Thank you John for another beautiful walk. When my daughter was little we were in Waterlow Park three or four times a week, rain hail or shine. Coming home from there one Sunday afternoon we were on Dartmouth Park Hill when my ex spotted a hole in the ground inside a building site by the Whittington Hospital. When he looked closer he could see a big red cat sitting in the hole, clearly unwell, so we took the cat home with us on the baby's pram, got it checked out by the vets, put up notices asking if anyone had lost him and when there was no response, we kept him and he was my beloved Red Thomas who lived a life of luxury with us. Talking to a person at the bus stop one day, they mentioned an elderly chap who had lived all his life in one house in Bredgar Rd, off Dartmouth Park Hill.. The council built some new flats and the old chap's home was compulsorily purchased. Poor old man was decanted into these new flats, which he didn't want to go to at all. He didn't last long, only about six months. When he died the Vicar came and got his dog and his tortoise and off they went to an uncertain future at the RSPCA. But his big red cat escaped and was never seen again. I like to think the old man was looking out for his beastie and made sure it was found by a soft git like me who would make sure it was well loved for the rest of its days!
@@jaynecooney9549 I see why you said that. I assumed Frankie Boyle, The Comedian was related to Terry Boyle who played for Newport County between 1983-86..
I remember reading a book by ghost hunter Harry Price who was convinced that a vampire existed in Highgate. He claimed that he saw a tall, dark and menacing figure by a headstone. Gothic flavour to this video. Loved it, John. 👍🇯🇪
Hi Ivan, are you sure about that? Harry Price notes in Poltergeist Over England: Three Centuries of Mischievous Ghosts (1945) that during December 1942 Fairseat, a large Highgate home of historical interest was subject to poltergeist activity. I've never found a reference to Price sighting an entity in Highgate Cemetery though, much as I would love to. Any clues about the book you read, so I can work out its title?
I was living in North London in 77-78 and my uncle at that time was in the metropolitan police and he told me that there are catacombs beneath the place and unofficially Highgate went back to the days of the Romans.The caretaker back then also told us there were well over 200,00 people buried there on various levels connected to the catacombs. Who knows and i wasn't going to argue with my uncle due to the fact he was a commando in WW2 .2 of my cousins did see it in 69 on there way home from either the Flask or the Angel pubs at the top of the hill and said it was over 8' tall standing at the gate on Swains Lane with glowing red eye's .They ran the rest of the way home .I did have the honor of pissing on marks grave since i hate communism in all it's forms but he didn't appear to take issue with me.
In my teens I became a member of FOHC.Friends of Highgate Cemetery. They opened the older part of the cemetery a few times a year. It was very atmospheric. I was looking for vampires. I believe the other cemetery in the seven is West Norwood.
Hello John! I'm a new subscriber to your channel. I absolutely love your videos, even though I'm in the USA. I'm a huge history buff, and listening to your commentary on these walks is very fulfilling! I hope someday to see your wonderful city and land. I know my heritage comes from the UK, so it would be nice to trace my ancestors! Looking forward to more of your walks and knowledge! Cheers!!
Another great video, Thanks John, I visited the Grove in 2016 after George Michael passed , he lived there and is buried at Highgate in hes mothers plot but is unmarked sadly. The private green area between the flask and the grove was a tempary memorial to George. I wish to vist highgate again and vist the cemetry, Roger Lyod pack and Jeremy beadle are also buried there.
I had just watched another video of a walk thru the cemetery and it showed George, his mother, and I believe his sister all together. Everything was cleaned up, marked well, and a very simple plot for them.
Thank you. It was a delight to see Highgate and the cemetery again. I grew up in Hornsey during the sixties through until the nineties and I know the area very well. As teenagers we would climb the walls to get into both sides of the cemetery. I lived just off Archway Road for a few years and Waterlow Park was a wonderful place to relax and catch a breath when walking to work near Parliament Hill.
Very informative video John. Interesting to see the graves of Bert Jansch and his wife. I was fortunate enough to see Bert play live a number of times here in Edinburgh. A fine musician.
Glad you visited Highgate cemetery I could spend all day looking around there . And I never heard of the Highgate vampire before now . Thanks as always for taking us with you on another splendid walk. Have a great week 👍🏻
Hi John. I remember being very interested in this back in the mid-late nineties (Sean Manchester did a few radio interviews on the subject & David Farrant frequented some online forums back then) It was very intriguing and this brought it all back. Thanks for the memories!
Another superb episode John - inspired to buy the vampire book and even stump up the cash to go visit the Highgate Cemetary - used to roaming free in the Tower Hamlets equivalent - admittedly fewer celeb corpses in the East End!
Interesting fact - Malcolm McLaren's death mask on his grave was made by Nick Reynolds who plays in the Alabama 3. He is also the son of one of the great train robbers; Bruce Reynolds. Nick is a talented artist who has made his own special niche
Another interesting video,John. Ther is a great book about Highgate Cemetery-'Victorian Valhalla' (1984) by Felix Barker and one called 'The Magnificent Seven' (2011) by Jphn Turpin and Derrick Knight, about all the cemeteries. Time is such a strange thing, someone with as much energy and life as Malcolm Mclaren has been gone for 11 years.
I've been to the UK 55 times from the US. I don't know what percentage that included visiting London, but many times. When I watch your walks I feel like I missed so much. I've been to Highgate Cemetery and the reason that I went there was to find the grave of Norman Warne, the man Beatrix Potter was engaged to. The Beatrix Potter Society newsletter claimed this was where he was buried yet I could not find his grave. I asked someone from the Friends of Highgate Cemetery and they never heard of him. Just wondered if your map included his name or if you came across his grave. Sinead O'Leary also did a walk through. My other question was who was Amber Baker. The newish black marble grave seemed to be on the walkway. Love your videos and intend to watch them all. Seen many but not all of them. Best to you, Jane, Philadelphia
Yes, Norman Warne grave is indeed in Highgate Cemetery West. I visited it last week. It's located not far from the Circle of Lebanon and it's on the map.
Thanks John for a very interesting video. I was born in Camden Town, and we moved (almost) to the top of Highgate Hill when I was still young. Remember a pub at the top of the hill, and having a great time playing in Waterlow Park and Highgate Woods.
I haven't been up around that incredibly hilly area of North London since my Son moved out of the local Archway area. Another incredible walk, thank you John.
Thanks for the walk, John. Highgate Cemetery holds a special place in my heart in that the funerary chapel was the subject of my adaptive reuse studio project in architecture school while on a semester long study in London, 1979. I've been back many times since then to visit. I found you series last year during the health crisis that precluded my planned 2020 visit. Your videos have inspired me to attempt to do something similar here in Milwaukee with a focus on the history of the urban setting and its architecture. Perhaps a visit to the west side would be a potential future video. There are many significant and interesting features in that part. West Norwood was the seventh! All the best!
Another great video John. I loved the tree growing over those two gravestones. You make a great entertaining film full of information thanks again buddy
Fascinating walk, I remember reading a highwayman book set in Highgate but that was back in the 50s so can't remember the title. The cemetery looks fascinating, who would have thought a cemetery would have a gift shop! Look forward to your next one--wherever that may be.
7:15 Edward Elgar is buried in the church yard in Little Malvern. I actually made a point to go visit him when I was in Great Malvern. I also visited the Morgan factory. I stayed in The Abbey hotel, where Haile Selassie stayed when in exile and he was visiting the area. Great trip !!
You beat me to it, JH: I drove past it this afternoon (I live nearby). The church is the RC church of St Wulstan, on the road from Great Malvern up to the Herefordshire Beacon. Sir Edward is buried there, together with his beloved Alice.
Thanks, John. This made my day. Now I've got to go learn more about the Highgate vampire! Some twenty-odd years ago (closer to thirty now, actually), when I was a student, I remember seeing a production of Hamlet in a tiny room over a Greek restaurant in Soho. We all sat on the floor, and the "stage" was whatever space was left over. I had a front row seat and was rapt the entire time. I still remember that performance. Best Hamlet I've ever seen.
I always think the grassy parks of London are so civilized but then your cultural knowledge touring around Highgate shows there’s much more to it than ‘grass between the toes’ (reference to the cemetery too!). Thanks for a lovely walk John.
I have my nan & granddad buried in the old cemetry along with a few other distant relatives. I have not been there for 30+ years, but I will visit late october 2021. Nice video as usual..... cheers
John, I have just stumbled on your channel and am happy to say that I have found your videos so very interesting and very enjoyable.. so far I have only viewed a few but I see that there are many back-videos. Thankyou for putting them up. I look forward to spending many happy hours viewing as the nights draw in. I live in N Ireland but like many others I am always fascinated by London, it's histories and culture.
Malcolm Mclaren's grave is cool. The other one I particularly liked was the one with the cut-out letters spelling "DEAD". A Google search told me that it belongs to artist, Patrick Caulfield, who designed it himself. Dead good.
Loved the walk today John being a north London girl (Islington) and being born in St. Mary's hospital Highgate it's a place close to my heart. Highgate cemetery is such a fascinating place. Thoroughly enjoyed,thank you and have a great week.
Thank you John for a fascinating walk. I am a Sheffielder born and bred, but find London fascinating. I have never been to Highgate but hope to do so one day. One of my heroines Victoria Wood lived there, so it was interesting to think she knew the area well. Thank you again.
Wow. I lived in Muswell Hill for years and . . . never got to Highgate cemetery! nor during my later London wanderings. I will certainly go straight there on my next visit. Thanks.
I am in a Facebook group Archway Revisited (A Trip down Memory Lane) and John Leo Waters posted an excellent article on Sir Sydney Waterlow. Waterlow was an incredible man whose importance is no less important than Richard (Dick) Whittington. He had a very difficult life, born premature had a brutal upbringing and made a career in publishing. What he did for London's poor is most noteworthy. Thank you for this video John. Like a variant you say at the end of your videos, you never know where where you'll be, after doing a bit of research from your walks videos! 😂
This place is a must do before you die. My wife & I visited last year 2021. It was an amazing day finding many famous graves. I will be headed back as my daughter wants to go. Sad stories of assasinated russians & famous composers & comedians keep you going looking for more. Great commentary thanks.
Lovely film, as always….so many headstones in Highgate, like the TV prankster Jeremy Beadle who’s buried next to A Pratt. Says it all really. I’ve often thought that the churches followed the water sources south in Hampstead, Highgate, Archway Crouch End (obvious one), as they also inhabit the same North London ridgeway exposed after the last ice age that then scoured the southern lowland basin. Highgate would have been a peak of an island chain.
A wonderful video, John, very enjoyable, inspiring and educational. I love yr videos, so very interesting and u r just so unassuming. Wish, we had more Johns like u in this world, so down to earth, charismatic and natural. Thank u for being u and for sharing it world with us.
Great video, thanks! I used to live in Highgate Village and met Sean Manchester a couple of times. I was just a kid though so no more interaction than saying hello but I remember some of the vampire stories. Nice seeing all my old haunts again 👍
Would love to see a walk around the City of London cemetery in Manor Park, if you haven't already done one. It's just a short walk across Wanstead Flats from Leytonstone. Meanwhile, another interesting and informative video. They are regular Sunday night viewing these days.
I’ve walked those streets, the cemetery is a fantastic way to spend a day. Can’t wait to get back to the UK Thanks for your videos. From Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
Loved this walk John, we did a guided tour of Highgate cemetery a couple of years ago and enjoyed every minute of it ,so interesting our guide was superb thank you.
Wonderfully informative narrator and charming guide around Highgate. I almost felt like I was walking beside you. Looking forward to accompanying you again. 😃
Thank you John for another interesting video , I like your tours around London as it brings back a lot of memories of working all over London as a carpenter , I now live in Adelaide Australia for 30years 😊👍
Thank you for another lovely video John and a walk around one of my favourite places. Lauderdale House also hold weddings, my son and daughter in law were married there on a beautiful summer's day a few years ago.
Great video, always wanted to go to Highgate cemetery, really interesting places, hope you do more, Great to see and hear about the people who came before, cheers 🍻 Andy.
Wonderful film. I used to live in that area and enjoyed seeing the old 'hood. If you find yourself back at Gospel Oak, I suggest a wander round Lissenden Gardens (a good bit of showbiz history and literary history there ... and where I lived). There is an entrance from the Gardens to the Heath, so head straight up to Parliament Hill for the view. Thanks for including Swains Lane!
Thank you John, that was a really lovely walk. I did enjoy all the history plus the Highgate Cemetery is always worth seeing. This area brought back so many memories for me of growing up in London. Thank you so much 💕🇦🇺
David Farrant, Highgate Vampire Hunter, used to frequent Muswell Hill library at the turn of the century. I worked there and we had a whole cast of characters that would pop in, including the Camden Ripper. Interesting times!
I'm a bricklayer and redone some old stone work at high gate, I was surprised with the amount of old scientists & so on that are laid to rest their. Crazy place. Do you know if anyone well known lived in any of the big 5 houses that made the park?
Stumbled across your video today....I'd been to Highgate Cemetery a few years ago on a darkening afternoon....One could well imagine Vamp-ish folk....The occasional Goth helped to reinforce the feeling....Shall look for more of your walks in my FAVORITE CITY....LONDON !!!!
Excellent as always... I was waiting with baited breath for you to get to West Hill for I was born in Brookfield Mansions, which appears in the Betjeman poem Parliament Hill Fields; Till the tram went over thirty, sighting terminus again, Past municipal lawn tennis and the bobble hanging plane; Soft the light suburban evening caught our ashlar-speckled spire, Eighteen-sixty Early English, as the mighty elms retire Either side of Brookfield Mansions flashing fine French Window fire.
Round the corner from my house - great video John! You must go to the other side of the cemetery too - the tombs there are remarkable, quite different to the other side in their peak Victorian macabre way. Do come back!
Loved the Episode John! Been involved with the investigation of Highgate and its surrounding areas for years! Knew David Farrant well. Even encountered something "unearthly" one evening in Swains Lane. Investigated The Gatehouse Pub too which was fascinating. Captured what we believed to be an EVP, Electronic Voice phenomena, saying "Francis". It was only until we got home that we realised that the connection with Francis Bacon and Highgate where he died!
Nice one John, I last visited almost exactly 11 years ago! Malc’s grave was new then and only had a wooden stone. I really ought to try and get back up there. Not really into the notion of mortality myself though I must admit.
Absolutely brilliant video as usual, always look forward to your videos, enjoying the little bits of info that you supply throughout, Many thanks for sharing. Have a great week!!!
I really liked this walk. I'm a long term subscriber from North of the border but there's no cause for alarm. I've never been to Highgate cemetery. I think that I'll always remember seeing the gravestone of Douglas Adams. His Hitchikers was unforgettable. Its a pity he died so young. Marx is redundant though, as is socialism. Both have been replaced by Asda, which has stopped the peasants from revolting.
It's well known that Boris and Rees Mogg shop at Asda. If they are really too busy or the claret is running low, they may allow their servants the privilege of shopping for them. Ideology is dead or just smells funny. (Apologies to Frank Zappa).
Another fascinating video, John. I went to Highgate Cemetery (East) today. By chance my visit coincided with the 140th anniversary of Karl Marx's death (14 March 1883) this coming Tuesday, and there was an international Communist gathering at his memorial when I was there today, including representatives of Cuba, Vietnam, Greece, and several other countries. A hearty rendition of the Internationale concluded the occasion. I didn't see any vampires, but there were some squirrels stalking me as I walked among the gravestones.
Great video john...love Highgate cemetery..it's similar to one here in Dublin called Glasnevin cemetery although not as many famous people are buried there....cheers
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Thank you John for another beautiful walk. When my daughter was little we were in Waterlow Park three or four times a week, rain hail or shine. Coming home from there one Sunday afternoon we were on Dartmouth Park Hill when my ex spotted a hole in the ground inside a building site by the Whittington Hospital. When he looked closer he could see a big red cat sitting in the hole, clearly unwell, so we took the cat home with us on the baby's pram, got it checked out by the vets, put up notices asking if anyone had lost him and when there was no response, we kept him and he was my beloved Red Thomas who lived a life of luxury with us.
Talking to a person at the bus stop one day, they mentioned an elderly chap who had lived all his life in one house in Bredgar Rd, off Dartmouth Park Hill.. The council built some new flats and the old chap's home was compulsorily purchased. Poor old man was decanted into these new flats, which he didn't want to go to at all. He didn't last long, only about six months. When he died the Vicar came and got his dog and his tortoise and off they went to an uncertain future at the RSPCA. But his big red cat escaped and was never seen again. I like to think the old man was looking out for his beastie and made sure it was found by a soft git like me who would make sure it was well loved for the rest of its days!
What a lovely thought to think that you may have found his cat. I can imagine a happy and smug cat living it’s best life with you
There are lots of wandering cats in the cemetery. I wonder if they all have deceased owners. Thank you for your story.
What a lovely story.
Well Done Esther:)
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@@jaynecooney9549 I see why you said that. I assumed Frankie Boyle, The Comedian was related to Terry Boyle who played for Newport County between 1983-86..
I remember reading a book by ghost hunter Harry Price who was convinced that a vampire existed in Highgate. He claimed that he saw a tall, dark and menacing figure by a headstone. Gothic flavour to this video. Loved it, John. 👍🇯🇪
Hi Ivan, are you sure about that? Harry Price notes in Poltergeist Over England: Three Centuries of Mischievous Ghosts (1945) that during December 1942 Fairseat, a large Highgate home of historical interest was subject to poltergeist activity. I've never found a reference to Price sighting an entity in Highgate Cemetery though, much as I would love to. Any clues about the book you read, so I can work out its title?
I was living in North London in 77-78 and my uncle at that time was in the metropolitan police and he told me that there are catacombs beneath the place and unofficially Highgate went back to the days of the Romans.The caretaker back then also told us there were well over 200,00 people buried there on various levels connected to the catacombs. Who knows and i wasn't going to argue with my uncle due to the fact he was a commando in WW2 .2 of my cousins did see it in 69 on there way home from either the Flask or the Angel pubs at the top of the hill and said it was over 8' tall standing at the gate on Swains Lane with glowing red eye's .They ran the rest of the way home .I did have the honor of pissing on marks grave since i hate communism in all it's forms but he didn't appear to take issue with me.
Not sure if anybody has already said it, but the grave with the diagonal "D E A D" is that of artist Patrick Caulfield.
Enjoyable video as always
My grandparents are buried at Highgate cemetery in a really overgrown plot love the feel of it there very peaceful thx for the walk 🚶♂️
Enjoyed that little ramble. Took many notes of things to check out and visit.
In my teens I became a member of FOHC.Friends of Highgate Cemetery. They opened the older part of the cemetery a few times a year. It was very atmospheric. I was looking for vampires. I believe the other cemetery in the seven is West Norwood.
Another great episode, Sunday evening's wouldn't be the same without you.
Thanks very much. Hiking Den - wonderful to hear
Lovely walk John.
Was Hook Lane/Golders Green the 7th Cemetary and was Brompton one and is that in West London, please?
Hello John! I'm a new subscriber to your channel. I absolutely love your videos, even though I'm in the USA. I'm a huge history buff, and listening to your commentary on these walks is very fulfilling! I hope someday to see your wonderful city and land. I know my heritage comes from the UK, so it would be nice to trace my ancestors! Looking forward to more of your walks and knowledge! Cheers!!
Another great video, Thanks John, I visited the Grove in 2016 after George Michael passed , he lived there and is buried at Highgate in hes mothers plot but is unmarked sadly. The private green area between the flask and the grove was a tempary memorial to George. I wish to vist highgate again and vist the cemetry, Roger Lyod pack and Jeremy beadle are also buried there.
I had just watched another video of a walk thru the cemetery and it showed George, his mother, and I believe his sister all together. Everything was cleaned up, marked well, and a very simple plot for them.
Thank you. It was a delight to see Highgate and the cemetery again. I grew up in Hornsey during the sixties through until the nineties and I know the area very well. As teenagers we would climb the walls to get into both sides of the cemetery. I lived just off Archway Road for a few years and Waterlow Park was a wonderful place to relax and catch a breath when walking to work near Parliament Hill.
Very informative video John. Interesting to see the graves of Bert Jansch and his wife. I was fortunate enough to see Bert play live a number of times here in Edinburgh. A fine musician.
Glad you visited Highgate cemetery I could spend all day looking around there . And I never heard of the Highgate vampire before now .
Thanks as always for taking us with you on another splendid walk. Have a great week 👍🏻
John Rogers makes TH-cam worthwhile - thank you for all your videos, John - each of which is a voyage of discovery
Thank you John for this beautiful walk...You've made my day, showing the nation, the resting place of Bert & Loren .
As always a great walk, so informative. London has so much rich history to give!
Thanks Alison
Hi John. I remember being very interested in this back in the mid-late nineties (Sean Manchester did a few radio interviews on the subject & David Farrant frequented some online forums back then) It was very intriguing and this brought it all back. Thanks for the memories!
Another superb episode John - inspired to buy the vampire book and even stump up the cash to go visit the Highgate Cemetary - used to roaming free in the Tower Hamlets equivalent - admittedly fewer celeb corpses in the East End!
Interesting fact - Malcolm McLaren's death mask on his grave was made by Nick Reynolds who plays in the Alabama 3. He is also the son of one of the great train robbers; Bruce Reynolds. Nick is a talented artist who has made his own special niche
Another interesting video,John. Ther is a great book about Highgate Cemetery-'Victorian Valhalla' (1984) by Felix Barker and one called 'The Magnificent Seven' (2011) by Jphn Turpin and Derrick Knight, about all the cemeteries. Time is such a strange thing, someone with as much energy and life as Malcolm Mclaren has been gone for 11 years.
I've been to the UK 55 times from the US. I don't know what percentage that included visiting London, but many times. When I watch your walks I feel like I missed so much. I've been to Highgate Cemetery and the reason that I went there was to find the grave of Norman Warne, the man Beatrix Potter was engaged to. The Beatrix Potter Society newsletter claimed this was where he was buried yet I could not find his grave. I asked someone from the Friends of Highgate Cemetery and they never heard of him. Just wondered if your map included his name or if you came across his grave. Sinead O'Leary also did a walk through. My other question was who was Amber Baker. The newish black marble grave seemed to be on the walkway. Love your videos and intend to watch them all. Seen many but not all of them. Best to you, Jane, Philadelphia
Yes, Norman Warne grave is indeed in Highgate Cemetery West. I visited it last week. It's located not far from the Circle of Lebanon and it's on the map.
Thanks John for a very interesting video.
I was born in Camden Town, and we moved (almost) to the top of Highgate Hill when I was still young. Remember a pub at the top of the hill, and having a great time playing in Waterlow Park and Highgate Woods.
I haven't been up around that incredibly hilly area of North London since my Son moved out of the local Archway area.
Another incredible walk, thank you John.
Thanks for the walk, John. Highgate Cemetery holds a special place in my heart in that the funerary chapel was the subject of my adaptive reuse studio project in architecture school while on a semester long study in London, 1979. I've been back many times since then to visit. I found you series last year during the health crisis that precluded my planned 2020 visit. Your videos have inspired me to attempt to do something similar here in Milwaukee with a focus on the history of the urban setting and its architecture. Perhaps a visit to the west side would be a potential future video. There are many significant and interesting features in that part. West Norwood was the seventh! All the best!
Another great video John. I loved the tree growing over those two gravestones. You make a great entertaining film full of information thanks again buddy
The way nature is taking back its land is amazing to see. Love this video John 👍
Fascinating walk, I remember reading a highwayman book set in Highgate but that was back in the 50s so can't remember the title. The cemetery looks fascinating, who would have thought a cemetery would have a gift shop! Look forward to your next one--wherever that may be.
Imagine what Karl Marx would think of selling Karl Marx memorabilia in a cemetery that has become a tourist trap based on Karl Marx.
Fascinating video, thanks John, another visual feast too!
7:15 Edward Elgar is buried in the church yard in Little Malvern. I actually made a point to go visit him when I was in Great Malvern. I also visited the Morgan factory. I stayed in The Abbey hotel, where Haile Selassie stayed when in exile and he was visiting the area. Great trip !!
You beat me to it, JH: I drove past it this afternoon (I live nearby). The church is the RC church of St Wulstan, on the road from Great Malvern up to the Herefordshire Beacon. Sir Edward is buried there, together with his beloved Alice.
Thanks, John. This made my day. Now I've got to go learn more about the Highgate vampire!
Some twenty-odd years ago (closer to thirty now, actually), when I was a student, I remember seeing a production of Hamlet in a tiny room over a Greek restaurant in Soho. We all sat on the floor, and the "stage" was whatever space was left over. I had a front row seat and was rapt the entire time. I still remember that performance. Best Hamlet I've ever seen.
Ah Highgate ….love a pint of neck oil in the flask . Bumped into Dave Davies out the kinks last summer and shared a coffee….plus a poem of mine !
I always think the grassy parks of London are so civilized but then your cultural knowledge touring around Highgate shows there’s much more to it than ‘grass between the toes’ (reference to the cemetery too!). Thanks for a lovely walk John.
I have my nan & granddad buried in the old cemetry along with a few other distant relatives. I have not been there for 30+ years, but I will visit late october 2021.
Nice video as usual..... cheers
John, I have just stumbled on your channel and am happy to say that I have found your videos so very interesting and very enjoyable.. so far I have only viewed a few but I see that there are many back-videos.
Thankyou for putting them up. I look forward to spending many happy hours viewing as the nights draw in.
I live in N Ireland but like many others I am always fascinated by London, it's histories and culture.
many thanks for watching
I’ve never been to Highgate cemetery but I have now thanks John . Very interesting walk . Loved the park too 😊👍
Malcolm Mclaren's grave is cool. The other one I particularly liked was the one with the cut-out letters spelling "DEAD". A Google search told me that it belongs to artist, Patrick Caulfield, who designed it himself. Dead good.
Loved the walk today John being a north London girl (Islington) and being born in St. Mary's hospital Highgate it's a place close to my heart. Highgate cemetery is such a fascinating place. Thoroughly enjoyed,thank you and have a great week.
so glad you enjoyed it Jan
Thank you John for a fascinating walk. I am a Sheffielder born and bred, but find London fascinating. I have never been to Highgate but hope to do so one day. One of my heroines Victoria Wood lived there, so it was interesting to think she knew the area well.
Thank you again.
Wow. I lived in Muswell Hill for years and . . . never got to Highgate cemetery! nor during my later London wanderings. I will certainly go straight there on my next visit. Thanks.
Loved it. Thank you so much.
Brightens up my day.
I am in a Facebook group Archway Revisited (A Trip down Memory Lane) and John Leo Waters posted an excellent article on Sir Sydney Waterlow.
Waterlow was an incredible man whose importance is no less important than Richard (Dick) Whittington.
He had a very difficult life, born premature had a brutal upbringing and made a career in publishing.
What he did for London's poor is most noteworthy.
Thank you for this video John.
Like a variant you say at the end of your videos, you never know where where you'll be, after doing a bit of research from your walks videos! 😂
A delightful film. Wonderfully evocative of the feeling of this lovely part of London. 👍
This place is a must do before you die. My wife & I visited last year 2021. It was an amazing day finding many famous graves. I will be headed back as my daughter wants to go. Sad stories of assasinated russians & famous composers & comedians keep you going looking for more. Great commentary thanks.
So much history in Hightgate cemetery. Brillant. My auntie was cremated in kensal green. My mum and sister are both buried at Hampstead cemetery. ❤❤
I am very interested by the whole story. Very intriguing. And Highgate... my favourite place in London :) Thank you for te brilliant walk!
Lovely film, as always….so many headstones in Highgate, like the TV prankster Jeremy Beadle who’s buried next to A Pratt.
Says it all really.
I’ve often thought that the churches followed the water sources south in Hampstead, Highgate, Archway Crouch End (obvious one), as they also inhabit the same North London ridgeway exposed after the last ice age that then scoured the southern lowland basin. Highgate would have been a peak of an island chain.
A thoroughly enjoyable skim. Many thanks John!
Thanks John for this, , always look forward to your Sunday walks, excellent preparation for the week ahead. 👍
A wonderful video, John, very enjoyable, inspiring and educational. I love yr videos, so very interesting and u r just so unassuming. Wish, we had more Johns like u in this world, so down to earth, charismatic and natural. Thank u for being u and for sharing it world with us.
Great video, thanks! I used to live in Highgate Village and met Sean Manchester a couple of times. I was just a kid though so no more interaction than saying hello but I remember some of the vampire stories. Nice seeing all my old haunts again 👍
Would love to see a walk around the City of London cemetery in Manor Park, if you haven't already done one. It's just a short walk across Wanstead Flats from Leytonstone. Meanwhile, another interesting and informative video. They are regular Sunday night viewing these days.
Thanks for another cracking tour of London’s quirky bits love each one as learn so much .
I’ve walked those streets, the cemetery is a fantastic way to spend a day. Can’t wait to get back to the UK Thanks for your videos. From Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
Loved this walk John, we did a guided tour of Highgate cemetery a couple of years ago and enjoyed every minute of it ,so interesting our guide was superb thank you.
The volunteers have done a fantastic job. The cemetery is unrecognisable from 35 years ago, when we lived just down the road.
I visited Highgate and the cemetery for the first time yesterday too. Was a really pleasant walk.
Wonderfully informative narrator and charming guide around Highgate. I almost felt like I was walking beside you. Looking forward to accompanying you again. 😃
Thank you John for another interesting video , I like your tours around London as it brings back a lot of memories of working all over London as a carpenter , I now live in Adelaide Australia for 30years 😊👍
Thank you for another lovely video John and a walk around one of my favourite places. Lauderdale House also hold weddings, my son and daughter in law were married there on a beautiful summer's day a few years ago.
Lovely to see that view down to the city from highgate at the end of the video - thank you! Great walk.
thanks Timothy
Another amazing video John. Would love to see more of the surrounding areas, Muswell Hill/East Finchley/Archway
Love this! Johns narrative really infects.
This is wonderful, thank you.
Thank you for sharing this walk. I really enjoyed the tour and the bits of history. Well done.
Goodness. I visited Highgate Cemetary about 20 years ago! Great memories
Great video, always wanted to go to Highgate cemetery, really interesting places, hope you do more, Great to see and hear about the people who came before, cheers 🍻 Andy.
I always want to visit Highgate, another one for my bucket list.
Wow, absolutely amazing video, actually the video started near parliament hill field's, near gospel oak.
Great video ....enjoyed coming along for the walk .... 👍
Wonderful film. I used to live in that area and enjoyed seeing the old 'hood. If you find yourself back at Gospel Oak, I suggest a wander round Lissenden Gardens (a good bit of showbiz history and literary history there ... and where I lived). There is an entrance from the Gardens to the Heath, so head straight up to Parliament Hill for the view. Thanks for including Swains Lane!
Always so enjoyable, thanks John
Good walk, John. Interesting and knowledgeable as always.
Thank you John, that was a really lovely walk. I did enjoy all the history plus the Highgate Cemetery is always worth seeing. This area brought back so many memories for me of growing up in London. Thank you so much 💕🇦🇺
my pleasure Liz - glad you enjoyed it
What a brilliant video, have no clue how I've missed it previously.
David Farrant, Highgate Vampire Hunter, used to frequent Muswell Hill library at the turn of the century. I worked there and we had a whole cast of characters that would pop in, including the Camden Ripper. Interesting times!
What a great walk thanks John
Wow! everything you present is great, really good, but this is fantastic, more of this type of content would be fantastic, keep doing what you do.
Wonderful. My video treat every week. Thank you
That was absolutely fascinating, thank you.
the one of the 7 you were struggling with is West Norwood in Lambeth but you're right about Brompton - it's one of those called Magnificent 7
Sunday evening sorted. Thanks John, hope you’re keeping well.
Wonderful and relaxing
I'm a bricklayer and redone some old stone work at high gate, I was surprised with the amount of old scientists & so on that are laid to rest their. Crazy place. Do you know if anyone well known lived in any of the big 5 houses that made the park?
Stumbled across your video today....I'd been to Highgate Cemetery a few years ago on a darkening afternoon....One could well imagine Vamp-ish folk....The occasional Goth helped to reinforce the feeling....Shall look for more of your walks in my FAVORITE CITY....LONDON !!!!
Excellent as always...
I was waiting with baited breath for you to get to West Hill for I was born in Brookfield Mansions, which appears in the Betjeman poem Parliament Hill Fields;
Till the tram went over thirty, sighting terminus again,
Past municipal lawn tennis and the bobble hanging plane;
Soft the light suburban evening caught our ashlar-speckled spire,
Eighteen-sixty Early English, as the mighty elms retire
Either side of Brookfield Mansions flashing fine French Window fire.
Round the corner from my house - great video John!
You must go to the other side of the cemetery too - the tombs there are remarkable, quite different to the other side in their peak Victorian macabre way.
Do come back!
Loved the cemetery walk thank you. More please! Steph
Thank you for posting this. I really enjoyed it...
Loved the Episode John! Been involved with the investigation of Highgate and its surrounding areas for years! Knew David Farrant well. Even encountered something "unearthly" one evening in Swains Lane. Investigated The Gatehouse Pub too which was fascinating. Captured what we believed to be an EVP, Electronic Voice phenomena, saying "Francis". It was only until we got home that we realised that the connection with Francis Bacon and Highgate where he died!
thank you for the great walk please keep up the great work
a little piece of Rogers magic ..... cheers John.
thanks Paul
much beauty in many ways. loved it all. thank you
Nice one John, I last visited almost exactly 11 years ago! Malc’s grave was new then and only had a wooden stone. I really ought to try and get back up there. Not really into the notion of mortality myself though I must admit.
Absolutely fascinating, thanks for another superb video.
Absolutely brilliant video as usual, always look forward to your videos, enjoying the little bits of info that you supply throughout, Many thanks for sharing. Have a great week!!!
A nice surprise walk,John, a walk through Highgate Cemetery is always of great interest.
yes it was a sudden pang calling me that way
I really liked this walk. I'm a long term subscriber from North of the border but there's no cause for alarm. I've never been to Highgate cemetery. I think that I'll always remember seeing the gravestone of Douglas Adams. His Hitchikers was unforgettable. Its a pity he died so young. Marx is redundant though, as is socialism. Both have been replaced by Asda, which has stopped the peasants from revolting.
It's well known that Boris and Rees Mogg shop at Asda. If they are really too busy or the claret is running low, they may allow their servants the privilege of shopping for them. Ideology is dead or just smells funny. (Apologies to Frank Zappa).
Another great walk John. Planning to follow in your footsteps on this one soon.
Another fascinating video, John. I went to Highgate Cemetery (East) today. By chance my visit coincided with the 140th anniversary of Karl Marx's death (14 March 1883) this coming Tuesday, and there was an international Communist gathering at his memorial when I was there today, including representatives of Cuba, Vietnam, Greece, and several other countries. A hearty rendition of the Internationale concluded the occasion. I didn't see any vampires, but there were some squirrels stalking me as I walked among the gravestones.
Great video john...love Highgate cemetery..it's similar to one here in Dublin called Glasnevin cemetery although not as many famous people are buried there....cheers
Thanks Maggie