Highgate Cemetery East.

Too hot to stand in the queue for a tour of the older West Cemetery (17 acres, 52,000 burials) and I will leave that for a damper and more desolate day. The West Cemetery has mausoleums, an Egyptian Avenue and catacombs, but across the lane, in the East Cemetery (20 acres), you can wander at will. This cemetery came into service when the West Cemetery filled and had its first internment in 1860 and is still a working burial ground. Full of trees and rambling roses it is awash with atmosphere and a wonderful space for wildlife. What follows are rather a lot of angels madly grieving.........







Audrey Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry may be annoying, but she is good on Highgate's atmosphere and the Victorian attitude to death.





The expression of the angel above appears to be neither grieving or uplifting, more along the lines of ` you're late, and your excuse is?' - probably a male grave.






















Perhaps the last word should go to the artist Patrick Caulfield who died in 2005. Caulfield described his work as `social realism without the realism'. He designed his own gravestone....
what it says is short and to the point.....

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