Just paid this magical place a visit on Tuesday (20.8.24), and took the tour. Absolutely mesmorized by it all and spent the whole day there. I would happily go back and take the tour again. Foxes wandering about, joining us in the courtyard. Funnily, it was a case of who was watching who. The friends of Highgate do a brilliant job and I can honestly say that Highgate was the highlight of my London visit.
Thank you for the tour! I visited the UK once, and while walking through one of the gardens/cemeteries in London, I couldn't help but notice that the line between life and dead blurred, and what was left was a bit of sadness that extraordinary people are not here for me to meet, but any morbid or fear feeling was gone. I am a Christian, and some might say “very religious,” so a healthy fear for the other world and its inhabitants is a familiar feeling among my people 😂 but that experience changed the way I see dead. Also, some of the extraordinary and ordinary lives of people were interesting. Some Christian writers have said that Puritans knew how to die, and I guess if you are surrounded by the dead and you prepare for it, your mind changes about it. I don't know. I appreciate your channel and all I get to learn through it. Thank you again.
@LauPineda, I was raised Roman Catholic, and am an American decended from Puritans. Christians aren't supposed to fear death. It's the beginning of our real life. As Mary, Queen of Scots said just before she was beheaded, "In my end is my beginning."
This is (so far) the favorite cemetery I've ever visited. I love telling people about it. Thank you for featuring it and sharing your fantastic knowledge about it! I'm sure to watch this video many times.
I’ve watched many video tours of Highgate Cemetery, but this is by far the most knowledgeable and interesting. I look forward to watching your other tours. Thank you.
I give tours of our Victorian Cemetery. People still vandalize it. The cemetery is like taking a walk through a wooded garden. It always smells good from the flowers blooming. The statues and headstones are being repaired. Cemetery’s can teach us so much about the history of our communities
I like walking through a cemetery. It's so peaceful and quiet. No people or dogs.❤ Sometimes I put a flower on children's graves who died from the flu of 1918. They are usually buried all alone. No other family buried close to them. So sad. 😢😢
So true. It is very sad to disrespect the cemeteries it is for me the same as if someone comes and demolises the inside of the museum. Cemeteries are also a piece of art.
I visited the UK for the first time last year.I visited Highgate Cemetery and went on a tour hosted by the volunteers and highly recommend. Highgate Cemetery is stunningly beautiful and peaceful , but I did feel a bit spooked in certain sections when off exploring by myself (spotted a cheeky fox prancing around a couple of headstones) I really enjoyed watching this video. Well done😊
I love that cemetery, such a gothic masterpiece 😍 I live in the NW of the UK and don't get down to London etc very often anymore, but I adore your videos. You take us on some ' out of the way' gems I wouldn't have ever seen on a visit to London; as well as the more uSual points of interest, and for that I thank you. So glad I found you, and I highly recommend your channel to everyone. Bravo to you, and I look forward to many more tours👍🥰
Fabulous, charming, respectful and really interesting. Insane how one can live in a place and know so little about it. You are a real gem, Jessica, thank you so much! 👍👍👍👍👍👍✨✨✨✨✨✨
The symbolism was fascinating, not something that had even occurred to me before. A very informative, respectful hour in your knowledgeable company that just flew by. Thank you, and I am looking forward to the East side next week.
My cousin Kim and I used to go visit this old cemetery that was walking distance from her house. Our favorite place to hang out was a 12 year old little girls grave. Her name was Violeta and she was carved into a statue on top of her grave. Life size and dressed in her Victorian clothes. Very beautiful little girl. Someday when I go back to visit I would like to go see Violeta again.
It's very overcast here in my tiny spot int Ont. CAN., and this video was the perfect accompaniment! I completely agree with you that natural burial is the way to go. Unfortunately, there are only hybrid sites in Ontario at the moment, no true, not-part-of-a-regular-cemetery, natural burial sites. And the cost to be buried in a hybrid site is out of my reach! I absolutely loved this video and will be watching for the East Side, next week. Thanks, Jessica. Sharing! I forgot to add, I'm so glad that nature has been allowed to have the upper hand. Humans desperately need to re-think having every bit of their property and the land around them, manicured and sterile.
I really like old graveyards where you can see and learn about the people buried and their stories. Europe to has fascinating graveyards too, many with pictures of the person too. Graveyards are quiet and peaceful. Thank you for the tour.
Such a great, well informed tour Jessica! I went on a tour of Highgate more than 20 years ago and was very keen at the time to see Cristina Rosetti's grave. Since the public were not able to view the Rosetti or Dicken's plots, I never saw them so am so happy you were able to take us there. The cemetery was much more overgrown then and it was also pouring with rain. I don't remember seeing modern graves on the tour I did. I have a long fascination with cemeteries and was so pleased that you mentioned many of the common symbols that were popular and fashionable on tombstones, not just in Highgate, but worldwide. Australia has a few cemeteries that took inspiration from Highgate. I did see the tree in the Circle of Lebanon and it was very impressive. You are the perfect person to explore cemeteries! Respectful, knowledgeable and the perfect pace. I look forward to not only Highgate East but forays into the artistic and bizarre world of Paris cemeteries too. Thanks so much. ALL your videos are brilliant. I do enjoy the longer tours. You are the perfect tour guide!
I’d second that. You’re a great tour guide. When you go to Tate, could you focus in on the painting “The Death of Chatterton”? One of my favorites. Would love to know more about it.
Thank you once again for an interesting tour 🙂When I was a teenager I lived very close to a very big cemetery, Botany cemetery in Sydney's eastern suburbs (NSW Oz). They had what we called 'little houses' with the photos of the dead inside on the outside walls. On holidays and weekends the families of the deceased would visit their families inside. The doors were opened, they dusted etc, said prayers and some sang, then they had picnics. They were mostly Italian families - we 'immigrant Brits, thought it was most odd but very interesting. We were even invited in sometimes but... I wish I had now! When there were bad storms the graves in the older part of the cemetery closest to the sea lost coffins and skeletal remains were flung about on the sand. Interesting! It was so large, I once rode a horse around it. I think that it has been renamed and tidied up a lot since then, it was over 50 years ago and I left Sydney long ago. I still love the old cemeteries though and visit any we come across in our travels. Thank you for doing these wonderful tours! 😁🦘🦘🦘
this tour was so lovely and so informative, thank you so much for sharing! i have such a love of woodsy quiet cemeteries like this. i've never been to highgate (hopefully one day i will get to explore it) but it reminds me a lot of the okunoin cemetery at koyasan in japan, that i've had the honour of visiting twice now!
Another fantastic video Jessica thank you so much. I've seen lots of tours of Highgate (still planning to go myself someday!) and this was one of the most interesting ones. Your passion for story telling and your ability to share the atmosphere shines, as opposed to just presenting the facts, which you also do wonderfully! Looking forward to part two and would definitely be interested in seeing you guide through the rest of the 'Magnificent Seven' ❤🪦❤
Thank you ❤Ive just discovered your channel 😊 I live in Scotland now and was born in England, and I remember visiting Highgate cemetary in the 1980s with a friend. Its a very magical ✨️ place steeped in History xx
I have never watched one of your voids. Well all I can say is my bad lol. I have been through Highgate with other people , but never one as good as you. your presentation, your description was spot on, you never got in a hurry and took all the time needed to describe a monument or gravesite, You speak so clearly and have a very mellow tone in your voice. Keep up the good work and I will be watching...
It is an incredible place to visit. An ancestor of my husbands is buried there in a paupers grave. Sadly talking to our guide, she is almost certainly lying beneath what is now a pathway.
Wow. I never knew a cemetery could be so beautiful, and I love cemeteries! UA-cam has been recommending your videos to me for about a week, and tonight I decided to check them out. I'm so glad I did. This is the third I've watched. Subscribed to the channel. Now off to Highgate East I go!
First time watching this extremely knowledgeable young lady, I sat transfixed the whole way through and will definitely be watching everything you have uploaded… thank you
The Circle of Lebanon was so cool...it feels like a City of the Dead ....when you were pointing out the inverted symbols for the land of the Dead, it reminded me of why my Parents insisted on a coffin, vault, grave was for religious reasons. They were Anabaptist, left Holland, during the protestant reformation, early 1800s, and came to America, and they believed in a bodily resurrection of the Dead; on the Great Day of the Lord. Idk, if Victorians, believed that; but it might be why the burial internments have nods towards the Dead
I just discovered your channel & I'm so glad I did! I've been to England & I long to go back, as it's such a beautiful place. Like many others, I'm also a taphophile, so it's an absolute pleasure to be with you on your tours. 😊
A dream vacation would be Highgate Cemetery and Pere Lachaise Cemetery tours. As an American, and not internationally traveled, I have enjoyed over thirty years of cemetery traversing across our country. Although not published, I have written several journals ,with verses ,dates and photos, of mainly Victorian graves. It’s been a VERY interesting hobby . Thank You for sharing this beautiful video with us.
I was able to visit Highgate for the first time last October, after wanting to see it for years. Watching this was fascinating because there was so much that I missed! I need to go back. I would have loved to go down Dickens path if I'd known it was there. I'm a huge Dickens fan, and on the same trip I visited the Charles Dickens museum and his grave in Westminster Abbey. If it hadn't been so busy I'd have stood with him for hours!
i have rung on many bells cast by the Mears family and their successors, fascinating to see their family resting place ! I also never knew that, or never thought about the broken column as an allegory! Thank you
Just discovered your channel today. I go through my subscriptions so quickly and then there is nothing new to watch. Anyway, two of my favorite topics include museums and cemeteries. Of course, if you love history, that sort of adds up - and I do. I watched a couple of videos and realized, it's time to subscribe. Using a playlist to get caught up.
Thank you for taking the time to show this magnificent cemetery. I'm in the U.S. and know I'll never get to see that in person. I love that you were able to show Dickens Family area. I read where Charles wanted to be buried at his home, "Gads Hill" but they instead, placed him in Westminster Abby
this is my first time with you and i thoroughly enjoyed it. you are an amazingly good guide. going looking for more of your listings. thank you for sharing this.
I just found your channel and I love it! The tour was so interesting and you are such a wonderful tour guide. I am visiting London next October and Highgate Cemetery is top on my list of places to visit. Thank you for your wonderful channel.
Great video, very interesting. Me and my partner Jill are both Londoners, but because of mobility problems in our old age could not do all that walking through what is a fantastic location with an equally fantastic history. So thank you for this video.
I watch videos many people that tour cemeteries but, I must say you are the most informed person to date on this cemetery! Thank you very much for this in depth video on highgate. I look forward to your videos in the future.
Hi! I'm French i went in London several times! I love this town! But i" ve never visited High Gate Cemetery, i love your video, and the way you explain things, this Cemetery looks like Le Pere la Chaise Cemetery in Paris! Old head stones, old vaults as well, Jim Morrison from.the famous American band the Doors, is buried in Le Pere la Chaise, and i know that in High Gate Cemetery, Karl Marx is buried there! Among of course many others celebrities! Anyway next time i go to London, i promise i'll visit High Gate Cemetery! Because of you! Thank you very much , once again, stay safe, God Bless! Denis from France...
Oh my word this video is just beautiful I’m hooked! I’ve been to Highgate cemetery 3 times now twice with a tour guide and yet I’m learning more interesting things from this video than I did then 😅 welldone! Xx
This my first experience of your channel. I have a love of old cemeteries and this one is a gem. I have never seen a cemetery that was also a woodland park. What a wonderful idea and it’s absolutely beautiful. I wonder why it is that the public is not allowed access to the whole cemetery? There is nothing like this where I live in Virginia, USA. If there was I would be there all the time. But I have to say that as much as I love this cemetery I am planning for a natural burial in a natural burial cemetery about 2 1/2 hours away from me in a wooded area in the mountains. I would love to have the pleasure of going on one of your tours in person. Thank you so much for this one on UA-cam. 🙏🌿🌳
Thank you Jessica for giving us one of your wonderful tours of Highgate! A highlight of our visit to London. You were funny and well versed with information about that wonderful cemetery. I have to tell you one sad thing, we couldn't visit the Egyptian Cat mummy's, the Mexican pieces or the beautiful Tara Statue, all were unavailable - at least to us - for viewing at the British museum. So very disappointed. And you know about the Tudor paintings that we also couldn't view. Not your fault of course, but I did want to have a few words with some museum directors!!
I just loved your highgate cemetery tour. It was very informative and very interesting. I just love this kind of tours. Thank you so much for your videos. 1i came by your channel quite by accident and I’m glad I did. I will be following you from now on.
New subscriber here. What a fabulously interesting video, one of the best I’ve seen for many years. I was engrossed and love to hear your knowledge and passion of your subject. More please!
I loved this place. For some reason I mainly remembered the grave of Mrs Henry Wood, of East Lynne fame. When we went over to the East side we heard the bell & made our way back to the gate, only to find it had been locked. Luckily the man who locked up was engaged in conversation with someone just outside the gate, or we'd have to have spent the night with Karl Marx! The same weekend we visited the Crossbones Graveyard (very touching) and the Old Operating Theatre museum. When we got home our daughter told us we were weird! Arnos Vale cemetery in Bristol is also worth a visit. It's kept partly as a nature reserve too. There is an impressive memorial to Ram Mohan Roy there.
I loved your video. I am mad about cemeteries (and monuments and ruins of all kinds) but have never been to Highgate. I grew up in Sydney, Australia, and have always spent time wandering around the big old cemeteries like Gore Hill, Waverley and Rookwood. The only thing that startled me was your suggestion that Faraday had been offered a place in Westminster Abbey alongside Darwin and Newton. Darwin outlived Faraday by quite a few years, so such an offer would have been fanciful. Darwin's revolutionary book was only about eight years old when Faraday died, and the debate about evolution was still ramping up. (Spoiler: evolution won the debate.) I was lucky enough to visit Glasnevin a few years ago. What a place! All the rebels, the heroes, plenty of poets. And you should visit the cemeteries I mentioned in Sydney. Waverley has one of the most spectacular settings imaginable, and Rookwood holds, I believe, over a million former Sydneysiders and contains graves and mausolea of every size and style. Again, thanks for the show. I'll be watching some more.
What a silly slip of the tongue on my part! I meant to say that this was the scientist's corner, and Faraday was a sought after 'resident' - he would today be with Darwin and Newton. *facepalm* Thank you so much! I would love to visit the cemeteries of Sydney.
Great video. My Dad is buried in a natural burial site. It's a lovely place and it's exactly where Dad would want to be as he loved nature so much.
That sounds lovely. ❤️
Just paid this magical place a visit on Tuesday (20.8.24), and took the tour. Absolutely mesmorized by it all and spent the whole day there. I would happily go back and take the tour again. Foxes wandering about, joining us in the courtyard. Funnily, it was a case of who was watching who. The friends of Highgate do a brilliant job and I can honestly say that Highgate was the highlight of my London visit.
Thank you for the tour! I visited the UK once, and while walking through one of the gardens/cemeteries in London, I couldn't help but notice that the line between life and dead blurred, and what was left was a bit of sadness that extraordinary people are not here for me to meet, but any morbid or fear feeling was gone. I am a Christian, and some might say “very religious,” so a healthy fear for the other world and its inhabitants is a familiar feeling among my people 😂 but that experience changed the way I see dead. Also, some of the extraordinary and ordinary lives of people were interesting. Some Christian writers have said that Puritans knew how to die, and I guess if you are surrounded by the dead and you prepare for it, your mind changes about it. I don't know. I appreciate your channel and all I get to learn through it. Thank you again.
@LauPineda, I was raised Roman Catholic, and am an American decended from Puritans. Christians aren't supposed to fear death. It's the beginning of our real life. As Mary, Queen of Scots said just before she was beheaded, "In my end is my beginning."
@@mt.shasta6097 Right! Maybe I should have added the “spiritual realm,” as in demons and apparitions in cemeteries, but not for me dying per se.
This is (so far) the favorite cemetery I've ever visited. I love telling people about it. Thank you for featuring it and sharing your fantastic knowledge about it! I'm sure to watch this video many times.
I’ve watched many video tours of Highgate Cemetery, but this is by far the most knowledgeable and interesting. I look forward to watching your other tours. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
One of the most beautiful cemeteries I've ever seen. Thank you for sharing this with us!
I give tours of our Victorian Cemetery. People still vandalize it. The cemetery is like taking a walk through a wooded garden. It always smells good from the flowers blooming. The statues and headstones are being repaired. Cemetery’s can teach us so much about the history of our communities
I like walking through a cemetery. It's so peaceful and quiet. No people or dogs.❤ Sometimes I put a flower on children's graves who died from the flu of 1918. They are usually buried all alone. No other family buried close to them. So sad. 😢😢
@@eileenweeks1815 That is so nice of you!
@@AurielGrace I agree! Which cemetery?
@@TheMuseumGuide the Historic First Presbyterian Cemetery in Greensboro N.Carolina
So true. It is very sad to disrespect the cemeteries it is for me the same as if someone comes and demolises the inside of the museum. Cemeteries are also a piece of art.
I visited the UK for the first time last year.I visited Highgate Cemetery and went on a tour hosted by the volunteers and highly recommend. Highgate Cemetery is stunningly beautiful and peaceful , but I did feel a bit spooked in certain sections when off exploring by myself (spotted a cheeky fox prancing around a couple of headstones) I really enjoyed watching this video. Well done😊
I love that cemetery, such a gothic masterpiece 😍 I live in the NW of the UK and don't get down to London etc very often anymore, but I adore your videos. You take us on some ' out of the way' gems I wouldn't have ever seen on a visit to London; as well as the more uSual points of interest, and for that I thank you. So glad I found you, and I highly recommend your channel to everyone. Bravo to you, and I look forward to many more tours👍🥰
Fabulous, charming, respectful and really interesting. Insane how one can live in a place and know so little about it. You are a real gem, Jessica, thank you so much! 👍👍👍👍👍👍✨✨✨✨✨✨
thank you for being so respectful!
The symbolism was fascinating, not something that had even occurred to me before. A very informative, respectful hour in your knowledgeable company that just flew by. Thank you, and I am looking forward to the East side next week.
Amazing tour...beautiful and poetic place! 🌹
i am so here for the longer videos. give me all your content, hours of it pls
My cousin Kim and I used to go visit this old cemetery that was walking distance from her house. Our favorite place to hang out was a 12 year old little girls grave. Her name was Violeta and she was carved into a statue on top of her grave. Life size and dressed in her Victorian clothes. Very beautiful little girl. Someday when I go back to visit I would like to go see Violeta again.
That sounds like the plot to a children's novel! I would love to see her grave.
I will also see her grave. It is so sad when a child dies. In victorian times was it propably tuberculosis or pneumonia that killed her.
It's very overcast here in my tiny spot int Ont. CAN., and this video was the perfect accompaniment! I completely agree with you that natural burial is the way to go. Unfortunately, there are only hybrid sites in Ontario at the moment, no true, not-part-of-a-regular-cemetery, natural burial sites. And the cost to be buried in a hybrid site is out of my reach! I absolutely loved this video and will be watching for the East Side, next week. Thanks, Jessica. Sharing! I forgot to add, I'm so glad that nature has been allowed to have the upper hand. Humans desperately need to re-think having every bit of their property and the land around them, manicured and sterile.
I really like old graveyards where you can see and learn about the people buried and their stories. Europe to has fascinating graveyards too, many with pictures of the person too. Graveyards are quiet and peaceful.
Thank you for the tour.
I love the ones with pictures. That’s an amazing custom that doesn’t seem as widespread as it ought to be.
Such a great, well informed tour Jessica! I went on a tour of Highgate more than 20 years ago and was very keen at the time to see Cristina Rosetti's grave. Since the public were not able to view the Rosetti or Dicken's plots, I never saw them so am so happy you were able to take us there. The cemetery was much more overgrown then and it was also pouring with rain. I don't remember seeing modern graves on the tour I did. I have a long fascination with cemeteries and was so pleased that you mentioned many of the common symbols that were popular and fashionable on tombstones, not just in Highgate, but worldwide. Australia has a few cemeteries that took inspiration from Highgate. I did see the tree in the Circle of Lebanon and it was very impressive. You are the perfect person to explore cemeteries! Respectful, knowledgeable and the perfect pace. I look forward to not only Highgate East but forays into the artistic and bizarre world of Paris cemeteries too. Thanks so much. ALL your videos are brilliant. I do enjoy the longer tours. You are the perfect tour guide!
Hello Jessica! Really enjoying the places you go and the knowledge you share. Looking forward for more!❤
Love your channel; your videos are very personal, informative, very well edited, super captivating and thoroughly enjoyable
Thank You 💕
Wow, thank you!
I’d second that. You’re a great tour guide. When you go to Tate, could you focus in on the painting “The Death of Chatterton”? One of my favorites. Would love to know more about it.
This place is amazing,fascinating,beautiful, we only managed to walk around one side, can’t wait to return to the UK to see the other side
Thank you once again for an interesting tour 🙂When I was a teenager I lived very close to a very big cemetery, Botany cemetery in Sydney's eastern suburbs (NSW Oz). They had what we called 'little houses' with the photos of the dead inside on the outside walls. On holidays and weekends the families of the deceased would visit their families inside. The doors were opened, they dusted etc, said prayers and some sang, then they had picnics. They were mostly Italian families - we 'immigrant Brits, thought it was most odd but very interesting. We were even invited in sometimes but... I wish I had now! When there were bad storms the graves in the older part of the cemetery closest to the sea lost coffins and skeletal remains were flung about on the sand. Interesting! It was so large, I once rode a horse around it. I think that it has been renamed and tidied up a lot since then, it was over 50 years ago and I left Sydney long ago. I still love the old cemeteries though and visit any we come across in our travels. Thank you for doing these wonderful tours! 😁🦘🦘🦘
Highgate is the definition of Gothic! Thank you for the tour, I always wanted to go to London.💕🙏
It really is!
this tour was so lovely and so informative, thank you so much for sharing! i have such a love of woodsy quiet cemeteries like this. i've never been to highgate (hopefully one day i will get to explore it) but it reminds me a lot of the okunoin cemetery at koyasan in japan, that i've had the honour of visiting twice now!
Thank you so much. This was so interesting and respectful. You have a lovely voice. Looking forward to the East Side.
Thanks for the tour in that amazing, beautiful cemetery. How I'd love to wander those walkways and see the wonderful architecture of the gravesites.
Absolutely fascinating!
Thank you for sharing your insights.
There is just so much to see and so little time, even in retirement..! 😊
A nice mixture of the remembered and forgotten. And then there's the story of Lizzie Siddal...
Poor Lizzie. Stay away from self-centered "artistes."
Wow! Stumbled across this channel. I love history. Especially English history. Your knowledge is wonderful and your voice is lovely.
Thank you so much!
Excellent! Im very much looking forward to next week 🩷
What a beautiful cementary!😲
I agree!
Another fantastic video Jessica thank you so much. I've seen lots of tours of Highgate (still planning to go myself someday!) and this was one of the most interesting ones. Your passion for story telling and your ability to share the atmosphere shines, as opposed to just presenting the facts, which you also do wonderfully! Looking forward to part two and would definitely be interested in seeing you guide through the rest of the 'Magnificent Seven' ❤🪦❤
Man, must of been a ton of work. Yes, I believe some trees should be cleaned up and checking them if they’re dead.
I have several ancestors buried here. This was very interesting.
Loved it, thank you! Looking forward to part 2! 🥳
Thank you for another great video! Excited for next week’s video as well. Appreciate you and all your hard work ✨
You are so welcome!
Oh, I look forward to your videos. I especially love the cemeteries . Thank you ❤
So nice of you :)
Thank you ❤Ive just discovered your channel 😊 I live in Scotland now and was born in England, and I remember visiting Highgate cemetary in the 1980s with a friend. Its a very magical ✨️ place steeped in History xx
Love the lion statue and that magnificent dog statue. Thanks.
You're very welcome!
I have never watched one of your voids. Well all I can say is my bad lol. I have been through Highgate with other people , but never one as good as you. your presentation, your description was spot on, you never got in a hurry and took all the time needed to describe a monument or gravesite, You speak so clearly and have a very mellow tone in your voice. Keep up the good work and I will be watching...
It is an incredible place to visit. An ancestor of my husbands is buried there in a paupers grave. Sadly talking to our guide, she is almost certainly lying beneath what is now a pathway.
Awww, that is so sad. And so common!
So sorry
Wow that was an amazing tour of the beautiful highgate cemetery thank you for all the info and your time
May they all find peace 🙏🌹
You're very welcome.
@@TheMuseumGuide 👍
My favourite place . Tyty . Xx
Fascinating, informative and well done. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Enjoyable and low.key stroll. Well.done
Wow. I never knew a cemetery could be so beautiful, and I love cemeteries! UA-cam has been recommending your videos to me for about a week, and tonight I decided to check them out. I'm so glad I did. This is the third I've watched. Subscribed to the channel. Now off to Highgate East I go!
Awesome! Thank you!
Lovely to see the simple grave. of the beautiful actress Jean Simmons who starred in so many films.
First time watching this extremely knowledgeable young lady, I sat transfixed the whole way through and will definitely be watching everything you have uploaded… thank you
Welcome aboard!
The Circle of Lebanon was so cool...it feels like a City of the Dead
....when you were pointing out the inverted symbols for the land of the Dead, it reminded me of why my Parents insisted on a coffin, vault, grave was for religious reasons. They were Anabaptist, left Holland, during the protestant reformation, early 1800s, and came to America, and they believed in a bodily resurrection of the Dead; on the Great Day of the Lord. Idk, if Victorians, believed that; but it might be why the burial internments have nods towards the Dead
I really enjoyed this. So informative and fun. Thank you
I just discovered your channel & I'm so glad I did! I've been to England & I long to go back, as it's such a beautiful place. Like many others, I'm also a taphophile, so it's an absolute pleasure to be with you on your tours. 😊
Yay, I had been waiting for this video!
I saw Wham! in Oakland California in 1985. There they debuted Last Christmas in the middle of summer.
What a gig!
So beautiful and atmospheric
Excellent video many thanks for making and posting
Society should write about how they fixed Highgate up. It is fascinating.
A dream vacation would be Highgate Cemetery and Pere Lachaise Cemetery tours. As an American, and not internationally traveled, I have enjoyed over thirty years of cemetery traversing across our country. Although not published, I have written several journals ,with verses ,dates and photos, of mainly Victorian graves. It’s been a VERY interesting hobby . Thank You for sharing this beautiful video with us.
You’re very welcome! Look out for Pere Lachaise in December.
I was able to visit Highgate for the first time last October, after wanting to see it for years. Watching this was fascinating because there was so much that I missed! I need to go back. I would have loved to go down Dickens path if I'd known it was there. I'm a huge Dickens fan, and on the same trip I visited the Charles Dickens museum and his grave in Westminster Abbey. If it hadn't been so busy I'd have stood with him for hours!
Big Ben and The Liberty bell, both famous for cracking...lol
awesome video x by far the best i ve seen on this cemetary thank you x
Wow, thank you!
i have rung on many bells cast by the Mears family and their successors, fascinating to see their family resting place !
I also never knew that, or never thought about the broken column as an allegory! Thank you
Absolutely fascinating.
Just discovered your channel today. I go through my subscriptions so quickly and then there is nothing new to watch. Anyway, two of my favorite topics include museums and cemeteries. Of course, if you love history, that sort of adds up - and I do. I watched a couple of videos and realized, it's time to subscribe. Using a playlist to get caught up.
Aussie here. Loved this! Thankyou
Thank you!
Thank you so much for bringing the cemetery to life. Really enjoy your such professional commetery and such wisdom, and knowledge.
Thank you kindly!
Thank you for taking the time to show this magnificent cemetery. I'm in the U.S. and know I'll never get to see that in person. I love that you were able to show Dickens Family area. I read where Charles wanted to be buried at his home, "Gads Hill" but they instead, placed him in Westminster Abby
I didn't realise!
this is my first time with you and i thoroughly enjoyed it. you are an amazingly good guide. going looking for more of your listings. thank you for sharing this.
Glad you enjoyed!
I just found your channel and I love it! The tour was so interesting and you are such a wonderful tour guide. I am visiting London next October and Highgate Cemetery is top on my list of places to visit. Thank you for your wonderful channel.
Very interesting, thanks!
I love love LOVE Highgate! Thank you for this wonderful tour!
Yeah! We get Jessica on Monday! ‘Entrance.’ Love it.
Thank you for sharing . Highgate is such a beautiful cemetery and the history is fascinating .
Great video, very interesting. Me and my partner Jill are both Londoners, but because of mobility problems in our old age could not do all that walking through what is a fantastic location with an equally fantastic history. So thank you for this video.
Wonderful..so amazing.
I watch videos many people that tour cemeteries but, I must say you are the most informed person to date on this cemetery! Thank you very much for this in depth video on highgate. I look forward to your videos in the future.
Thank you! I do a lot of research for every video.
Hi! I'm French i went in London several times! I love this town! But i" ve never visited High Gate Cemetery, i love your video, and the way you explain things, this Cemetery looks like Le Pere la Chaise Cemetery in Paris! Old head stones, old vaults as well, Jim Morrison from.the famous American band the Doors, is buried in Le Pere la Chaise, and i know that in High Gate Cemetery, Karl Marx is buried there! Among of course many others celebrities! Anyway next time i go to London, i promise i'll visit High Gate Cemetery! Because of you! Thank you very much , once again, stay safe, God Bless! Denis from France...
Oh my word this video is just beautiful I’m hooked! I’ve been to Highgate cemetery 3 times now twice with a tour guide and yet I’m learning more interesting things from this video than I did then 😅 welldone! Xx
Thank you!
I visited it many a time in the 60s and 70s when I visited my grandmother in Croftdown Road.
Such a beautiful cemetery and wonderful tour❤ thank you
You’re very welcome!
What a great, well informed tour, thank you. I would love to be interred in one of those grand mausoleums, what a status symbol.
This my first experience of your channel. I have a love of old cemeteries and this one is a gem. I have never seen a cemetery that was also a woodland park. What a wonderful idea and it’s absolutely beautiful. I wonder why it is that the public is not allowed access to the whole cemetery? There is nothing like this where I live in Virginia, USA. If there was I would be there all the time. But I have to say that as much as I love this cemetery I am planning for a natural burial in a natural burial cemetery about 2 1/2 hours away from me in a wooded area in the mountains. I would love to have the pleasure of going on one of your tours in person. Thank you so much for this one on UA-cam. 🙏🌿🌳
I think certain areas are restricted for safety reasons! It’s extremely overgrown in places. I tripped twice while filming this 🤦🏻♀️
Thank you Jessica for giving us one of your wonderful tours of Highgate! A highlight of our visit to London. You were funny and well versed with information about that wonderful cemetery. I have to tell you one sad thing, we couldn't visit the Egyptian Cat mummy's, the Mexican pieces or the beautiful Tara Statue, all were unavailable - at least to us - for viewing at the British museum. So very disappointed. And you know about the Tudor paintings that we also couldn't view. Not your fault of course, but I did want to have a few words with some museum directors!!
What rotten luck! I’m so sorry it happened to you again. 😢
This is such a beautiful cemetery. I look forward yo part 2. 🙂🇨🇦
Thank you, very much enjoyed the tour.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I just loved your highgate cemetery tour. It was very informative and very interesting. I just love this kind of tours. Thank you so much for your videos. 1i came by your channel quite by accident and I’m glad I did. I will be following you from now on.
Thank you, and welcome!
It's a amazing place visited last year did a tour, thoroughly recommended, fabulous film thank you really enjoyed this ❤
Thank you, Jessica.
You’re very welcome.
New subscriber here. What a fabulously interesting video, one of the best I’ve seen for many years. I was engrossed and love to hear your knowledge and passion of your subject. More please!
Awesome! Thank you!
This was wonderful. Thank you so much!
You are so welcome!
I am so happy I found your channel. ❤
Thank you for sharing this video with me. Yeah I know it’s morbid, but I love the stonework and the history. Thank you!🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼✝️✝️✝️✝️
I loved this place. For some reason I mainly remembered the grave of Mrs Henry Wood, of East Lynne fame. When we went over to the East side we heard the bell & made our way back to the gate, only to find it had been locked. Luckily the man who locked up was engaged in conversation with someone just outside the gate, or we'd have to have spent the night with Karl Marx!
The same weekend we visited the Crossbones Graveyard (very touching) and the Old Operating Theatre museum. When we got home our daughter told us we were weird!
Arnos Vale cemetery in Bristol is also worth a visit. It's kept partly as a nature reserve too. There is an impressive memorial to Ram Mohan Roy there.
You can do any cementary, Brampton is fine. Fascinating.
Brompton.
I've somehow never been round Highgate. I really want to see it now.
So who keeps it up.? Everyday somebody checks on, cleans it up? This is soooo fascinating.
There is a large staff of gardeners.
I loved your video. I am mad about cemeteries (and monuments and ruins of all kinds) but have never been to Highgate. I grew up in Sydney, Australia, and have always spent time wandering around the big old cemeteries like Gore Hill, Waverley and Rookwood. The only thing that startled me was your suggestion that Faraday had been offered a place in Westminster Abbey alongside Darwin and Newton. Darwin outlived Faraday by quite a few years, so such an offer would have been fanciful. Darwin's revolutionary book was only about eight years old when Faraday died, and the debate about evolution was still ramping up. (Spoiler: evolution won the debate.) I was lucky enough to visit Glasnevin a few years ago. What a place! All the rebels, the heroes, plenty of poets. And you should visit the cemeteries I mentioned in Sydney. Waverley has one of the most spectacular settings imaginable, and Rookwood holds, I believe, over a million former Sydneysiders and contains graves and mausolea of every size and style. Again, thanks for the show. I'll be watching some more.
What a silly slip of the tongue on my part! I meant to say that this was the scientist's corner, and Faraday was a sought after 'resident' - he would today be with Darwin and Newton. *facepalm*
Thank you so much! I would love to visit the cemeteries of Sydney.
👏👏👏👏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍thank you sooo much for this enjoyable tour🥰
39:15 Germans also say „there is no bad weather, only bad clothing“ 😄
I totally love your videos, thanks so much for your great work 🩵🧡
Thank you! 😃
Danes say this too!😊
i love this ive always wanted to go....i love looking at graves and wonder what they were like... who they were...what they were
Amazing. Thanks. It's on my bucket list. Urns and shawl? Wouldn't that be urn and shroud?