Memento mori. A salute to the permanent residents of Brompton Cemetery
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- A walk around one of London's 'magnificent seven' cemeteries taking in medics, political activists, circus performers, egyptologists, native Americans, a catacomb and the history of how the English bury their dead.
He's a very talented narrator/host.
Most kind of you to say so! Thank you and feel free to pass my explorations around to others.
Extremely well done as always, Julian! The records of the cemetery do in fact reveal that my relative, Hannah (Peters) Courtoy and two of her daughters (being Mary and Elizabeth) are interred within the grand Egyptian-esque mausoleum located at Circle 3.
Absolutely fantastic insight , I’m coming down to visit this asap
Great to read this and thank you. Enjoy your visit to come......
what a marvellous tour thanks
Thank you very much !
Just stumbled across your videos after once again falling down a TH-cam rabbit hole. Most enjoyable and informative. I love your style of presentation and obvious enthusiasm. Keep it up!
That's most kind. Thank you and will do !
Great tour, and good to know that our loved and honored dead are not forgotten.
Loving the videos! No hesitation in your speech at all!
Thank you.
Best video I have chanced upon. All life and history is in our London cemeteries. Thank you...The John Soane museum is a wonder too, as you mentioned.
How nice of you to say this. Many thanks !
I've really enjoyed watching your videos. Great info. Very well presented. Be great if you could do a video of kensal green cemetery, so much history there. Hope to see more videos from your channel in the near future.
Thank you for your kind feedback. Yes indeed; Kensal Green is undoubtedly one of the greats and I've got lots to say about that one......
very moving and interesting! requiescant in pace
What a wonderful presentation. A great change from some of the other poorly presented programmes out there. Consummately informative, precisely and clearly explained and one station which I will visit and revisit on a regular basis. Clearly and succinctly explained. Thank you.
An absolute delight to watch , thank you so much.
Brilliant, what can I say, TV quality, loved the narration, great filming with so few cuts, tremendous research and a joy to watch. Looking forward to watching everything else Julian has done and whatever comes with the future. Great find, hope you become a really successful youtuber, we need just this sort of content.
Than you so much for this very encouraging and generous feedback - it is appreciated. I have passed on what you say to my filmer too. I am trying my best to get the word around but so far it is slow going but TV or YouTubing is what I'm aiming for. Hope you enjoy my others - including taking a peek at 'Deception & Disguise - a tour of my living room' and 'The Repton Boxing Club', amongst others. All good wishes, Julian
The unnamed grave with the spirals was one of the makers of the titanic. Learned this from a cemetery tour when I was little.
Absoulutsly brilliant 👍 realy enjoyed this thanks
Thanks you for this. It was absolutely fascinating and your stories were wonderful.
I too stumbled upon this wonderful video. Thank you and please post more!
Thank you very much for your kind comment. I certainly plan to !
I enjoy cemetery tours and stories very much. Also your comment on an upcoming museum video is highly expected. Thank you again. This is top quality material!
Lovely to read this. Thanks again.
All nine of the Golding children predeceased their parents? Benjamin can't have been a very good doctor.
Ha. Good (and tragic) point.
Such a delightful video indeed! I have always been fascinated by the grand history of those magnificient victorian cemeteries, especially in London. When I see those time machines I can only feel a deep respect and admiration for the memory of those people and obviously for the beautiful symbolism of victorian funerary art and customs. I wish authorities had cared just a little about victorian mausoleums in my country but unfortunately, they don't care about culture at all. Thank you sir for this superb video which also helps me to improve my English as an English teacher. Greetings from El Salvador, Central America.
Absolutely fascinating and interesting tour , I was born and brought up in Chelsea and walked past and through Brompton cemetery very frequently as a youngster, unfortunately at a young age the history of the place and it's inhabitants didn't interest me as much then as it does now.
Thank you and delighted you enjoyed this. Yes; Brompton's quite something. In case you've not already done so, go to Nunhead and West Norwood cemeteries, as well.
@@julianbarnett4564 thanks Julian, unfortunately my wife and i have now moved out of London and now live in a tiny village near bury st Edmunds so travel to London is much more difficult, but maybe a visit would be possible in the not too distant future.
@@gcook1493 Bury's a great place too !
Bonomi worked on the design of the Time Machine - which has a lady and her daughter inside.
Thank You so much for sharing this knowledge! I love this cemetery, would love to see catacombs once from inside 🕊🙌🏼✨
My pleasure. Thank you. Normally, when covid isn't upon us, the catacombs are opened on selected days in the high summer months. Keep an eye on their website
@@julianbarnett4564 can’t wait to see them from inside 🙌🏼🕊🙏🏻
@@FlowByAda worth the trip!
thanks....I"m in NZ so this is the best way for me to explore....subbed.....
very suggestive cemetery, in Italy there are ancient cemeteries but not as particular as in England, even the burials are particular with those tombstones placed in the ground that really give the sense of antiquity
Most interesting tour. But they need to take care of the grass/weeds.
Thank you very much. Indeed, a lot of overgrowth but it does add to the atmosphere !
It's too enable the natural habitat to flourish, th foxes are fine about it
There are some notable celebrity graves there Henry macgee (comedian and actor) and Brian Glover (actor and former wrestler)we searched all day but couldn't find them
What if you were a direct desendent of a mausoleum, but had no key or papers? Thank you I've enjoyed conversation.
Great question !
What a wonderful and historic walk!
On that lovely Egyptian style mausoleum,why wouldn’t you put your name on it? You spent a lot of money on this,why not at least put you Sir name on it?
Being a doctor in the early 1800’s,was equal to a barber/butcher.
They practiced such primitive medicine then. If you were really ill, the one place you didn’t want to be was in a hospital.
It wasn’t until the end of the 19 th century,that they finally had anesthesia,and pain killers.
They still didn’t have antibiotics though until right around WW2.
I would be very interested to hear about the Egyptian hieroglyph interpretation, even if it doesn't make sense, it may have some scientific enlightenment
Interesting question. The interpretation was ambiguous, from the inquiries that I made. In what aspect do you feel it might scientifically enlighten?
@@julianbarnett4564 the interpretation may not make sense to anyone in conventional means, but taken in the context that it was a time machine, teleport, or stargate, what doesnt make sense at first classically may make perfect sense in a different context.
But it's not a time machine or teleport. This is simply fanciful thinking. It's a fine stone structure designed and paid for by a clearly wealthy person fascinated by the ancients. Nothing more than that, though that in itself is terrific !
@@julianbarnett4564 probably not a time machine ~ but if I had a time machine I wanted to hide, a cemetery would be the perfect place. Ever thought about conducting a spiritbox session, and asking the ghosts what's inside?
@@doktaahwho8858 Marvellous !
A fascinating tour of the cemetery. I have a question, i'm trying to find the grave of actor John Stuart (1898 -1979) who was a big silent movie actor and an uncle of a friend. I know he is in Brompton, but cant find his exact plot. Any help on this would be greatly received. thank you
Hello Richard. Thank you. I have no idea as to the answer to your question but the cemetery office should certainly know a they keep meticulous records of all interments. I hope that helps. Julian
Thank you Richard. I don't know that grave but I bet you the Brompton Cemetery office will know his precise plot. Good luck with finding it.
Another question ? . . Does the U.k. have problems with vandelisum like we do here in the U.S. ? ? 🤷
Contact Richard godson .oh yes his got the key .
Julian who was hannah courtoy ?
Hello Tayeeb. Some say she is the 'occupant ' of that fascinating ancient Egyptian style mausoleum that i pointed out but others say not.
@@julianbarnett4564 Do you think that moseleum will ever be opened ?
@@tayeebhussain5014 How I would love that ! I have asked for years. One day, one hopes although the expense of restoring prior to opening, alongside obtaining legal permission are all issues that would need to be dealt with.
Thank you.
15:00 Hannah Cortroy buried with 2 of her 3 daughters in Egyptian tomb. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Courtoy
I'v watched several videos on line about cemeteries in the U.K. . Could someone please tell me why they aren't mowed and trimmed ? They seem to have been left for nature to consume . Why , they have such historical sites , beautiful art and statuary! . . 🤷 . 🪦 . 🌾. 😔