The London Burial Grounds
Author | : Mrs. Basil Holmes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Cemeteries |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mrs. Basil Holmes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Cemeteries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Bard |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2017-02-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1445661128 |
Uncovers the dark secrets of London's lost and forgotten burial places.
Author | : Paul Talling |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2019-07-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1473560233 |
______________________________ The huge word-of-mouth bestseller – completely updated for 2019 THE LONDON THAT TOURISTS DON’T SEE Look beyond Big Ben and past the skyscrapers of the Square Mile, and you will find another London. This is the land of long-forgotten tube stations, burnt-out mansions and gently decaying factories. Welcome to DERELICT LONDON: a realm whose secrets are all around us, visible to anyone who cares to look . . . Paul Talling – our best-loved investigator of London’s underbelly – has spent over fifteen years uncovering the stories of this hidden world. Now, he brings together 100 of his favourite abandoned places from across the capital: many of them more magnificent, more beautiful and more evocative than you can imagine. Covering everything from the overgrown stands of Leyton Stadium to the windswept alleys of the Aylesbury Estate, DERELICT LONDON reveals a side of the city you never knew existed. It will change the way you see London. ______________________________ PRAISE FOR THE DERELICT LONDON PROJECT ‘Fascinating images showing some of London’s eeriest derelict sites show another side to the busy, built-up capital.’ Daily Mail ‘Talling has managed to show another side to the capital, one of abandoned buildings that somehow retain a sense of beauty.’ Metro ‘Excellent . . . As much as it is an inadvertent vision of how London might look after a catastrophe, DERELICT LONDON is valuable as a document of the one going on right in front of us.’ New Statesman ‘From the iconic empty shell of Battersea Power Station to the buried ‘ghost’ stations of the London Underground, the city is peppered with decaying buildings. Paul Talling knows these places better than anyone in the capital.’ Daily Express ‘[London has an] unusual (and deplorable) number of abandoned buildings. Paul Talling’s surprise bestseller, DERELICT LONDON, is their shabby Pevsner.’ Daily Telegraph ______________________________
Author | : Gian Luca Amadei |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2021-12-19 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1000521516 |
This book explores how Victorian cemeteries were the direct result of the socio-cultural, economic and political context of the city, and were part of a unique transformation process that emerged in London at the time. The book shows how the re-ordering of the city’s burial spaces, along with the principles of health and hygiene, were directly associated with liberal capital investments, which had consequences in the spatial arrangement of London. Victorian cemeteries, in particular, were not only a solution for overcrowded graveyards, they also acted as urban generators in the formation London’s suburbs in the nineteenth century. Beginning with an analysis of the conditions that triggered the introduction of the early Victorian cemeteries in London, this book investigates their spatial arrangement, aesthetics and functions. These developments are illustrated through the study of three private Victorian burial sites: Kensal Green Cemetery, Highgate Cemetery and Brookwood Cemetery. The book is aimed at students and researchers of London history, planning and environment, and Victorian and death culture studies.
Author | : Darren Beach |
Publisher | : MetroBooks |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781902910635 |
Author | : John Turpin |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2011-01-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1445611317 |
A fascinating history of seven Victorian London cemeteries - 'works of art', created as much for the living as they were for the dead.
Author | : Robert Bard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Burial |
ISBN | : 9781905286256 |
Author | : Catharine Arnold |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2008-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847394930 |
From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the current approach of metropolitan society towards death and bereavement -- including more recent trends to displays of collective grief and the cult of mourning, such as that surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales -- NECROPOLIS: LONDON AND ITS DEAD offers a vivid historical narrative of this great city's attitude to going the way of all flesh. As layer upon layer of London soil reveals burials from pre-historic and medieval times, the city is revealed as one giant grave, filled with the remains of previous eras -- pagan, Roman, medieval, Victorian. This fascinating blend of archaeology, architecture and anecdote includes such phenomena as the rise of the undertaking trade and the pageantry of state funerals; public executions and bodysnatching. Ghoulishly entertaining and full of fascinating nuggets of information, Necropolis leaves no headstone unturned in its exploration of our changing attitudes to the deceased among us. Both anecdotal history and cultural commentary, Necropolis will take its place alongside classics of the city such as Peter Ackroyd's LONDON.
Author | : Isabella M. Holmes |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2022-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The London Burial Grounds is a work by Isabella M. Holmes. It details the history of burial grounds in an extensive manner, also delving into cathedrals, abbeys, temples and anything related to cemetery practice.
Author | : Peter Ross |
Publisher | : Headline |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2021-08-05 |
Genre | : Cemeteries |
ISBN | : 9781472267788 |
"Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of graveyards. Who are London's outcast dead and why is David Bowie their guardian angel? What is the remarkable truth about Phoebe Hessel, who disguised herself as a man to fight alongside her sweetheart, and went on to live in the reigns of five monarchs? Why is a Bristol cemetery the perfect wedding venue for goths? All of these sorrowful mysteries - and many more - are answered in A Tomb With A View, a book for anyone who has ever wandered through a field of crooked headstones and wondered about the lives and deaths of those who lie beneath"--Publisher's description.