peaceful 🙏 Bless all the souls 👼
The last time I went to High Gate Cemetery was when I went on a school trip many decades ago 😅 It's a beautiful walk during the Autumn and Winter.
You are THE BEST.You do so much walking.England has such beautiful, ancient and modern places and you show them ALL.Thank you for not narrating,but just capturing the natural sounds around you.Its a shame politicians are trying to screw it all up.
Thank you Michael!
What a beautiful cemetery! I've always loved graveyards, since I was young.
I have been meaning to go there for years as my grand parents are buried in the old cemetery. I also have details and grave numbers for several other distant relatives.
They are in a lovely place ,May they all rest in peace .
Go as soon as you can! Don't wait
Hauntingly beautiful place.
I would not be afraid to explore it .Even on the darkest day The birds and wildlife bring it back to life .The beauty of Hampsted!
Love this! Very cool to see these, what beautiful memorials!
its so peaceful and beautiful with all the vegetation! I wanna visit someday.
And that's making me even more eager for the pandemic to end so I can get back to London and see this all in person. Thanks for posting it!
Thank you! I have been waiting eagerly for this one! Big up WW! 🤗
CG, I hope it lived up to your expectations!
The cemetery looks old but peaceful and spooky all at the same time so many buried there I would love to go there and look around
What a perfect place for Halloween and absolutely awesome ambiance !! Thanks for sharing this place 😊🎃👻👍
I love walking in cemeteries. It’s so peaceful
Olá. Bom dia.esse cemitério é muito rústico traz uma história, é lindo.quero ver mais imagens dele em 2023, se for possível 🖐️🌹
Very atmospheric. I love old cemeteries.
That’s incredible, looks like something you read about someplace in your imagination. It’s so beautiful.
One of the most peaceful places I know of. There's nothing quite like it. I often walk through the graveyard near me. Your video is beautiful btw, glad I found your channel today.
Thanks HW, welcome to my channel 🙂
I’ve been to London these past two Christmas’s, thanks to your videos. I will miss it severely this season.
That’s an impressive cemetery. A lot of famous people buried there. Thanks for taking the time to show it to us. I like the wild look of it, rather than the usual pristine look of cemeteries. It was like walking in the forest, which I love doing, so I enjoyed that. Except instead of examining trees and mushrooms, we were looking at headstones and crypts. lol Many were so elaborate. Some even had little little snippets of how they died engraved on them. Poor little Edwin, drowned while bathing in (couldn’t make out where). Patrick Caulfield’s headstone, artistically arranged “D E A D”, ha. Great video, and perfect subject matter for this time of year.
Now you have to go to a cemetery at night and film a really spooky walk. (I dare you!) 🎃
Thanks Goldie, yes, I just need to find a good one that's open at night!
What a spooky, yet incredible place. I'm glad this was tidied up in the 1970's and brought back to its former glory. I will be looking a filming here at some point in 2021 for my UA-cam channel. Thanks for the great video. Matt
Glad you enjoyed it Matt 🙂
I was so excited to see that you made a video walking through this cemetery. I had read a few articles about it and had only seen pictures from the internet. So peaceful and beautiful.
Thank you Nichole.
What an amazing place. Thank you for walking through.
WOW great atmos for this time of year!
I just read Tracy Chevalier's great novel Falling Angels. Highgate is a prominent setting in that book, so I really enjoyed this virtual tour. Thank you for posting!
Thank you. You stopped at the 'Sayers' grave. The one with the statue of the dog at the foot of the grave. I was pumped!
araneus1: I was glad of that too. It's about thirty years since I last visited Highgate Cemetery West and Tom Sayers grave and monument stood out more to me than any other. 'Lion' - his beautiful and beloved dog forever watching over his master, gave a particular poignance to it. It was so touching to read that he was the 'Chief Mourner', walking behind the coffin as they made their way to the Cemetery and I pray that they were or shall be, one day reunited in heavenly places.🕊
@@lorrainephillips7250 I found that particularly touching. I hope that Lion had someone to look after him after his master died.
This is the place where we are finally come, just loosing life to reach here. 💐💐
Thank you so much for gifting such an experience. Greetings from India.
TM, my pleasure, greetings to India!
I hear this is where The Addams Family goes for a picnic.
How lovely the place is! This Cemetery is so spooky! Thank you so much for sharing this amazing video! :)
Glad you enjoyed it VT!
I love you SO MUCH for this! Thank you from an ardent taphophile who longs for these paths!
London’s cemeteries are the best, so creepy and gothic. Love the crows too!
Very peaceful and quiet place.
It's a beautiful cemetery.
Thx for sharing.
Beautiful video, perfectly filmed with no narrative just how it should be. 👍🏼
Thank you very much Julia!
Nothing spooky about it!
It’s a beautiful place.
I really wish you had stopped at some and let us read the interesting things. The old old dates ect.
Very nostalgic and feeling a bit melancholy watching this video. Thank you so much for this video
Wow! Loved it! Thankyou!🎃
Can you imagine being in this place at nighttime with nobody around? Must be terrifying
I Love it just wish we could. See. The dates and years on the tombs
Thanks Marina, it would take a long time to show all of them, I did show a few though.
Great walk-around video of the East and West cemeteries, glad to subscribe.
Thanks for record and sharing.
Parked my car regularly in swains lane when visiting London, its a bit spooky at night, amazing place the village
Wow.TY.Such a unique cemetery.Dang,buried so close together.Looks VERY old.Perfect day for it.TYSM again.Those animal and bird sounds REALLY give it that extra creepy feel.👍👍👍
I have seen this one but rewatched again just because i love it
Neil Gaiman's 'The graveyard book' brought me here, but it's even more eerie and mysterious than i've imagined while reading the book
So this is where the dracula origin game got the inspiration from for their cemetery landscape, no wonder i feels familiar ^^;
Ive watched this vid so many times! Thanks!
@jerithompson6303 Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice steady camerawork. Thank you! Just like being there on the day! You obviously know the place well.
Toured Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, it was historical, and Christopher Colon (Columbus) Cemetery in Havana, Cuba, that was just beautiful, both have their charm. But now I would love to see High Gate !
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Não há um Cemitério, em todo o Mundo! mais Lindo e Magnífico! que o Highgate Cemitery.🪴🪦🌲🎩🖤
Great film, Highgate cemetery is in a class of its own. I thought those two girls in the big hats might turn you into a frog,but you seem to have got away with it.
🐸 "ribbit"
Now all the girls are going to rush to kiss you and turn you into a prince. Clever move!
Omg it is truly beautiful hoping to visit soon please god and were u getting followed 😱 it is just stunning thank u
Esas mujeres parece que hacían conjuros.
I am from INDIA 🇮🇳 & I like this place very much also I like LONDON very much 😀
What a beautiful cemetery. Thank you for sharing new friend here
I wonder what the souls of the long gone and forgotten may feel like, when you walk around their graves.
I bet many of them are happy to have a visitor, perhaps after decades of nobody looking at them.
No, because they're dead
I'm from India but Landon of Highgate cemetery very scary! feeling alive, awake death house
Wish family names had been shared. I find cemeteries so fascinating. Beautiful stonework.
I wish I could visit there.
very peaceful. calmed me down. i recommend
A fascinatlng and beautiful place to visit great atmosphre nicely filmed
Love the sound of footsteps around this mystical place X love to visit here .and pay my respects to yog xx
What a place........wish I could walk every bit. Thank you.
Que gran sitio!! Gracias por compartir
Thanks what a stunning place.
Inspirational. Thank you for producing.
You're welcome ZP, thanks for watching!
Really enjoyed this beautiful and interesting video.
Look out for the fox casually crossing the footpath at 59.44.
Q espetáculo de lindo 😍 parabéns pelo vídeo 👏👏
Thank you for sharing your wonderful video. I must say you gave a better tour of the West side than I was allowed several years ago when I went there. They only allowed people in the West side with a tour guide. Our guide literally rushed us along, barely time to study anything or take decent pictures. Didn't appear to be interested in showing us much of anything. I left quite disappointed having come from the US to see this magical place. You've more than made up for all that.
Thanks Melissa! Yes, with the current situation they have allowed people to wander around instead of having to be guided, which I very much appreciated. All the best.
Wow so beautiful cemetery 😍 and thanks for this video watching from india N.E
Sort of looks like a first person walk thru video game. Just waiting for the monsters to show up. Great vid mate.
thank you for share,i love to london so very nice