My Brompton Cemetery YouTube vlog is now live!
I went to an open day at Brompton Cemetery, London, and got to walk down into the rarely open catacombs.
During the Victorian age local cemeteries were becoming increasingly overcrowded, with burials taking place on top of former burials. Horror stories abounded: gravediggers jumping up and down on old corpses to fit new ones in; the cutting through of mistakenly exhumed limbs whilst digging new plots; accidentally digging so deep that corpses fell into the sewers and were flushed away. The Victorians believed that the rot and mildew caused by these unsavoury actions led to miasma (bad air) which was considered very unhygienic and the transmitter of disease. In London this crisis led to the creation of the 'Magnificent Seven'. The term refers to the seven large, private London cemeteries which were established in the 19th century to alleviate overcrowding in parish burial grounds. Brompton Cemetery is in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and is the only cemetery in the country to be managed by the Crown. Come and take a walk in my shoes in this magnificent museum of the dead, and I'll show you the graves of some notable people. It is said that Beatrix Potter took the names for some of her characters from gravestones here!
As you know, I will always be a writer before anything else, and I have blogged about Brompton Cemetery following my last open day visit, link:-
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The Miss Elaineous
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