The Life and Death of London's Magnificent Seven Cemeteries

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Between 1832 and 1841, the British parliament authorized the opening of seven remarkable cemeteries. They were established to address the grisly conditions in London's graveyards at a time when there were too many deaths and too few graves. The landscaped 'garden' cemeteries were designed for the dead and the living. Fortunes were spent on building spectacular memorials to deceased loved ones.
This video chronicles the rise, demise and afterlife of London's Victorian commercial cemeteries, and numerous images of impressive art and architecture Illustrate the stories of notable burials.
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Useful Resources
- The sixth edition of the comprehensive 'London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Gazetteer' has important and interesting details about each of the 154 cemeteries in Greater London.
- A walk around Kensal Green Cemetery: A Victorian Necropolis by Richard Jone. (Online)
- The Magnificent Seven: London's First Landscaped Cemeteries - by John Turpin & Derrick Knight
- London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide & Gazetteer by Hugh Meller & Brian parsons
- Permanent Londoners: An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of London' by Judi Culbertson & Tom Randall
- 'London and Its Dead' by Catherine Arnold
Music
The following music is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
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Dark Times by Kevin MacLeod
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Agnus Dei X by Kevin MacLeod
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The Parting by Kevin MacLeod
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Mourning Song by Kevin MacLeod
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Grave Matters by Kevin MacLeod
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Music Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0:
By Adrian von Ziegler: adrianvonziegler.bandcamp.com
• 'Jouney's End'
• 'Fare Thee Well'
• 'Circle of Life'

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@mygrammieis 2 жыл бұрын

These places hold so much history and should be respected not abandoned

@lablackzed 2 жыл бұрын

Cemetery's the only place where everyone's equal forever.

@samakovamk 2 жыл бұрын

A nicely done and respectful video of Londons "seven"....just been to Highgate.....I see Michael Faradays grave in bad decline for someone we all owe a debt too for our modern world........thanks David...and team...regards

@DrDavidOwens 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your compliment. These are great places to visit and it was a joy visit them many times. David

@mapi576 3 жыл бұрын

David, compliments are to be apportioned to your excellent & impressive researching of historical facts. As well as your vocality & voice-over narration of your attentive and diligent cinematography. Hollywood or documentary-films experts must become your employ for your professional content creation ...

@DrDavidOwens 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind comments. Delighted you enjoyed the video. I will pass along your compliments to Mike Timms, the narrator. David

@janetslicer3637 2 жыл бұрын

A simply magnificent overview of the "magnificent seven." I've seen others but this particular creation does it best! Touché !

@DrDavidOwens 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@andreabraun8235 2 жыл бұрын

just love Thomas Sayers grave stone with his dog, absolutely AMAAAAAZING

@cmamelgna5585 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely superb video. Packed with history and AMAZING monuments. Thank you.

@DrDavidOwens 2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

@annehenderson9207 10 ай бұрын

A beautifully narrated documentary about lovely places for the dead and the living. Good to know they are being cared for.

@DrDavidOwens 10 ай бұрын

I am delighted you enjoyed the video. David

@unrulysoldier2140 2 жыл бұрын

Stunningly delivered. Well done !!

@jorybennett5932 Жыл бұрын

A very professional presentation, beautifully filmed and narrated.

@DrDavidOwens 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind comment. David

@sirrodneydoodlesmom 2 жыл бұрын

Very well done. Enjoyed from America💌

@josephineleon8550 3 жыл бұрын

Impressive documentary!👏👍

@DrDavidOwens 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your compliment. I enjoyed making it. I learned a lot. David

@spgranorthiam123 4 ай бұрын

Thank You, very well narrated,

@mterrylane819 Жыл бұрын

A wonderful presentation with superb music and commentary and very informative the photography leaves a lasting impression

@DrDavidOwens Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind comments. Pleased you enjoyed the video. The cemeteries are wonderful.

@mary-anneswanson1428 Жыл бұрын

That was a lovely video . THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING IT FOR US TO WATCH :) (sorry caplock was on )

@DrDavidOwens Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your nice comment. David

@jenny666barnish 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! I've visited Highgate but will make sure to visit the others. Very inspiring

@dinx556 Жыл бұрын

Brilliantly done, thank you.

@conniedean9466 2 жыл бұрын

David, thanks for the excellent video! It was very well done.!

@DrDavidOwens 2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

@andreabraun8235 2 жыл бұрын

just lovvvve stories of the people buried in the HIGH GATE CEMETERY,MAY THEY ALL REST IN PEACE

@388Caroline 10 ай бұрын

Thank you, beautifully done 🌹

@margaretdrew2844 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this interesting video.

@Beantbeantbeant 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic, amazingly researched

@brianingarfill1773 10 ай бұрын

great interesting program and thank you Mike Timms for your wonderfully relaxing narrative

@nanaof7preciousgrands115 Жыл бұрын

Very informative and simply peaceful looking cemetery...thank you so much for this video

@tonyburkhart888 Жыл бұрын

Excellent production!!!

@stewartwebb5699 7 ай бұрын

I've visited most and it can be a lovely day out. Beautiful statues and reading the many headstones. I love Victorian history and the connection these bring to that story

@samiblank6761 2 жыл бұрын

fantastic upload

@greywebs1944 3 жыл бұрын

Great documentary on these cemeteries, I've only ever been to Highgate on two occasions that was about 30 years ago. But still fascinating to look round. Kensal Green Catacombs I'd like to visit 🤞

@DrDavidOwens 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@greywebs1944 3 жыл бұрын

@@DrDavidOwens Always love this 👍 They don't know us, we don't know them. Full respects always 🌟

@mygrammieis 2 жыл бұрын

Awesomely beautiful.. thank you for sharing 🙌🏻and very interesting information also...

@DrDavidOwens 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

@angeloleone9793 Жыл бұрын

Excellent!

@johnthornhill8551 2 жыл бұрын

This is a wonderful documentary. I will share it with my course group at York. Thankyou.

@DrDavidOwens 2 жыл бұрын

Pleased you liked it and hope your group enjoy not too.

@keithmiller322 9 ай бұрын

Excellent.

@peterneijs387 Жыл бұрын

bloody brilliant ....

@ramirosabatini 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@andreabraun8235 2 жыл бұрын

i just lovvve history about all over the world and of course cemetaries

@larry1824 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating especially the Booths

@asa1973100 2 жыл бұрын

Magnificent thank you

@DrDavidOwens 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you too!

@larry1824 Жыл бұрын

Excellent on all levels

@DrDavidOwens Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind comments. I enjoyed researching and making the documentary, one of many I have made on burial places. David

@andreabraun8235 2 жыл бұрын

also just lovvve your channel,thank you for sharing this awesome video

@DrDavidOwens 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your very complimentary comment.

@andreabraun8235 2 жыл бұрын

@@DrDavidOwens you're very welcome sweetheart,I always appreciate people sharing neat things

@andreabraun8235 2 жыл бұрын

GOD BLESS YOU WILLIAM AND KATHERINE BOOTH,THANK YOU FOR CREATING THE ORGINIZATION, SALVATION ARMY!!! may you both r.i.p

@andreabraun8235 2 жыл бұрын

omg JUST LOVVVE HARRY THORINGTON"S GRAVE,LOVVVE THE PIANO

@richardhead3211 9 ай бұрын

great job thumbs up 780 baby!

@DrDavidOwens 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for your compliment

@kelrogers8480 10 ай бұрын

It's ironic:the rich and famous payed a fortune to be buried here, and yet end up forgotten and derelict.

@andreabraun8235 2 жыл бұрын

love the moselums Andrew Dukrow designed for his wife,

@michael-po1vb 7 ай бұрын

Hi, you state Brompton stopped burials in 1952, however my Grandmother was buried there in 1970. Regards

@DrDavidOwens 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment. Brompton was closed to burials between 1952 and 1996, except for family and Polish interments. In the 21st century it is once again a working cemetery, with plots for interments and a 'Garden of Remembrance' for the deposit of cremated remains.

@sarahescue2175 2 жыл бұрын

OMG, I'd die to get in there

@andrewgates8158 Жыл бұрын

Lol

@colinpiper4386 7 ай бұрын

Excellent video. No awful AI voice too.

@DrDavidOwens 7 ай бұрын

Pleased you enjoyed the video.

@larry1824 Жыл бұрын

I'm sure Ms Parkhurst knows she won

@andreabraun8235 2 жыл бұрын

what a beauuuuutiful name,Alexandrina,how different but very beautiful

@divaden47 2 жыл бұрын

What about the City of London cemetery? It's huge an I have several family members buried there.

@DrDavidOwens 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I will check it out.

@englishjona6458 Жыл бұрын

Accidentally contracted syphilis during surgery😂😂😂😂

@Coltnz1 2 жыл бұрын

When London’s cemeteries became full, Brookwood cemetery was created.

@tessmcnamara9230 Жыл бұрын

I wonder why royals did not bury their loved in Westminster Cathedral or Windsor Castle it is so sad they should have been buried with their parents

@adrianmarsden6729 2 жыл бұрын

A good documentary in the main and generally good enough to escape a dislike but not good enough to merit a like. The sly suggestions of sexual impropriety would cause a court case today - although, of course, the dead can't speak back. They are easy targets - a lazy bit of work. The comments about mourning attire and its apparent cessation by circa 1900 are just wrong. Lavish and ostentatious mourning continued well into the 20th century. An entertaining taster but more work needed. A Beta or - in today's parlance - about 60%. But keep trying!

@DrDavidOwens 2 жыл бұрын

Adrian, thank you for your comments. Historians are divided about whether Princess Sophia had an illegitimate son, and there is further debate about the identity of the alleged father: Thomas Garth, her father's equerry or her elder brother the Duke of Cumberland (by rape). Sophia never married and would seem not to have had a happy life before she died in 1848.

@andreabraun8235 2 жыл бұрын

oh my,sad that Charles Dickens sister in-law,Mary was his mistress,vErrry SHAMEFUL!¡

@lindageorge8209 Жыл бұрын

So vicars were resurrectionists... Hmm...

@Rich-cs9fv 2 жыл бұрын

What for

@chrisskinner6291 2 жыл бұрын

These morgue places have blood pits so it's as feeding something.

@chrisskinner6291 2 жыл бұрын

All Roman could be.

@bobbybigboyyes Жыл бұрын

03:11 = CEMTERY ?? WTF!?

@bobbybigboyyes Жыл бұрын

09:45 = HIGHGATE CEMTERY ?? WTF!?

@DrDavidOwens Жыл бұрын

Oops! Thanks for pointing out the spelling error. It's obvious but I never noticed it. KZfaq does not make it easy to repair text so I may have to live with it.

@bobbybigboyyes Жыл бұрын

@@DrDavidOwens No problem my friend! It was a very interesting video though! You Tube is like Ebay and Amazon... NOTHING is easy, and they make EVERYTHING as hard as possible for us! 🤪