Open Coffins Found In London | Kensal Green Cemetery Part 2/2
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Part 2/2: Where did the bodies go in these crumbling mausoleums? and I find exposed coffins damaged due to neglect
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I'm a American and I just think that your coverage of different cemeteries and graveyards are so beautiful and such intriguing history. Thank you for sharing this to the rest of the world.
My pleasure, thank you for watching
I will thank you
I agree, I’m from Colorado ❤
There are at least two graveyard tours online in America I also watch.
It is interesting seeing different cemeteries. I enjoy watching the tours of the inside Mausoleums in America as we don’t have them here.
and i thought i was weird for enjoying walking around graveyards, they are so incredibly fascinating. the stories they could tell
Thank you Chris!
I love a grave yard! Wish I could live there
As it turns out, James Dredge, Jr., was a notable English engineer. His father was a suspension bridge engineer. Writer, illustrator and participated in at least two world expositions. Still dead to this day mind you, but worth popping over to Wikipedia for a quick read. Thank you from the States, love the channel!
Thanks for the info, I haven't looked him up yet. Loved his mausoleum.
I'm watching from Sri Lanka thanks
Im An 🇺🇸 American.I ❤️ Love British History! The Cemeteries Are Remarkable! Thanks For The Vidios! 😊
Another great walkthrough. There is something kinda dark but also fascinating when looking at the old headstones and seeing names from all those years ago. Everyone having stories to tell and in some cases just waiting to be uncovered in more detail. Keep up the good work 👍
So many stories out there as you know from your outings. Really enjoying your channel!
Took the words out of my mouth
So I have just hopped on to your channel @days of horror podcast. My husband has just said he owes you both a beer … My wknd will now be binge watching!!!!
@@catherinerickard699 😁 Many thanks! Whilst we cover a lot of 'local' stories, we do have plans to stray further afield.
@@DaysofHorror I’m originally from Watford but now live in Cornwall, I enjoy watching things from other areas ,
We really do have some amazing places in our country.
A thumbs up and a big thank you from Calgary Alberta 🇨🇦 This awsome cemetary may be terribly neglected but it is so awsome and beautiful none the less. I would love to take a stroll through there but i can't so thank you so much for the opportunity to experience such a gorgeous place.
Thanks Connie! Hello to Calgary! Beauty in decay indeed
@@deadgoodwalks that is indeed the idea.
Thank you for listening to your followers who asked you to read dates on the graves. I noticed a big difference from your earlier videos and I appreciate your efforts.
I’m a town historian with an interest in the death care industry. You have some truly novel content on UA-cam. I can’t recall the last time I felt like I was in a cemetery or crypt by watching a video. It’s an absolute treasure. Thank you.
Thank you for the kind words x
An interest in the "death care industry"...Good grief.🤣😅😅🤢🤢
I really enjoy your videos and cemeteries so mystic and beautiful, thanx for the tour, stay safe.
Thank you Debroah!
We were at a restaurant for lunch today and waiting at the bar afterwards to pay for our meal. There was the loveliest old lady standing just ahead of us. She said "My family brought me here today to celebrate my birthday. I was born on 5th October 1921." She was still able to walk easily, barely needed her walking stick, had all her faculties and had no trouble going down the twenty stairs back down to the car park. We spent a while after that thinking about all the changes she would have seen in her long life....and she had the loveliest kind smile!
I thought I had binged all the videos I can’t believe I missed this gem♥️ the workmanship on some of these is so incredible. Such a shame we don’t know the hand that made them. I love this channel so much❣️
Ah now, there are makers names and addresses on most stones and monuments, but that would be a whole other rabbit hole to investigate ha
These tours are so well done, interesting and creepy at the same time, I wouldn’t go walking around in there on my own, some of the monuments must have cost a fortune back in the day, now look at them, crumbling away to time and the elements, greetings from Australia and thanks again
Wow! That really was “ a Dead Good Walk”…such incredible architecture and must have cost a fortune when built, just imagine the cost today! It’s quite lovely and peaceful in the old part, with the longer grass etc, but at the same time I feel very sad to see graves gradually falling into disrepair, or like the one you found and could see into…just devastating… You would think that the families who paid for such graves would have descendants who would take interest and keep in good repair…flowers etc. These people wanted to be remembered, and now it seems the only way is for people with video cameras…the last record …so sad. I wish there was more funding for such an amazing place, the catacombs don’t look in good order or the builds above, hence the fencing. But I’m very grateful you took this walk and shared with us, who most likely will never get the chance to visit such an amazing place.. Thankyou! Glad you didn’t fall into any…who would be the Pigeon warden then!? Lol. Best wishes! 👏🏻🙋♀️🥰🙏🦋🦋🦋😇
Such a shame to see old graves in such a state 😢 fab video well done 👍
Thanks Anna
I see a lot of people saying how run down some of these Magnificent Seven cemeterys and graves are. Do they not realise that this place is 190 years old! Very distant relatives probably don't even realise their family is interred here.
I agree Axl
I live across the street from Kensal green cemetery, and I'm so glad you visited this place; I love your content!
The bust of this gentleman's grave that you passed at 2:13 was that of Architect Emidio Recchioni, he was part of a plot to kill the dictator Mussolini. I do wish you had stuck around longer to check it out but I'm glad you passed by anyway! Thank you again for the brilliant content!
I agree. I'm an American also and I just love all the cemetarys that Dan takes us to. Places that alot of us might never get to see. I love the history of all of them. I love London and hope one day to see it in person. Don't know though I'am 64 years old. But I can dream. Love the video Dan. Love from Georgia USA
@@queenb3570 I know but we can dream can't we. Georgia USA
Lovely to hear that Joan...thank you! Glad to have you on these walks with me! x
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@@deadgoodwalks Your so welcome. I look forward to all your videos. Like I said before I love old historic cemetarys. You tell the history on them also. Great work. Love from Georgia USA
@@queenb3570 Certainly would be interesting for you to see the large cemeteries in London. So many tourists just visit the usual sites in central London. Highly recommended is Highgate cemetery which is also close to Hampstead. You'd have a great time with that one.
The artistry is stunning but the abandoned state of the graves is so sad. Such a lonely and desolate atmosphere. Melancholy.......
Thank you for the continued stroll through Kensal Green cemetery. Too bad you couldn't gain entrance to the catacombs.
Welcome Cathy! Glad you enjoyed it. Maybe next time :)
You're videos really shows what happens to our graves after 100-200 years. It's really sad to see the state of these graves but it is a reality that all of us has to face sooner or later.
I’m from Colorado, USA❤ love your beautiful walks. Nothing like this in US except on our East Coast. Thank you!❤
Thanks Ellen
I am taking it for granted that this cemetery is not abandoned, due to the new burials...but it certainly looks like it has been abandoned! It certainly needs a good grass cutting and other maintenance, in my opinion.
I do enjoy these walks. Love the architecture & customs if you will of how things where done. Not to mention the history. Thank you
You're welcome Andy, thanks for watching
Hi darling. My friend used live in there in cemetery it was very spooky at night I never went back lol x
The history of these cemeteries would be fascinating too, as to how they were planned. I did read your cemeteries were once handled by the Church. Cemetery planning of the 1800’s is interesting in the United States the time of “park setting” cemeteries. I have one by me about 45 minutes away I plan to visit in about a week for the Fall color. Woodlawn Cemetery in Toledo Ohio founded 1876, classic example of rural cemetery. A 160 acres over 130 species of trees and over 200 migratory/stationary birds. But the best cemetery I’ve visited was Arlington National Cemetery, the history and land very moving. 🇺🇸
Graveyards were the properties of the churches they surrounded, and were/are maintained by the church. Cemeteries are under the care of the local councils. Cemeteries began to emerge in the mid 1800's in the UK.
Just stumbled on your channel. Your tours are fascinating. Have gone through a few old cemeteries here in the US but people think it’s morbid! I feel as if I’m right beside you peeking into mausoleums and reading grave stones. Thank you!
Proves over time you are truly forgotton
Those inhabitants were well heeled for sure.
The old sayings "no pockets in a habit or " no tow hitch on a hearse" makes sense.
Great videos bravo !
So very sad 😢, yet very beautiful ❤️. Thankyou ❤️.
I enjoy watching your videos of old gravesend that some are really old and forgotten about how sad my grandma was born in 1902 I can just imagine what it was living in those days special the boar war I was nt born then my mum told me some people find it morbid looking at graves but I find them very interested av watched all your videos always look forward watching some more
Yep a tough time to be alive for sure. Thank you for watching all my videos
Yes, I think them fascinating too. It's the history, wonder what their lives where like etc.
Another great video. The whole mood changed when you went "off the beaten path". It got eerie. Thank you 😌
Tell me about it! lol. Thanks for watching again Ral, glad you enjoyed it
I like your subject matter, fascinatng. You sound like a very chilled person, thanks for all the tours
Crazy heavy coffins! Great video
Thanks mate, I can't imagine how heavy they would be
lovely, peaceful old place full of history.. thanks for part two, it is amazing to see Royal graves outside, don't think i've ever seen that.. thanks again and take care ⚰️👈 just found that, had to use it 😆
You're welcome Violet. Love the emoji ha
I bet this was once a very beautiful cemetery. The tombs, architecture is stunning workmanship.
The cemetery is still very attractive. It doesn't need to be neat and tidy for it to be beautiful. Many of the cemeteries in London are now havens for wildlife. A very good example of this is Hampstead West Cemetery, which is now classified as a wildlife reserve and protected as such by law. The English have the right approach to this sort of thing.
Is still used or does it remain as cultural heritage?.
Thanks for an interesting tour. It's always sad to see graveyards like this,but it's also hauntingly beautiful. Wish you were my history teacher at college,I would of paid more attention!
Love this peaceful walk through. Thank you for sharing.
Another interesting find. Gorgeous mausoleums.
Wonderful cemetery thank you for the tour.
You're welcome Lisa
Well once again thank you from America 🇺🇸 lovely cemetery! I love old ancient cemeteries and it’s often wonder at the labor of love on those beautiful mausoleums. I find cemeteries peaceful and often go and do walks around them too. I though perhaps I was one of a kind but finding your blog let me know that there’s more people out-here that likes the ambiance of solitude that cemeteries exudes.
Cemeteries do have a serenity about them.
Fascinating 👍
Wow what a awesome looking cemetery ,very pretty ,those are some awrsome looking mausoleums
Kensal Green is truly amazing. Thank you for taking us along on these walks. The UK has some incredible cemeteries.
Thank you. I enjoy your content thank you for sharing your videos 👋🏻🗽
Mausoleums are enchanting ❤
God bless you 🙏 for taking us with you on these grave yard tours! I love a grave yard! I could live there
It's sad when the graves end up in such a sad state when there's no family left 🙏
Heartbreaking isn't it. We'll all be forgotten eventually
@@deadgoodwalks i wonder how many family members have walked past their ancestors tombs with out knowing that they are related. This is why we need to listen to our elders about family 🙏
Sometimes, maybe the family can no longer afford to maintain the grave, etc. There is also, that attitudes towards death and burial have changed massively over the last 70 years.
loved the tour around this cemetery thankyou for showing us around ❤ wow those coffins ⚰ were a great find 👍
Thanks guys, keep up the good work down under
@@deadgoodwalks thanks buddy x
Got to admit it truly is dead good walks Always find It fascinating Big thumbs up
Thanks Brian
"The pigeon warden of Kensal Green" would make for a great book title if you ask me.
It's got a ring to it hasn't it
James Dredge (29 July 1840 - 15 August 1906) was an English civil engineer and journalist of engineering.
Cool vlog. Thanks
No worries Rick! Thanks for watching
I was surprised to see this kind of cemetery in England as I was under the impression that people basically leased their grave site for periods of 10-25 years. It’s really cool to see this. Great video.
Dan, I really enjoyed the ornate mausoleums. They were very interesting and I think you're right that the work in them was probably days or weeks or months. If you ever can could you explain or maybe find the information how they lift those big Mausoleum Stone coffins to close them. I was wondering did they have like a machine come in or they just had a bunch of men pulling on a rope lifting it up. Anyway thanks for the wonderful tour.
It is very tragic I feel that these monuments cost a small fortune and are meant to be a lasting memorial to people and many are just left to decay.
Absolutely fascinating...shame about a lot of these graves damaged and open to the element's....now I know am glad I will have my Pure Cremation.... old graves forgotten....sad really....thanks for sharing 👍🙏
Thanks for your videos
Great episode love the history thanks
Thanks. Thanks Dan. Great videos as always.👍💯
Thank you for your continued support Ian. As always it'll go back into the channel, most probably towards my next two (witchy) halloween videos. Many thanks again! Dan
A different atmosphere at night time
This is what i want seeing the coffins
Thanks 👏👏👏👏
All the very old headstones, mausoleums the families are gone..perpetual care was not covered in those days.
Wicked cool video. You have a new subscriber, from Maine, USA. Also, if you didn't look into that tomb of Charles Spencer, this is from wikipedia and even has a photo of his tomb: The Tomb of Charles Spencer Ricketts is located in Kensal Green Cemetery in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England. It commemorates Commander Charles Spencer Ricketts, an officer in the Royal Navy. Designed in 1868 by William Burges, the tomb is a Grade II* listed structure.
Charles Spencer Ricketts (1788-1867) had entered the Royal Navy at the age of seven.[1] Serving under Thomas Cochrane, "Le Loup de Mer", during the Napoleonic Wars, he retired aged 26 on marrying an heiress,[a] and established himself as a country squire at Dorton House, Buckinghamshire, rising to the post of High Sheriff in 1832.[b][4] The marriage was not happy, and he spent his last years at the London home of his daughter, Julia, who had married a solicitor, George Bonnor. On Ricketts's death in 1867, Julia Bonnor commissioned William Burges to design her father's tomb. Burges's diaries for 1867-68 include two references to "Bonnor's tomb"[1] and the structure was complete by the end of 1868.[5] The condition of the tomb deteriorated in the 20th century, but in the 21st it has been the subject of renovation and preservation.[6]
Beautiful to watch nd see d graveyards d architecture is good.one thing I'd world wud love to see d tombs of queenmother ,king george, princess Margaret nd d queen elizabeth.tks
They are in the Royal Vault at Frogmore. PM has no tomb she was cremated.
There are many images of the catacombs online that you can see for both kensal green and Highgate
Watching from Italy❤
Hi, there were a creepy white cloth haning from the edge inside that mausoleum, beautiful cemetery, you are so lucky to get to walk among them, thanks for taking us with you. And I think pigeon whisperer is a better word😉
I traveled to London from Texas.They would not let anyone pay respects to Eddie duke of Clarence. He's in a huge hall. All you can see is the angel from its back .(at St.Georges).If you get a picture please post.Thank you.
Good job on the narration. Too.
Fascinating content.
Those Mausoleums must have cost a small fortune to construct.
Cutting corners doesn't seem to have been a sensible thing to do. The less well built examples have all collapsed.
Some of the granite structures look like they will be around until the end of time.
We are running out of space for burials.
Personally, I'm fine with cremation or the newer methods of disposal.
Few of us today ever visit a gravesite.
I have visited Highgate and Brompton in London and Pere Lachaise in Paris.
In Pere Lachaise you can see the graves of Edith Piaf, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison. It's a great day out!
Thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching again Brenda x
@@deadgoodwalks You're welcome😊
I live w minutes from there a lot of my family and friends are buried there.. I have been down to the catercoombs and it is very surreal seeing hundreds of coffins on shelves . They used to conduct tours which would include down there but I think they stopped that part due to health and safety. Freddie Mercury was cremated there a week after my fathers service. I love walking around there it is a beutiful historic graveyard
You're lucky, I'd love to go down the catacombs
Beautiful and well done. Good on you!
Thanks Janet!
Whether it be ice, pigeons or trees - nature will always eventually win out in the fullness of time... ⌛ ⏳ ⌛
When my kids were younger my friend and I use to walk through the older part of Kensal Green , we saw many coffins in the mausoleums because the windows was smashed , they were boarded up eventually that was over 30 years ago , also we went blackberry picking because there were so many overgrown bushes of them . Loads of rats I remember and it was very creepy would not walk through there on my own , I think a few horror films were made there 🇬🇧
I would of loved to have seen what the Queens coffin looked like
Me too, they kept it well covered. Couldn't even tell what colour it was
@@deadgoodwalks Members of the Royal family have the outer coffin made of English oak. This will have a medium tone appearance that will darken with age. English oak is very resilient and will last for many hundreds of years if placed within a dry and secure vault, as you will find in St George's Chapel. Within the oak coffin as you know is another coffin made of lead. Total weight of the average size royal coffin is around 500kg or half a metric tonne. Hope that helps.
There were 2 coffins outer one was lead lined. Would have loved to seen the inner one.,
@@kayt9576 It was probably a simple wooden one, it is never going to be seen as it is covered with the lead coffin. The Oak coffin was the main one.
I caught a glimpse of it when they were moving the coffin off the gun carriage and the standard was lifted slightly, it looked like a very good quality thick light coloured oak
Lovely cemetery what's creepier is finding your own name on a headstone that happened to my dad at a cemetery in Scotland
You wanna go west Norwood cemetery in south eastLondon
Hi Rebekah, have a look through my videos ;)
Those pigeons are the dwellers of that tomb.
Love your content... 💜💜💀💜💜
Isabella wife of Gerald Green in the older part, so those r husband & wife structures.
Begitu luasnya tnh pemakaman ini.
6:00 that looked strange. Like just weird brick posts beneath
Exactly what I need tonight. Love your accent. Try and get in with Phil and holly … your be in the fast track que for HRH resting place 😂
Thanks Catherine, happy to help. That was a bit embarrassing for them wasn't it haha
@@deadgoodwalks it was the memes that were all over fb …. I’ll be honest I haven’t watched their ‘ apology’ segment bc I can’t stomach them now… maybe if I have the memes on hand , that may help me through it.
I have set 2mrw aside to watch your vids and get those time stamps for things I’ve heard on your walks . X
Very sad to see that there is no sort of maintenance anomore? Alle these people had loved ones ever, found there final rest and now are forgotten for ever.
James dredge Jr was an engineer like I assume his father James. Dredge Sr was also it's amazing what you can find on Google it was Jr who died in 1906 I'm assuming that it is a family mausoleum and that his dad is in there with him
Thanks for the info Martin, Its hard to know for sure. Great name though isn't it
Beyond horrible someone needs to take care of cemetery so sad 😭
Question? My recent research on King George III and his family are still stored up in the Royal Vault and remain so today. Why were they never buried?
It’s entertaining but sad I feel bad for the graves that’s collapsing.
Long Island National Cemetery on Long Island,NY fixes the graves if they or the stones start to settle.
14:40 I was thinking the same thing 😂
Well done 😢😢😢😢😢
I live in America I love your videos so awesome My mom family lives in Scotland love your videos Be Safe 👍🙏👍
To think someone grave robbed is absolutely disgusting as the dead can't defend.
My grandmother is buried in this cemetery
Sorry for your loss Jim. Did I capture her grave in the video at all?
what was the oldest grave you have seen?
oldest graves I seen was late 1780s in Oslo, Norway.
I saw one from 1612 just yesterday
@@deadgoodwalks can you upload the picture and markings on the grave?
I want to ask about wildlife such as bears... do any such creatures hang around the cemetery. If they do, they could be helping with the collapse of the monuments. Ground hogs & Badgers love to dig around & under foundations. The old part of the cemetery... how old is it? 1700s?
No bears here thankfully, just foxes and badgers and other small animals. Animals may have an impact on the stability of the graves but it looks to me (I'm no engineer) that the brick walls used to create the tomb have just failed over time due to damp. I think most of them have been there from the mid 1800s.
There are no bears in England I'm glad to say.
Is there was some organisation that tidies up the old graves to preserve them. In NZ we have friends of the cemeteries all volunteers and our cemeteries are no where as old as your beautiful historical ones.
after looking through the top window, I saw a plaque you brushed by, wished we could have read that, would have given context
Hi Patricia, not sure which one you mean. I'm not sure if you can pause it and switch to 4k, might be able to see it?
It’s so sad how so many of the newer stones are already toppling…and the very old ones are standing strong…over hundreds of years. Maybe the new ones weren’t placed correctly……very sad.
Same is happening where my mam and son is, there's been thought when they've been lined up on a hill. So constantly get fixed to be stabilised every year. The very new ones have been done correctly.
there alot of damage in this graveyard.u can even see the coffin underground